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In the case of houses, I would think in most cases there's less conflict between prettiness and efficiency, for things like furniture there's much less space for the aesthetics to …

The SmallInteger limitation is probably because as an optimisation they stored them as immediate values rather than generic objects, and Squeak shares this limitation (the newer Sp…

There have been very extensive changes since 2002, yep, such as a much improved interpreter, a JIT, a replacement of the original object memory format which incidentally supports f…

Even broader is the one in the drafted repeal of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, the scope of (b) being particularly worrying - what exactly counts a related purported decision? 'A…

By what metric of 'better'?

....JavaScript?

There have been systems that take this approach such as fabricate.py ( https://github.com/brushtechnology/fabricate ) and tup ( http://gittup.org/tup/ ).

It would be even better if Kallithea or RhodeCode adopted the UI style shared by GitHub/Gogs/Gitea and friends. Then we could have the best of both worlds - good, well-known UI but…

Not the author, but the kernel is Multiboot compliant. See: https://sortix.org/man/man7/installation.7.html 'If you wish to dual boot, you need an existing operating system with a …

For this area, my ideal world is one where both the BIOS and UEFI are dead, replaced by something that is inspired both by OpenFirmware and coreboot.

Assuming the tagged reference or capability system was built, wouldn't it need software to take advantage of it? If it's not actively used, no real point having it over more block …

Why?

It's not publicly owned but the market is way less dysfunctional than in the US - aside from the few fiber & cable ISPs, a single phone line allows you to choose from a reasonably …

Python's a modern stack in any reasonable definition of the word. Just because it doesn't use $TRENDY_LANGUAGES doesn't make it 'not modern'.

If you're talking standards, then platform-specific advantages mean precisely nothing.

Here's the problem with that idea: How do you convert your abstract high-level description into a set of specific operations? First you need to parse your specification, and parsin…

An addition to this list: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...

Elsewhere on the internet (without resorting to seedier places like torrent sites) you can find versions of SunOS 2.x/3.x/4.x as well as Solaris 1.x, 2.x, 7.x and 8.

I'm a fan of Smalltalk, particularly the small Cuis variety. Anyway, you may be interested to know that Pharo either has or had a MOOC about learning and building things with the l…

They seem to have recognized this..5 or so minutes later.

This is the type of site which is a really interesting idea but finding it half-way through sucks somewhat :(

Related to RedPower: OpenComputers. While it does come with Lua as the default OS / platform but it has support for arbritary computing architectures - both real and fake. I'm not …

Eh, socialism and communism may seem to offer better end results but the difficulty of implementation without being exploited / converting to another ideology is evidently hard, pe…

For the OODB, perhaps Squeak's Magma? http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665

No kidding. 'Recent DNS Attacks' mentions 2007 in the description. I wonder if it's still active.