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by auvrw 13y ago
this. lisp is 50+ and still the most syntactically awesome thing eva.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> The "this is code but you have to write it as correctly-formed XML" bit is whacky. that's all over the java ecosystem, though, not just build tools: android and (i think?) spring both use several types of xml files to b
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by auvrw 13y ago
> If you work in Java and you are still stuck with Maven, please, take a look at Gradle. or ivy? i really haven't spent a lot of time toying with the various build systems. i tend to use ant until manual dependency management beco
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by auvrw 13y ago
but that's my point: there isn't as much library support as there ought be, even for json schema, let alone these newer domain-specific languages that incorperate/extend json schema. sometimes i think it would make just as m
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by auvrw 13y ago
> I wish we could've united on a single format, but I guess the stronger will win and a little competition is always good for the end-users. the (open source) tooling is what makes or breaks adoption of languages like these, and nei
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by auvrw 13y ago
> It is going to be an issue for people doing low-level/backend GUI stuff and pretty much nobody else. or people who write so-called "suckless" software; most of the things i run on my desktop (notable exceptions including
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by auvrw 13y ago
so i understand where the plumbing analogy is coming from, but, as with most analogies, it's not a perfect parallel. moreover, as someone who's currently spending a lot of time wiring up ui elements to data stores and data stores
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by auvrw 13y ago
> We should see interpreters for other languages written in JS - or is that far fetched? there is a scheme interpreter, of course. someone compiled cpython to javascript using llvm and posted results a few weeks ago. too lazy to find lin
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by auvrw 13y ago
well-written (and -typeset) article, although i think there is probably less controversy around this than the tone of the article suggests? anyway, side note: switched from nm-applet to wicd-client and haven't looked back.
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by auvrw 13y ago
* separate whimsy in learning from whimsy in the ecosystem: if the program is a teaching example in a book, then i think "Nikogiri" is an ok name, esp. if there are cartoons * whimsy in the ecosystem is ok as long as it doesn&#x2
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by auvrw 13y ago
啊 snap Q: what do you call the thief who takes the trunk back to his master? A: a golden retriever better than a black dog, but this kind of thieving still seems like such a waste of talent. why not go work for lemote or xiami and make som
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by auvrw 13y ago
> I wrote a little backend section in C once to do a FFT on some data yeah, this kind of thing is what i thought the article's title meant and was going to say "no, actually quite common," but then read the article. and g
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by auvrw 13y ago
and that metacircular evaluator is probably my favorite part of the (original) book right now... "It's as if -- as if the key to the treasure is the treasure!" i think the (new) book is valuable in that it might reach some pe
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by auvrw 13y ago
gunicorn "strongly advises" nginx, so ...
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by auvrw 13y ago
some files i symlink, some i copy, but i prefer to use the language's import/include/source/load command if the dot file is actually a program rather than a conf file. that way, i can add machine-specific configuration.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> all except his own, of course. yeah, if you're going to talk bad about anyone's code, start with your own. not even the things you wrote a few months ago, but like even today, writing xml schemas for a rest api, the whole ti
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by auvrw 13y ago
like dict(zip( or dict(getmembers(asdf)).keys(), it's idiomatic code. it wouldn't have occurred to me the first time i had to write such a function, but now that i've taken a few moments to read the article i find it clearer
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by auvrw 13y ago
the vertical/horizontal line thing ( http://web.mit.edu/bcs/schillerlab/research/A-Vision/A5-2.ht... ) is cool b/c it demonstrates an actual neural correlate of consciousness and gives this concr
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by auvrw 13y ago
> the company that will win in the end is the one that can ... develop an ecosystem around the product that leads to customer lock-in. but where should the lines of that ecosystem (for all kinds of custom consumer hardware, from thermost
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by auvrw 13y ago
total tangent, but in defense of graphs: it's worth noting that graphs are actually a lot more expressive than they might appear at first glance. it's possible to interpret linear orders, algebraic groups, or any other theory wri
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by auvrw 13y ago
"Folks who are visionary in their thinking but can't break that down into actionable steps toward that vision, and then break those steps into problem assignments, aren't really going to be an asset for your startup until you
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by auvrw 13y ago
what's a neckbeard? i imagine you sporting a magnificent handlebar mustache as a result of this remark. anyways: i'd phrase it as "i can buy an $800 computer that doubles as a phone." ever since smartphones appeared, h
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by auvrw 13y ago
something about programmers of a certain age and qbasic... ... i guess that thing being that it was the only way to program for free on a default m$ install at the time (i.e. well after djerkstra's indictment of GOTO but a few instants
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by auvrw 13y ago
i like the cartoons too, 'cept they reminded me of learnyouahaskell.com at first. when/where did adding frames from movies get popular?
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by auvrw 13y ago
> import Data.Maybe > let maybe_use_haskell = [ Just 2, Just 4 ] also, in you could do your original example in a single line, List<T> ts = new List<T>(List.fromArray({T(2),T(4)})); even though it's still messier than
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by auvrw 13y ago
"Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Steph
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by auvrw 13y ago
good reply. i use <strike>iceweasel</strike> firefox for the same reasons, specifically: * pentadactyl (formerly vimperator) * xul and xpcom took time to read about * i like that the entirety of the codebase is free, not ju
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by auvrw 13y ago
are you using tastypie, the django rest api, or just writing views from scratch? what do you think is proper level of integration between a rest api module for django (or more generally a server-side library) and a client-side model layer
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by auvrw 13y ago
> It's a game we choose to play. as i recall, paul cohen would disagree. i don't know what to say as i am not a mathematician, but doesn't saying such a thing seem awfully depressing? like, doesn't it kinda trivialize what you do to w
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by auvrw 13y ago
i think that's a good notion as long as your prof. didn't demand that you feel the same way s/he did about everything. also, proofs of older facts using newer techniques can illuminate a new theory rather than the fact at hand. for instan

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