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by garren 7y ago
Not a book, but an interesting self-guided course and apparently a great way to pick up a new language: Make A Lisp [0],[1],[2] Basically, work through building a lisp interpreter in any given language (C, Java,...bash, vimscript) in 10 ste
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by garren 7y ago
I ran into “Make Your Own Lisp Interpreter in 10 Steps”[0] recently, and I’ve enjoyed walking through it. It works through a basic repl to macros, tail recursion, and finally self hosting! (I haven’t made it that far yet) The guide [1] has
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by garren 7y ago
Based on references to TikTok here, https://stratechery.com/ it looks like it’s ep176 https://exponent.fm/episode-176-the-second-estate-era/
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by garren 7y ago
fastmail supports a variation of this: if my email is me@mydomain.com, then I can use service+me@mydomain.com, or better service@me.mydomain.com (or anything@me.mydomain.com). It seems like it'd be a little less obvious to scammers.
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by garren 7y ago
The article indicates that it's pretty much six of one and half a dozen of the other. iOS is more of a monoculture compared to Android, so a successful exploit chain against the current version of iOS has the potential to affect quite
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by garren 7y ago
...the release of the Mac OS X operating system, which was essentially a rebranded version of NeXTSTEP UNIX. Because Mac OS X was UNIX, it was fundamentally open... I truly appreciate the UNIX foundation and heritage of OSX, but "fu
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by garren 7y ago
If you're just getting comfortable with it (as I am) then something a little lighter weight than a course seems like a reasonable approach. Also, for me at least, at this point the distinction between interpreter and compiler isn'
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by garren 7y ago
I completely agree - I've worked through most of this as well and I feel it is a really great way to introduce someone to the language. It seems to me that a lot of languages would benefit from this style of tutorial or introduction.
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by garren 7y ago
It's difficult to agree with the idea that VB displaced COBOL. Even if this were the case, it certainly wasn't because COBOL compilers were expensive compared to "a cheap interpreter" that came with the machine. COBOL co
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by garren 7y ago
I've only just started looking at Clojure and I've been a little leery about the JVM as well (Windows/.Net guy). However, my experience so far has been pretty positive, and it's given me a reason to get more familiar wit
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by garren 7y ago
Whoa. I hadn't heard anything about Fastmail's backdoor concerns [0]. Thanks for bringing it up! [0] https://reclaimthenet.org/fastmail-australian-encryption-law...
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by garren 7y ago
Open source or not, chromium is still fundamentally chrome and backed by Google, is it not? It can be used vanilla or built on top of (e.g., chromium and brave), but where Google goes so goes chromium. This is as much a privacy concern as i
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by garren 7y ago
I can understand the keyboard (although I've got a late 2018 MB Air and I love the keyboard fingers crossed ), but I've always considered Mac touchpad to be an order of magnitude better than anything else out there. What don&#x27
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by garren 7y ago
That's a good point. Apple knows every piece of hardware I've purchased from them simply because I've bought into their ecosystem (iCloud, iTunes, etc.) It seems like they should be able to leverage this information to reach
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by garren 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? Google's not giving me anything. I'd definitely like to know more - I can't help but wonder how widespread that kind of behavior is.
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by garren 7y ago
Medieval conspicuous consumption? My first thought looking at the examples in the article was that the soles of the shoes don't look much thicker than the uppers. I read an article not too long ago about how the medieval walking style
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by garren 7y ago
At the very least, maybe it turns back into a bookstore rather than a cafe/book/music/board game/toy store. It's the board games, comic/anime figurines, and kitchy junk (e.g., polaroid cameras, overpriced drawi
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by garren 7y ago
Is that a law? I feel like that should be a law: If you think you don't like X, just wait until your company forces you to use Microsoft Y. - _emacsomancer_'s law I've used slack for school, and it was pretty useful. I'
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by garren 7y ago
I recently started a keto-style (high fat low carb) diet after reading a book on fasting [0]. I also picked up a ketone/glucose meter out of curiosity. Much as the book describes, fast for about 24-36+ hours and there's a good cha
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by garren 7y ago
Something like crostini for the iPad would be amazing. I picked up a Lenovo Yoga 630 not too long ago, was planning to see if I could blow away ChromeOS and get Linux running on it, but discovered instead that I could spin up containers. Cr
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by garren 7y ago
I just had the battery replaced in two mid-2014 MBPs. They said that I'd be paying for the battery replacement (199), but that they would also replace the keyboard and trackpad and I wouldn't be charged for either. However, the wa
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by garren 7y ago
That's awesome. A couple responses to yesterday's thread regarding bookmarked hn quotes really opened up my eyes regarding building and maintaining side projects. I picked up a book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer&#x27
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by garren 7y ago
That is fantastic. Really hits home. I’ve been at my current company for years. I’ve seen it grow from a small, scrappy, barely getting by but absolutely enjoyable company, to a large, top-heavy, meeting-centric, proper business. I’ve been
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by garren 7y ago
I agree with you regarding Packt - books I've purchased from them tend to be more miss than hit. I haven't had the same experience with Manning though. In fact, Manning has been my go to rather than O'Reilly, the former king
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by garren 7y ago
Device or app? I've found that pretty much all technical books look terrible on Kindle devices - the screens are too small, the technical content (source) usually formats poorly, and diagrams are often screwed up. That's not uniqu
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by garren 8y ago
I was just playing with Amplify the other day. I was super impressed with the graphql codegen. I think the Rails comparison makes sense with the exception of the vendor lock-in. I haven’t looked at the Serverless framework very closely, but
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by garren 8y ago
It looks like it’s resolved now, but according to the iCloud status page some services were down or degraded earlier today. https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
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by garren 8y ago
Whaaa? Is that a new thing? I've never needed to supply my phone# to GitHub, and there's no # associated with my profile. Also, I agree with you in being a little hesitant to give it out and is precisely why I didn't go furth
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by garren 8y ago
This got me too. It looks like a neat project, but the phone number requirement seems a little off. There doesn't appear to be a real need for it and running through their privacy page isn't helpful.
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by garren 8y ago
In the original link, the Buefy project describes itself as "Lightweight UI components for Vue.js based on Bulma". It seems like b-field is an example of such a component [0]. Looking at the documentation, this seems to be the cas

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