NigelTufnel

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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
That's why I like Python so much. Made a syntax error? Here's the line number, pointer to the column, and the kind words "SyntaxError" from the interpreter.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Sometimes I put my laptop inside of the couch, my laptop battery in the wardrobe, my laptop mouse in a drawer in the kitchen so it takes a good couple of minutes to assemble all of this stuff. From the facts that today's Sunday and I&#
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I like the idea: basically, it's a "kind of Stack Overflow in your shell". The "bro" name is great actually - made #1 on the front page just because of it.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
It took Carlsen 12 seconds and 2 piece "sacrifices" to mate Gates. That was fast.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I walked almost the same path. For the first couple of months I was customizing the hell out of Emacs. Then the things started falling apart and I've switched to the 20-line long .emacs and empty .emacs.d (well, almost empty if you don
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Going JIT seems to be the common way of the scripting/bytecode-compiled languages. Java -> HotSpot, Python -> PyPy, Javascript -> V8 and friends, PHP -> HHVM
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I've tried to learn Haskell for a several times and the composition-heavy/flipping-so-currying-will-work/no-variables style always made the programs difficult for me to understand. Probably the classic case of Imperative-Guy-
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Didn't know that Jamaicans are into bobsleigh. Didn't know that Dogecoin exist. Today is the Knowledge Day.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I occasionally code in Javascript and I always get the feeling that I'm working with a language without a decent built-in standard library. Want to work with dates? Use a third party library (or use built-in 1995-style library). Want t
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Interesting. I've never worked with Tcl, is it possible to write Common Lisp loop macro in Tcl?
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I think writing C extensions (using raw C, not Cython) for Python is not easy and will never be easy. For one reason alone: writing C is never easy.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
A year ago Yandex made an iOS app "Wonder" that could search in Facebook and other social networks. Facebook blocked this app one month later. Good to know that now Yandex and Facebook have signed an agreement.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
After six years of programming in Python I've almost forgot that there are languages that don't have named function parameters. I remember the horror of working with WINAPI. There are WINAPI functions with 10 or so arguments and I
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
This is not the most fair paper (it could be described as: two Haskell language designers kick program-manager-struggling with-pre-STL-C++'s ass) but it's an interesting reading. It would be great to see this paper's experime
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I'm sold. For the next week (or couple of minutes if DDG isn't for me) I'll use DDG instead of Google.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
It's not just you. While reading the article I was thinking "wow, these guys are using 39" monitors, while I'm perfectly happy with a single 17" monitor or a 13" laptop. There must be something wrong with me.&q
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I think judging programming languages by their features is the same as judging people by their talent and not by their deeds. Take Java for example. Most people (Dijkstra included) hate it. But look how much Java has accomplished. It's
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Question to professional C programmers: Do you write unit tests? At my current job I've never met C++, let alone C programmer who writes unit tests. Is it common?
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Someone should write a twitter bot that monitors HN status and tweets "Hacker News down, productivity up". What the hell, I'll do it.