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Comment Re:Too constrained and academic (Score 1) 439

by cameleon on Friday September 19, 2008 @11:45AM (#25072099) Attached to: Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule

This is completely false. IO is well supported, with an almost imperative syntax. And as others have mentioned, there are hundreds of libraries available. As an aside, functional isn't the coolest aspect of Haskell. I think its type system is much cooler (although not as cool as Agda's).

Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? 256

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, 2007 @07:48PM from the taking-standards-seriously dept.

Albert Sandberg writes "According to a developer blog, it looks like Opera 9.5 (which has been code-named Kestrel) will be the first browser to fully support the CSS selector test (test is here). Finally! Weekly builds should start being available in a few weeks."

XML::Simple for Perl Developers 186

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 03, 2007 @08:46PM from the weekend-project dept.

An anonymous reader writes "XML has become pervasive in the computing world and is buried more and more deeply into modern applications and operating systems. It's imperative for the Perl programmer to develop a good understanding of how to use it. In a surprisingly large number of cases, you only need one tool to integrate XML into a Perl application, XML::Simple. This article tells you where to get it, how to use it, and where to go next."

Vista's TCP/IP Promises and Perils 183

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @09:42AM from the packet-to-go dept.

boyko.at.netqos tips us to a new writeup on Vista's TCP/IP stack, which is called Compound TCP/IP (CTCP). From the article: "...security policy will come from a centralized source. When you get your DHCP lease, your computer will report to the stack what OS you're using, what version level, what patches, what anti-virus software that's active — all that kind of stuff. It will have the ability to restrict your network access if you have a down-level machine... We could see a lot of our customers with much higher WAN network utilization because of this new TCP/IP stack... CTCP can be enabled/disabled from the command prompt but there has been no mention of tuning parameters which leads us to ask the question: How are you supposed to configure this setting in Vista?... What worries us... is that Microsoft is basing this on packet round trip time. The round-trip time from the client-side will have the server processing time in it; but the clients aren't likely going to be the running the CTCP at first. If you have a server-to-server backup running, for example, CTCP may think its part of the round-trip time and it'll throw the delay window through the roof..."

Web-Based Assistant Changes the Face of Dutch Politics 190

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 23, 2006 @06:23PM from the can-we-get-that-in-the-states-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The elections held in The Netherlands on Wednesday have shaken the country. Almost 10 million votes were cast, and statistics show that a full half of those who voted used a popular web-based voter guide. This guide is operated by the independent institute for the public and politics. Advice is given to the visitor upon answering a number of multiple choice questions on some common political topics. Statistically, a number of people ended up scoring in support of populist parties both on the far left and far right. No bias was reported to exist in the test itself. However, these parties have ended up with an unforeseen amount of power as a result of the election. The voter participation was high, and the web-based advisories may have motivated people with little interest in politics to cast a vote anyway. Can politics be simplified to a ten minute test?"

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