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by codesections 5y ago
I am extremely disappointed that the only example of a "weird language" is Lisp. These days — with Clojure, Common Lisp, Racket, Guile, Emacs Lisp, Chez Scheme, Fennel, etc. etc. — Lisp is hardly weird. I'd love to see an ex
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by codesections 5y ago
Good to see this bit: > Note however that there is a substantial portion of the web which is unmaintained and will effectively never be updated (including historical archives like archive.org). It may be useful to look at how long chromi
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Blink Principles of Web Compatibility(docs.google.com)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|1 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
If you find yourself missing emacs keybindings in the browser, you might be interested in the Nyxt browser, which incorporates emacs keybindings (and much of emacs overall philosophy) https://nyxt.atlas.engineer
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by codesections 5y ago
Maybe these days that should be updated to "(only) Eight Megs and Consistently Snappy"
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by codesections 5y ago
Though note that the Fennel repo is now at https://sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel/
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by codesections 5y ago
> How many people are not working because they suddenly no longer have a reliable place for child care? This was the first potential explanation TFA examined. It said that this effect was "negligible": > It is commonly beli
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by codesections 5y ago
> In USA it's pretty difficult to get a NFP (501c3) created around just code. Yeah, I know, and that does suck. It's varied a bit over time with various IRS administrations, though, so maybe it'll get better. (I am a lawy
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by codesections 5y ago
Setting aside performance comparisons, how does Imba's approach compare to Svelte's from a design perspective? From your Meet the Memoized DOM article, I take it that Imba is basically converting declarative code into imperat
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by codesections 5y ago
This is a very misleading way to report those results (likely unintentionally). The JS Framework site includes benchmarks for imba-v1.5.2 and svelte-v3.29.4 and reports that they are equally fast (1.04 and 1.05). It shows both as similarl
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by codesections 5y ago
Buddhist and other thoughtful practitioners of mindfulness meditation are well aware of this phenomenon — which is why mindfulness meditation is usually paired with mettā ("loving-kindness") meditation as students progress. (The a
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by codesections 5y ago
> So when German non-profits want to hand out merch in exchange for a specific donation amount, non-profit has to pay for-profit taxes on that? No, I think what he's saying is that it's not a tax-deductible donation for the pat
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> I want Mastodon to have more resources for things like hiring extra developers, UX designers, developing official apps and so on, and I want there to be a clear boundary between fundraising for that cause and my personal income. This i
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by codesections 5y ago
> and the emphasis is more on academics, rather than partying. [citation needed] My impression has always been that the Greek scene at Cornell is pretty… well, I'll go with "active"
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by codesections 5y ago
A correction: Liz has been entirely supportive the Raku Steering Council's efforts to establish our Code of Conduct[0] and to enforce that Code. (I know that part of this comment is referring to events that took place years ago; I don&
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by codesections 5y ago
> I'm wondering if marketing/trying to appeal to new people has ever been effective for an established programming language. I'm not sure if this counts as "trying to appeal to new people" (or "an establishe
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by codesections 5y ago
> I’m disturbed that he needed a for loop to compute 100*(1-0.9^10) I assumed that he just wanted a reason to include at least a _little_ elisp. (Though, even so, he could at least have run the calculation recursively; in Raku, I'd
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by codesections 5y ago
This 2019 article is a bit out of date; what it calls racket2 is now Rhombus, and (as predicted in the article) does not seem to have really taken off. See https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/thoughts-on-rhombus.htm...
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by codesections 5y ago
> you might have figured out that changing your Resume from using phrases like “I worked on a Java codebase of around 100k LoC, using Spring and React” to ones more like “I built a widget-shipping feature that shipped 300k widgets and ul
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> a reasonable programmer can (separately) expect both (1) and (2) to be the same or (2) and (3) to be the same, but these are in fact mutually exclusive. It's possible (likely? ) that I'm missing something, but why are they ex
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I know the pace of development has been pretty slow for the past few years — but Mosh is a good enough idea that I really hope it picks up steam again (better true color support, for one thing, would be a big feature)
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by codesections 5y ago
Why does the promotional site for a car-free neighborhood feature food trucks three times on its home page?
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by codesections 5y ago
> Some of the best software I've used are mostly developed by solo developers or small teams (Sublime, YNAB4) because they actually care about their product instead of the underlying tech. But YNAB is also a great example of apps-
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by codesections 5y ago
> PostgreSQL has taken a complex problem and solved it to such an effective degree that all of its competitors are essentially obsolete, perhaps with the exception of SQLite. I realize that this isn't the main point, but that asid
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by codesections 5y ago
Off topic, but I used to have "learn every regex operator" in that category but, after I actually did, I've been amazed at how often regex operators come in handy.
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> But none of this matters in the big picture. What matters is all this code is wrapper in a function that goes like "getFirst42Bits(int)" I disagree. Imo, `getFirst42Bits(snowflake)` is worse than `snowflake >> 22` — not
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Can I get ‘long Covid’ if I’m infected after vaccination?(apnews.com)
1 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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Out of curiosity, what makes the Erlang syntax so good?
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by codesections 5y ago
"some programming knowledge" ≠ "knowledge of bit operators" Imo, Rust makes a very good second language for someone who first learned Javascript or Ruby — and someone who used those languages primarily for web dev may ne
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> And sure, `snowflake >> 22` would be shorter, clearer, and far more efficient, but it wouldn't let you show off all the cool language features you have at your disposal, and isn't that what's really important? I do

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