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That is because it is very similar to an actual short story written by Asimov. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_is_This_Thing_Called_Love... I can't find that story on…

Scheme community frowns upon mutating code. R6RS even forced that by default, though the rest of the specification was a mess. So, scheme style these days is all about pure functio…

My definition of an FFI was simply about fully supporting native threads. Simplifying FFI definitions has not been a big deal for me. It is either a few hours of work, or if more t…

Not criicizing lua, but worth comparing to guile. > Integration with C (and C++ for that matter) Guile does it better. You can use shared memory threads in guile without any penalt…

If only Nokia hadn't buried N900 and N9, more people would have experienced what a true mini laptop feels like.

> I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here. Where did Gosling say that? I remember reading that AWT was …

Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban... Microsoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using…

The excellent research done under Jikes project in IBM cannot be forgotten. It to contributed to IBM's patent portofolio. Bad to reply to own comment, but can't edit it anymore.

> What's wrong is that Oracle won't (ever) allow Harmony to be called Java Compatible, even though it is. The same can be said of a fork. It will not be allowed to run the Java tes…

What is wrong with http://harmony.apache.org/ ? It is a from scratch implementation of the JVM. And is backed by IBM AFAIK.

Much of high performance modern VMs (not just JVM) are built on Self project and StrongTalk acquisiotion by Sun. I think Oracle would have quite a few key patents due to this. Thou…

It also has multiple backends. I think a debian dev had coded a llvm backend for it. And a cambridge student coded an ARM backend. Edit : grammar. Also forgot to mention that the A…

Indian here. There are a few leaders in India who can't speak one coherent sentence in english, even though they have a masters degree in english,

I had the same impression. Nothing can educate like a good teacher who coaches you directly. Looks like many americans (or britons) are not getting this individual attention in the…

I have never used gentoo. Does gentoo patch packages as much as Debian? Or is their build process sophisticated to allow parallel install of multiple versions of say postgresql?

Good. With their upcoming fusion product line, ATI name on AMD CPUs would have only confused.

A google docs link to original scheme manual, in case the site bogs down. http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Frepository.re...

You are reading it wrong. It means that the end customer (student) will get it at 50% subsidy, which will be 17.5$

> I just don't want to see some zealot telling me I can't have a car, and that I am some sort of evil person for having one. Not everybody thinks about you when choosing the people…

That is not outsourcing in any sense of the word. It is an Indian film company entering into a joint venture with a hollywood major.

In India, freight charges are used to subsidise passenger traffic

> Geez the amount of wildlife they have killed - no-one will go to prison and it's practically the crime of the century. The Iraq invasion by USA happened in this very century.

n82 right?