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by gnuvince 10y ago
The original article by Zed should stand as an example of logical fallacies.
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You'll see the left bias in the editorial pieces, but in news stories the writing is as neutral as I've seen. In Montreal, the alternatives are the Journal de Montréal (too much gossip, not enough hard information), La Presse (ve
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Back in late August when I started my new job, my first purchase with my first paycheck was to get a subscription to Le Devoir, Montreal's independent newspaper. It's amazing how much more informed I feel now: because the content
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This seems to be an over-reaction to overly highlighted code. I work with Erlang in Emacs, and at first I couldn't believe how much of a Christmas tree my code looked like: every token had its own color, and it was really hard to read
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Very cool of you, I was debating the $149 price tag, but at $30 I just paid before I could think of a reason not to. Quick question: is there a way to use an audio player (e.g., Audacious, RhythmBox, VLC) to stream the music without using a
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Neither is Knuth's definition; it's just mapping an input to an output.
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A fun game I've been playing: http://www.microcorruption.com/ Gotta use those MSP430 assembly skills to bust through digital locks.
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I think the author address that point in the introduction: > Experts, who are deeply familiar with the product, have learned its many intricacies, developed complex, customized workflows, and regularly exploit its most elaborate features
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by gnuvince 10y ago
> Requires no installation or setup This is not something I want; if a product I use is available only via a web site and the company goes under, the product goes away with it. If it's installed on my hard drive, I can keep using
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Very good! I always liked the content of Rust's error messages as it clearly explained the issue, but the form of those error messages was a bit problematic, they were very noisy and it wasn't easy to see the issue by simply gl
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> On a side note why do we as developers tend to prioritize making the act of writing code easier than the far more frequent act of maintaining that code? Different phases of the development process call for different priorities: in earl
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> The blog explaining the author's disdain for Rust mostly just seems to whining about the borrow checker. Most (negative) discussions about Rust are about the borrow checker. I sometimes wonder if people dislike it because it make
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Rust warns you about those things; allows for quicker iteration in development, and gives you a list of things to address when you are ready to polish.
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I started doing a lot better in calculus when I started using longer notation (e.g. f = x -> x³ instead of f(x) = x³) and making sure that things "type checked". For instance, this tendency to use f(x) to refer to a function,
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Maybe conferences should have a "reproducibility" track for that purpose? Also, I don't know about other fields, but I'm pretty sure that in CS, if you just took a paper and tried to reproduce the results, you'll g
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by gnuvince 10y ago
Spacemacs looks nice and is well polished, but I'd say if you have a comfortable setup that you are used to, it's probably not worth the hassle.
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I typically open Emacs when I boot my laptop, and close it when I shut down (which happens only every few weeks); this is typical of a lot of Emacs users. In those few weeks, I open hundreds of buffers and I rarely close them: my buffer li
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Also, is the next release going to be in March 2017, or still be in May?
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Who said anything about "solving all problems"? How about just making some things a bit better? I'm get really annoyed when I see the argument "Y does not solve all the problems in X, therefore there is no point in mov
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by gnuvince 10y ago
"I went backrupt philanthropying, that's how much I care!"
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> Regexes are almost always a massive code smell. They should almost never be used Regular expressions are just a notation for expressing a finite state automata that recognizes a regular language: if that's the problem that you hav
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> OCaml already looks nice <_< I agree; I find Reason to be a completely pointless project except if Facebook hopes to fracture the OCaml community.
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by gnuvince 10y ago
Here's a paragraph from Rust's book on error handling [1] (written by BurntSushi who write quite a lot of Go too): > You can think of error handling as using case analysis to determine whether a computation was successful or no
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by gnuvince 10y ago
Goddamn, I hate Roboto, it is way too fat by default.
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Thanks for the info, very useful info; I was most interested to learn that ncurses provides compatibility for terminals that are rare.
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I find it funny that a person named _acme suggests vis :)
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Can anyone explain how to do a full-screen UI using only VT100 codes? If I had to write a small editor, I'd probably reach for something like Termbox for display.
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by gnuvince 10y ago
pijul is not a fork of darcs, it's a completely different system that adopts the main ideas of darcs.
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What he said is that the goal should be that developers need not handle memory manually. GC is one technique to achieve that goal, and the one that has been the most successful so far, however we should not equate automatic memory manageme
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Isn't Facebook's chat also powered by Erlang?

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