dockimbel

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New Nano-Tech to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields(ibs.re.kr)
46 points by dockimbel 2y ago|6 comments
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> And, in the end, it still doesn't help the long line where you have no idea what is a function call, and what is just an argument. And still people have no issue reading and writing code in Rebol and Red. And still 10 non-core tea
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> 1. Malignant output from react/link, https://github.com/red/red/issues/3713 > One-line fix, sure. Where's the test? You haven't really looked at the fix, nor do you understand what the
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> Almost all issues are fixed by the same two people who develop Red. Let's look at the reality by taking all the fix commits (prefixed with "FIX:") on red/red repo in the last 6 months and grouping them by author:
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by dockimbel 8y ago
Here are a some facts about Red to debunk your attempt at spreading false information, like the "no tests" and "no comments". For the record, we have written a large number of unit tests (in addition to the regression te
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by dockimbel 8y ago
Not liking Red is understandable. Programming languages, as largely subjective HCI, cannot appeal to every single software developer. Though, that is not a reason to be dishonest, and trying to paint a bad picture of our work (even in falla
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> * Apparently, it took it 8 years to get simple (in words of author) G.C. [3] Apparently you didn't look close enough at the history and are making up fake information. Preliminary work on GC started in 2017 for a month, then resum
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by dockimbel 8y ago
By definition, "official" is what is published by the Red core team, on our official channels. We try to support and encourage the efforts of our community members by linking their site from the official Red site. That does not me
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> Never mind that Red is actually implemented in another abandoned proprietary language[0]! Github's code breakdown by languages for red/red repo: * Red 83.8% * Rebol 15.7% * C 0.2% * Visual Basic 0.2% * Java 0.1% * Shell 0.0%
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by dockimbel 8y ago
> (Are Red/Rebol creators seriously claiming that Clojure's syntax is complex?) Red's author here. I have nothing to do with those websites nor their content. They are not official Red nor Rebol sites. I do not see a singl
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by dockimbel 8y ago
Red's author here. The answer to your question is, I think, that it is just not ready for prime-time yet: * Language and runtime library are at version 0.6.4, so still alpha stage. * Lack of support for mobile and web platforms (Androi
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by dockimbel 8y ago
Thanks for those answers. Let me add something for helping the visually impaired who have troubles reading the Red blog. Here is a simple Red script to retrieve information from the Red blog, then calculate and display (with a color fade-in
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by dockimbel 9y ago
There are two third-party reference-like (but non-authoritative) documentations that I know of [0][1]. A Red reference documentation for Parse will be available later this year. [0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_P
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by dockimbel 10y ago
The 17 LOC version is still relatively readable for someone fluent in Red/Rebol, despite the tight vertical packing. I could have claimed 14 LOC using the minified version [1], but in such case, I couldn't have called it "rea
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by dockimbel 10y ago
If you want the fully unfolded version you have it there [1]. If you count the JS + CSS lines, then it's about the same size as the Red unfolded version. [1] https://gist.github.com/dockimbel/b0a413342dc39568696207
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by dockimbel 10y ago
Red's author here. In all fairness, for that JS spreadsheet to not look ugly, you need to account for the CSS code too, which is ~35 more lines of normally spaced code. Also, there's no realtime reactivity like in our demo where t
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by dockimbel 10y ago
Goran, congrats for this release and the nice website! It is interesting to see where mixing ideas from Red/Rebol and Smalltalk can bring us to. What are the main pros/cons of using Nim as the underlying language?
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by dockimbel 11y ago
A polyfill to Javascript is already planned. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Polyfill.m...
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by dockimbel 11y ago
Beijinger since a year here. That's the famous "Dragon Tower" [1] where IBM China is having its offices, located north of Beijing nearby the 4th ring and Olympic Park. Franckly, it is very rarely that bad, maybe 10-15 days a
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by dockimbel 12y ago
Thank you for reminding us about those great articles! We were using a Ulp-based method only, but Qtxie proceeded with some improvements [1] for close to zero values, as suggested in the article. Thanks again. :-) [1] https://git
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by dockimbel 12y ago
Both Rebol and Red use that convention. It sounds weird at first look, but proved to be a relief in practice (no need to remember any specific precedence rule). Though, we plan to provide a small math-oriented DSL for writing expressions us
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by dockimbel 12y ago
I have replied about the web site on the top comment. I have noticed that the readability varies greatly across browsers/OS/devices. Anyway, the color scheme and layout we are using currently are far from being the best. We will c
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by dockimbel 12y ago
You will find in Red everything you liked in Rebol, with some important additions like cross-platform static compilation and system programming abilities [1] through the built-in Red/System DSL. On the downside, Red is still alpha, but
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by dockimbel 12y ago
Same reason for Red aswell as for Rebol. There are many more primitive/literals like that, tuple! [1] for example is used to represent RGB colors (255.0.255), ipv4 addresses (192.168.0.1) or even version numbers (2.7.8). Time/Date
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by dockimbel 12y ago
Red's author here. I agree and I apology for the currently poor web site. It was built for the Red and Rebol crowd to help them follow us while we are building Red. As we are getting closer to a beta version, we are planning to move in