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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
It's funny that this is the first time I've seen a language explicitly condone "print debugging." It's one of those things that everyone says you're not supposed to do and then does anyway. Does any other langu
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
See also: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/57257/3808
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
That might just have been a failure with the GPS -- I've had the same issue before, but the car icon was offset a bit from the highway, so it looked like I was constantly driving on the grass next to it (that must have come as a surpri
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
While I agree that the criticism "you're just trying to look smart" is misguided, it's a bit ironic that his response had the implication that "if I know this thing and you don't then you should be embarrassed
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
Lots more fizzbuzzes here, in both standard and weird languages: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/58615/3808 (They're golfed, meaning bytecount is minimized.)
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
The example they give isn't really convincing, to me. I can see the usecase for this kind of language, but for e.g. searching for a pattern on the shell that isn't just one of a few predefined special cases, it seems like it'
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False sunrise(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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The Story of Spoffle(miztres.wordpress.com)
2 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
One feature I really miss in a lot of chat clients (that this doesn't appear to have) is the ability to reply to specific messages, like in Stack Exchange chat or Telegram. It makes it a lot easier to follow several simultaneous conver
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Rpn – arbitrary precision unit-aware command-line RPN calculator(github.com)
1 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords(motherboard.vice.com)
7 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
The idea that language limits or constrains the way people think (the stronger side of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is now largely discredited by the majority of linguists.
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Mozilla recommends a privacy extension that tracks web history(howtogeek.com)
2 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
This is really cool! Crazy idea: what if the first letter of the domain name was used to determine the first letter of the Unicode name of the emoji to select? That way there'd be some kind of mnemonic instead of having it be purely ra
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
It makes me a little uncomfortable that they're using curl|bash for something as simple as "put this 10-line script somewhere in your $PATH," especially when the script involves sudo (to move into /usr/local/bi
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
Personally, when I write shell commands, they tend to be write-only code, because the shell isn't really suitable for anything more complex. So it's easier to think in code than it is to add the extra step of translating to Englis
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
The `sort' example will break past one-digit numbers without the -n flag, and the example for `uniq' isn't even accurate without sorting first (not to mention the UUOC). Setting aside the errors, the author recommends `xdotoo
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Primality testing formula: a single Python expression using only basic operators(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
1 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Key signatures(keyboardfire.com)
4 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
Hmm, why doesn't `fn() echo test; fn` work? It seems to work in zsh, but not bash.
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
A similar tool, but even simpler: https://txt.fyi/
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by KeyboardFire 8y ago
Plain text is small, and the smallest limit appears to be on the order of 2MB, which is enough to fit several NaNoWriMo novels. (And that's if you're storing them uncompressed.) (source: https://stackoverflow.com/q
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Linguist Michael Halliday has died(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by KeyboardFire 8y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 9y ago
Wow... when this project began over a year ago, it seemed almost impossible. It's almost surreal to see the results finally all put together. (And it really goes to show how a few amazing and dedicated people working together can make
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Code Health: To Comment or Not to Comment?(testing.googleblog.com)
4 points by KeyboardFire 9y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 9y ago
It's not meant to be an editor. That sounds like unnecessary feature creep - the point is to run snippets of code in different languages through your web browser, not to be an IDE.
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Gif and image written into the DNA of bacteria(bbc.com)
1 points by KeyboardFire 9y ago|0 comments
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Internal Apple presentation on how to handle leaks gets leaked(theverge.com)
2 points by KeyboardFire 9y ago|0 comments
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by KeyboardFire 9y ago
The article seems hopelessly tautological. One of the arguments for Clojurescript is that it "is a functional programming language," with the reasoning that this makes functional programming easier. The author then goes on to answ
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by KeyboardFire 9y ago
While not a natural language, aUI [1] is a conlang (constructed language) that sort of tries to emulate the idea described in the article. Each sound represents a very basic concept (they map to semantic primes [2]), and they're combin

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