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I guess scala isn't already complex or rather implicit enough. Is this implemented as a library or does it also require changes to the language/compiler?

A related German article http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Neugierige-Apps-1181223.html Via Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

A German article http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Neugierige-Apps-1181223.html Via Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1…

I didn't tell him not to participate but I asked not to dump his view on other readers since this isn't a site about political or economic theory.

I generally enjoy reading hn but such right wing ideologies make me feel sick in the stomach. Please take into account when making such statements the US (or whereever you live) is…

You should probably also have asked how many hours per week people work. There is little use in comparing people who work 20 hours per week with workaholics who do little else.

The jit has more information about runtime behaviour. The question is though whether haskell's or similar slightly more advanced type systems aren't able to compensate for that.

bibtex + file system

You are right of course.

Since you majored in maths and physics, you have a lot of specialized knowledge. I'd rather build on that than trying to compete with younger, better trained, more skilled people o…

And before you ask what about a method without an object, understand that they do not exist. Technically, there are unbound methods (i.e. methods with no object) but you can't call…

"Other search engines decide to eschew Ads for accuracy and cut down the spamming, to gain market share." This probably only works as long as they are small, i.e. of little importa…

They have had their chance to rename it to issue9 ( http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9 ). Unfortunately they didn't. They probably never googled for "go" when they chos…

go support was recently included in gcc. I can't really tell if this changes anything though (with respect to goroutines vs runtime).

"ad 1.)" is completely wrong: From http://www.erlang.org/faq/academic.html : 10.3 Where does Erlang syntax come from? Mostly from prolog. Erlang started life as a modified prolog M…

ad 1. I'm not sure if this is the case for gmail but when you use a spam filter that is fed by many people there is a chance that you're classification of that mail as spam affects…

They say "2 plus 3" when they read out loud the standard mathematical infix notation for that expression but that's not what they do.

Most of these sites have some free service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_bookmarking_webs...

Mr Wong is similar to delicious and once allowed you to import delicious exports. It has grown "bigger" since I last visited the site (a couple of years ago) though and I don't kno…

Do you say "add 2 and 3" or "2 add 3"?

> “Books are priced too high” I don't think he (the "pirat") has an idea of how much time has to be invested in the production of good books. I personally think that books are dras…

The lack of innovation in the design principles (see the abstract) is well reflected in the name: - http://freshmeat.net/search?q=grace - http://www.google.at/search?q=grace%20soft…

In a communist society or as an Apple user life sure is simpler.

IMHO the use of an embedded interpreter really only pays off for plugins that perform a more or less complex task like parsing or something that requires functionality that VimL do…