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I believe that Python, Java, C#, Objective-C and Javascript all have the same basic approach to this problem. The Ruby way is better for handling some Japan-specific problems. But …

Jaiku? Orkut? We're on strike three at the most conservative count.

I don't want that in my json/yaml. If I have Javascript then I already have mobile code. If I'm using json in a situation where I don't have a Javascript interpreter, then I probab…

Don't tell me. Show me. Please translate the example into s-expressions.

> But stop whining. All over the USA, people who work hard, who get great reviews from bosses, customers and peers, who were promised bonuses and profit sharing, are seeing instead…

He kept his job for a salary of $1.00, rather than go and enjoy a year with his family. I have no idea why they would have structured the compensation that way though...the result …

YAML?

If you follow the thread to the end, you'll see that the guy renamed some variables, resubmitted and got accepted. PhoneGap is open source. There is no "signature" that they can us…

JSON is much more popular than s-expressions, and not just accidentally. Explicit, compact syntax for both lists and key-value pairs is The Right Thing in a language like this. { "…

A few years ago, I took over maintenance of a Windows program that depended upon a Java component wrapped in COM. With Sun and Microsoft at war, that seemed a bit risky to me. I as…

> Libraries aren't the issue You say libraries aren't the issue, but the discussion is about a blog pst that said: "And why Python, then? Well, said Sussman, it probably just had a…

We're talking about the user interface to computational machines. There is no abstract "right" or "wrong" and no context-insensitive "practical" or "impractical." He wanted to do a…

How do you do process management? Do you have a static or dynamic number of app server processes/threads?

I love Robert Morris' crunchbase bio: "... He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer applications. In 1988 his discovery of…