It'll be interesting to see how guile-PreScheme will relate to guile's existing code generation facilities.

From the paper: "Throughout the test, the Arm Cortex-M0+ processor drew an average current from the compact Al-BPV of 1.4 ± 0.4 µA with a voltage of 0.72 ± 0.14 V".

So a grand total of 31J of energy over the course of a year, or about 1% of the energy in a typical coin cell.

Yeah but think how much algae there is in the sea! With only a few million dollars of investment we might be able to power a whole house, or at least a large shed.

Followed by a five-comic arc leading up to a duel between Carmack and Stallman.

Wouldn't they be on the same team, begrudgingly? id games have always gotten GPL releases.

And I remember reading somewhere that Stallman was cool with games being closed source.

Okay, the patents of Nokia and Blackberry in one hand (and especially Microsoft's hand) is a scary thought.

The Nokia patents were not part of the acquisition, Nokia Networks kept them.

I started using orgzly last week. I like it so far. I hope the next version includes note folding.

But how do you clean the cleaning brushes?

By making custom tooth-brush cleaning brush cleaning brushes that are tailored to each tooth-brush cleaning brush they produce?

At each iteration, the shape changes slightly, until eventually, the design stabilizes to a device that looks suspiciously like a turtle.

So you hypothesize that there exists a fixpoint for the cleaner function?

This looks awesome.

Did you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board ?

Nice! I hadn't actually seen that but that is exactly what I mean. Although rather than help the team be more productive it's to let me be more productive :-)

http://www.trello.com ?

Yes, Trello does this pretty well. Not "switch to the buffer in vim" well :-) but its a great tool. An iPad version would be cool.

While I don't agree with everything you say(+), I'd like to thank you for taking the time for writing all this (your initial post and your comments in this thread) up. Definitely one of the more interesting reads on HN today.

(+) Web browsing is extremely complex: We have video, audio, js, plugins (flash, java, silverlight), changing standards for html, css etc. Because of this, it's not very well suited for custom chips. For this reason, modern smartphones contain both custom chips for the "phone" functionaltiy and a flexible microprocessor for Angry Birds.

There might be other areas where a few custom chips might save a lot of resources in the long run, though.

Maybe it's just me, but I could use some explanatory text along with these links (which I certainly find interesting, but I don't see directly how they relate to what colanderman said).