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Very sad news. In the mid 90s I used his ATLAST in a commercial product and reached out to him for some help. He was very gracious. R.I.P John Walker

I'm a 20+ year daily gnu/x emacs user and purchased a copy of Epsilon in July after demoing it for a couple weeks. Since then I've been coding in Epsilon daily (Linux/C++): What I …

This is impressive work by the Joyent team! I've seen two sources of memory leaks in Erlang based systems: 1) unbounded process message queues, and 2) passing binaries across proce…

I've been going at this professionally for over 20 years, and in that time have worked in all sorts of environments. Cubes, private offices, smoke-filled private offices with good …

Nearly a year ago I posted a positive comment on HN about Windows 8, and was then accused (by TWO individuals) of astroturfing. The anti-M$ hate & paranoia that HN seems to have in…

Great job, fogus. Thank you so much.

Congratulations! I'm downloading my copy now. Thanks

I'm very happy about mocl's release. Great work, and congratulations!

I purchased JOC 2e two days ago.. The 1st was such an excellent book. Thank you fogus, chouser, and Manning!

OpenSUSE is an excellent distro. Congrats to the team on another solid release!

Why did go "win" over erlang, scala, and clojure? Because it's becoming trendy and "fun?" And, why are "fun" and "joy" terms ruby bloggers use for languages? Is this code for "easy…

If you're looking for more elegant methods of expressing this in a higher performance runtime, here are two examples. Erlang: [I+9 || I = 3] Haskell: [i+9 | i = 3] Like go, both Er…

Very nice, and congratulations. Reading the "Data Modeling" documentation brings to mind some similarities with the MUMPS storage model (Intersystems Caché / GlobalsDB / GT.M).. is…

Does anyone know if BB has the ability to push OS updates direct to customer handsets? Years ago such updates required carrier "approval"/intervention, which meant updates occurred…

Your dad still is a fixer.. Reading about his life and his values is reaffirming, and fixed a little part of me at a time when I needed it. Thank you for sharing his memory with th…

This is very clever. The autoscrolling feature is strongly reminiscent of reading text from dial-up bulletin board systems at low baud rates (300-2400).

I remember reading that SJ was obsessed with the NeXT manufacturing plant in Fremont, but weren't the original Macs also manufactured in the US?

I have the receipt in hand, and at the very top it says "Microsoft Store." I'd say my purchase was in fact from MS.

Last December I purchased an HTC Titan running 7.5 from a Microsoft Store. A couple months later, HTC released the Titan II, and not long after that, Microsoft announced my new pho…

After almost 20 years of running Linux, FreeBSD (and even NextStep!) on x86 bare metal, I've for the time being gone back to Windows. It's a fast dual-head box. One screen is all W…

Speaking of my own experience on this subject: A large part of my career over the last decade has been working in Erlang. I'd estimate that once I had a firm understanding of the l…

Most of Erlang's goodness evolved before SMP was available. IIRC, Erlang didn't support smp before its R11 release. Before then if we wanted to light up all the cores on a box, we'…

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/5/software-engineer... "While we make heavy use of the core of Clojure, we don't use its concurrency primitives (atoms, refs, STM, etc.) be…