MarkusQ
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.@ That's a hoot! (my name for Google's after issue 9)
about 6 hours ago
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.@ Yeah, if I'd bandwidth for hardware hacking projects (which I won't for ~16 years) I'd be messing with all sorts of non IA2^n stuff.
about 7 hours ago
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.@ I don't know about scala. I have an allergy to java, and that colours some of my thinking. I feel I should like it, but don't yet
about 7 hours ago
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.@ Lisp is one of the easiest languages to accidentally invent. The trick is to invent an interesting language that _isn't_ lisp.
about 7 hours ago
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.@ Ralph didn't languish in obscurity, he languished in Tuscon, which is about 80 miles south.
about 7 hours ago
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.@ I think I'd like to have invented icon most of all.
about 8 hours ago
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.@ Inventing forth would have been fun, but being Chuck looks like a lot of work (even though he makes it look easy).
about 8 hours ago
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.@ I've accidentally invented both lisp and prolog several times, and came close to inventing joy.
about 8 hours ago
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.@ Quite possible. I'm one of those who typically worries about big O more than implementation "k"s, but with a single (closed) source?
about 8 hours ago
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@ You recommend eating Oreos with gin and tonic and then you quail at walking around in a light gale? You losing your moxie?
about 8 hours ago
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.@ I really liked rebol, but combine closed source & his "define the semantics by what the binary does" means you can't trust it.
about 8 hours ago
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@ Yeah, that rant's making the rounds. I was onboard with Carl & rebol back in the 90s but gave up due to the closed source/NIH mindset
about 8 hours ago
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~@ I was just in SF after 10 years away; like returning to a party just before dawn to find a few stragglers piling up the empty bottles
about 13 hours ago
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@ Unfriend is a word now? Why don't they just use disfriend?
about 16 hours ago
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in reply to znmeb
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@ Huh? The fact that most of your garbage is short lived is the whole reason for generational GC.
about 19 hours ago
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in reply to headius
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@ Well duh. Disney is evil. If given the choice between doing the right thing or squeezing an extra $0.25 from the market, guess what?
about 19 hours ago
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in reply to built
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@ I think it's called "pettiness."
10:22 PM Nov 14th
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in reply to alanstorm
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@ So are you agreeing with the rant @ linked to, or disagreeing?
10:21 PM Nov 14th
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in reply to bhurt42
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@ *laugh* I'm not sure if I qualify as a "fan" of anything (including LLVM). That said, I've got a Mac(tm) now, so I should try it.
4:03 PM Nov 14th
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in reply to psnively
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@ @ I missed it, but I"m not surprised. 1.9 is a lot better than 1.8 but MRI still isn't, shall we say "built for speed."
4:00 PM Nov 14th
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- Name Markus J. Q. Roberts
- Location West of Portland, OR
- Bio I'm a {computer language (ruby|pascal| smalltalk|haskell|postscipt| joy|javascript|lisp), AI, botany, chem, physics, math, biz, humor, lateral thinking} nerd
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