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by jdp 15y ago
Brainfuck is obscure, but only because of its restricted character set. 8 operators is not very expressive and requires large, but eventually recognizable, idioms to get most common tasks done. Languages like J [1] keep the terse syntax but
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by jdp 15y ago
Such terse languages have a long history -- going back all the way to APL. Current environments, like K and J, continue the legacy but their syntax only includes glyphs from the ASCII character set as opposed to APL's specialized keyboard.
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by jdp 15y ago
This phenomenon isn't specific to only Node.js submissions, it happens pretty often in tech- or programming-heavy submissions. I save mostly these types of submissions, and looking through my most recent saved history, Compiling With Contin
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by jdp 16y ago
In the cases of some public servants, like police officers, that is not a direct parallel as they are not spending a lot of time in the office. Public servants performing their duty in public should be subject to the scrutiny of the public.
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by jdp 16y ago
Does this mean you'll be doing an offer HN? ;) We've been getting spoiled lately. I definitely want to give you a guys a try, see how you stack up against Joyent's node hosting.
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by jdp 16y ago
I received mine, but my zipcode is not on this list. Is this list for a different batch than the one mine arrived in? Mine was delivered early Friday morning (GMT-5).
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by jdp 16y ago
The retain parameter is a secondary stack for temporarily storing things from the data stack. It can be manipulated through the `r>` and `>r` words. The former puts the top of the data stack at the top of the retain, and one does th
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by jdp 16y ago
You're right, I should have introduced it as a subset of Factor. Factor is much more full-featured, but the syntax of the language is in line with Factor's.
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Factor implementation in 150 lines of Python(gist.github.com)
24 points by jdp 16y ago|10 comments
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by jdp 16y ago
I made the switch to tmux only after very briefly using screen. It helped me in switching away from Textmate to vim, because I could use it like a tiling window manager and have vim going on the right, and man pages/documentation/irssi on t
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How to set up a top-level PHP development environment(tumble.justinpoliey.com)
3 points by jdp 16y ago|1 comments
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Fruits of Misunderstanding(cs.utexas.edu)
1 points by jdp 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp 16y ago
I think this sort of hero worship is something _why would not advocate.
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by jdp 16y ago
Looks like a burgeoning Javascript demoscene. Good luck to everyone who wants to top the 284 byte ray marcher, though: http://www.p01.org/releases/512b_jspongy/ It runs super slow on Firefox, it does much better in Chrome.
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by jdp 16y ago
Another sizeable quotes collection: http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
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by jdp 16y ago
The "typically embedded" part is where something like this might be useful. PHP doesn't have to be embedded, the FCGI version of PHP runs as it's own daemon and responds to requests from the web server. In that case, management of the PHP d
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by jdp 16y ago
New Jersey Institute of Technology has recently switched from Java to Python. I remember seeing my classmates struggle with the syntax of Java rather than struggling with the actual problem, I'm interested to see the results of the switch.
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by jdp 16y ago
Very cool, but not new at all. There's a 3D online multiplayer game in which all participants edit the world, called Minecraft: http://minecraft.net/ The idea of user-created content in games is much older, player-edited worlds go all the
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by jdp 17y ago
I don't see how those two statements are conflicting. He begins by saying that it is one of the (implied) multiple strengths of Clojure. He then admits that perhaps it is not for everyone, that Clojure has other features that may be more ap
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by jdp 17y ago
Recently I wrote a small Ioke tutorial in which a simple Rake clone is built. The tutorial assumes you've already read the Ioke guide, though: http://jdp.github.com/biild/
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by jdp 17y ago
It's down, does anyone have a mirror? It's been down for a couple of weeks now.
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by jdp 17y ago
There seems to be more than one group trying to associate a language with nicer syntax with Erlang's virtual machine. Another attempt is Reia, a language more inspired by Ruby and Python: http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Lan
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by jdp 17y ago
At least he's not trying to kid anyone.
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by jdp 17y ago
NOSQL is definitely not a new idea, but the current favorite mode of access and interaction is (REST). I think the explosion in popularity for the creators is due to a lot of things, including: the ability to start an open source project in
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Simple dynamic dispatch for C(piumarta.com)
3 points by jdp 17y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Concatenative Combinators(tumble.justinpoliey.com)
2 points by jdp 17y ago|0 comments
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by jdp 17y ago
I think you might be looking for the Pi programming language: http://www.pi-programming.org/What.html
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C subset lexer, parser, code generator, and VM in 291 lines of C(iro.umontreal.ca)
63 points by jdp 17y ago|7 comments
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Picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C(antirez.com)
32 points by jdp 17y ago|1 comments
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by jdp 17y ago
The advantage of learning new languages is that you can take what you learn from them and apply them to languages that you already know and use often. For instance, when I first learned Io, I was exposed to functions like map and select. I

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