Roboprog

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by Roboprog 7y ago
The on-off system itself was believed to be artificial in the story, which might imply that the residents were also. Speculation on top of fiction:-)
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I saw one of the authors give a demo at our local user group last month. It looked useful if you have multiple projects with different JavaScript stack versions. I don’t, but that’s only because my job has Java back ends. Which are also o
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by Roboprog 7y ago
True. Don’t expect me to be happy about that, though. I’ll even upvote your comment, as it does matter a little. Too bad C is what “we” settled for.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Only in the C, C++, Java, ... universe. Worked with a few case smashers in the 80s. Smashing Unicode is hard, I guess. I don’t really have much of a preference for or against case sensitivity, though I do hate fuglyCaps
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by Roboprog 7y ago
That wasn’t very nice, but it felt spot on. Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol. Within about 18 months at university (80s), I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Lisp. Syntax, yeah, whatever. (We transit
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Not on my tablet, trying to skim it at lunch. Future consideration...
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by Roboprog 7y ago
He trolled you good :-)
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I wanted to like this, but I struggled with the "s-expression with numeric atoms" dependency injection notation. How do I map the numbers back to their sources?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I use the term “monomorphism”, as an antonym to polymorphism. Yeah, not good. And you meant update 3 files, not 2. You forgot the 1 file that uses the 1 implementation, which should have simply been nested the only place it was used.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I wondered that as well. 0 tolerance means our entire planet should be condemned as uninhabitable, then. Clearly there must be some level of parts per 10 to the N that is no more dangerous than a walk on the beach. 300 parts per million i
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by Roboprog 7y ago
1970s? Lucky if the ceiling wasn’t coated with the stuff, in fairness. Quantities / concentrations not specified in the article that I saw at a skim. Both sides talking past the other, sadly.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Contrarian, albeit minority, view: I really like ECMAScript. It’s not a weaker Java, it’s better. I’ve been programming since the 80s. We had OOP shoved down our throats in college (CSU), with FP downplayed due to the runtime cost. Thing
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Yep. I live in the Sacramento area. Half the salary. Half the price for a house. Half the commute. Seems an even trade.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Sad but true, for the obvious business reasons. I was pleased (somewhat) 20 years ago when Java displaced C++, but now I just wish it would fade away. Thanks for the garbage collector, Java, now retire. This said as someone who is convinced
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by Roboprog 7y ago
C has unions, which are similar to Pascal’s variant records, though without an explicit out of band discriminant.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I was a bit surprised to learn a year or two ago that the browser makers have pretty much divorced W3C: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG
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by Roboprog 7y ago
How would you detect something like that? A primordial black hole the mass of a small asteroid with a tiny absolute magnitude? If such a thing existed, there would likely be more than 1. How long would it take such an object to consume a
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Pursing lips while thinking??? (Given the hmmm after)
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Sounds like fusion: there’s a big gap between making it happen for a moment and actually using it. ... Ignoring the HUGE gap between smashing together a few atoms so a small fraction of their bits evaporate and smashing them so hard they pr
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Is there a Planck constant type value for minimal singularities?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I wondered that as well. Upvoted, and good food for thought.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
This is great LAN party game. Although my daughter used to always pick up that damn laser and then shut out the rest of us
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by Roboprog 7y ago
At what mass is Hawking Radiation a significant factor? Toss something over that either hoovers up your planet, or bakes it if a near miss. Tricky to store, though.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I think Access is more like Paradox, with code and data bundled together (for better or worse), rather than numerous PRG, DBF and index files that have to be “deployed” together. Yeah, I did a lot of dBase / Clipper back in the mid 80s
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I am also glad to see the new way to define event handlers. The v 2 way of defining a “methods” prototype forces me to constantly reference “this” (which will only exist later after the component has “really” been created), which I would p
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I guess Franco isn’t dead, after all.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
To make domestic products price competitive with sweatshop products
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by Roboprog 7y ago
You stick with your “polyfill”, I’ll stick with mine , so to speak. It’s nice to be able to make a function as concisely as something like: Const foo_finder = R.find( R.propEq( ‘prop’, ‘foo’ ) ) ... Const a_foo = foo_finder( a_list )
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Look into Ramda.js if you haven’t yet. It adds partial function application / currying capabilities, as well as composition support. E.g. https://ramdajs.com/docs/#partial https://ramdajs.com/docs
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Things like Ramda and jquery help avoid fighting against IE and other browser nuances, as well. Even when there seem to be native functions/ methods to do something. That’s where the monster lives.

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