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by jarcane 11y ago
Yes. For me, as someone who came to Rust from a non-C/++ background, the appeal of Rust to me is that I get powerful features like an ML-ish type system, iterators, functional programming toys, and more, while still getting C++ or even
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by jarcane 11y ago
It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I have routinely had hardware that was perfectly supported by one distro or another immediately break on the next update. Kernel versions are particularly picky. With Debian, I have historical
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by jarcane 11y ago
Oh yeah, performance-wise I'd say it beats either Atom or VS Code right out the gate. I just never managed to get an environment set up for what I needed to do at the time (ES6/Clojure[script]) so it wasn't much use.
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Brackets was quite nice for what it can do out of the box, but I found the community support very poor, so there's really not much more than that it can do. LightTable was a clever idea that never quite fit my workflow, and which as
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by jarcane 11y ago
This whole website is written in Imba. It uses the same code for server and client. After the initial load, all navigation in the browser is happening with history push/popState, and rendered directly on the client, yet any hard refre
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by jarcane 11y ago
Maybe it's just because I was raised in the "don't use your real name on the internet" era, but I still am not quite comfortable asking a perfect stranger to meet just right off the bat like that.
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That said, I'm totally not surprised by your observation about Facebook events. It's more natural to meet people like that, without prior obligations. People tend to be more open, and conversations more genuine. Especially if thi
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by jarcane 11y ago
What triggers a flash of actual nostalgia is a memory of the days when you met someone in the real world, perhaps at an activity that both of you enjoy, perhaps someone who wasn’t even supposed to be your type. That person might have caugh
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by jarcane 11y ago
A fun property I learned that helps me remember the 9s: The digits of every multiple of 9, when totaled, eventually add up to nine. For 9 times x, for 2-10 at least, this can be reverse engineered: The 10s digit of the product will be x-1,
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Yeah, except you look like a prick taking out your smartphone just to do some basic arithmetic. It's weird to me that a class of people who like to puff about how intelligent they are are so proud of refusing to function at an incredib
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The huge disasters have been happening, repeatedly, for years. There are botnets in the millions running on supposedly "Norton-protected" PCs. No one cares. It's not a problem the people in a position to do anything about eve
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by jarcane 11y ago
Your stupid Lisp trick for the day: In Heresy, one of my contributors had a clever moment when he realized that Y can be generalized in Lisps to take multiple arguments, because technically Lisp lambdas always take just one argument in real
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by jarcane 11y ago
Depending on the C standard you're emitting, portability and backward compatibility gains can potentially be huge. I've even occasionally managed to get code from compiled-to-C languages working on platforms like RiscOS and Amiga.
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by jarcane 11y ago
I'm baffled by the notion that a site with such a powerful and motivated faction of actual white supremacists and open misogynists is apparently too "politically correct" for you. I consider myself fortunate that I can't
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he does not believe in the concept of free will That really doesn't do anything to assuage my distaste for the point. It is in fact the very point that is the problem.
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Don't forget this gem from November: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/21/scott-adams-we-... Or his insane defense of rapists and harassers: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2011
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by jarcane 11y ago
How big is the Wikipedia database? Current revision only of just the text of the articles is 8.8GB compressed, 27GB uncompressed. All revisions, all pages (talk etc. included) of text is around 5 terabytes. [...] Neither of those include m
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Wage stagnation in nine charts [pdf](epi.org)
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There hasn't been one of these for a long time. I gave up and switched to OS X and BSD for my Unix needs.
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Sanity and time vs. employability and monetary compensation.
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A die rolling program is pretty much my equivalent to "Hello world" in any new programming language I learn.
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What's particularly weird about the Amiga scene is how locked down the IP still is and how that seems to permeate the rest of the scene. It's like the IP owners think that somehow they'll suddenly come across hundreds of mil
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by jarcane 11y ago
I've talked with Robert at some length and listened to his talk on LFE, and that's more or less the way of it, plus Robert himself was an old Lisp buff from way back (hence Lisp-flavored Erlang). It was basically a combination of
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by jarcane 11y ago
Here's a pastebin of his last tweets: http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5
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by jarcane 11y ago
I tend to think of it in that way as well. To me, "functional programming" taken back to origins in Lisp and the lambda calculus is a style of programming that focuses on the composition of functions. The "purity" eleme
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by jarcane 11y ago
To give proper credit, that's actually a port of the Model I/III Lisp to the CoCo, as printed in Hot Coco magazine. I'm still idle in a few bits of the CoCo scene and someone dug it up a while back so I snapped the code just
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by jarcane 11y ago
Strictly speaking, most Common Lisps can do this too out of the box. It's how "compiling" even works under most CL implementations.
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The RISC OS people have produced a custom ROM that runs only BBC Basic at boot: https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico There's also some stuff here on the RPi site on other BASIC options: http
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by jarcane 11y ago
The REPL still lives! You need Racket. There's a lot of great programs now using Racket/WeScheme in education for younger kids. Another project though I think really seems to be gunning for that old-school feel with some modern co
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by jarcane 11y ago
Hmm. Maybe I should take another look at Purebasic then. "Not OOP" is a selling point for me, and rare as hen's teeth where GUI software is concerned.

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