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what I took from that is that inertia is more significant than total energy. if you've got a tank of gas you can go a long way slowly, a short way quickly. a flywheel takes a lot o…

The original JS borrowed heavily from Scheme (lisp1 + everything evaluatable) and Self (prototype model of inheritance) and then was covered with a bunch of Java-like nonsense, whi…

From early on in the article > asyncio.get_event_loop() returns the thread bound event loop, it does not return the currently running event loop. How can these be different objects…

Amen. Further, C helps you think like a particular evolutionary path of computer, and the language and architecture developed mostly in parallel. It's like saying that giraffes hav…

I'm just going to leave this here... http://sqitch.org/

My understanding is that English is a natural second language for the Dutch and is taught extensively in schools (i.e. learned by everyone). Also, they are close enough to the U.K.…

The allies (the RAF) had fairly specialized bombs in WWII to blow dams. They would fly in from upstream and drop a bomb shaped like a barrel (picture a barrel of oil) from very low…

"do the right thing" for a corp. is to maximize profits, full stop. Labour laws exist to keep unfettered capitalism in check.

I think the GPS receiver comes "for free" with the phone hardware (the DSP/antenna package). So, I doubt it, just because it wouldn't add much and would cost significantly more (bo…

I read that as a short story in the Nebula anthology, and then again when "Story of your life and others" came out. That was more than a decade ago, and I still think about it more…

There's a recent release by O'Reilly called "Choosing a Javascript Framework" ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781939902085.do ) that you might want to look at. It covers the sam…

This is for the education market, IMO.

Gartner also had an active hand in killing Smalltalk in the enterprise. CTOs would pay Gartner millions of dollars to have them confirm their bias to go 100% Java/Windows/IBM. Not …

PyCharm also has plugin support, because it's a shared framework (much like Eclipse). I'm running PyCharm (3.1 pro) and I currently have plugins for .sh, .pl, .md, and more. Some p…

>Deprecation with threat of removal of robust long-standing threading APIs with rewrite required. What's he referring to here?

When are they going to start hunting them to extinction for delicious, scientific reasons?

yes, but I get reminded every day how it is not SmallTalk. e.g. the primitive vs. object distinction, the lack of closures (gcd is a poor replacement) and the way they allow a reth…

I went from SmallTalk to Java/C/C++ in the mid-nineties. Obj-C is both a relief and a constant source of frustration.

> There's a fantastic WWDC 2012 session that covers how the iPhoto UI is put together in more detail). Do you happen to know the session name or number?

I was a very mediocre and uninspired student in primary school, often getting Cs and Ds. My parents enrolled me in a small Montessori school for grade 6 and my whole attitude chang…

You're forgetting your history. Apple bought NeXT in early 97, the iMac came out in early 98, OS 9 came out in late 99 and OS X didn't ship in beta until 2000. Obviously Apple was …

>but RIM seems to be afraid to throw away the old. They aren't going to say that they're abandoning the current platform, they'd Osborne themselves if they did. That doesn't mean t…

It's because you don't have to pay per-message, and there's groups. i.e. cheap and fast.

>If they become a label they have to start giving advances to artists Why? Logic now costs $200 and a MacBook. I daresay that most musicians pay far more for their instruments than…