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by jarcane 10y ago
OS-9 is a dramatically more capable OS than CP/M, in that it's a fully multitasking RTOS.
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by jarcane 10y ago
Whereas after spending even a day with it I found myself wanting to run screaming back to Haskell. No typeclasses, no monads, more primitive pattern matching, no guards, use of massive nested elseif considered idiomatic ... Simple tasks win
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That's exactly the point.
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by jarcane 10y ago
grep and regular expressions in general are a great example of something that Unix seems to excel at but that leaves me cold: shitloads of power, but all dependent on learning arbitary syntax by the bucketloads, thus requiring a time invest
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by jarcane 10y ago
That's a good point, and one I didn't think about. Cooking is, on the whole, a much more unstable industry in terms of work experience and generally the kinds of restaurants that even do a stage are the kinds it's even worth
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by jarcane 10y ago
If you want to find out if a programmer can actually do the job, then it seems to me that the way forward is to have them do something that actually resembles the job. In the high-end cooking world, it's not uncommon to do one of two t
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by jarcane 10y ago
Indeed. Voat seems to exist for people primarily for people who don't think Reddit is toxic enough.
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Because Gecko is a performance disaster so bad that Mozilla had to invent a new programming language just to create a replacement.
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by jarcane 10y ago
Peter Thiel.
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems(theguardian.com)
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by jarcane 10y ago
There is Gambas, which while not a clone in the way FreeBASIC is of QuickBASIC, is at least intended to provide a similar experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
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by jarcane 10y ago
For the Raspberry Pi, there is Risc OS Pico, a barebones Risc OS image that boots directly to BBC Basic. https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico There's also the FUZE and FUZE BASIC, a retro-y k
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by jarcane 10y ago
It's not. You know how I got started in the restaurant industry? A friend said, "Want to work at my restaurant?" So I did. Another friend, knowing I wanted to get into film, said "Wanna come work on sets with me?" J
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by jarcane 10y ago
I desperately wish there was an Android port of Lisping. I want it badly, but iOS devices are ludicrously expensive in my country. In the interim, I've found hacked ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
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by jarcane 10y ago
There's also this one, which seems to be a bit more of a structured approach: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilebasi... The trouble I always wind up having with these though is you quick
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by jarcane 10y ago
To be honest, I don't have Spotify and I'd still probably use it for that. Perhaps link to searches on multiple services? Youtube/SoundCloud/Amazon/iTunes maybe? With referral links you might even be able to make a
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by jarcane 10y ago
I can't help but notice that once again tail call optimization seems to be one of the last things added, and even then requires a specific flag to work. Is there some reason for this pattern, like actual performance/technical diff
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by jarcane 11y ago
Why “Barnacles”? The venture capitalists own the term “startup” and it’s not worth fighting over. There isn’t really any perfect term for this business niche, so I punted on trying to invent one. The term is "small business." Th
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by jarcane 11y ago
I know exactly how he feels. This is basically the experience I had when I moved from Python to functional languages and it finally "clicked" how much more productive I could be in a Lisp or an ML. Where I differ somewhat is that
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cd ~/.emacs.d git init git add . git commit -m "My emacs config" git remote add origin http://github.com/myname/myemacsd git remote -v git push origin master Just sayin' is all ...
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by jarcane 11y ago
He's leaving Medium because of his personal brand. Congratulations. You possess exactly the lack of irony necessary to have just proved his point for him. What if I told you there are more ways of looking at the world than market-cap
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by jarcane 11y ago
Are you implying that compromised security is harmless?
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by jarcane 11y ago
𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕖'𝕣𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝟙𝟡𝟡𝟡.
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by jarcane 11y ago
The point is, the idea that it's somehow "unprofessional" to write a recursive function is an absurd assertion. Many, many functional languages beyond just "academic" ones use recursion as a standard idiom, and usin
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by jarcane 11y ago
Yes, Erlang is such a toy language[1], it's never used for "professional development" at all[2]. [1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion [2] http://www.fastcompany.com/3026758/inside-
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by jarcane 11y ago
Python is deliberately bad at functional programming by design. Guido has decreed it.
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by jarcane 11y ago
A famous wunderkind shunned by all because of his "politics" (read: flaming bigotry)? It's pretty much HN catnip.
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He's buds with the NRx scene, funds Moldbug's company, and the two basically quote each other's anti-democractic, anti-education, anti-woman rhetoric regularly enough to be a known quantity. He basically wrote a whole book ap
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by jarcane 11y ago
Are you morally and ethically comfortable with taking money from a fascist to be a living cog in his anti-education political statement?
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Dude, you literally just proved his point: Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing” western country like Iceland. A superannuated UK peer or two will be sacrificed – someone already with dementia. So far the revelat

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