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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
They’re currently at $10,000 a month, or $120,000 a year. That’s really amazing!
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
How so? He developed ReiserFS before he was convicted, so I’m not sure what the connection is.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Imagine reading someone else’s mind, only to discover that they are reading yours... Mind-stack overflow?
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
> I wrote 3 years ago about this ... > But I realize that, in the best case, this will take decades . That's OK ... Wow. I’ve never really thought about how much time and dedication is put into the languages and tools I’m surr
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Non-paywall: http://archive.ph/5OBeO
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Wait, it doesn’t? What’s your setup?
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Behold my masterpiece p='"%s"';r="'%s'";_='p=%s;r=%s;_=%s;print(_%%((0and[r%%p,p%%r,r%%_])or(tuple([r%%p,p%%r,r%%_]))))';print(_%((0and[r%p,p%r,r%_])or(tuple([r%p,p%r,r%_])))) with in
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Slightly modified so that it runs either a Ruby file or a Python one: (0 and eval(IO.read("ruby.rb"))) or eval(compile(open("python.py").read(), "", "exec")) Granted, this doesn’t close the Pyt
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Interesting article. I thought this was a really good metaphor: > ... my own childhood, the lost civilisation on which my adult self now stood.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Rust newbie here. How do you fix the compile error for the example given? I imagine it has something to do with transferring ownership, but I’m not too sure.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
That last sentence... As a college student, I’ve never thought about that. It’s crazy to think that the percent difference in age gets smaller over time.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
> Philip M. Parker, by one measure the world's most prolific author, has an entirely different approach. Parker has over 200,000 titles listed on Amazon.com, having developed an algorithm to gather publicly available data and compil
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
http://archive.ph/JbFkn
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
> April 6, 2000 Wow. That goes waaaaaaay back. It’s crazy to think that 1980 was to him at the time as 2000 is to us _right now_.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Beefheads
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Ah, yeah. In that regard, I agree, Ruby could use some improvement.
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Genuinely curious, what makes Python look more like pseudocode? The use of colons? Regardless, I’ve always thought that Ruby is more like pseudocode because with Ruby, I’m able to worry less about syntax and more about what I’m trying to do
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
http://archive.is/aOw08
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
http://archive.is/ZlWje
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
http://archive.is/ndYJv
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
http://archive.is/hjSkn
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Does Pony still work on Windows? There’s an issue about it[1] from 2015 and the one developer who uses Windows hasn’t committed to the repo since 2016. 1: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/434
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
> Ignore the campaign rhetoric, but stay for any lessons imparted by some of the best hackers in the world. A lot can be learned from them; politicians, not so much. Sad but true...
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Note: Crystal doesn’t support native Windows, but they’re steadily getting there https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Don’t forget about the house of representatives
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by SeekingMeaning 7y ago
Not gonna lie, I thought the example code was a diff at first