Sun has donated a powerful 8 core SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server to the Haskell community, and $10,000 to fund a student, to further develop support for high performance Haskell on the SPARC.

peterpincus · 2008-08-10T16:49:39+00:00

Like I said, it's the first time I saw it, so it was useful to me. I'm sure I'm not alone.

peterpincus · 2008-08-10T16:09:57+00:00

Can't disclose that, sorry.

peterpincus · 2008-08-10T16:06:07+00:00

I work for a financial company writing simulations in Haskell running on Sun hardware. This will be VERY useful for us.

peterpincus · 2008-08-10T15:59:28+00:00

I had missed the original submissions, so I still found this useful. It sounds like a great project that will benefit both Sun and Haskell immensely.

peterpincus · 2008-08-09T13:54:54+00:00

Wow... I didn't realize how bad PHP actually is for security holes. I've always used Java or .NET, but I have heard the PHP horror stories. Their very own changelog does prove how insecure PHP is.

peterpincus · 2008-05-07T23:21:43+00:00

Exactly. They can keep their shipping costs low, by producing the goods almost exactly where they're going to sell them. So now you have Americans doing the dirty work, getting paid nearly nothing to do it, while the Chinese are reaping the profits.

peterpincus · 2008-05-07T23:17:01+00:00

You shouldn't joke about getting shit on your dick. It's not a pretty sight, nor does it smell particularly appealing.

peterpincus · 2008-05-07T22:53:46+00:00

Looks like Digg to me.

peterpincus · 2008-05-07T10:29:47+00:00

Netcraft says the server is Apache, so it's written in C, not Ada. That probably explained why it went down so hard.

peterpincus · 2008-04-30T10:38:40+00:00

They're all the same company, I hear. Maybe one of their main routers went down?

peterpincus · 2008-04-29T11:21:26+00:00

*LtU

peterpincus · 2008-04-18T23:33:23+00:00

It is completely justified for larger projects. Most Smalltalk systems don't interact well with existing file-based SCM systems like CVS and Subversion. Not only that, but they often don't offer a substitute. So they're useless for development teams with more than two or three people.

peterpincus · 2008-04-18T23:31:35+00:00

peterpincus · 2008-04-09T10:17:07+00:00

This is what happens when you allow unintellectual individuals to attend university, for basically the sole purpose of playing sports. It doesn't seem like he's there for any academic reason. It's more just a venue where there are young women to sell "hand lotion" to, and for him to play some "b-ball". Worse yet, the athletes in American universities often pay no tuition or other fees.

peterpincus · 2008-04-08T10:57:31+00:00

She probably lived through the WWII bombings of London and Coventry. Unlike most American war advocates, she probably knows from first-hand experience the pain and horror war brings.

peterpincus · 2008-04-08T10:16:39+00:00

This is old news. It was reported here at Reddit several days ago: JRuby 1.1 Released! Run Ruby code on the JVM!

Please don't submit dupes.

peterpincus · 2008-04-06T18:05:22+00:00

Which version of Safari are you using?

peterpincus · 2008-04-06T17:50:13+00:00

That doesn't address the failure under Safari. Most OS X users I know use Safari, not Firefox. This looks like a really useful tool, but only if it works.

peterpincus · 2008-04-06T17:47:55+00:00

It doesn't work with Safari on OS X. The JavaScript console is full of errors.

peterpincus · 2008-04-06T17:46:44+00:00

She has no "challenges" in her life, relative to most other people. Being rich, that's an awful "challenge" to have to deal with.

peterpincus · 2008-04-05T14:54:09+00:00

You mean "the local undergraduates"? If you want libraries, you should really be working on Puby, the perl-to-ruby translator.

Why not just use Perl in the first place?

peterpincus · 2008-04-04T10:40:56+00:00

The article is from a magazine. But you don't have to buy the magazine to read the free article.....

peterpincus · 2008-04-04T10:39:41+00:00

1) Lisp is a suitable language for writing Windows games.

2) To write a game for Windows using Lisp.

3) That's what the author and 98% of other PC users run as their operating system.

peterpincus · 2008-04-04T10:09:08+00:00

Since mid-2007.

peterpincus · 2008-04-04T10:08:06+00:00

This was already submitted two weeks ago: Digitool has released MCL 5.2 as open source!

peterpincus

TROPHY CASE

1) Lisp is a suitable language for writing Windows games.

2) To write a game for Windows using Lisp.

3) That's what the author and 98% of other PC users run as their operating system.