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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
"low on pedagogical focus" Although I have some duds, the hundreds of pages of wiki contributions I've made are nearly all designed to be what I wished existed when I was learning said details. Sadly, they only help to a cert
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
That's the one, thanks!
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I think I heard that even his wife didn't want him to teach their son Racket and wanted him to learn Java. Not sure if true.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
You are correct sir. The rest of the parent comments procunciation is spot on though. I had to say it out loud a few times to confirm it was closer to "eh".
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
No I mean can I use certain aspects of Nim (Ex: some function in the stdlib) in this?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
This looks pretty cool. Nice website, but I'd like to see more examples. Can I access Nim functions in Min?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Is femtolisp useful? Does it expose functions like filesystem interactions?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I think your comment mostly hits the nail on the head. Ada is a really nice language that is fast, has lots of support for making sure programs are reliable, can run on desktops or microcontrollers, has a really good concurrency story and p
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Maybe I've been looking at it wrong. Those books don't exist as you have to go through C# first unless you're just gifted maybe. I've thought OCaml might be a good F# replacement as it has its own compiler and interprete
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I really like F#, but it has a few major pain points that hinder adoption: The first is that once a user reads over the various functional things like let statements, record types, union types...etc, you still don't really know how to
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Ah, regardless it sounds useful and a good way to get up to speed on array programming concepts. One of the problems I've always had with niche languages is that they're so alien compared to my background with scripting languages
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
No problem! I hope it helps get you a few sales. I also sometimes wish I had all the time in the world to read through each one of them. Sadly as someone working full time with a kid, I have very little time for exploring these fascinating
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Can you explain that better? Basically in a nutshell they don't have worthless agile processes?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
PSA: If you go to the author's root page, you can see they've written many fascinating books on niche subjects that aren't so niche on HN. For example, implementation of a lisp system and array programming, scheme books, logi
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Yea, but common lisp is also missing nearly all the numerical libraries I need like sparse matrices. Yes, I'm sure someone has a wrapper somewhere, but Julia has native support for all of that and is really nice. It also has much bette
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I assumed this was just using the chop command on strings and was wondering why it would be front page worthy. Then, I saw it was Damian Conway solving problems and got excited. Cool stuff! Perl6 is pretty cool.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
You are correct. Due to certain tax credits, utilities can break even and even make a little money off of these devices, but it is certainly no slam dunk. One of the most recent FERC orders deals with directing all the ISO/RTOs to add
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Thanks for the insight. I like programming and read and write plenty of code, but it is a part of my job (tool in the belt) and not the focus. In my opinion, there are always so many unknowns for any project that scoping something out entir
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
What do you mean by integrating every 3 seconds? As an ISO in the US, CAISO is pretty standard in that they have a day-ahead hourly market and a 5-minute real-time market. Of course they have very large ramps due to solar (duck-curve).
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Is it really common for software engineers to work under these conditions? As an electrical Engineers I have plenty of deadlines and do plenty of work with PMs, but none of this daily standup and thankfully Jira was recently dropped as it w
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
For those to who it isn't obvious...the name is a pun on Calvin's imaginary alterego "Spaceman Spiff" in the comic Calvin & Hobbes.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
There is a really cool LEGO version someone built and you can see on YouTube.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I most certainly did not advocate for that.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
You're correct that most of the US is in a power market. I'd still call it regulated though. There are some regions like TVA, Colorado area, and BPA that do their own thing, but BPA is joining CAISO's secondary market (energy
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
No.... seriously. Your bill might be going toward green energy, but dirty coal is still fueling your home. Granted, many understand that and are perfectly fine with it as you're helping to effect change. However, a lot of folks have be
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Unless you're hooking up your rural house to a turbine, your comment is misleading. The power going to your house will still be a mix of coal, natural gas, wind, solar, and others.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I think many energy companies would love (or at least not be opposed) to get a large amount of renewables and energy storage...etc. The problem is that doing so costs money (a lot of it) which means raising customer rates which are highly r
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I don't think this will get you all of the wind power in Texas as the panhandle of Texas has at least one major utility participating in the SPP market as well which is next door.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
It depends on the region, but most of the US doesn't have too much of a problem. There is always pushback from locals (understandable), but there has been billions in transmission built in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Texas
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
LA native....not to mention that a good bit of the central and northern part of the state is heavily forested with pine trees. During pollen season I once sweeped my porch and filled a five-gallon ziplock bag with the yellow pollen. It make

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