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   The Subtext 10 Programming Language(github.com)

   56 points by akkartik 5y ago|47 comments
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   I was just telling someone[1] that I explored Forth for this exact purpose a few years ago, but ended up with a more imperative, statement-oriented approach: https://github.com/akkartik/mu [1] https://mervei
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   Ok, that makes sense. I see now how package managers are an unalloyed good for someone who's mostly or entirely doing prototyping work and doesn't have to do the work to constantly keep them up to date. When you're prototypin
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   What languages do you use, and how is that heuristic going for you? I find package managers help for some time after they're introduced, and then life sucks once again as they enable people to add lots of dependencies. It's kinda
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   It should be a text post with the contents of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609506 rather than a link.
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   Thank you for that lovely story!
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   Yes it is. It feels like cosmic coincidence because I lost my father 2 weeks ago.
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   Off topic but I accidentally touched marcodiego's user profile instead of the title. Amazing Easter egg.
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   by akkartik 5y ago

   Thank you for the correction! I had my blinkers on there and wasn't thinking of the vector instruction set.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Yeah, for sure. I should just take it out of my project. I'm only supporting a subset of the instruction set anyway.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    I wrote something up when I ran into these instructions last year: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/linux/x86_approx.md
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Where is a function body colored differently than its argument list? (I mostly agree with you. My preferred syntax highlighting is for just comments and string literals.)
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    I want to see more examples besides these two. My suspicion: open source is a red herring here, and all we're seeing is Google's longstanding culture of being terrible at support. This blog post is basically comparing two companie
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Thank you for those suggestions! Do you know if any of those tools following either approach has any automated tests? My immediate problem is how to manage the complexity of implementing a layout engine or editor. Somewhere I need something
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Short version: I'm close to figuring out how to encourage more prototyping of software by making tests super easy to write during the prototyping process, and so de-risking rewrites. But one problem I've been stymied by is how to
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Yeah that's the word on the street. However, I think Eurisko is worth study even if we reframe it as a work of IA (Intelligence Augmentation) rather than AI. It seems extremely unlikely that Lenat could win the Travellers tournaments
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Does anyone have recommendations for learning the xz format? Particularly as used by the ZIM archival format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format)
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    The rhino angle is very curious. From trying to find more details: * 1994: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19941023&slug... * 2000: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-delinquents
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Previous thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977909
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    The iron law of software products: like the product -> dislike the company offering it -> dislike the product.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    I can't tell how to use the defining forms at https://calculist.io/markup . These work: * \= 2*3 * \(x, y) = x+y However I'm not sure how to define a new function. Here's what I tried: * \:
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    I would agree in some ways and disagree in some ways. Yes, the book imagines a richer world than OP's blunt characterization. But the book is also more frivolous and escapist than the OP's characterization. Dystopia has always bee
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Oh good to know! That's adequate.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    I wish IA hosted Usenet archives. Even if they stopped at year 2000 and didn't update further.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Curious that it doesn't implement quote . Would the current approach have any issues with quote ?
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    Good to know! I hadn't thought that far. This is a pretty low-power computer, so video hasn't been a priority.. I think I'm going to shoot to render internet in a box corpuses. Wikipedia, Gutenberg, stuff like that.
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    By great coincidence, I've been working on dithering on my 256-color computer. So far I have greyscale: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106561555110196484 I should have color in a few hours. Hello, fellow travel
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    by akkartik 5y ago

    That's actually a negative for an existing user like me. Every time I upgraded to Neovim I ran into breakage with my configuration. Eventually I burned out and returned to Vim. Neovim may well be taking the right approach. Capture by e
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    June 2021 Project Update(handmade.network)

    2 points by akkartik 5y ago|0 comments