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by billsix 9y ago
Or, more simply, that he is surrounded by "yes men/women" aka Fowlbots.
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by billsix 9y ago
since when have they spoken positively about tax avoidance lol
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> they are still pressured to close just as much as they would if on commission. Then what is the value of being uncommissioned, except for virtue-signalling? https://www.thoughtworks.com/news/zero-commissions But y
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by billsix 9y ago
I remember that "DSL"s kept continously increasing on their radar until their chief scientist George RR Martin Fowler finally, finally released his book on it after 7 years, and then it was gone off of the radar. No slow descent
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by billsix 9y ago
In my libbug library, computation at Compile-Time uses the exact same language as the run-time {at-both-times {define fact [|n| (if (= n 0) [1] [(* n (fact (- n 1)))])]}} (pp {at-compile-time-expan
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by billsix 9y ago
Also, transducers and STM?
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by billsix 9y ago
I've been looking for a language which provides Software-Transactional-Memory with persistent data structures which fits in 2KB RAM on a microcontroller.
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by billsix 9y ago
What made you excited to learn Smalltalk? Seems odd that you quit after a few minutes. If keybindings are that important to you, perhaps try gnu Smalltalk.
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by billsix 9y ago
If you redefine define as a macro which evals the definition during macro expansion, you can have the full runtime at Compile-Time. State and IO included! https://github.com/billsix/bug http://www.lulu.com&
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Open croquet http://www.opencobalt.net/
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by billsix 10y ago
No. Will do, thanks
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by billsix 10y ago
Read "On Lisp" by Paul Graham http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
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by billsix 10y ago
The ability to use a non-X based installer on the default disc would be nice. I have an Nvidia gtx 1060 and I can't figure out how to install Ubuntu. (I've successfully installed Debian, gentoo, arch, centos, and fedora on this
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by billsix 10y ago
My wife sends me on a 30 minute drive to the grocery store and asks for things I've never heard of, and for other stuff I can't find. I waste an hour away from my kids and don't find everything she needs. Compared to shoppin
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by billsix 10y ago
In libbug you can do anything at compile time. Open and write to files, run a test suite, anything. http://billsix.github.io/cac.html
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by billsix 10y ago
In my project, http://billsix.github.io/cac.html , the Compile-Time language is the same as the runtime language. Tests are collocated with procedure definitions, but evaluate only at Compile-Time.
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by billsix 10y ago
Let me know if anyone has questions. I learned quite a bit in making libbug. Being able to do any computation during Compile-Time, such as state and IO, was more powerful then I had initially expected.
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Show HN: Testing at Compile-Time(billsix.github.io)
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I avoid running main by testing at compile-time :-). https://github.com/billsix/bug/blob/master/demo/src/bug-demo...
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by billsix 10y ago
My (soon to be published) book on "Computation At Compile-Time" would not be possible with hygienic macros, because I eval during macro expansion, thus treating the compiler as an interpreter during compile-time. https:/&#x
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by billsix 10y ago
Ironically, Ubuntu is the only distribution I can't figure out how to install on my desktop (I run debian, centos, and gentoo just fine). Some problem with refresh rates or resolution of my monitor, so Ubuntu's installer can&#x27
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by billsix 10y ago
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation https://www.amazon.com/dp/8131720470/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_4...
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"Is an element of the set" "for all" "there exists". It's automata and computational theory 201, not parody
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by billsix 10y ago
> I'm forced to either make an extraneous commit, just to enable branch switching Which you can later squash via interactive rebase.
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by billsix 10y ago
I couldn't have written a unit test framework which evaluates at compile-time in Ruby, but I did in Gambit Scheme. (If any test fails, the compiler exits in error, and no library or executable is produced.) https://github.c
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by billsix 10y ago
SICP is phenomenal, but I'd recommend "On Lisp" first.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cmu
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by billsix 10y ago
Smalltalk has a lot of similarity with functional programming. Smalltalk's True and False instances are basically Church Booleans, and Smalltalk collections were processed frequently by passing a Block (like a first class function). I
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by billsix 10y ago
Lol I was on a Ruby project like this, I said these tests are tautologies since we're verbosely rewriting the implementation as a test. My yearly review from that project? "Bill does not understand unit testing" Nobody gets
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by billsix 10y ago
Read "On Lisp" http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

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