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IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:30PM from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

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Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 26, 2009 @12:41PM from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

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Submission + - Special Unix time on Friday the 13th (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by Ymerej on Friday February 13, 2009 @09:34AM

Ymerej writes: Geek alert --

Today at 6:31:30 EST it will be 1234567890 Unix time — the number of seconds since January 1, 1970.
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
and it's Friday the 13th!

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The Zen of SOA 219

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 16, 2009 @04:30PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Alex Roussekov writes "The book "Zen of SOA" by Tom Termini introduces an original view to the challenging world of SOA. He refers to the Zen philosophy as a "therapeutic device" helping SOA practitioners to get rid of prejudices and opinions in order to apply a clear mind-set based on real-life experiences and the application of technology knowledge. Each chapter of the book is prefaced by Zen Truism that the author suggests to "revisit, reflect on it longer, and see if you are able to establish a truth from the narrative, as well as from your own experiences." In fact, the book is about a SOA Blueprint outlining a methodology for building a successful SOA strategy. The target audience is C-level Executives, IT Managers and Enterprise Architects undertaking or intending to undertake adoption of SOA throughout their organizations. I strongly recommend the book to all SOA practitioners involved in implementation of SOA." Read below for the rest of Alexander's review.

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Comment Re:Assembly (Score 1) 962

by Ymerej on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @08:43PM (#26068475) Attached to: Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds?

For some people, "sum = num1 + num2" is not intuitive at all. To people not familiar with programming languages with this kind of syntax, it is downright puzzling. Why should "sum" and "num1 + num2" be equal? What happened to make that condition become true? Of course we all know that "=" is the assignment operator, but that's not obvious to a rank beginner. I like Pascal's assignment operator, ":=", because in the above statement it would make it clear that the above statement is not an equality test or an assertion that the two _are_ equal.

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Comment Re:Not sure I agree (Score 1) 727

by Ymerej on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @12:10AM (#25971323) Attached to: Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty

I'm not sure I fully agree with the article. Metaphors can help in better assimilating new knowledge by making it more natural to work with. Think about what object orientation has done for programming. If we had done as Dijsktra suggests and approached software engineering with an "open mind" maybe we would still be coding in assembler, as that is the "purest" way to interact and think the way computers do.

There you go anthropomorphizing the computer again.

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