Nicolay77

I think that Vista should be made immune to piracy hacks.

The reason? It would encourage more people to try alternatives.

I got my data from here: http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php

Of course, the scientific method means this tests should be reproducible by everyone, and YMMV, but I wasn't talking bullshit, just see the page.

Opera has been doing that for ages.

AFAIK Opera 9.5 Beta is still faster than these two browsers.

Separating interfaces from implementations is ALWAYS good design.

If I understand correctly, a pure virtual interface avoids inline functions. And there can be a lot of one-liner inline functions in a large project.

So there's a diference between standard good-design and this yet-another-thing-that-became-a-pattern.

Hype.

Hehehe, I do use and administer a Subversion server, but to me the webdav choice was ugly.

Standalone svn:// server for the win.

He's just trying to impress the lady in black.

(Or some other lady nearby.)

AFAIK the $20 firmware upgrade exists because tax laws, not because Apple likes it that way.

Proof: it was different before, and Apple got in legal trouble.

I think that compilers should be specially easy to write in Lisp over any other language.

However in the time that most people were writing compilers no common or popular computer had enough memory to run Lisp reasonably. Even 8MB were a luxury.

Now we have 2GB of RAM as the norm.

Almost all 'design patterns' are just instances of yet another pattern: The Human Compiler.

Make your language do something it can't naturally do, by having to transform abstractions into hand crafted code. Especially when using a higher level language would make that 'design pattern' automatic or innecesary.

That said, I'm not agains patterns per se, I just don't see them as the 'Holy grail' that fixes all the developer problems if only you used them well, because they are nothing of that sort.

'Design patterns' are simply like an Assembler programmer doing ADTs, just because he knows about OOP, and he is methodic about his work, but it doesn't mean that what he's doing is the only way to use classes when programming.

Funny, I started doing a lisp interpreter a while back and I have only got to the part where it makes a damn fine calculator.

I believe my version is much handier than having to use Emacs.