GeoJawDguJin

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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
MacVim's full screen mode has the neatest implementation I've seen of this. Play with the 'fuoptions' setting, which gives you control over the margin color and the maximization behavior. If you disable maximization, it will just use the he
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
Because... what? Any skilled engineer is somehow automagically also blessed with entrepreneurial spirit?
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
And how is it that other third party software mysteriously has access to APIs that Flash allegedly doesn't? For example, MPlayer is able to offload work to the GPU.
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
The Hulu developers didn't pick Flash because it was "easy." They picked it because it allowed them to retain a high degree of control over their streaming video content -- control they would lose if they exposed an h.264 stream to an iPhon
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
That's kind of a bogus question to begin with. Africa is not exactly culturally homogenous, and in fact Egypt (and a lot of nearby civilizations) would be more appropriately regarded as part of the ancient Middle East, owing to the fact tha
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
Currently, Apple only makes membrane keyboards. Even as membrane keyboards go, the best I can say about them (subjectively) is that they're not quite as awful as most of the competition. A better comparison would be with old (early 90s) ADB
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
I've seen some people use "myth" and "cult" to describe the theistic and worshipful aspects of religion, respectively. Unfortunately these words both have other, more common meanings with negative connotations, so using them in any sort of
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
In the most general case it uses boxing strategies, but it's also able to behave like C++ with certain compile-time optimizations turned on (at the cost of slowing down compilation). There's a lot of literature out there about how to take a
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
No, the simplest case for Haskell would be type variables. For example, the map function doesn't need typeclasses at all: map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] For the record, in Go+generics, this might look something like: func map&#60
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
These days, the Cocoa text system on Macs is so ridiculously feature-complete that you can do this in web browsers and chat programs as well, along with “smart quotes” and automatic spelling correction.
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
"But a pastebin like no other in the Internet." Isn't this pretty much a reimplementation of codepad.org? So that's not entirely accurate...
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
It's a Haskell library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec Here's a tutorial that uses it to parse a simplified Scheme: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
Rails folks are like that. Even though the rest of the Ruby community is much more reasonable, the weekly Rails debacle has driven a lot of people away from Ruby, including me. If Rails weren't around, it would be much easier to enjoy Ruby
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by GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
That's nice. Now let's see an official client for set-top boxes, and maybe phones. It's very buggy, by the way. Crashes within 30 seconds every time I use it.
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
There are a lot of bogus links showing up on the front page with obviously falsified vote counts (numbers starting with the digits "1337"). I'd say, yeah, it's been seriously compromised.
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Ask HN: Wireless text-mode thin client?
4 points by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago|2 comments
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
"Ada was created for the D.O.D according to their needs." Fixed that for you.
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
As if they're hard to write...? (define (foldr f end xs) (if (null? xs) end (f (car xs) (foldr f end (cdr xs))))) (define (foldl f start xs) (if (null? xs) start (foldl f (f start (car xs)) (cdr xs))))
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
Typesafe generics have been in ML from the get-go (1970s) from what I remember. People like to talk about how type inference is useful, but it's really the generic polymorphism that makes it shine. I was hacking together an Arc interpreter
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
Some of them do. There are lots of redundant functions in CL, for reasons of backwards compatibility.
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
I didn't bring up Lisp machines. I'd like to see a Lisp OS of some kind, though.
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
> Could this be handled by macro programming on a lisp machine? Sure! Now all we need is a lisp machine that anyone can run on modern hardware. Any ideas?
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. If you know OOP and C (that's regular C), you can pick up Objective-C in a matter of hours. If you don't know C already, you'll have to learn it anyway as part of C++. C++ is not generally a language people ought to
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
How is babby nammed?
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
Someone should do Paul Graham, so he can write a new lisp dialect to write another program to evolve another version of Paul Graham to write a new lisp dialect to write another program to evolve another version of Paul Graham to write a new
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
Honestly, the JVM is pretty crappy right now for functional language support. A lot of stuff has to be implemented by hand in either the compiler or the program itself. Several features in Clojure take the latter track at the moment. I advo
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
The truly elite (or at least, those who think of themselves as such) know that "effect," when used as a verb, is (sort of) a synonym for "cause."
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by GeoJawDguJin 18y ago
AAAAGGHHHH MY BROWSER

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