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by Volt 9y ago
What is the other dialect?
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by Volt 9y ago
>Is it that absurd? Where is Scheme's CLOS, condition system, built-in debugging framework, and batteries-included standard library? Type declarations? Dynamic scoping? Multi-methods? Does Lisp from 1960 have these things? Then I gu
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by Volt 9y ago
I don't know anyone who claims to know the whole of C++.
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by Volt 9y ago
>You know how, when you're reading natural language, you don't actually read individual letters, not once you have any reading fluency? As difficult as it is to imagine, you can indeed achieve fluency in reading Lisp code. Like
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by Volt 10y ago
And yet, we live in the present. The rate of software bloat is outpacing improvements in commodity hardware.
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by Volt 10y ago
Last time I taught undergrads (last semester) their computers were far from anything as good as we'd have. If I asked them to run anything remotely demanding, it really taxed their laptops. We really do need to be more mindful of resou
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by Volt 10y ago
> Nobody in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along Maybe nobody in the Web bubble.
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by Volt 10y ago
>1. Because I was forced to? That's not why I'd want to. Better than rewriting the whole thing in your pet language.
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by Volt 10y ago
Make a pull request.
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by Volt 10y ago
You're damn right. Let this be a lesson to treat your customers well.
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by Volt 10y ago
And I'll note that Nintendo definitely has the money to spend.
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by Volt 10y ago
At the time, this is true. One of the N64's primary limitations was its suboptimal microcode. It wasn't until too late in the console's lifecycle that studios like Factor 5 and Rare really showed its potential with their own
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by Volt 10y ago
Nintendo was considering changing its strategy before the GameCube even came out . See my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13769605 .
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by Volt 10y ago
It was very close to the Xbox in terms of its graphical capabilities. The major advantage the Xbox had was its hardware shaders.
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by Volt 10y ago
I'd highly suggest reading this discussion from 2000 between Miyamoto, Itoi, and Iwata. It pertains to the cancellation of MOTHER 3 on the N64, which was probably their most ambitious project at the time. It's an enlightening re
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by Volt 10y ago
I'm not sure this is what a data scientist is. It was supposed to be a research scientist (which is where the scientist part came from) that wrangles data and code. This individual should have both domain knowledge and coding chops w
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by Volt 10y ago
A concrete example.
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by Volt 10y ago
Hashtables are unordered by key, so if you want ordering for those keys, which would really be the set elements, you'll have to sort.
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by Volt 10y ago
Really then, it suggests that Python 2 is succeeding, not Python 3.
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by Volt 10y ago
Make no mistake though—Nintendo doesn't use that process exclusively. They also experiment, prototype, and refine. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/splatoon/0/0
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by Volt 10y ago
>trying to make it into an OO language like Java. It isn't. Can you elaborate? In what ways?
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by Volt 10y ago
>I've never had a (self-inflicted) problem in that area. That you know of.
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by Volt 10y ago
I think you're confusing Linux with GNU. (I'd just like to interject, etc.)
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by Volt 10y ago
I hope all your software is free.
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by Volt 10y ago
G3/G4/G5 Especially in the Pentium 4 era.
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by Volt 10y ago
For the express purpose of working at Google? Yes.
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by Volt 10y ago
It wasn't meant literally.
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by Volt 10y ago
From the article: >One day, one of my supervisors jumped to my defense at a team event, in an awkward display of sexism.
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by Volt 10y ago
I'd say a browser introduces a non-negligable cost.
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by Volt 10y ago
Also doubles as a Git repo.

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