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I have to admit that, while I knew these documents existed, I was not aware they included as much information as they do: I was under the impression that it was merely an xml versi…

In my humble opinion, they should write formal specifications which are not just targetting a C API, but may degrade consistently to a C API. With a more formal description of each…

> Then, if someone writes a popular API wrapper, Khronos can take that API and standardize it as the next version of OpenGL, no design-by-committee required. If that wrapper actual…

> Oh. Ocaml again. Nothing forces you to read the posts you don't like. > Well, I'll chirp on the opposite side of discusion. The syntax is completely :%^&#$^ $% %^&*% up. Unreadab…

This is the ability to abstract concepts and then recognize them in different settings (for instance, the idea of a child being a miniature version of a given animal, with less pro…

Yes, this is correct. Thank you for pointing that out. If a company is producing new ideas, and stock pile them in the form of patents, are they playing the game correctly? Is it (…

I meant that mentor thing in the context of IBM. I agree that it would not be much better in the case of Project Zero. That said, I still think that a positive approach (positive c…

> Playing Devil's advocate Actually you raise a good point. ARM has been always doing that though, they built their own cpus when they started, iirc. That would have large conseque…

The original point of patents is to provide protection to inventors and give them a head start in implementing their inventions. A company which hold patents without implementing t…

> isn't it still positive for the economy? Why? Where's the benefit for the economy? If somehow the patent trolls reinject the benefits they make (ie what they obtain from the law …

The insight there is that one should always try to wrap criticism with praises: people don't like being told that they suck at their job, even if it's true. If instead of showing t…

Thanks for correcting me: indeed, it's an open architecture which was used by Sun, Fujitsu and TI for their CPUs, and it's unrelated to MIPS.

Oh, ok. So every python implementations follow that practice?

However, how difficult would it be for a foreign fab to rig the design of a customer and include backdoors?

Someone else mentioned that the architecture is based of Sparc technology (Sun's line of CPUs, which is a mips derivative iirc). It's hardly a completely new architecture.

True, what I meanbt is that the consumer software marketplace is originally built around those platforms. During the last several years, the market has been largely fragmented by t…

> In my opinion schools should stick to basic teaching, Define basic teaching. > a high percentage of french teenagers cant even write french at the end of highschool, Reference?

China has a team developping a mips like architecture, with several produced iterations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson I don't know if Russia has the industry to mass prod…

> This makes it non deterministic because objects in OCaml can destruct at different times in your program depending on the inputs. There's clearly a different notion of determinis…

> OCaml uses non-deterministic garbage collection, whereas python mostly uses reference counting (in CPython). This is another case where the first system was safer in one aspect. …

Afair, we had close to 100Mbit/s on our lines. The building wasn't very old, apparently we had good copper wires (I can't comment on the average quality of those across the country…

I've seen this kind of setup in Japan more a few years ago, with vsdl as the technology for "the last meters": fiber optic was used by service providers down to neighborhood/buildi…

> The problems with google's approach have been pointed out almost immediately after their policy became known. I've been the devil's advocate til now, I will not give up so easily…

>That harm and those people are apparently not as important as some business goal. That offends me. I understand your point. > Why would an insult convey more offense than all the …