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jopython··on What was Syria like before the war
The site didn't work for Chrome on Ubuntu either with the same version. Firefox on Ubuntu worked though.
jopython··on Campuses must combat growing zeal for censorship
What is hate speech?
jopython··on Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order
Omar Mateen the pulse gay club muslim killer from Florida is Afghan. Why is Afghanistan not in the list?
jopython··on Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New
Most of the fake news sites listed are conservative. Don't believe the leftist propaganda.
jopython··on UCI chemists create rechargeable battery with greatly lengthened lifespan
We need a revolution in Battery technology if we were to get rid of our dependence on fossil fuels.
jopython··on Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C
It is not practical enough for me to have a language which does not support native threads.
jopython··on Siemens Electric Airplane Flies Us Toward the Future
Unless we have high density super batteries electric vehicles will become a fad.
jopython··on If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
Very few of us have any morals left. All of us are imperatively corrupt and selfish, top to bottom.
jopython··on How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
The recharge time will be a major factor in EV adoption. Currently it takes a couple or so minutes to fully fill a gas tank. I will wait until Battery charging tech gets there.
jopython··on Chez Scheme is now free
Out of the four you mentioned, only Chez has true posix threads.
jopython··on My Disastrous Experience with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Thar (2015)
I converted to Ubuntu 9 years ago and it has been my Home desktop ever since. I cannot be more satisfied. Yes, I have tried the filth that is Win XP, Vista, 7 and what not, during these years only to go back to Ubuntu. I am currently in 14.04. I wonder how much better it can get in 16.04?!
jopython··on Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
This feature is offered by BoA. I am still their customer because of this.
jopython··on Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
Space is infinite. It seems most humans cannot comprehend/accept infinity. Without understanding infinity you will have a hard time understanding space.
jopython··on Why Do Big Irons Still Exist?
"also Microsoft SQL Server on top of Solaris on Sparc"

MS SQL Server DOES NOT run on Solaris on SPARC. The author should have done his/her research before making that claim.

jopython··on NewLisp
But, newpLisp's tiny C codebase can be compiled and made to run on even obscure UNIXes like AIX, Solaris, HPUX etc without installing any dependencies which Pixie needs.
jopython··on NewLisp
It is so tiny, I have easily deployed it in the form of a 300k something executable and ran across hundreds of hosts. Very good for OPS work. Excellent scripting language , IMHO.
jopython··on The many ways of parallel computing with Julia [video]
Did the developers fix the start up time yet?
jopython··on Immutable Infrastructure: No SSH
I have a seen a decent answer for this question when people talk about 'immutable' hosts.
jopython··on The Cold-Medicine Racket
I use a netipot with lukewarm water and a pinch of salt to flush my sinus if I have any cold symptoms. I never had any real cold since 2007. Never took any cold medication.
jopython··on Shen is a portable functional programming language
Does the language support concurrency primitives as part of the core?
jopython··on I love Shpaml (HTML abstraction language)
CoffeeKup is somewhat similar, but for coffeescript.
jopython··on Hy: The Logical choice
Have they implemented multiline lambdas?
jopython··on Light Table is now open source
Will there be a Ubuntu package for Light Table which ensures all dependencies are met.
jopython··on Ask HN: What Linux distribution do you use?
Ubuntu 13.04 with xmonad
jopython··on Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme
My only gripe with Chicken,is that it has support only for green threads. Otherwise it is one of the best scheme implementations you can get your hands on.
jopython··on Ask HN: what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?
Life: Moving to the United States Programming: Discovering Lisp after 15 years.
jopython··on An Illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure
Is there a video recording for this presentation?
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