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Smoking + fresh air is a double negative in a way. It reduces your blood's ability to carry oxygen so you're technically hypo-oxiginated.

I had an old java based chat client in mind that I used a long time ago and had a similar name.

Hell even xchat is now hexchat. Weechat seems to be a pretty good client.

The nick list on the side does have its drawbacks when it comes to small screen realestate- but for a newbie (and beyond really. It seems to be very extedable) Friendly client it's impressive.

It's "wee" - so it's minimal. Does a good job for its niche.

Cli chat clients are more flexible, with all the complexity that brings with it - but they're usually robust. Command line graphics don't change much :)

gui ones less so, but learning curve is not as steep. That said Xchat is hard to compare to weechat again, as it's a full fledged gui IRC client, rather than a minimal one. (multi network, multi server, dcc/xdcc and scriptability) and it's robust in its own niche.

Been using irssi for years now, and can't say I know/utilise all it offers, but it's great to log in to my server and screen -x into my irssi session.

Somewhere there was drawn a line - education for work, and education for science.

Nearly everyone think both are the same. Leading to thinking publish or perish being ok even if it's shit work.

greener planet, happier people everyone wins.

a real issue would be making better use of the space. i once got shipped a 10 liter box that contained a single zippo lighter.

the days of an Octacore sitting at the helm of 128GB of RAM on a single die are soon upon us, me brethren/ettes.

for the daily joe, all of this doesn't mean much really. if anything, there's some serious improvements coming to our backbone infrastructure and laptop industries. considering improvement in lithium, this might kill off the desktop entirely, if done right.

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* insider malfeasance, such as exfiltration by Edward Snowden"

Heh.

glad to see more software out there based on this concept.

Feynmann pretty much settles it.

It has to be said that I'm a "right tool for the job" kind of man, and spend less time worrying about the perfect-ness of a language. Can't think of a better language to write crypto/network routing code with. Though a colleague did implement some mDNS craziness with java.

Don't shoot me. Heh.

But try to use python beyond the pythonic way on a large scale and your in for a design challenge. But Im sure it'll be beautiful and you'll get much hate, as well as praise for it, heh.

Usually though, when I write python, I keep it pythonic, mainly for the support and debugging efforts.

The community's large code Base is pythonic and is designed to stitch together pythonically. Aslong as the API is pythonic, what lies underneath can be functional.

It's the mother of all, and abusing it in ways that make it unpredictable is more than likely.

Not to mention c# is a beautiful language.

My experience is my own, viewing students confront different languages and just looking at it all grow. I'm biased towards myself, heh.

I certainly agree that haskell is awesome. And I know what you're Trying to say.. We're Sadly educated to prefer a certain syntax, and many programmers are still bad at math, bar a devoted and lucky core.

but ill have to still admit ignorance to a greater understanding of Rust.

So far the limitation of what's practical were/are the driver of industry.

And von neumann did solve a real problem they had back then. These days were facing a software engineering problem which is more high level, and most faculties are triaging the situation - but I can't really blame them. Many unis lack the funding for ground breaking experimental work - and the likes of Turing/von neumann/knuth/dijkstra et Al, only come once a generation.

As to Rust, it looks awesome.e, really. I've personally havn't used it but have been watching it rise through the rank with greater momentum (and more serious projects) than haskell. I just don't know enough about it to have made a statement I could back. I've a few future projects that I could use it in.

while haskell/ML is beautiful, and i'd much prefer it if everyone did adopt it - it seems human nature is preferring languages such as C, Python, C# and Java, exactly due to their expressiveness and distance from the pure math side of things.

maybe FP will be the future, but right now and considering everything is a stack machine that has ASM/C under the hood, things have to change on the hardware level to enable deep change in both our hardware and our curricula, which often produce "math is hard". it wouldn't hurt if the larger players put out mobile FP sdks. (i know we can program android in SCALA and that many folk wrote Haskell hooks for iOS, but it's not all very supported by the main players)

if anything, dabbing into Haskell made me understand math better. our youngsters would benefit greatly from such a change and it'd boost things beyond what we can imagine today if more than 5% of the population could program.

a low level FP styled non-gc`ed programming language would be interesting to see rise too. though haskell is making its way through the bushes, it's nooks and crannies leave a bit to be desired, esp. when complex software becomes extremely difficult to read by others, despite it's beauty and conciseness.

They also are capitalizing on Java using premium licensing if you're building with Oracle Java for the enterprise and planning to make money from it.

my source is my own experience working with Solaris, which beyond ZFS and OracleDB, has very few things going for it - it made me feel like a bad Sysadmin, really. maybe i was, maybe it is a better OS than my experience taught me.

now they've decided to go all cloud, and are killing Solaris. Java will probably still continue being developed.