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by billsix 8y ago
More than a select few can afford this book
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by billsix 8y ago
there is an extraordinary amount of freely available content online for people who want to learn, improve themselves, and to make more money. To those who cannot afford it, here’s 2.5 years of my side work for free http://billsix
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by billsix 8y ago
> Would it surprise you to learn my power was cut off Passive verbs are weak (Mistakes were made, versus I made a mistake). You failed to pay your electric bill.
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by billsix 8y ago
> I think you could've made the same sort of argument against movies or music before netflix and napster, but here we are, and the markets still seem thirsty for new content. Because reasonable adults are paying for content which th
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by billsix 8y ago
> Given the choice between stealing knowledge and not stealing knowledge, when you wouldn't have paid for it anyway, where's the harm? As a working adult, time spent reading a book is both more limited and more valuable than $4
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by billsix 8y ago
> In the end, I’m left morally confused. But it feels like something is wrong in the world when a book like this is available only to a select few, when for the same capital outlay it could be available to everybody. Only to a select few
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by billsix 8y ago
Discussion of the Y Combinator on news.ycombinator.com should not be derided.
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by billsix 8y ago
It's not useful in practice. But defining recursion via a function is a good mental exercise. I'm unaware of compilers using the Y combinator. Perhaps you were thinking of continuation passing style
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by billsix 8y ago
I don't understand why this is useful. What does the comparison provide to the hungry mind? Towards understanding, I recommend reading SICP and "On Lisp"
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by billsix 8y ago
> I first read SICP after 25 years of professional development, and while I didn't learn anything new I did see things in a whole new light. How is possible that you read the whole book and didn't learn anything new?
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by billsix 8y ago
As a lisp programmer at home, python programmer at work: >I strongly believe python got so popular because of its very simple to read, almost pseudo-code like syntax that anyone could learn. Agreed. And python programmers are asymptomat
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by billsix 8y ago
> in terms of macros, anything more complicated than lazy evaluation of thunks and kiddie examples is out of reach; I wrote a compile-time test framework in 7 lines of Gambit Scheme code https://github.com/billsix/b
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by billsix 8y ago
I believe that they lost the source long ago
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by billsix 8y ago
Having source be in the "staging area" after "git add" makes more sense to me now :-)
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by billsix 8y ago
For imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/ ) and uklear ( https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear ), docs are basically unnecessary. You just have to look at the examples/demos and copy pasta
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by billsix 8y ago
https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y
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by billsix 8y ago
https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y
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by billsix 8y ago
Retained-mode GUIs like Qt , wxWidgets, gtk, etc aren't intuitive. Try an immediate mode GUI, like my python bindings to nuklear https://github.com/billsix/pyNuklear
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by billsix 8y ago
The title is tautological. Tell me about "the entrepreneur who never started a company".
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by billsix 9y ago
Smalltalk was the first language I loved. It was great to write, but I had difficulty understanding the structure of other's code. Even with that great integrated debugger, I couldn't figure out how Morphic actually worked. These
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by billsix 9y ago
If you're interested in learning more about compile time computation, I wrote a book about it in Lisp. http://billsix.github.io/bug.html http://billsix.github.io/cac
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by billsix 9y ago
Irony could be closed source software on Linux or the bsds. Comparing FLOSS on windows vs osx seems silly to me.
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by billsix 9y ago
And how is that ironic, Alanis Morissette?
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by billsix 9y ago
On Lisp by Paul Graham is more exciting and inspirational. Sicp is solid fundamentals. Read both.
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by billsix 9y ago
If your looking for a nice gui framework for python, check out my pyNuklear! https://github.com/billsix/pyNuklear
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by billsix 9y ago
That is what I'm suggesting. Before I used immediate mode GUIs, I was familiar with using Qt, wx, and gtk. Never did X windows. So I never handled events directly, just indirectly programmed what would happen upon the event occuring.
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by billsix 9y ago
I am unsure about where we disagree. What you quoted from me was a set up for my subsequent, unquoted argument. Buttons don't fly around the screen over time. If a user clicked on the screen 1.0/144 seconds ago (assuming a 144 h
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by billsix 9y ago
Sounds good. I too have a 3d graphics playground app if you're interested https://github.com/billsix/hurtbox
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by billsix 9y ago
My plan of action is result-driven: incrementally port nuklear's demo overview.c file to python. Each new piece of that requires adding more ctypes bindings. Help/patches are welcome, as I only have limited free time to implement
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by billsix 9y ago
I think overall you and I agree quite a bit. But as far as I can tell, nuklear is designed to be simple to program the implementation, and simple to program against, at the cost of some features. https://github.com/vurtun&#x

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