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That's your reason to buy a WinRT pad and put Linux on it?

I still don't get it. Microsoft is not that important anymore today as it had been for decades. There are extremely cheap ARM boards (Raspberry, Beagle Bone, etc.) that are almost …

I don't understand why Linux users want Win8- or WinRT Pads. Not only are they pretty expensive but there already are many cheap good Android Pads running a Linux kernel. There are…

I would also recommand EclipseFP. It is an amazingly well working Eclipse Plugin for Haskell with incremental compiling, debugger, Smalltalk like browser, and other nice features. …

Tell your son to put the lamp _behind_ the screen. It will bless his eyes.

For this simple reason the Linux Foundation should stop wasting further energy for UEFI. As a Linux user from the very beginning (since 1992) I won't buy any UEFI device for Linux …

Yes, this is the usual way in Common Lisp.

> "could I express this as s-expressions?" Sure. "Would I want to?" Hell no. Of course it is possible to implement syntactic sugar in Lisp which supports JSON style expressions. DS…

It amazes me how programming languages and APIs look more and more like Lisp. Modern languages copy essential features from Lisp, and JSON as one of the most popular JS libs almost…

> Obviously you haven't seen the lisp ads from the 80's :) I studied computer science in the 80's. Maybe that there were some business ads of Lisp (especially Lisp machines). But I…

Features are much more relevant than marketing. Look at Ruby, some years ago it was hyped a lot but that enthusiasm has fade away. Look at Lisp, it wasn't hyped for about 50 years …

AFAIK the GreenArray chip provides only 128 bytes per core while Parallela supports 32 KBytes per core. As a former Forth hacker I was enthusiastic at the first glance of the GA bu…

One interesting application could be realtime 3D rendering because this is an area with small overhead. I know that the chip does not support floating point but that could be simul…

Lisp is too powerful only for unexperienced developers because the way of programming in Lisp is totally different from all other languages. Actually many modern languages (Python,…

I understand what you mean, and you are basically correct. But nevertheless I see this project as a milestone as it helps to focus on selfmade FPGAs instead of soldering TTL chips …

> I agree with your entire comment except for the first sentence. I meant the term "first step" historically. It is really the first step to true open hardware because it is the fi…

I know that there are several open hardware projects (Opencores for instance). But I consider _true_ open hardware as hardware were we always will have _full_ control over _every_ …

This is the first step to true open hardware. I am concerned how fast IT evolves to DRM-locked devices. The PC will become obsolete by tablets so we will lose control over our comp…

In other words: C++11 boosts Python :-) I think only a hardcore C++ developer would claim that the author's sample is "succinct". Honestly, C++11 is still far behind the easiness o…

We'll see whether Wayland is able to hold what it promises.

> wayland _should_eventually_ be able to completely fill the role that X11 currently fills. Which X11 features are still missing? Does Wayland support X11's seemless remote multius…

Another solution is xmodmap in Unix or some similar tool in Windows to change the keyboard layout. With that solution you don't have to miss the default national keyboard layout.

Adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a computer with the power of a PC we had ten years ago. There is nothing more productive than a good desktop workstation with big multiple sc…

> but it transparently stores and compares UTF-8 strings Thanks for this good news! The last time I tried Lua it didn't work. UTF-8 is ok, full Unicode is not necessary.