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As much as I despise Javascript, this looks like it could be exactly what I need to bring the concepts of HOPE (see sig for those that haven't heard about my pet project) to the browser, something I've been struggling to figure out.
Marc
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Well then. Looks interesting enough. I'll have to try it later.
But I still wonder what made the developers think 'hey, let's make a JavaScript based operating system!'
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A long, long, time ago, Intel had the idea of producing a three-chip processor that executed Java bytecode natively. The project was shelved due to technical problems, but I wonder how difficult it would be to produce such a processor today.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I've had this same idea once in my career. Then, I delved into the JRE source code and saw my hopes and dreams burn up.
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Java != JavaScript. The two have nothing to do with each other.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I know that.
What OS.js is apparently doing is to use a high-level language's Virtual Machine as the basis for an operating system. I thought it worthwhile to mention another case where this was tried.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ah, got it. Thanks for the clarification.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There's ARM Jazelle® DBX (direct bytecode execution) now, which is a fun idea, but cutting the JIT compiler out of the picture means the code runs without optimization.
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Write once, break everywhere!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Lively Kernel has accomplished a similar feat for years, including a built-in Self/Smalltalk-like live-programming IDE and various other features. It targets JS and is associated with Dan Ingalls, one of the original authors of Smalltalk.
But the wheel needs constant reinvention, I suppose.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Famo.us, io.js, JavaFX, Objective-C, and Spring.Net have all faded away, but for different reasons "You have no pulse, your blood pressure's zero-over-zero, you have no pupillary response, no reflexes and your temperature is 70 degrees."
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The other night, I was remembering what might have been my most impressive performance in the interview process. No need to know about manhole covers?
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What works often would be "what if I double your salary"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ian Murdock, 42, has died, according to Docker. He will be remembered as the founder of Debian and the creator of apt-get, and his death this week has touched the entire software community. Such a shame. RIP
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The events[^] leading to his death seem suspicious. 
/ravi
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Actually it sounds like he was suffering from mental illness.
Marc
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Microsoft’s chief marketing officer Chris Capossela explained in a recent podcast that the OneDrive saga that reduced users’ free storage from 15 GB to 5 GB and which eliminates the unlimited storage place is his company’s own mistake after making a poor decision a year before. Some people will take you seriously
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They should hire Vickie Guerrero 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Hmm hamster Error message. Lets try again.
Yea they should know better. and anyone that took it to heat should know that they would change their mind also.
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The number of programming jobs in the U.S. will decline 8 percent by 2024, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Maybe. Possibly. (In the US anyway - the rest of us can party like it's 1999)
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And that doesn't even consider the process improvement through Scrum. The CSMs might just eliminate all professional programmers.
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The academic and research books are available as PDF downloads. You can search and filter the list by discipline and topics. "All the time, our customers ask us, 'How do you make money doing this?' The answer is simple: Volume."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "All the time, our customers ask us, 'How do you make money doing this?' The answer is simple: Volume."
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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