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utku_karatas2on PASCAL Bootcamp in Machine Learning

Presented in this horrible flash player without rewind/forward. Anyone here to find a way to download?

I was only referring to the mini map feature. While you, my friend, are definitely rooting for an emacs discussion :)

Reasonable explanation, thanks.

Ok, now as being someone right in the middle of implementing yet another ide/editor, I gotta ask, how's such a feature useful to you at all? What would it provide? Except just looking cool at a glance.

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform?

Thanks for the link.

I don't know how they could succeed without a solution similar to Kylix. And I can't really envisage anything on the subject. Cross platform native apps is too good to be true :) (that is with third party support as abundant in Delphi, else FPC is actually there.)

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform?

Depends highly on the project type but if we're talking about a typical Delphi GUI app you don't need to be worry much if you depend on the RTL/VCL more than WINAPI itself.

I don't know about Emba.'s actual plans but what they refer to as cross-platform should be a proper port of runtime and VCL. They tried this before with Kylix but killed the project for reasons yet unknown to me (probably didn't raise much cash). So at least to have a taste of how things will work out in the future, I suggest you check out Kylix.

utku_karatas2on Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs

lol, intrigued me about his daily usage and found (http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html)

utku_karatas2on The world's first Islamic search engine

It must also be used as a verb to mean "to do good deed" by itself. Not sure as I just translate from turkish to arabic :).

utku_karatas2on The world's first Islamic search engine

@ars, @tfh: That should be thawab (or sawab, not sure of spelling).

utku_karatas2on The world's first Islamic search engine

How come Carmen Electra is halal? Fail ;)

utku_karatas2on Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents

I guess it's more likely about the culture and family values rather than the economic facts when it comes to countries those called to have meditterenean culture (Spain, Greece, Italy and a bunch more). ie. in Turkey a guy is simply not expected to move out until marriage.

utku_karatas2on Electric bike that folds into a shoulder bag

Seems to be the most dangerous thing to drive without a helmet. Hands are at the worst position to protect your head in case of an accident your face is guaranteed to smash into somewhere till your arms reach to cover your head.

utku_karatas2on Plurk Solace - Free and Open-source version of stackexchange.com

Seriously, how much work did it take roughly (@amix)? After all the fuss about "weekend job" issue one wonders.

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: How much?

As another freelancer much below your rate I wonder if they knew you were a one man show in your 100K project. Usually firms want to see teams and sales reps in suits if they're going to shell out large amounts like that. How did you ever gained their trust?

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: How much?

Lol, dude, so you're where the Chinese companies outsource to :).

Joke aside, I suggest using Django in such low budget projects if the admin is a selling point. Will save you some time at least (In Django a very slick admin is automatically there for you). Best of the luck.

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: Do we (HN members) need a HN social network?

I regard HN as a successor to USENET (in its prime) with the quality of discussions and content. Not to Facebook. And I think adding friends in here won't help improve on that area much.

utku_karatas2on Ask HN: Where do you live?

Istanbul, Turkey.

utku_karatas2on Why is there still a registry in Windows 7?

You might want to look at PowerShell.

utku_karatas2on Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

Nice! I'd also be interested in the techology decisions (languages, frameworks..).

utku_karatas2on Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

Fail. Says "No".

utku_karatas2on I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job

IMO that online persona is perfect for a technology evangelist. Make noise, rake muck, profit.

utku_karatas2on Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH

I wouldn't hold my breath. Touch screens were invented in, what, 70s? And it took somewhat 30+ years for it to be widely used by the average person.

utku_karatas2on Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth

> Decorator is Python’s implementation to visitor pattern...

huh?

utku_karatas2on Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework

I was just toying with such an idea and wondering why that wasn't thought before. Use webkit as the base GUI widget tied with Python/Ruby/your_favorite_lang and you get:

* Truly cross-platform GUI on major OSes.

* Smoother transition if your app needs to move on web.

* Pretty looking UI's. 5 years ago, I'd prefer VB/Delphi/.NET [1] for building state of the art UI's (backed by some commercial packages) but today the scene has been completely changed. Hard to catch up with JQuery and alike when it comes to good looking UI's with the tools above.

Downsides? Having a fully blown JS interpreter working aside and a few megabytes bigger installations? Well, I'd say, way to go boy!

Glad to see someone actually working on this idea. I hope they don't make the mistake of setting a high price for entry which would unavoidably push it into being another niche framework. Best of the luck!

[1] and good luck on Linux!