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   by amasad 8y ago

   Thank you! Try it again now it got a lot better :) I think it was the fact that we've thought through the big questions of our business, as it were, and are able to show the work: how we arrived at the answers, what clues or experiment
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   by amasad 8y ago

   Yes, it's worth it.
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   Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator(repl.it)

   114 points by amasad 8y ago|21 comments
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   Show HN: Tic Tac Toe in Remi a Cross-Platform Python Remote GUI Library(repl.it)

   1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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   PyLisp: Lisp in Just Over 100 Lines of Python(repl.it)

   3 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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   From Scratch: AI Balancing Act in 50 Lines of Python(towardsdatascience.com)

   67 points by amasad 8y ago|9 comments
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   by amasad 8y ago

   I submitted the story with a "Make a Lisp in 200 Lines of JavaScript" which I think is a better title because Repl.it is only the platform that the author implemented on. Unfortunately, the mods reverted it to the article title.
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   Lisp Repl.it Tutorial(medium.com)

   26 points by amasad 8y ago|3 comments
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   by amasad 8y ago

   Awesome that it uses repl.it embed. But leaves so much to be desired. I'm the repl.it ceo and have a few things in the works to make this experience so much better: 1. caching pypi installs between instances 2. using a real terminal em
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    What Termites Can Teach Us(newyorker.com)

    1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    How Did I Get Here by Cyan Banister(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 8y ago

    I've always thought of the Visual Studio's Immediate Window as a repl + debugger. It's what got me hooked on repls back when I was coding in VB4. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide&#x2
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    by amasad 8y ago

    That's really awesome. Here it is running in a Node repl in the browser if you want to try it quickly (the code verbatim but hardcoded the rule number to 18) https://repl.it/@amasad/wolfram-cellular-automata
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    by amasad 8y ago

    my guess is child labor laws
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Really cool to see how far the project has come under Henry's stewardship. A fun story about how I got involved with the project: in Jan 2015 when I was working at Facebook on what would become React Native (was a secret project at the
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Thanks so much :)
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    by amasad 8y ago

    It's really awesome to see how far this has come. I believe we at Repl.it were the first to try something like this in production. We emscriptined CPython to JavaScript and contributed quite a bit to the project in the process (includi
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    Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid(nature.com)

    117 points by amasad 8y ago|33 comments
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    VSCode Language Intelligence in the browser(repl.it)

    2 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Thanks for the mention -- we're big fans of Ives and co! VS Code has really done an incredible job and we're all benefiting from their work. One thing that we've done recently is add Language Servers on our containers. So whe
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    West Virginia to offer blockchain voting app for overseas voters in election(washingtonpost.com)

    1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 8y ago

    > who buys just meats and fruits? An increasing number of healthy people inclusing world record holder atheletes. http://justmeat.co
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Statistically speaking if caloric deficit is the only thing you did then you're going to gain all that back. Sorry. However, if you cleaned up your diet too then that might've been the causal factor and not the tracking which is t
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    by amasad 8y ago

    > I didn't say people can't lose weight without calorie counting, just that some of us do use it You did. If you're walking back on it then ok, but don't lie straight to my face: "Obesity is directly caused by a
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    by amasad 8y ago

    You said "Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat, so yes, some of us track how much we eat" for which research shows that: a) people on caloric deficit almost always gain the weight back b) people can
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    by amasad 8y ago

    I doubt it. Alas, it's not studied yet but a lot of people are going on the carnivore diet and finding that there system reset and find it hard to over or under eat -- they just fall into a natural way of eating. Certainly my experienc
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    by amasad 8y ago

    > You also never see a bear walking on the Moon, or playing Candy Crush Saga. If we do something right, like science and engineering, it doesn't mean we're doing everything right. In fact, most people are miserable and sufferin
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    by amasad 8y ago

    >Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat, so yes, some of us track how much we eat. It's not really that crazy. If you can do that without tracking it, cool, but its pretty damn clear a lot of people can&
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Surely there are health complications with all of those things from bowel issues, to STDS, to lung cancer.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    I meant silly from a species perspective -- like you never see a bear counting calories ;) There are two kinds of animals that suffer from obesity, modern humans, and animals that modern humans feed. The culprit is clear, it's our inte