klibertp

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by klibertp 6y ago
I actually went through the language doc, which describes the language in more detail (there are still some WIPs and TODOs). I was able to name at least one language which would be considered "prior art" for every one of the fea
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by klibertp 6y ago
> invariants are amazing They are, as are pre- and post-conditions; they're not, however, a breakthrough in language design by any means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)
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by klibertp 6y ago
> see an interesting language concept, but it's not entirely here how that relates to the initial claim. I didn't see any concept which wouldn't be practiced in PL design for decades. Yeah, they may not be widely known, bu
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by klibertp 7y ago
6 hours and no replies? Damn. I'm also interested, what would be needed to start a career as a technical writer, after 15 years of programming? Is it even worth it as a career, compared to coding? I like writing and, according to a few
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by klibertp 7y ago
I fail to follow from: > USA has had [...] to: > The western Nations are doing [...] Erasing the plural makes it better, though I have to wonder why wouldn't you just write "USA is doing" however you think it is.
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by klibertp 7y ago
> is a single, "frozen" M-syntax for a Scheme-like Lisp descendant Sounds very close to what Dylan is/was. Well, it still is , in the sense that there's a working, open source implementation (over at https:/&#x
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by klibertp 7y ago
Is your project something targeted at a general populace? How large the following do you need for it to succeed? As other commenters mentioned, all the puppies, celebrities, politicians, and everything else you see in the "social media
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by klibertp 7y ago
Staring at an empty sheet of paper (or a text file) can be daunting, and can suck all of your enthusiasm out of you in short order. It's much, much easier to start with some content and append your thoughts to it.
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by klibertp 7y ago
They might run out of things to be clever about, for example (that's assuming your belief in the people actually being clever holds - I have my doubts here.)
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by klibertp 7y ago
In general, I avoid coding contests, especially if they focus on speed. This idea, however, caught my attention as something I'd like to both participate in, and obviously, to see the results. I'm a reasonably proficient Emacs use
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by klibertp 7y ago
I would be. You're not making it very easy to contact you - I don't have a Twitter account, and I couldn't find your email either here or on github, or on your page/blog. If you happen to see this comment (I'll add
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by klibertp 7y ago
Lots of great advice here already, and I'm probably too late for anyone to read this anyway, but I have a few things I'd like to mention. First, I firmly believe that kabdib comment - that you shouldn't customize Emacs, or fi
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by klibertp 7y ago
Same here, I ditched Windows, which was becoming increasingly bloated and harder to develop on, in 2004 I think, then I had a few years of FreeBSD (yes, as my main OS and on a laptop at that!), then switched back to Linux (drivers, mostly).
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by klibertp 7y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by klibertp 7y ago
Gliffy[1][2] is a web app for drawing diagrams and schematics of various kinds. You get a large library of shapes - most of UML, classic flowchart, some UI mockups, swimlanes, now also the root of a mindmap - and a few tools for connecting
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by klibertp 7y ago
> Mind maps aren't trees- they are bigraphs Yes! So many of the mind-mapping software is limited to just trees, plus there's no way of styling some paths differently, the interface is far from ergonomic, in short: I couldn&#x27
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by klibertp 7y ago
Some 2 years ago Io got a new way of defining setters, which allowed for implementing destructuring bind ([a,b,c] := someTriple). It took me the better part of a year, but it was very rewarding. I put a write-up on my blog, which might be o
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by klibertp 7y ago
You could create and use an embedded DSL tailored specifically for your application. This is what Jenkins does with their "declarative pipeline": it's basically Groovy-based DSL, and if you need anything not covered by it you
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by klibertp 7y ago
With topics like this it's worth waiting for ca. 12h (depending on your timezone) and then reading the whole page of comments at once. I'm here 4h after you, and I saw 2 most upvoted comments as pretty sympathetic if not outright
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by klibertp 7y ago
I'd think (if I didn't know any better) that being well-off would result in people having more time and energy to consider things like ethics or politics. I think this is how it's supposed to work, historically. Evidently, it
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by klibertp 7y ago
I have no idea how, but my smartwatch touchscreen remains responsive underwater , in a bathtub or swimming pool. It was with on every workout, and it both endured the energetic movements and sweaty hands were not an issue. The thing has mo
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by klibertp 7y ago
> it's very customizable Yeah, lots of features and options in this one. Worth a look! ;) I rewrote it in Nim some time ago to see how it works, and it was a good lesson in X11 and POSIX APIs. Short and to the point.
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by klibertp 7y ago
Yes, well, if they're just "opened" and not fully "loaded", then maybe it can get away with 1.2Gb. ~100 fully loaded tabs, which happens quite often with various online docs, take 24Gb RAM last time I checked. So
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by klibertp 7y ago
I'm sorry to say this, but I think you made the wrong call here by treating startup time and memory usage as "non-essential". At least when presenting the case here, on HN. Programmers here tend to be experienced in many diff
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by klibertp 7y ago
> people self-report any benefit And who other than the people is qualified to report whether people benefitted? > And getting medicine through the dark markets is shady as fuck. Are you a Christian? I'm amazed and ask seriously,
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by klibertp 7y ago
You've passed the flame-bait territory and are headed straight for troll-land. I'm so angry at myself that I got caught in your scheme, you wouldn't believe it.
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by klibertp 7y ago
It's not esoteric! It happens. I can't go into details, which should be understandable, but I've seen this happen. People I know and love were able to live freely in the last year of their lives; people I know and love are ab
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by klibertp 7y ago
Second paragraph in my other comment should do the trick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703834
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by klibertp 7y ago
Which made a bunch of Japanese elders not to suicide (yet). Yeah, no value at all.
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by klibertp 7y ago
Why do you feel entitled to tell people what they should do? How do you know what value - or lack thereof - people get from using Bitcoin&co., have you checked with them, or is it just theory? Why do you assume your sense of value has t

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