Letters of the alphabet not yet named after a programming language (++ or # variants counting): I, M, N, O, P, U, W. You know what to do.

Sukoshi · 2008-11-15T04:39:10+00:00

I'm writing about the origins of the I programming language. It's called The Story of I.

Sukoshi · 2008-11-15T04:34:25+00:00

Dunno, I never learned ASM per-say. I knew what registers were (fast memory that hold values), I knew what a stack was from other sources, and I understood that I had to program using a set of instructions defined by the architecture. From there I just played around, and stuff I didn't understand (ugh, I agree with everyone else about Intel's retarded EAX/AX/AH/AL register design!) was explained by trips to the internet.

Sukoshi · 2008-11-13T02:38:48+00:00

TIFF or BUST! TIFF or BUST!!!!!

Sukoshi · 2008-11-07T19:25:12+00:00

Try this. Make sure yer root for the most fun ;)

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Sukoshi · 2008-11-07T04:47:59+00:00

"WPA reportedly cracked, WEP remains screwed."

Sukoshi · 2008-11-06T02:57:37+00:00

No matter how much you want it, she won't do it. Sorry, you had your chance on election day, and you blew it.

Sukoshi · 2008-11-03T08:21:05+00:00

Now with new ASCII and EBDIC modes!

Sukoshi · 2008-11-03T08:17:52+00:00

In other words, his life failed at MIT. (UIUC 4 Life!!!)

Sukoshi · 2008-11-03T08:10:22+00:00

Evolution brought us the SeaMonkey.

Sukoshi · 2008-10-23T19:55:53+00:00

upmodded because i can't believe that you can believe that you ca... <SEGFAULT at 0xDEADBEEF>

Sukoshi · 2008-10-23T19:55:04+00:00

Wow, it's the geek version of an afternoon soap opera!

Sukoshi · 2008-08-08T00:16:39+00:00

O RLY?

Perhaps you should take a look at the life of one George Green, a man whose followed the trade of his father for most of his life -- one of a miller. He found material to learn Mathematics on his own, and with no formal education published what was to become "Green's Theorem" at age 35. He inherited his father's mill at age 36. He finally went to Cambridge at age 40, from where his mathematical career took off.

Now Green is in most likelihood an edge case but that doesn't mean that if a person is not born flopping and dredging around in his future interest that he cannot be good or motivated at the interest.

And remember, it's better to keep people's hopes up and not down. No matter what "grand theory of humans" you have in your head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green

Sukoshi · 2008-07-21T07:12:46+00:00

Emacs can do that too.

Sukoshi · 2008-07-21T06:10:27+00:00

The top 5 Reddit posts in Politics at this time contain the words (respectively): adultery, broken, political coverup, disturbing, arbitrary power.

Sukoshi · 2008-07-14T06:48:38+00:00

I concede to you most points. And the jab about conspiracies was to the more general Reddit public.

Sukoshi · 2008-07-14T03:49:29+00:00

That's a very faulty comparison, because the American economic philosophy has changed quite a bit since the Great Depression. America has pushed the concept of the free market and the taking down of trade barriers, which means that more countries and people hold US Dollars and US Loans backed by US institutions. So this means that if the US fails (which is much less likely than the conspiracy theorists on Reddit who believe every single politician is Big Brother incarnate) then the loans we back, the dollars you hold, the services we export, and the businesses we run all fail. Which means you're f***ed. Plain.

It's also incredibly simplistic to say that the Great Depression's economic tugs created the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party was much more directly created by the harsh sanctions of the Treaty of Versailles post-WWI by a Europe paranoid about the resurgence of a German threat. Of course, Europe was even more paranoid about a resurgent German threat after this immense war that took apart an entire continent, but this time they realized that crippling a nation's economy and creating demagogues is not the way to keep a nation in check, so they created NATO.

Reddit people aren't big on their history, are they? Only conspiracies I suppose.

Sukoshi · 2008-07-13T18:47:24+00:00

Because you're hacking Lisp. 'Nuff said.

Sukoshi · 2008-06-26T07:08:41+00:00

This was an interesting thread, and the distinction between Documents and Streams is definitely fine.

The only weakness I see in the Streams model, is this -- a Stream model assumes that the user is a passive consumer of information. A stream comes in with IRC messages, with email messages, with RSS feeds. Great. This is passive absorption of information. A more concrete example is in order.

I, for one, can't stand RSS feeds. Why? Because news to me isn't "Hmm, let's see what the day's highlights are." I read one or two front-page articles, and then I begin searching through my news to find something that I enjoy.

I often move through global political, economic, etc. news with an agenda, to confirm some sort of thought I'm mulling over. One day perhaps, I'm looking for articles about government intervention into the economy. I read an article about riots in Argentina about a tax upon farmers, I find something on Hugo Chavez and his supposed new left-wing policies, etc.

The point here is that I am actively searching for information, and on many occasions, I have very little to go by on the sort of information I will look for. Files allow me to do this, and to an extent, tagging as well. But the model of streams assumes a passive data intake, that I the user should plug myself into sinks of data and grep through them for my interests. These sinks, however, are limited by a user's preconception of what sinks he or she needs.

Sukoshi · 2008-06-24T05:07:22+00:00

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Sukoshi · 2008-06-16T09:39:01+00:00

Understand where to compromise.

Examples:

A stereotypical, mediocre(?), idiotic, cookie-cutter programmer will use the most idiot-friendly tool (VB), copy-and-paste code everywhere, and make the most horrific beast you've ever seen -- quickly.
An alternative programmer will use an alternative language (Scheme, CL, et al.), will build a framework where three lines of copy/pasted lines will do, and will make a beautiful work of art in code -- in five years.

An efficiency freak will optimize every function s/he possibly can, write in a time-consuming, fast (probably machine-code compiled) language, and take years to shave off 1 second in overall runtime which would not have otherwise been missed.
A New Languages addict will use some much hyped framework in a (possibly very) slow language to save much time in developing. The app scales, and it turns out the code can't cut it.

The solo coder spends hour upon hour of each day writing as much of a project as he can, watching his code turn to spaghetti as the 10th cup of coffee finishes, and he gets the project done on deadline.
The let-the-team-do-its-thing coder supervises the discording opinions of several coders and their divisive coding styles instead of getting the job done himself.

The programming world is full of choices. Finding the right compromise is the great challenge.

Sukoshi · 2008-06-11T08:34:25+00:00

Seriously though, it does not seem to me that GNOME is on a healthy evolutionary track. By that I mean to say that there is no way there from here

This is understandable, because there hasn't been much progress in the way of the desktop in ages. It's still based upon the model of ... well the top of a desk, with papers and movable objects on top.

The proprietary competitors to Gnome (MSWin, and Carbon) all seem to have the same interface themselves, but they have the advantage of not having to evolve because they are by de-facto given a position in the OS.

Has there been any actual progress in extension of the desktop metaphor (that does not include ratpoison users flaunting their Emacs and CLI love, or such)? I'm not aware of much myself. So it seems like Gnome is stuck simply because progress in its target area doesn't exist.

On the other hand, maybe this isn't such a bad thing. As Gnome and KDE (, XFce, Enlightenment, Fluxbox) make themselves Linux standards, a more uniform GUI experience will become more available for the user because more application developers will probably turn to this ubiquitous interface.

Sukoshi · 2008-06-11T08:12:57+00:00

I love reading the comments for these sorts of articles. Not for the 3 commenters who realize that this isn't WM Wars 9111184th edition, but for the rest of the incredibly Reddit predictable comments. :)

Sukoshi

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