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If it makes any easier for you, you should know that this is what all governments do. Some governemnts are better at it than others. This is going to continue as long as government…

In this case, there is clearly a disconnect between idealization and the reality. Today, Stallman's and FSF's real political and social influence is miniscule. FSF had some impress…

You are essentially talking about various effects associated with choice of the GNU GPL license. I agree with you on that. It is a useful tool. My point was that the social movemen…

Personal computers have been commodity for at least a decade. In this respect they are no different from modern cars or any other highly computerized equipment. Users do not mess w…

I don't think JSON as a _data interchange format_ should have comments. Key factors contributing to JSON's popularity and great practical value is simplicity and the fact that JSON…

Thanks! Feel free to reuse as many ideas as you like :) It took me more than 2 years to get it there -- it is by far the toughest system I've ever designed.

ismarc, thank you for the comment! I really appreciate it -- I didn't know anyone else was using Piqi-RPC (other than myself). I'd like to know more about your use case and the nee…

I couldn't agree more! Out of frustration with existing schema languages and tool support for them, I've been working on Piqi[1] which is concise, expressive and agnostic to data r…

This is why I placed my xterm title bar at the bottom and it works like a charm.

My comment was about the language, not the people. I have no doubt that there are many good programmers who use Java. But I'm not sure one can be a good programmer if Java (or any …

> The language/tools are not the problem, it's the people/organization. The language is a problem, because Java was specially created for this type of organizations. And it is not …

Please don't do that! Programming is just not there yet. All attempts to establish best "engineering practices" in programming have so far been resulting in incredibly messy and in…

Hi there! I do quite a bit of both OCaml and Erlang. In fact, I borrowed Yojson's json parser for my project (piqi.org). Also, I'm familiar with MPL. It looks very nice, but from w…

That's definitely an interesting perspective! Thanks for pointing it out.

Fair enough. I didn't mean to criticize Haskell. In fact, I'm planning to learn it. I was just surprised that this code was presented as a good example of Haskell's fit to the pars…

The HTTP request parser doesn't look readable or trivial to me at all. I'm not familiar with Haskell, so to me the code looks like a mix of high-level declarative and low-level spe…

Documents are semi-structured data, that is they are a mix of text and structured data elements put into a structured hierarchy.

What is it the tool that generates C++ codecs for JSON from .proto specifications? (I wrote a generic command-line Protobuf-JSON converter).

http://piqi.org -- a better alternative to XML, JSON, CSV, S-expressions, etc.

There are two things. First, although the above transformation is theoretically possible to achieve with statically typed language, it is for sure harder in practice. In contrast, …

I think you can do both in static and dynamic languages, but in dynamic language everything is just practically easier. Another thing I forgot to mention, and it is more important …

For example, over time you dynamically upgrade a module going from version 1 to 2 and, later, to version 3. During the first module upgrade, data types from the newer module (2) ca…

Here's a good article and the HN discussion about Russia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409194 Basically, you would probably want to stay away from it. You can find decent e…

The post doesn't say anything about innovation which is the key part of technology entrepreneurship. If one can't innovate and create something radically new and efficient, then ye…