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by ezy 11y ago
Often the software and OS APIs on that system are glossed over in favor of the hardware or the graphical shell. The Exec[1] was a marvel at the time -- and in some ways, still is. I don't know how much ARexx[2] preceeded AppleScript,
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by ezy 11y ago
I'm going to take issue with this. This has nothing to do with having a solid computer science background -- in fact, I've seen way more architecture astronauts with CS degrees. It has to do with learning stuff on a lower level
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by ezy 11y ago
Didn't everyone use this all the time to pause 300 & 1200 bps output in the days before screen and scrollback terminals? :-)
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by ezy 11y ago
I understand the PIC technique, but I'm having a hard time understanding how this is different from what a trace might do. That is, inline the impl of method_missing and then optimize the most common path with guards included. Or is
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by ezy 11y ago
I get that you want to make people aware of the tool and its advantages because you think others might find it useful. But what part of that requires any attention to the condescending idea of "messaging" vs just straight up
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by ezy 11y ago
"I find that position to be very hard to understand - devtools live or die by their adoption" Some of the time, that is true, but not all the time, maybe not most of the time -- you are putting the cart before the horse. In fact,
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by ezy 11y ago
The problem is not that they "message themselves" (gross) wrong, but that they feel like they have to "message" at all. Sales & marketing mumbo jumbo has no place in devtools -- it is at best, obfuscation -- at wor
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by ezy 11y ago
This is overblown. The lisp is not "rendered", it is executed. Any language that can implement a recursive-descent parser/generator could be the basis for this -- it does not require lisp or lisp macros. Think about what
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by ezy 11y ago
"Many of the usability issues raised by Don Norman in his 1981 criticism of Unix have gone largely unaddressed" That's because Don's complaints were not about intrinsic issues, but complaints from someone who had a frust
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The full-time job is dead, says company invested in killing full-time jobs(tracks.ranea.org)
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by ezy 11y ago
If you buy into the prose/code relationship, this is silly. It is like complaining about an author using prepositions.
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by ezy 11y ago
Depends on what your your qualifications are for a touch typist. There's a considerable distance between hunt and peck and someone who never looks down. I can touch type for stretches because I learned the location of the keys organ
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by ezy 12y ago
Ah, I didn't catch that. That's... annoying. Perhaps you might object mathematically too. I think of a curve as fitting the test scores to a specific distribution as a corrective to testing error. It's not the fitting that&
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by ezy 12y ago
At the risk of sounding completely ignorant, what's wrong with what she did? In most classes I've been a part of, your total score was based on a weighted average of scores on particular tasks. The normalization here is a typica
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by ezy 12y ago
Oh well, we will not agree. Again, I will say, especially to your concluding remark, this is a distinction without a difference. Because (eg.) if someone is prejudicial against a human with breasts, that does not make them simply "bre
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by ezy 12y ago
Ok, I think I see where we depart. To me, treating women as sex objects in the workplace is absolutely part of sexism, and that's probably her assumption too. I see how you might make a distinction, but I don't agree with it. The
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by ezy 12y ago
> Wow, way to go! I read HN so I must be a PG cheerleader and ergo I'm definitely sexist! For someone who is all about psychological errors, you seem to have constructed quite a narrative. I'm not talking about cheerleading --
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by ezy 12y ago
Well, duh, but the whole thing about "invalidation" is there is a subtext here: that she wouldn't know that she had been misattributing sexism to someone. If all your friends with Fords of various colors and models had proble
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by ezy 12y ago
That sounds like a weird off-hand complaint until you realize that she's not talking about once or twice -- she's talking about "making it a point" to do so. Even once or twice is perilous territory, unless it's in
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by ezy 12y ago
Focus on why you are trying to accomplish something, not how you are accomplishing it. Yes, these are tricks, because "lazy" means you're storing thunks and significant partial results with no outward indication of such. Jus
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by ezy 12y ago
> What we're speculating about here (at least I think we are?) is if this is a sustainable model for general development and if we can do better. Here is the kind of difficulty I'm talking about. Instead of thinking about this
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by ezy 12y ago
(Note, not being critical of you, just placing this here because I was thinking about it recently) Maybe because CS is so young, there is a tendency to confuse theory and practice. Whether a particular language makes one more productive isn
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by ezy 12y ago
Eh. One of the many libertarian lies is that all uncoerced transactions are somehow value-neutral. For example, it's certainly a valid question whether it's ethical to support a weapons manufacturer, for example, no matter who&#x
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by ezy 12y ago
On reading this, my first question is about the properties of the "random" feedback matrix. They illustrate what is happening using a tiny 1-width machine and a "random" matrix of "1". It seems like some anal
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by ezy 12y ago
Have you read the implementation of the python collection types (list, map, etc.)?
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by ezy 12y ago
Yes, but (according to the spec) it was stateless -- which made it worthless for the purposes I'm describing. The original purpose was to support custom static strategies for allocation (e.g. i86 near/far pointers or one memory
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by ezy 12y ago
Yup. That's excellent. Rust changes so fast, I can hardly keep up. :-)
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by ezy 12y ago
I prefer well known memory lifetimes, but I'm undecided about ARC (or somewhat equivalently: std::shared_ptr, etc.). It can be a little confusing and overwrought at times, and I don't think the lifetimes are as clear as they coul
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by ezy 12y ago
Well, the goal is for it to be minimal, and C doesn't actually do a lot of work for you. On reading it, the algorithm it uses to parse was of less interest than the various tricks it uses to initialize and manage the state of the pars
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by ezy 12y ago
Wow, I thought I was the only one who preferred that WM. I should try and get it running in my ubuntu instance again...

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