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by ikari_pl 3y ago
That's mindblowing! I'd expect Ada there! Do you have any references that I should add to the post? :D
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
I love this story! You are right, I should have, and wanted to have mentioned Python for everything else than creative coding - I think I got too dragged into that direction. Python is the language that takes the "how" out of the
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Author here. I thought my wordpress stats are broken, when instead of the usual 3-10 vitits it showed 3800 :'). Thank you. A personal background: writing this article was fun! I started with BASIC too, I was about 6, and the Amstrad CP
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
it's called the author /jk
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Agreed. It also turns out that the features Dijkstra seen in BASIC at the time was half of the features you'd have on an Amstrad in the 80s, so it's not even apples to apples. I also did an experiment not to praise BASIC without c
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
BBC BASIC with it's SDL IDE work ok on a mac too!
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
that manual was my favorite book when I was a kid! it taught everything. Computers in general, programming, two languages, two OSes!
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
I think the fact that the old 8-bit computers booted straight into BASIC and came with amazing manuals (at least Amstrad) that taught you programming was amazing and what made me a software engineer in the end. I shared some of this amazeme
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
thank you. I've only ever seen the string ones, and was wondering what is the older system
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Interesting observation: my first language is Polish, and we'd use the same word for accuracy and precision ("dokładność").
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
You can totally add some invisible tags for semantics. What I love about these documents is how beautiful, clean and readable they are. How do do it myself, I don't know, but would love to
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Yes, it was a little sarcastic and under an article about Internet Explorer, which isn't exactly the number one public enemy anymore either. A few thoughts: At some point, the ideas of a browser, and an OS, seemed to converge a lot - e
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
> First, Microsoft was fighting against the whole concept of a browser as separate from its OS you mean, just like the Good Guy ChromeOS?
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
so it IS only in our heads? on the other hand, nobody would read a manual these days anymore...
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
yes yes yes! I tried to convey some of that magic, or at least logically reason why those 8-bits were awesome, in a blog post once - https://retrofun.pl/2021/05/18/hobbyarding/ :) It still feels like thi
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
stupid question but... doesn't Deno also promise that possibility? Or at least to compile a js app into a binary
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
it WAS a flash series for sure. YouTube was just for the crowds :p
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
are they an ethical company, though?
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
never had a broken USB-A, but definitely owned one and seen another USB C in which the tiny board in the middle of the socket broke off
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Heuristics used to be AI. Now only chat gpt is ai
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
The same reason you can't get map keys without a library or looping yourself. "Simplicity" (for go maintainers).
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
i miss Longhorn. If not the .NET explorer frequent crashes, it would have been my most exciting OS experience to date
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
4th option. They're trying to enter the market and get a good job, but some companies consider them less experienced but more expensive than Copilot.
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
um, sir... please show us the implementation of eval.
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Just wanted to note that webassembly doesn't imply client, especially since docker's somewhat native support appeared
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
Thank you!
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
You can only be confident that they won't tell you what the exception was. More likely they will panic. If you're lucky, the documentation says when.
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
And that's exactly why it should be expressive, self explanatory, and come at a low cognitive cost.
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
like Open, Copy...? These shorter functions need to signal their failure somehow, so calling them looks exactly like the example.
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by ikari_pl 3y ago
They also made sure you can't easily tell what the code is doing due to the noise of edge case handling in 75% of the lines

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