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by kick 7y ago
That ALGOL-68 was hated by almost everyone who like previous ALGOL versions is not to be discounted. ALGOL-68 was loved by people who would have never used ALGOL to begin with (and they didn't start doing so with ALGOL-68). It was diff
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by kick 7y ago
Have you seen MMIX? It's my favorite RISC architecture (unlike MIX, which isn't RISC)!
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by kick 7y ago
Haha oh god, in one fell swoop you’re acting like writing Android apps is just knowing how to write Java and writing Java is just like writing any Algol-like. A: I've written a couple. B: Anyone who knows any ALGOL (exception: 68), P
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by kick 7y ago
How is learning a new programming language and new toolkit not learning a new skillset??? Riding a Mongoose bike is not substantially different from riding a Schwinn bike. Riding a pink bike is not substantially different from riding a gr
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by kick 7y ago
It says in the press release (the text of which is in the article): > While we are aware the perpetrator has additional files that have not been made public,
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by kick 7y ago
I think there are extremes here, and you and 'commandlinefan are on opposite sides of the extreme. I'm somewhere in the middle, in that I agree with neither of you. Writing an Android application is not something that requires any
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by kick 7y ago
the only profession in the history of humanity that is simultaneously assumed by so many to be something you need only a cursory understanding of to be proficient at. This can be traced to the 1970s. Computer Science is only half of a fie
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by kick 7y ago
D seems like its pitch is "a better C++," but "a better C" doesn't seem quite right.
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Your First THINK C Program(beyondloom.com)
3 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Just because the government has nukes, doesn't mean citizens should have them. The government shouldn't have them, either, but there's not much citizens can do about that outside of revolt. Meanwhile this company has been not
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by kick 7y ago
A div isn't the right thing to use here. Am I missing the point of your example? It seems like it could be a way to demonstrate how people don't know HTML, but I'm not sure.
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by kick 7y ago
This person's criticism is silly. Markdown documents are extensible: the entire point is that it makes the main parts require less cognitive load, and allows you to use HTML for the rest. ## CHAPTER IV. #The <white>Ra
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Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. (2011)(slate.com)
2 points by kick 7y ago|2 comments
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by kick 7y ago
I don't think so; it seems like most of Facebook's decision-making in terms of expansion is arbitrary and whim-based. He admitted to that being the reason he bought Oculus.
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by kick 7y ago
One thing I like about Facebook, evil aside, is how Zuckerberg-centric it seems. They spent two billion on Oculus because Zuckerberg liked Ready Player One and thinks the chance of that is awesome. Zuckerberg publicly released a machine lea
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by kick 7y ago
Giving toddlers video games or movies stunts their brain development, their attention span, and is a terrible idea. There isn't substantial evidence for the view that video games stunt brain development in toddlers, and they've
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by kick 7y ago
Have you tried giving the toddler something to do? A lot of the problem with young children "requiring constant attention" tends to just be a lack of things for them to pay attention to. One way to try and mitigate it is by giving
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by kick 7y ago
Your criticism of Computer Modern as "spindly" makes sense only digitally, not in print (or, at least, print of the era Computer Modern was designed for). Optimized for printers of a different era (and relying heavily on ink bleed
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by kick 7y ago
You can! That's why I got the high result in the first link: the flat line allows for incredible acceleration if desired, because jumping gives you a boost.
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by kick 7y ago
Did he invent that Voltaire quote? I can't find a source for it anywhere.
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by kick 7y ago
Nice find!
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by kick 7y ago
Siri wasn't voice-activated until a couple (few?) years ago. Google Now never was, to my knowledge, though I could be wrong.
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by kick 7y ago
-3.18m http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=UUP.MX&currency=MXN&name=Inv...
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by kick 7y ago
Here's a fun glitched one; exactly 11 meters regardless of what you do; you don't get to jump, and the line itself is incredibly thick: http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=SPYG.MX&currency=MXN&name=SP...
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by kick 7y ago
http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=AKEN.MX&currency=MXN&name=Ar... 763.84m No decline, no turbulence, an entirely flat line the entire time. Weirdly, this one, unlike every other one I've tried, runs at a crawl.
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by kick 7y ago
Isn't this the wrong time for nationalism? If you can save a hundred lives somewhere, or save ten at home for the same price, why are the people "in his own darned city" more important? Especially given that "in his own
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by kick 7y ago
What's your opinion on it? Good idea? Bad idea?
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by kick 7y ago
It's gone from about ten thousand during the 1990s to about twenty thousand now: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census96/data/profiles/R... https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-re
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by kick 7y ago
Was this a response to something else in this thread that you accidentally top-posted? It's cool, technically, but maybe a little off-topic.
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by kick 7y ago
Just send mail with any advice you have to the address at the bottom of the site. He may not agree with you, but he's more than reasonable about responding (everything in the inbox is read), and it will do more good (and probably get y

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