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raton Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released

Cd are cheaper for people to buy(and cheaper to give away).

raton Why Dart is not the language of the future.

    "r#{5}"

or in actual use something like

    "I have #{me.num_of_children}\n"

much better then Auto conversion In python

    "I have " + str(me.num_of_sons) + "and " + str(me.num_of_daughters) +"\n"

does get annoying

raton Why Dart is not the language of the future.

Don't (typed) Union types work better for errors(with pattern matching) In haskell I think a nullable type or possibly error type frequently returned from functions which can error

ie. data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a data Either a b = Left a | Right b instead of (err,result) like in go

raton An lsof Primer

In linux at least you can use /proc/`ps -ef|grep flash|grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'}`/fd/

rat on Stallman: GPL ramifications and purpose

And with proprietary frontends(like flash)

rat on Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same

yes

rat on Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac

why?
also kate is a very nice editor gui editor(mainly linux but probably runs on os x/windows -because of kde portability)

rat on Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same

They are obviously asking for the patent to prevent others from using this technique.

rat on Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.

"The majority opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito"
And that's why we need a more liberal supreme court.

rat on Why OCaml?

Wouldn't that be Typed Scheme/Typed Racket?

rat on [Python-ideas] List Revolution

true the ruby should be a type error

rat on Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix

I'm pretty sure its vim-tiny

rat on Reddit becomes reddit Inc.

Paying someone to reply to people on twitter cost 20000 + benefits per person. Not to mention conference tickets, transportation to conferences. Maybe some facebook ads?

rat on Vim is hard, I just want to click around

Thanks that will help a lot(although I mostly use eclipse these days) but for smaller tasks having to reopen gvim with more files or opening new files can get annoying(also the lack of project/file groups checking).

rat on America is losing another generation to science illiteracy

Dictatorship of smart morons. Yay

rat on Linux is now hosted on GitHub

I found the launchpad bzr code browser not to bad. Launchpad is also more project based then code based. The thing is that sourceforge and launchpad try to give you an overview of the project first while github show the code and a readme and maybe some wiki pages.

rat on 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip}

> Officially I live with a zombie
Not as uncommon as you might think. Plight of the Living Dead(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054133,00.htm...)

rat on Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody

I don't know spatial mode was default in Gnome for a while and I think most users disliked it.

rat on A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files

I thought using moose turned on warnings+strict(at least its claimed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6050031/why-are-use-warni...)

rat on How much of R is written in R?

seems unrelated to ubuntu, its seems to be this project:http://code.google.com/p/zecurrencyconverter/

rat on Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter: C++ and Beyond

He is probably better known for Modern C++ Design, Loki, and D

rat on Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

Didn't OS X not have restore from trash until recently(even after gnome)?

rat on GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

I'm fairly sure most closed source applications also Include something of a "NO Waranty as much to the degree allowed by law".

rat on Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration

Chromebook? hahahahaha

rat on Edit like an Ace

how is split views an ide feature?

rat on Python GIL removal question

python is widely used as a scripting language. If you are on windows they will probably ship with their own python. Even if not they will probably have to use something to glue the main program to the interpreter which will probably not be compatible with any python implementation.

rat on What's Special About Lisp?

can you get an ast in perl/ruby/python?

rat on What's Special About Lisp?

popularity, culture and ease of sharing libraries(ex. cpan) for one.
But also its not that its great for writing libraries but that its great for writing libraries that extend the language.

rat on Chocolat - the new editor

kate has kio which can access files over serveral protocls including sftp.

rat on Java 7 is now available

I think perl6 is meant to have mutiple implementations.