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by hacker_9 9y ago
Just about every scenario? Any algorithm I am working on, any function, any config variable I want to tweak in real time, any GUI I am developing, and so on.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I didn't say it wasn't possible, but I've found that hot-swapping in languages that use mutable data structures, and have heavy type systems, makes for a poor experience. If I can constantly cripple the runtime with hot-swapp
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Good article. He missed out the main pro though (and literally the only reason I ever use any Lisp): hot swapping. The ability to change code on the fly as the program is running. For this to actually work you need 2 things: 1. No explicit
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This is an oft used technique in gamedev, where instead of print statements we will print out visualisations to the screen, such as bounding boxes, trajectory lines, etc.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Quite a leap to diagnose such a condition over the internet. To me it just seemed like a bad example. His second example works though, if you try to force a visualisation in your mind: "Another common example is the visual representati
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Sounds like something out of Doctor Who.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Title is an exaggeration, all they found was structures that looked similar to structures in our brains. They have no idea what these structures actually do, and even said there is huge amount of variability in the structures. As an aside,
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Just like with Javascript, everything must be rebuilt again!..
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by hacker_9 9y ago
One of the awesome things about Lisp is how easy it is to build DSLs with. I used to think this wasn't that useful of a feature, but recently I've had an idea for a few web apps and instead of writing all the tedious GUI logic I&#
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I wonder, if the moon becomes a habitable location in my lifetime, will all those people who bought 'an acre of the moon' have their contract upheld? [0] [0] https://www.moonestates.com
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This is what I often think. I like the idea of democracy, but in reality it just means people who don't know shit voting on things that are actually important. We don't just let anyone be a doctor, we make them do years of trainin
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by hacker_9 9y ago
You have options; You could bike to work, or go for a run in your lunch break, or instead go to the gym after work.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Right there on the page: "Goal I want to build a language that focuses on developing microservices. Which should be performant and easy to write. This is why Rooby has Ruby's user friendly syntax and is written in Go."
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Clojurescript compiles down to regular Javascript, and React is used by Facebook which is in the top 3 most visited sites in the world. So what's your point?
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Refreshing the page is what you currently have to do with a typical javascript setup, with the main problem being that you lose all your state on the page. For example any form fields you've filled out. With bigger Web apps this can be
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by hacker_9 9y ago
> To me it seems even more ridiculous that react is the silver bullet for frontend development. For me (and other Clojurescript developers) React is one of the best ways to do front end development. Simply because of it's virtual DO
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Wings3d.com is written in Erlang, a functional programming language. Additionally any business that scales will be using functional constructs, because they parallelise trivially. Google uses MapReduce for instance. Visual Studio rewrote th
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is effectively what Lib Dems would do, call another EU Referendum. Perhaps the only reason I am considering voting for them, after we've seen at how inept the current govt are at dealing with Brexit.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Not with Brexit overshadowing everything.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Yeah it is a bit dirty, especially when she calls out all the other parties for playing 'political games'.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Too bad polls haven't been accurate for a while now.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I used to be a Conservative supporter, but now I just look at Westminster and wonder what the hell happened. Didn't David Cameron basically do this very same thing only a year ago? He expected everyone to be with him and vote Remain, a
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I understand that, but the idea that HTML + CSS can only be sped up by some hugely parallel structure requiring a whole new programming language and browser engine is really quite shocking. I think once webassembly is established and in use
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You probably didn't transfer ownership to the form..
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> The world needs a new browser engine > As a non-dev I expect you are just responding to the inherent lack of performance that the javascript + html + css bundle shamelessly provides, which Servo will do nothing to sort out. Webassem
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> The fact that SWATing is a thing shows just how broken the current model is Hard to think of a better model though; you never know what call is going to be real. Additionally getting local police involved does make a lot of sense, as
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Agreed. Reminds me of this article: "The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far away." (2012) [1] [1] http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> Brains do not really grow new pathways, they are more or less set in stone after development finishes. Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis has been observed well into adulthood though [1]. > Thus the goal of these projects is not just
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Perhaps someone can clear up my confusion, but I classify neural networks as just one category of algorithms. It doesn't strike me as something that will replace our binary systems anytime soon because, well, we haven't shown any
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You are arguing that by performing the algorithms for perception, one is conscious. I am arguing that algorithms alone aren't enough, and that yes conscious is still some unexplained physics that takes the results of those perception a

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