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by fasquoika 9y ago
I wonder if anyone has written a language in Erlang. I imagine the prolog-like pattern matching could make lexing/parsing fairly easy and it would be straightforward to add concurrency wherever you needed. The only downside I can see i
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by fasquoika 9y ago
> this is in no way a troll Really? Because this is this the basic premise behind one of the greatest examples of satire in history...
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by fasquoika 9y ago
Then you're not talking about a UBI, you're talking about a negative income tax[0], which IMO is a lot saner than a UBI. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
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by fasquoika 9y ago
If anyone's interested you can build Fuchsia and run it in Qemu https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/getting_start...
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by fasquoika 9y ago
Quite frankly, whatever values they want. Telling someone to be conscientious about their actions isn't indoctrination. If they take the time, step back from the situation, and make a decision different than the one you would've m
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by fasquoika 9y ago
It's not a thing. Smelting means purifying from ore by melting. Unless you turn your hammer back into iron ore, there's no way to "resmelt" it
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by fasquoika 9y ago
That basically already exists.[0] The only major issue is that they're limited to the permissions of normal webpages in the browser. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps
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by fasquoika 9y ago
I had a similar experience with my AP calculus teacher in high school. Luckily, he's dramatically overqualified for the teaching position and his classes consistently do exceptionally on standardized tests, so the administration basica
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by fasquoika 9y ago
Yes, as the username of all the accounts they actually care about
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by fasquoika 10y ago
>encounters with the police result in getting fatally shot or seriously injured Which absolutely enrages a large portion of the populace. The state can't just put down protests with violence and expect things to get better. Ruling t
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by fasquoika 10y ago
The thing about undefined behavior is that it means the compiler can do whatever it wants. Most of the time, since the compiler wants to create efficient code, it can just assume that invalid values won't occur the same way a type syst
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by fasquoika 10y ago
That's the point. IIRC it's called Rust to allude to the fact that there's nothing really new in the language
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by fasquoika 10y ago
And then we come full circle back to heavy wizardry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)#Variants
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by fasquoika 10y ago
Seconded, I have Green Tea Press bookmarked and I've been meaning to read through The Little Book of Semaphores for a couple months now
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by fasquoika 10y ago
Also around 500 papers about number theory
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by fasquoika 10y ago
>If Emacs sponsored a language Emacs does sponsor a language (elisp), and it's most people's reason for using it.
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by fasquoika 10y ago
>Algol/C/Java/Rust are in some sense variations on the same language Actually, despite its syntax, Rust is more closely related to the ML family than the Algol family. The original Rust compiler was written in OCaml and it
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by fasquoika 10y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12
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by fasquoika 10y ago
>There is a partly-formed attempt to spin off a Grey Tribe typified by libertarian political beliefs, Dawkins-style atheism, vague annoyance that the question of gay rights even comes up, eating paleo, drinking Soylent, calling in rides