jarcane

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   by jarcane 11y ago

   1) No, it's not disingenuous, those are the package versions included in the present Debian branches. Yes, 6.4 is two months old. So why the fuck is it still not even included in unstable, and why do I need a PPA for it on Ubuntu? 2) I
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   At the moment, the Racket package in the current stable release of Debian is using 6.1. That is an 8 month old package. Even unstable is only on on 6.3, which itself is almost 6 months old. The last time I used Debian was at most a year ag
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Frankly, this is a very good example why I inevitably give up on using Debian. It is not the software writers' fault that your distro can't be arsed to keep its package system up-to-date. Even the unstable branch is routinely mu
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Then why is it excluded as an option for Xamarin.Forms or iOS/Android projects in Studio? Xamarin the framework and the editor are not the same thing. And I find it ironic that official support for the framework is limited to C# only j
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Xamarin also supports development on OS X using Xamarin Studio. This too is now available for free as a community edition for small teams, and is included in MSDN Subscriptions. This would explain the message I got on my Macbook the other
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   I have been working slowly through Sestoft's Programming Language Concepts , and through that I wrote a tiny interpreter in F# of a mini Forth-like language: http://ideone.com/24I5y0 Inspired by this though, I decided
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Mac game "developers" do. :( Thanks to TransGaming and Cider, a lot of Mac "ports" are just a Windows executable running in their proprietary fork of Wine. To predictably awful result.
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Games.
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   by jarcane 11y ago

   Have you even used electron? The performance is atrocious. That level of resource hogging and slow response wouldn't have been acceptable in the Java applet days.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Startup nerds not being able to write desktop apps in JavaScript.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    I live in one of the largest cities in Finland, and I routinely see people leave their bicycles unlocked in the town center, because bike theft is so rare that most people don't worry about it, or only take minimal precautions. Meanwhi
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Yes please. More people need to be experimenting and working with reactive GUI for native.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    I do not work directly with React. I do however, work in ClojureScript, using Reagent, which is an opinionated binding to React with a special emphasis on functional reactive programming. I discovered the FRP approach through Hoplon, and th
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Shen is built on it's own simplified parent dialect that is easily implementable in pretty much any language. Once you implement that core, everything else comes along for free, in theory.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    The example given in Klisp will work with an arbitrary number of arguments So will this (Racket): (define-syntax my-and.v2 (syntax-rules () [(_) #t] [(_ a) a] [(_ a b ...) (if a (my-and.v2
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    The Haskell and Clojure standard libraries. It's very rare in a programming language that I can click through to the implementation of a function and actually understand the code I get through the wall of error checking and coercion an
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    In my experience, those "some guys" do a lot of just that: talking. If they get code out to the public, it's utterly undocumented, the source code is unintelligible, and fails to compile or install most of the time, but every
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    The part that always bothers me about it is, yes, OK, so there's this other board with twice the hardware and for not much more money that checks all of Richard Stallman's loyalty boxes. But what the fuck do I do with it? No one&#
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    I pretty much see taking bitcoin as an automatic sign to be wary of a business. I have walked away from online stores or services because they offered it. At best, it shows an incredibly shaky understanding of how to build a sound business.
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    In one single image, mainstream media show their utter ignorance of security(privateinternetaccess.com)

    72 points by jarcane 11y ago|30 comments
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    All interactive components are going to require some minimal local state in order to maintain their function. But the amount of that state that the actual app programmer need necessarily know and fiddle with is pretty small, and can easily
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    The problem is that we're trying to think in terms of "apps" on a platform that was invented and built in terms of "documents." The web wasn't designed to be an "interface", the browser was, and it&#x
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Oooh. thanks for the link on Chicken Scheme. I've been looking for ages for a more declarative-style GUI framework in a Scheme and I really like the look of that s-exp syntax.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Games companies have a long history of being viciously litigious to emulator developers, one that still hasn't entirely faded (witness the number of ROM and abandonware sites that still studiously avoid anything Nintendo or ESA). Non-c
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    I think realistically, the friction against such a method is strong. People can scarcely be arsed to bother with QR-codes anymore. It could still happen, but this sounds an awful lot like a "perfect is the enemy of the good" sort
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    For Scheme, Lisping is probably a far easier and more tablet friendly interface. http://slidetocode.com/lisping
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    There is work on-going to get ClojureSCript working with React Native. The tooling is a pain-point right now, but it's at least at proof-of-concept stage. http://cljsrn.org/ is generally up-to-date with the state of th
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    If you use Firefox you can just install uBlock Origin. That's what I do.
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    So disable linking. The clickthrough rate on internet ads is execrable. Frequently in the fractions of a percent at best. No other advertising space operates on the assumption that linking represents. Eliminating linking and leaving pure vi
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    by jarcane 11y ago

    Time Magazine, apparently. http://observer.com/2016/02/time-magazine-put-evelyn-waugh-o...