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by johnday 7y ago
I have a reMarkable Tablet and it is a really excellent hackable device. It's actually a full-powered Linux machine with an e-ink display [I think about 10"? Never measured...] It works brilliantly for music scoring, though the do
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by johnday 7y ago
Seems like a good way to get arrested.
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The difference being that professionals don't generally buy $250 3d printers - and when they do, i expect they do factor those costs in. The difference is that professionals get paid and they know the value of their time. If you cannot
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by johnday 7y ago
It's not difficult to enforce strictness in Haskell in the places where it matters.
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by johnday 7y ago
> The CCTV regime is appalling and makes me never want to visit. You understand that the vast majority of CCTV is privately operated, right? It's not like there's some universal network of cameras being watched extensively for
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by johnday 7y ago
This is not true. GameMaker does this at the very least. You can swap between the visual and direct GML language whenever you want. I seem to remember a visual javascript thing which had the same feature.
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by johnday 7y ago
This is a very nice resource. Thank you for sharing.
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by johnday 7y ago
The hidden thing about Haskell that makes it super-powerful for expressing safe programs (in my experience) is not only that you can express tight propositions in the types. It's that Haskell makes it very easy to write total functions
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by johnday 7y ago
Surely this is just a layer of indirection? It moves the onus for providing implementations of these verbs from software developers to the maintainer of the file type. Personally I'd rather just stick to the existing analogue of verbs,
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by johnday 7y ago
Fold does not always have an initial value either. The Wikipedia article linked in the post to which you responded says as much.
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by johnday 7y ago
> If you talk about function names and parameter ordering not being consistent that is not an issue for developers using the language daily It does feel like this is analogous to saying "the holes in the floor of our building aren&#
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by johnday 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. The thing that I am most concerned about with PHP is not, strictly speaking, the language itself. The syntax is slightly odd but otherwise fine. And the semantics are much the same as any similar language. The real probl
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by johnday 7y ago
It's pretty obvious that it's worse to be an actual criminal, than someone who goes around and pretends to be one. In the same way that it's worse to shoot someone with an actual gun than to threaten to shoot them with a Nerf
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by johnday 7y ago
Why would types speed up the code?
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by johnday 7y ago
To some extent, yes. Facebook Messenger is very effective for communicating with people - so long as they're on Facebook. So it's a good way of keeping people in the system. I probably would have deactivated my account were it not
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by johnday 7y ago
WhatsApp certainly does not target younger demographics. Its goal is to be a messenger app for everybody.
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by johnday 7y ago
Very cool. It does something weird to my back button though - I had to use the tab history to get back to HN.
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by johnday 7y ago
I think your "issue" with the Shine animation is just what the Shine animation is supposed to look like.
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by johnday 7y ago
I think it's just a variant on the all-time classic, "I'm not a racist, but...". People try to pre-empt the obvious response (in this case, "you are being uncharitable") with a basic retort ("I'm just
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by johnday 7y ago
Does this imply that now is a good time to get a bulk order of LEDs?
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by johnday 7y ago
> “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”. What? The IntelliCode description says that "Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in
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by johnday 7y ago
Since you're offering anecdotes as information, I'll also add that about 20-30% of my friends are vegetarian here in the UK. None are vegan, though. I think it's a two-parter: There's a degree of social pressure within g
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by johnday 7y ago
The Vegan Society have an explainer on this: https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/honey-industry In practise, the answer is because it's a form of exploitation and exploitation is considered Always Bad by the VS.
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by johnday 7y ago
What a fun, accessible and well-presented paper. I'm not sure who Saunders MacLane is but their memory is served well.
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by johnday 8y ago
> I do disagree with a lot of the other conclusions, especially operator precedence, which I've come to believe is generally a bad thing -- associativity can be fine (although even there I'm uncertain), but managing operator pr
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by johnday 8y ago
I worry about this framing, because it suggests that what I (and many other people who I have spoken to) experience, is somehow atypical. I have no objection to talking to people, and I have groups of friends who I like talking to and enga
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by johnday 8y ago
In Transport for London terminology they are called "Private Hire" companies. Separately regulated, you can't flag them down on the street, and no access to taxi lanes.
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by johnday 8y ago
I think the parent might have meant something slightly different - that by donating, they are showing the author that their work has actual value to other people, and that motivates them to continue. That's my take, anyway: a social
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by johnday 8y ago
But developers do work for themselves...
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by johnday 8y ago
I'm not sure veganism counts as a superstition.

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