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by jarcane 12y ago
Glad to hear they're doing well. I've been slowly tinkering with the tryfsharp.org tutorials and I'm liking what I see. It might be the first MS language I've actually liked since QBASIC.
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Facebook spent 23 seconds fighting racism, and failed(medium.com)
12 points by jarcane 12y ago|3 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is mainly what I took from it. The faster way here is almost always the most idiomatic way to do it in the examples, and the reasons why are usually pretty obvious. And while the individual differences are small, in a language already
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by jarcane 12y ago
Write code in it. Lots of code. And not all your own code. Find books that give clear 'type it yourself' examples that you can follow along with, or books that test your ability to think in the language by giving you problems that
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by jarcane 12y ago
Yes. Initially FF was just a side project to release the Mozilla browser component as a standalone app, just like Thunderbird was.
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by jarcane 12y ago
I've heard one recruiter specifically advise I learn Scala or Clojure, but then I love in Finland, where the JVM it's still even more king of the jungle than elsewhere thanks to decades of mobile engineering focus. I'll be ta
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by jarcane 12y ago
Last one, in old-fashioned style: 5 FORX=1TO16:READN:N=N+32:?CHR$(N);:NEXTX:DATA45,69,82,82,89,0,35,72,82,73,83,84,77,65,83,1
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by jarcane 12y ago
; Racket version (apply string (map (λ (x) (integer->char (+ x 32))) '(45 69 82 82 89 0 35 72 82 73 83 84 77 65 83 1)))
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by jarcane 12y ago
map (\x -> chr (x + 32)) [45,69,82,82,89,0,35,72,82,73,83,84,77,65,83,1]
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by jarcane 12y ago
I think the problem is that the web as we know it was not fundamentally designed to be seamless. We decry it now, but it was the reason that Flash took off in the first place: you could just make your app in Flash, and all you needed to kno
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Ask HN: Simple Git doc mirror/hosting?
1 points by jarcane 12y ago|1 comments
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Let-aliasing in Typed Racket(andmkent.com)
50 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
If you want a clear, interactive walkthrough of the basics, I can't recommend the Koans highly enough: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
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by jarcane 12y ago
There are a few responses to this: 1) contrary to American myth, a good union promises quality workers, and the best way to do that is to ensure their members are highly trained. Everything is union here, but if you want to be a union emp
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by jarcane 12y ago
In Finland, mandatory primary and secondary schooling ends at 16, after which point you can choose to either go into a trade /apprenticeship school, or an academic school (high-school/university), or not go at all. And all of it i
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by jarcane 12y ago
While we appreciate the careful crafting that went into this pull request and regard XML as an excellent choice for documenting projects of Enterprise caliber, we feel that moving to Docbook version 5 is a rather hasty move. The version is
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by jarcane 12y ago
The Racket and Lisp comments are a bit odd. To the best of my knowledge Typed Racket does support gradual typing, and as well, comparing it's compatibility to Scheme is a category error: Racket is not Scheme anymore, that's why it
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by jarcane 12y ago
PSN is just the Playstation-targeted wing of their Sony Entertainment Network, which is cross platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Entertainment_Network They have the means and the platform. Blaming it on other
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by jarcane 12y ago
And Crackle.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Sony owns several digital release platforms. If they want this movie out, they could make it happen tomorrow. This is just PR speak. They might cave and release anyway, but Lynton's statement is deliberately weak and duplicitous, onc
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Don't call it DRM: what's Denuvo Anti-Tamper?(eurogamer.net)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
It's sad to me to compare my sense of the Python community ten years ago, to what it is now. It seems like there was a time in the old days when Python was meant to be fun (and even the documentation matched that attitude), whereas b
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by jarcane 12y ago
libtcod. It was a roguelike.
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by jarcane 12y ago
To be honest, I found that in my use case (game dev, supported by bindings to a C library), PyPy was actually slower than CPython. I'd be curious to dig up my code and compare performance to a Nuitka-compiled executable.
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by jarcane 12y ago
It is somewhat faster than CPython already, but currently it doesn't make all the optimizations possible, but a 258% factor on pystone is a good start (number is from version 0.3.11). Holy cow. And here I'd set aside Python in p
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by jarcane 12y ago
The day I became a published author was the day I gave up on it. I'm still semi-careful about more sensitive details, but I realized in my case that my rep was bigger in my online name than it was in my own name, so the simplest soluti
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by jarcane 12y ago
Hands down my favorite on this front is probably the Clojurescript Koans site: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
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by jarcane 12y ago
There are new torrents up now that aren't on the Costa Rican mirror. I think they've added some ability to add new torrents.
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30,000 People Really Did Buy Poop on Black Friday(laist.com)
9 points by jarcane 12y ago|1 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
I have suspected for some time that, at the present rate of churn, game dev is increasingly moving to a movie-like model, where a given crew assembles for one product, then scatters when it's over. It's certainly the way I'd

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