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by gompertz 5y ago
A smidge off topic, but I'm curious; is there a place where you can upload (say) a chess bot you designed and play against other uploaded chess bots? (or any move base game, even as simple as 'paper rock scissors')?
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by gompertz 5y ago
I'm unsure if it's the case everywhere, but where I reside all the local hubs, or meetup groups are really elementary level and only want to talk Hello World or Arduino Blinky projects. I've yet to find a group that is crushi
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by gompertz 5y ago
LAMP with Dart+Flutter. Less and less C/C++ on backend these days.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Yet solves probably 99% of use cases!
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by gompertz 5y ago
Love Flutter (and Dart even more!), but find it weird they make all their announcements via Medium instead of their own website.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Yeah.. To my disappointment... There's really not a lot of Dart/Flutter posts on HN, so I was excited! One day (hopefully) everyone will stop naming things after dictionary words.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Checked out syncthing myself after seeing this comment... What a great utility! Thanks for suggesting.
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by gompertz 5y ago
I believe I read in an interview ages back that Trent Reznor did this as well!
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by gompertz 5y ago
Mojeek is returning great results I'm not seeing from any other search engine!
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by gompertz 5y ago
I've been having a lot of good luck with Lycos (yeah, that Lycos, from 1995!)... It never returns pay wall or "opinion" based results (I.e. Medium).
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by gompertz 5y ago
Wow blast from the past. I think I was using Copernic all the way back in 2003... Forgot all about them. Thanks!
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by gompertz 5y ago
Doesn't Dart+Flutter cover all those platforms as well? Also Delphi is 90% way there (still ways to go on wasm I believe). So not really "first and only"...
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by gompertz 5y ago
This is why I often search solutions directly on Stack Overflow, and not via Google. Or I add "site:stackoverlow.com" to my search. Generally SO has all I ever need... I find vendor forums to be a total wasteland for help (ie. Pow
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by gompertz 5y ago
That could be a plausible explanation by Holmes' defence for all her actions that got her in trouble in the first place! Personally, I find my own coworkers who lay claim to having such regiments are usually the smallest contributors i
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by gompertz 5y ago
I always get curious about languages like this; but the only one that ever stuck with me was the Pike programming language (circa '94). Pawn seemed somewhat decent too.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Strongly agree and thought I was alone in this thinking. A flashy new web-design makes me immediately think "VC, smoke and mirrors salesy BS, here today gone tomorrow". If I don't see links to "Screenshots" "
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by gompertz 5y ago
Sort of curious, is there key differences between Docusauras and Hugo that would make it worth switching??
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by gompertz 5y ago
Especially if searching websites on https://search.marginalia.nu/ !
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by gompertz 5y ago
I also believe this is why the Awk book is so thin, and easy to hold. It gets right to the point teaching the language itself. I wish more books were the size of that book.
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by gompertz 5y ago
You may also want to look into 'EEE'. EEE is a program that combines multiple files and actions into a compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin). executable. http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/eee/index.html
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by gompertz 5y ago
My latest way of learning a new programing language quickly is to actually understand how to read and navigate the API/Documentation properly, followed by learning compiler/interpreter error messages and what they mean. Understand
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by gompertz 5y ago
The sad part is the "idea guys" are generally too lazy to even learn a little basics of programming to converse with the ones building their idea. Anyone can come up with ideas; there's no degree in ideas. Most of us got into
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by gompertz 5y ago
And glancing at the screenshots, that look can be achieved in FLTK which is lightweight, active, and been around decades.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Strongly agree - a blog post usually gets padded with tons of filler for SEO; and is prepended with 3 paragraphs of some "backstory" from the author's life as to why XYZ is now relevant or useful. Twitter forces succinct and
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by gompertz 5y ago
Agreed it is an excellent book. Even the Catspaw Spitbol manual is well written. Along with the Green Book. An often forgotten period of computing!
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by gompertz 5y ago
I forget where I read it but Brian Kernighan said, at some point, the lack of namespaces in original Awk was probably the biggest mistake that prevented bigger adoption in large projects. Now that we have it, I'm hoping to see a brill
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by gompertz 5y ago
Perhaps; but Awk is such a compact approach. My head feels cleaner when using it compared to Perl - perhaps as it's fairly close to C. The interpreter is a single binary on practically any OS, and is usually around 5MB in size. It&#
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by gompertz 5y ago
String pattern matching in Snobol4 was still stronger than regex for a very long time, possibly still today. A language very ahead of its time.
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by gompertz 5y ago
I watched the General Magic documentary couple years back... I'm sure it was just my perception, and maybe the video editing, but by what I recall it looked like they mostly goofed off and it was more a think-tank than actually buildin
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by gompertz 5y ago
Indeed the primary usage was text and string manipulation; it had a huge following in the 70s and 80s in the humanities. However, like with most languages, all the bases are covered for complex functions, mathematics, etc; it just never go

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