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by doodpants 4y ago
The article is about Go, and while the article mentions other languages for comparison, Rust is not one of them. So traceroute66's comment comes across as starting a Rust vs. Go fight where not appropriate.
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by doodpants 4y ago
It shows how the hell we wound up like this.
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by doodpants 4y ago
No, McIntosh is a kind of apple. Macintosh is a computer.
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by doodpants 4y ago
This is not the Digger that I'm familiar with, which was more of a Mr. Doh clone for the IBM PC back in the 80's.
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by doodpants 4y ago
Ironically, the last time I checked (which was some number of years ago), TextMate 2.0 did not support the TextMate 1.x theme format, not even via any sort of import or conversion mechanism. Which is odd, considering that it's become a
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by doodpants 4y ago
Mastodons are being poached and killed today?
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by doodpants 4y ago
I used Borland Turbo Pascal back in the '80s and '90s, and as I recall it had separate keywords and syntax for defining procedures vs. functions.
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by doodpants 4y ago
This makes no sense to me. I mean, it's already on GitHub, which is a version control system. So he's doing more work by committing each version as a separate file, rather than making modifications in place?
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by doodpants 4y ago
I created this color scheme for my own use nearly 2 years ago, because I literally couldn't find a single existing color scheme that I found satisfactory. I've been happily using it ever since. During my holiday time off in Decemb
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Show HN: Cool and Clear – a minimal, high contrast color scheme for Sublime Text(github.com)
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by doodpants 4y ago
My first thought was "why would I want to move a piece of malware to the /bin directory?"
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by doodpants 4y ago
Indeed. I personally never fail to avoid not using "unless", unless there isn't a lack of extra conditions such that not refraining from instead using "if" wouldn't avoid not being less clear.
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by doodpants 4y ago
The post title contains a spurious "and".
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by doodpants 4y ago
I think Jonathan Blow's main goal is to make his dream game programming language so that he can be happier while developing all of his future games. Widespread adoption by others is only a secondary concern. He also doesn't want t
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by doodpants 4y ago
I've occasionally heard that "monads" are an innovation that allows one to handle side effects, such as input and output, in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell. But whenever I've read an article or b
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by doodpants 4y ago
"In a statement issued to Newsweek magazine, KFC Germany blamed the message on a bot." Blaming a bot is always a cop-out. It should be blamed on whoever made the decision to deploy a bot in the first place.
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by doodpants 4y ago
And Mavericks was the peak of GUI look-and-feel, before they went with the all-flat look.
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by doodpants 4y ago
There used to be a keyboard layout designed specifically for handheld touchscreen devices called Fitaly[1]. I used this layout on my Palm Pilot back in the day. [1] https://textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm
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by doodpants 4y ago
It is called "Free Software" because the software is free (liberated, unconstrained), not you. You are "obligated" to keep the software free.
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by doodpants 4y ago
I think it's more about the users lacking the taste and aesthetic sense to change the default email signature to something more personal?
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by doodpants 4y ago
Or perhaps this character is an accurate representation of a Dekaclops.
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by doodpants 4y ago
Unless you're on a Mac, in which case just use Menlo, which is already installed. Menlo and DejaVu Sans Mono are both descendants of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and are nearly identical. (And where they differ, Menlo is superior IMHO.)
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by doodpants 4y ago
Yes, the movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debunked that one. :-)
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by doodpants 4y ago
I pronounce the first "a" in "character" the same as in "cat", and that's how it's pronounced in the audio here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/character
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by doodpants 4y ago
You can work around the restriction, and thus store any arbitrary information you wish, by encoding it as binary; e.g. "one zero one zero zero one..." :-)
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by doodpants 4y ago
Just to be pedantic: the command is jai.exe, and the source file extension is .jai, so everyone calls the language Jai. Except Jonathan Blow, who only ever refers to it as "the language" in his videos. I vaguely recall him saying
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by doodpants 4y ago
> They also sacrificed humans to their gods. The tenure of a bad habit is not an argument in favour of the habit. But how certain are you that most of the problems that we struggle with today aren't a result of insufficient ritual s
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by doodpants 4y ago
I strongly disagree. Content fades in moments after scrolling, and there's no content at all if JavaScript is disabled. The author clearly values style over usability.
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by doodpants 4y ago
No, they're saying that not all optimization is premature. Or that upfront performance considerations in the design are not necessarily a case of premature optimization.
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by doodpants 4y ago
I always keep my monitor's brightness low, and never experience eye strain. My technique is to hold a sheet of white paper up next to the screen, and turn down the display's brightness until a window with a white background appear

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