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capablancaon Why nobody talks about Lua

I love Lua. Wish there was a shorter syntax for anonymous functions, though. (function(x) return x*x end)

Also, Lisp macros would be nice (didn't look at metalua)

capablancaon Why nobody talks about Lua

What is the best example of this combo ?

Also, the idea reminds me of this: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wiki?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers

capablancaon Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million

That's 1000 dollars per user (that created content). Isn't that too much? Is this value important?

capablancaon Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

Sure... but I wish I could still read him sometimes. There is no blogger I enjoy to read these days (mostly they are too techinical...)

capablancaon Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million?

Buy GOOG.

capablancaon Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million?

Can't find the Anything book, can you please give a link?

capablancaon Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million?

Why not 4M on safe 1% fund and 1M on riskier investment like stocks from Bluechips?

capablancaon Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

What became of Steve Yegge?

capablancaon LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts

Indeed... So by clean you mean looking for usages of certain C++ features that should be avoided?

How can you "infer" the design only by looking at a pile of C++?

capablancaon Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies

He was too lonely.

capablancaon LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts

How can you tell? Did you work on it for a few months or you can just browse the SVN and notice it's well designed? I look and all I see at first is indentation style and directory organization.

capablancaon Poll: Are you getting an iPad?

This tires the eyes like normal LCDs, so for my main use it's the same as a netbook.

capablancaon C++: A language for next generation web apps

So, what is great, modern C++ code to read?

capablancaon OCaml, Batteries Included 1.0.0 released

OMG if Slava Pestov was on Ocaml..

capablancaon OCaml, Batteries Included 1.0.0 released

Windows build already?

capablancaon Sun CEO: Go Oracle [Internal Memo]

I bet they have plenty of time now that they are unemployed.

capablancaon Ask HN: API limitations for Web services

I'll take a look at the streaming API.

"You can also get full firehose access if it really does become successful (...)"

Sorry, I don't understand what "firehose access" means in this context. Care to explain? :)

capablancaon I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year

I too thought you could have cheap reliable nationwide 1mbit connection with 3G these days...

capablancaon I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year

Any idea what is the price of living on a RV vs sleeping on cheap motels?

capablancaon I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year

Ah, yes... thanks.

Also, how living on a RV impacts "Don't drink and drive" ? :)

capablancaon I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year

Sorry, I didn't get something... what's the objective of parking on top of the piece of wood?

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And the "Don't be evil" motto.. I'm pretty sure that would be evil.

capablancaon Efene - a programming language with C-like syntax that runs on the erlang vm

At some point I started caring more about the quality of the implementation than the syntax...

capablancaon GDrive is coming, 1GB free storage

Again?

capablancaon [dead]

coffee?

capablancaon Ask HN: What languages used to write computer languages?

Factor: C++ and Factor

capablancaon Anic: Faster than C, safer than Java, simpler than *sh

Like VHDL

capablancaon "Terra" is Rot13:"Green"

Terra means Earth in Portuguese... (and also means soil, land)

capablancaon C subset lexer, parser, code generator, and VM in 291 lines of C

That is in the title :)

capablancaon LYSP — 50 Years of Symbolic Processing

Did you try it before submitting? The example didn't worked the last time I tried this...