Slava Pestov
Lead developer for jEdit
I ain't mad at cha
Java
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http://factor-language.blogspot.com
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OS X 'cat' has a bug: run cat with no arguments. Control-Z, %1 -- "cat: stdin: Interrupted system call" at least 10.5 has this problem
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I know how to fix it, but it will delay the next release by a bit
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So there might be a fundamental limitation in Factor's GC map design which is causing rare random crashes on the build farm.
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... fixed (I hope)
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Oops, updated website to latest Factor build and now a couple of templates are broken
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Learning Factor - http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Learning
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Next set of Factor binary builds will be blessed as 0.94. Keep up the good work @FactorBuilds
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Fixed a long-standing bug in Factor's compile-time method dispatch optimization
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It's only a matter of time before OpenJDK goes the way of OpenSolaris. Perhaps the invokedynamic/etc guys should hack on Dalvik VM instead
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It's only a matter of time before OpenJDK goes the way of OpenSolaris. Perhaps the invokedynamic guys should look at Android instead
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It's probably only a matter of time before OpenJDK goes the way of OpenSolaris
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Another reason Twitter sucks: their HTTP server violates the spec, but this tweet isn't long enough for me to explain how
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I hate MacPorts. Why does updating wget have to install texinfo and gettext? I don't care about docs or i18n
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Used Factor's leaks combinator to track down a resource leak
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Factor contributors are working on cool projects. MongoDB binding, HTTP-Machine port, FastCGI, Gtk binding, the list goes on and on
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One bug left to fix before releasing Factor 0.94. Finally...
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OH: Factor is a DSL for writing Factor compilers
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How does your favorite dynamic language FFI compare to Factor's?
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Enhancing Factor's FFI callback support with static error checking and performance improvements
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Slides for my Boston Lisp talk are now up: http://github.com/slavapestov/boston-lisp-talk
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Boston Lisp talk went really well, good crowd and lots of interesting questions. Thanks to everyone for coming!
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If you're in the Boston metro area tonight come to my Factor talk: http://fare.livejournal.com/157280.html
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People should submit John Benediktsson's blog posts to reddit and hacker news! http://re-factor.blogspot.com/
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My slides (written in Factor) from @emerginglangs http://github.com/slavapestov/emerging-langs-talk
