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Autreon Why big companies fail to keep talent

The interesting thing here is: why do big companies don't need to keep their talents? Does bureaucracy compensate for lack of talent? And vice versa? Does this also mean that you can innovate without talent?

Autreon Improving EcmaScript5 OO with sugar

I was deliberately excluding the constructor situation. I should have made that clearer in my previous comment. I think the way out of the constructor mess is not to require them at all.

I do think the Object.getPrototypeOf approach is feasible for methods.

Autreon Improving EcmaScript5 OO with sugar

Yeah, it gets really hairy, really quickly.

Beyond the need for calling the constructor (which I'm currently viewing it as an unnecessary hidrance [objects are already initialized]), Object.getPrototypeOf may provide a way out - but maybe not the way you intended. Have you considered it?

Autreon Improving EcmaScript5 OO with sugar

Maybe I overlooked, but is there support for "super.method()" or something along those lines?

Autreon I hate cut-and-paste

Yeah, but would you be willing to read and develop, say Cassandra, in ed? I, for one, wouldn't. One more thing: would you be able to?

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Are arbitrary rss feeds recognized?

[edit:] Seems like rss, not atom feeds, are recognized.

Autreon Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

Readability is just one click away http://www.readability.com/

Autreon Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

Also: have a look at https://github.com/manuel/schampignon (an interpreter for a Kernel-like language)

Autreon JavaScript is Dead. Long Live JavaScript

Practically you need some desicion making control structure (cond, if) and an emulation of read/write tape (arrays)

Autreon Noir - The Clojure web framework

The same philosophy is applied in the Seaside framework for Smalltalk. See for example [1].

[1]: http://onsmalltalk.com/page-templates-and-seaside

Autreon How Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Really works

Well, I have to argue that it's not the same pattern. I think the problem is that you still like to believe that js has classes, which it doesn't: js has got objects only. That it also has constructor is an (admitted?) historical mistake. Just think of all the weird crap that goes on to make `new func()' work and produce a new object.

What is no mistake is the refreshing change of view you get when you start embracing objects and prototypal inheritance. See for example the traits library[1, 2].

[3]: Is a cursory introduction to Self, with another points example :)

[4] Contains an example of my own (heavily inspired by Self and Io). I have stitched together various internet sources to come up with `clone', an operator assisting in differential inheritance.

[1]: http://traitsjs.org/

[2]: http://code.google.com/p/es-lab/source/browse/trunk/src/trai...

[3]: http://www.cs.aau.dk/~bt/DAT5E08/MarkusKrogh1.pdf

[4]: https://gist.github.com/997910

Autreon How Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Really works

I don't see how Object.create goes against the grain of the lang. On the contrary, `new' was bolt on to make js look like classical oo languages. I have found, in toy and exploratory projects at least, that using variations on Object.create [1] is a nice, strong pattern, that really gets the best out of js. It certainly feels more natural than class based oo. Though, take it with a grain of salt, since I'm unable for now to provide an example backing my thesis :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Differential_inheritance_in...

Autreon Mug: A New JavaScript compiler for the JVM

Is there a reason you are not targeting ECMA5 (with the exclusions you mentioned)?

Autreon Mug: A New JavaScript compiler for the JVM

Just tried the following:

  for (var i = 0; i < 10; i += 1)
    eval("function function_" + i + "() { print('i am ' + i); }");

  for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1)
    this['function_' + i]();

but it seems like eval is not supported yet - i guess for good reasons.

Autreon Write code like you just learned how to program

Well, i'm not sure about that. Aren't we expected to be professionals and act like ones on any given job? Should we just eschew Knuth and express ourselves? Don't think so.

OTOH, it seems like something is clearly wrong here since, we are having a tough time being professional and working with the current crop of languages, tools, technologies, etc and in the same time, fully expressing our vision while enjoining our work.

Autreon Smalltalk in small talks: The Setup

It's my understanding that JSqueak was (is?) just a toy. OTOH, redline aims to be a full blown implementation of smalltalk that integrates with the jvm like jruby, scala, clojure, etc do. As you can see from the github repo, it's still pretty much a work in progress (plus a learning tutorial for interpreters/compilers).

Autreon Apache is being forced into a Java Fork

Heading for JavaWars?

Autreon Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

Though I'm glad for this desicion, I can't help but wonder: what's in it for oracle? The puny 5% of desktops running mac os?

Autreon A degree is only as meaningful as its scarcity [2008]

It's from one of the great ones by raganwald: http://blo.gr/352

Autreon Beyond vi - Towards a modern command mode

You cannot really suggest a vi replacement that runs on non-UNIX. Sorry, I'd like to try it out.

Autreon Towards a Universal VM

Seems there's at least some direction the new java owners want to head at.

Autreon Stevedekorte's vertex.js

I find instructive and intuitive the usage of common UNIX commands for the api.

Autreon Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft

For a minute there, I was actually scared.

Autreon Programming FAQ

It keeps hitting me as a contradiction these two suggestions, namely: a) that you have to understand design to be a good hacker; and b) that planning is overrated.

How can you get to a good design without some plan? Could someone shed some light?

Autreon Are we celebrating Erlang's birthday or just that Erlang hackers cracked HN?

Yeah, it definitely feels like a coup or something. It's so lame.

Autreon "What would Apple Do?" - Don't Ask

Would you claim, from a programmer's point of view and also from a user's, that Apple is usually doing the Right Thing?

Autreon Ask HN: Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?)

A priority queue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_queue] seems to be the way to go with this.

Autreon Hacker style versus the Dijkstra style

That's what pg have been saying all along.

Autreon Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

A brief explanation can be found here http://pv0.info/2k/v.