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   Live Coding in Sporth: A Stack-Based Language for Audio Synthesis [pdf](iclc.livecodenetwork.org)

   83 points by aturley 8y ago|37 comments
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   by aturley 8y ago

   This article provides some insight into the hardware and software of the MarCO cubesats. It doesn't go into a great deal of depth, but it gives a fun overview of the kinds of engineering work that go into building something that works
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   MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale(arc.aiaa.org)

   2 points by aturley 8y ago|1 comments
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   Couple retires, decides to ride bikes around the US(hankandkathygreer.com)

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

   Jobs basically reinvented Apple when he came back. The "power law" company that you're talking about was created by a person in his 40s. Before that it was a has-been that had to be bailed out by its biggest competitor. Leavi
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   by aturley 9y ago

   I first ran into this in one of AK Dewdney's books (probably "The Tinkertoy Computer") when I was in high school. I actually took some classes with Tommaso Toffoli as an undergrad but I had totally forgotten that he invented
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   The Billiard Ball Computer(jameslin.name)

   1 points by aturley 9y ago|1 comments
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   by aturley 9y ago

   Sadly no, lost to the dusts of time.
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   by aturley 9y ago

   I wrote Blank back in the spring of 1997 when I was a senior in high school. I had gotten kind of into a programming language called Befunge ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge ), and I decided to write my own weird prog
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    Show HN: Blank – A stack-based programming language I wrote 21 years ago(esolangs.org)

    73 points by aturley 9y ago|11 comments
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    Tinyhttp – A minimal HTTP response parser (2012)(mendsley.github.io)

    7 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    by aturley 9y ago

    You can mostly do this by making all of your objects "ref", meaning you can have multiple readers and writers but you can't share the objects between actors. However, you can run into multithreading quickly because so much of
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    by aturley 9y ago

    That's a tough one. Python's dynamic typing means that you can write concise code as long as everything is of the correct type. But the consequence of this is that it is easy to accidentally express the wrong thing and only find o
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    by aturley 9y ago

    I'm the author of this blog post. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please feel free to drop them in here.
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    The Snake and the Horse: How Wallaroo's Python API Works with Pony(blog.wallaroolabs.com)

    18 points by aturley 9y ago|8 comments
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    How to Sink a Submarine(friends-amis.org)

    2 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    Blank: The stack-based programming language I wrote 21 years ago(esolangs.org)

    1 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    by aturley 9y ago

    This is a talk I gave based on the paper "The Relationship Between COBOL and Computer Science". I also work in some references to Sammet's "The Early History of COBOL", which is sadly behind an ACM paywall.
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    Talk: “The Relationship Between COBOL and Computer Science”(youtube.com)

    1 points by aturley 9y ago|1 comments
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    “Programming Languages: History and Future”, for Jean Sammet's 90th Birthday [pdf](thecorememory.com)

    2 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    Stack Computers: The New Wave(users.ece.cmu.edu)

    2 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    The Relationship Between COBOL and Computer Science [pdf](cs.umd.edu)

    2 points by aturley 9y ago|0 comments
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    by aturley 9y ago

    Oh god that's embarrassing. Thank you for pointing that out. edit: fixed.
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    by aturley 9y ago

    I'm glad it was useful! As far as the naming of pony-stable goes, we've had some conversations about that. We use Pony where I work, and sometimes we can confuse ourselves when someone says "Pony stable" (especially back
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    Some high level information about the Pony programming language(gist.github.com)

    47 points by aturley 9y ago|10 comments
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    by aturley 9y ago

    That's great! We're collecting stories about peoples' first impressions of Pony ( https://www.ponylang.org/categories/my-first-pony ), so if you're interested in contributing to that please get in tou
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    by aturley 9y ago

    Sorry to hear that. As far as I know the documentation should be up to date, but it's entirely possibly you've found an issue. If you like you can hit up the mailing list ( https://groups.io/g/wallaroo ) or the
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    by aturley 9y ago

    Pony does not do preemptive scheduling. Pony actors have behaviors, which can be thought of as methods that handle messages that are sent to the actor; these are the unit of scheduling, and a behavior runs from beginning to end without pree
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    by aturley 9y ago

    I'm not sure which features of Erlang modules you're interested in comparing to Pony classes, but I'll take a stab at trying to answer. Pony classes are defined using a "class" keyword. Classes have properties and f
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    by aturley 9y ago

    I'm also an engineer at Wallaroo Labs. A while back I wrote up some information for people who were interested in Pony: https://gist.github.com/aturley/49b60c98306d90ffc2f981515827... I've been using Emacs as