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Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: "BitC isn't going to work in its current form"

Link to BitC site for the lazy.

TLDR: "BitC is a new systems programming language. It seeks to combine the flexibility, safety, and richness of Standard ML or Haskell with the low-level expressiveness of C."

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Die EmacsWiki, Die

I won't thank you for suggesting GitHub, because after I've taken your suggestion, I will be less free! Gitorious is the superior solution :)

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: PHP source code now hosted on Github

Note, to those that wonder: It moved to git.php.net as github only contains a mirror. And other parts of the PHP project are still in transition. There's also a mercurial mirror. The PHP source module is named php-src.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Trello for startup name searches. After-work project.

I've been building this in my spare time over the past 3 weeks.

I had the idea after many experiences of having difficulty trying to find good startup names with various co-founders. I always thought a central place for us to log suggestions would help tremendously.

I finally decided to build it after attending my first Startup Weekend and experiencing the same problem again.

Hope you like it.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Ingo Molnar on what ails the Linux desktop

Sounds like he wants a distro agnostic Ports system, one that hides the dirty work of watching compile time crap fly across the screen and just gives the user a suitable package for their distro.

Either that or he's essentially suggesting we move to static compiled packages, which while tremendously inefficient from a space and security standpoint would alleviate at least some of the headaches of trying to do cross distro binary offerings.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Cheaper Than A Tablet: 'Rooting' Your E-Reader

I first rooted mine back in January. It's a very easy device to root and you have a lot of options on how to do it now. You can run off an SD card of you still want to use it as a nook sometimes (like getting your free hour at B&N.)

You can run Froyo, Cyanogen, or a Honeycomb version. And it's very hard if not impossible to brick.

If you are serious about wanting to root yours, I'd suggest putting Cyanogen on your EMMC, with it overclocked to 1.1. Very easy to do now that you can download ClockworkMod on an SD card and install Cyanogen, or anything else for that matter using it.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

On this week's episode of This American Life, we will devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory."

That's a stand-up move. I hate it when a retraction gets far less attention than the original story.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Why Finish Books?

I think the answer for this is different for fiction and non-fiction. If I don't finish a non-fiction book, I still sometimes consider it "read", if I have gotten the gest of it. This is especially true if the author goes into more detail towards the end of the book after making their point. Non-completed fiction books I usually don't recommend to friends.

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Library for HTML/JavaScript in Haskell

Someone started to create roughly the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/general/2011-06/msg41431.html https://github.com/MassiveTactical/panther-ajax/blob/master/...

Abomonog | 14 years ago | on: Packets have emotions.

I find the length field redundant. Two character emotions could be null padded, making three the standard length. This would save a byte for angry and evil. If evil and angry were removed (merged with sneaky and frustrated), emotions could be two bytes. Better yet, a lookup table could be used with a single byte. One other idea, which applies to all cases where 7bit ASCII is packed into 8bit bytes, is to have the eigth bit aroused on the last character