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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
What a great article. It manages to simultaneously understand and debunk the nostalgia for the old web. I find it a little frustrating to hear people complain about how complicated the web has become and how simple things were back in the d
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Yeah, also this is basically how you'd implement tagged union types if you couldn't have actual algebraic data types like Haskell or ML.
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I totally agree. I find it very frustrating when upon watching a film, people attempt to place it into a box. A film does not have to be "about" a particular thing. It does not need a singular interpretation. One can watch a film
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Solo traveling is where I learned how to be alone. Turns out, I don't mind hanging out with myself. Not an insane revelation, but an important one. Yet when I try to convince people to solo travel, I encounter so much hemming and hawin
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
There's something so wonderful about single specialty stores. I've started getting chickens from this poultry store in Chinatown. No signs in English, just a big picture of a rooster out front. They're very nice and plus I ca
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
The infamous Lee Atwater (advisor to Reagan, Bush 1 and chairman of RNC) quote comes to mind: > Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say &quot
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
The world will get weirder. Convincing audio and video faking technology will make it incredibly easy to pervert and twist any public figure. This will only make it easier to spread conspiracies. Assassinations or other forms of domestic te
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
This reminds me of the classic owl meme. Draw two circles, then draw the rest of the damn owl. Writing a hello world does not make WebAssembly easy. I can write a hello world in Rust or in Haskell trivially. That doesn't mean I underst
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Hmm, how do you allow for more complicated updating schemes? Like if I want to update on something other than a shallow comparison? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the dependency array seems to use shallow comparisons. Also, and this is a
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Generally issues where package management just fails. Also it's just overall not ergonomic. I end up installing yet another version of GHC a lot (I believe that GHC version should be handed separately from package versions like rustup&
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The reason I ask about package management is because when I do my annual try-to-use-Haskell-for-real event, I pick either Stack or Cabal, inevitably run into issues with one and have to switch to the other. Plus I've had situations whe
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Well more than the physical act of sex, the films are lacking any sort of sensuality. There's no intimacy, whether between friends or family within the films. Even when there's dramatic loss, such as that particular scene in Endga
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
> And if you’re going to tell me that it’s simply a matter of supply and demand and giving the people what they want, I’m going to disagree. It’s a chicken-and-egg issue. If people are given only one kind of thing and endlessly sold only
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Adding on to Moore's point about superheros and clinging to childhood, the director Pedro Almodovar makes an interesting observation^[1] that the Marvel movies are neutered and almost sexless. All of the relationships shown in the film
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
It kinda is if you think about the economics of the box office. Scorsese makes this point in depth with his NYT Op-Ed. Basically studios have become preoccupied with making purely franchise tentpoles and not funding lower budget creative mo
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Basic is the key issue here. Sure I can type this out and get a simple program working (although if I make a transcription error, I'm not super sure I can reason through the code). But if I want to build anything beyond the basic, I c
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Let's walk through my thoughts. Hmm, okay so Spock looks nice. Neat! The routing code looks very easy to read: main = do spockCfg <- defaultSpockCfg () PCNoDatabase () runSpock 3000 $ spock spockCfg $ do get root $
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Yeah I don't actually know. I don't write or really like PHP. But I do begrudgingly admit that PHP advocates have a point when they mention ease of deployment. I don't think any other language has really tackled that properly
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
It is intriguing that nobody's replicated PHP's ease of deployment. Every other language does require downloading some sort of runtime and setting up some sort of templating/page serving system. Would be an interesting experi
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Actually...yeah the two orderings are related by the Cauchy Interlace Theorem: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cauchy%27s-Interlace-T... .
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Doesn't he say it here: where {M_j} is the {n-1 \times n-1} Hermitian matrix formed by deleting the {j^{th}} row and column from {A}.
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Which is actually a little funny, because that's essentially turning React into a domain specific language for UI rendering. The Racket people are probably facepalming that we had to go via JavaScript and Babel to get to a UI DSL.
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Redux is a very good example of this. If you watch the original talk or just understand primitives like Observables, you can realize that Redux almost isn't a library. It's basically a pattern. Where libraries are actually require
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
There's something oddly lovely about making art with such strict constraints. I've started making fun little pieces of my own with React and CSS. It's a great way to harness creativity through restrictions. Also requires some
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Here you go: https://gfycat.com/angrycanineboa Click the gear if it's too small for you.
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Interesting. The CSS is using `-moz-font-feature-settings: "liga" on` for some reason. I'm using Firefox on macOS. I assume you're not?
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A good sign in a type system for me is that the types are accurately modeling behavior that I find in day to day code. To the point where moving back to a language that lacks this feature feels weirdly unsafe or not expressive enough. Going
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I've wanted this for a while actually. GraphQL is great, but it lacks convention. Which makes it hard for API discovery and code generation. I noticed that the author uses Ruby, which makes total sense, as Rails is a shining example of
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by _hardwaregeek 7y ago
Reddit or HN are actually ideal platforms for meetups. All you need is list of links for tech meetups. Either a subreddit like /r/nyc_meetups or just a weekly "What's Going On" post where people can post about event
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> This whole thing just re-affirms my belief that Apple isn't a tech company, they're a fashion company. They have absurdly inflated pricing and over-emphasis on aesthetics over performance. I don't disagree! If you don&#x

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