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by amasad 9y ago
I'm happy that you're happy. > 2. Do you think that native gui widgets could be emulated on the browser in order to do native development on your platform? A lot of users request support for things like Python Tkinter for examp
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by amasad 9y ago
Not currently. But we'll implement it if enough people want it. We have a Canny board where people can vote on new languages/stacks for us to support: https://replit.canny.io/languages-requests
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by amasad 9y ago
Hey, ceo/cofounder of Repl.it here. Was pleasantly surprised to see this on HN! React Native and Expo has taken the world of mobile development by storm and we're happy to play a part in spreading this amazing technology. Many of
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by amasad 9y ago
This is sort of a strawman, nobody on the explicit side of the debate wants people to write more boilerplate -- it's about how discoverable the code (and relatedly how many layers of indirection). class Person < ApplicationRecor
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Disintegrated Development Environments – How Did We Get Here?(amasad.me)
5 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 10y ago
No, I didn't say that. I only brought up the brain and involuntary computation to point out the false equivalency.
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by amasad 10y ago
This is just bad epistemology. > As a consequence, if you, with your puny human brain, want to understand why AlphaGo chose a particular move, the “explanation” may well consist of the networks of weighted connections that then pass thei
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by amasad 10y ago
I'm curious what's the history behind the use of Zen koans in computing? There seems to be a lot of that. Maybe because in programming there, often, isn't a clear right or wrong (like in this case) so it pays to structure the
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by amasad 10y ago
The distribution algorithm options are either a) rate or b) utilization. Re rate, you can configure the Requests Per Second but this doesn't mean much in a long-running connection context because some connections can be drastically lon
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by amasad 10y ago
It doesn't say how this changes the load distribution algorithm. Since websocket connections are usually long-running it wouldn't be as useful to use the default RPS (requests per second) algorithm. Ideally, it would be something
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Statistics of code shared on Repl.it and stats on Python 2 vs. 3(acelewis.com)
2 points by amasad 10y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 10y ago
Dennet's argument is simply an inversion of the causal chain: i.e mind is not the causer but the cause. "P-zombies" is kind of a non-starter when you think about it. I think LessWrong's essays on it shows that, here is o
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by amasad 10y ago
"Liquidity is irreducible to physical phenomonon. If we break it down to atoms and look at each atom we will see that it's not liquid. Therefore we must conclude that there are two types of matter in the world, liquid matter and n
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by amasad 10y ago
>For panpsychism to be wrong, there has to be two different kinds of matter (conscious and unconscious) I think you have it mixed up. Panpsychism is the dualist belief, although it differs than supernatural dualism it's still dual
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by amasad 10y ago
>All of these "definitions" require an audience that has SE and is able to recognize it. A scientific definition would not. Not entirely true. Science is made up of language (syntax, meaning etc) and is also observer-relative.
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by amasad 10y ago
I can't do it in detail, it'll take hours. From a simplicity point-of-view (Occam's razor) it adds an extraordinary claim while falling short on any evidence. Compare it to a physicalist account like Minsky, Hofstader, or Den
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by amasad 10y ago
Yes, and many have done so. Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Dennet come to mind. In philosophy lingo I think it all ends up being functional physicalism.
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by amasad 10y ago
I don't like to argue about definitions so let me ask you this: Don't you agree that the majority of self-proclaimed athiests are non-religionists and also reject the supernatural?
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by amasad 10y ago
I guess I meant physicalism then. Or maybe naturalism? I didn't mean to make a claim on the philosophy of mind just that the world is simply the physical world. On the other hand dualism refitted for the physicalist world seems like a
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by amasad 10y ago
I agree that darwinism is overused to explain everything but materialism seems inescapable -- especially for atheists. I think even Nagel agrees with "Inference to the Best Explanation" and so far I've never seen a single cas
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Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage(heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)
11 points by amasad 10y ago|1 comments
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Adding Clojure Support to Repl.it(repl.it)
7 points by amasad 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Online Clojure REPL(repl.it)
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by amasad 10y ago
Will sure do! Thanks.
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by amasad 10y ago
Where are you seeing these updates?
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by amasad 10y ago
Same here. I can't find any information about that though.
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by amasad 10y ago
Lol yeah I just pushed that API deprecation today. We had a free API access for almost a year. And people hammered us with support emails. Up until two months ago we were only two people on this and half of us were programmers. the guilt o
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by amasad 10y ago
Nope it's working fine. It's the Firefox bug (see sibling comment). If you know how to report bugs to FF please do. We can't repro on our side.
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by amasad 10y ago
Thanks, this is valuable feedback. We're in an awkward transitional phase in our marketing material / landing pages.
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by amasad 10y ago
Sorry to hear that. I'll make sure to fix it. Are you on windows? What version of Firefox? Aside: Firefox have been breaking our site every couple of months and we have to keep hacking around their regressions.

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