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IF YOU BUILD IT
by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
The browser is the new desktop - take II
A few weeks ago I blogged about Rich Internet applications (again) and how I think Google sees Chrome as an eventual desktop replacement. Today I've seen that Good OS (makers of gOS - a Ubuntu based Linux distro) released a version they call gOS-Cloud. This version doesn't have a desktop -only a browser (which looks like chrome). It also offers a Mac OS X like dock in the browser. This isn't the big thing yet, since despite the "g" it isn't a Googl [...]
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Embedded scripting is a really handy programmer's tool.
Taking an existing operating system open source involves more than a pretty smile and good intentions.
The two major problems in concurrent programs are data races and deadlocks. The solutions that Bartosz presents here is based on a deadlock-avoidance protocol.
If you've been wondering what functional programming is all about, don't wait any longer. Michael examines functional languages like Scala, F#, Erlang, and Haskell, and Mike Riley adds a note about functional programming with Mathematica.
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