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   by lang 15y ago

   Hm, now I guess you better just delete your article. 1.410 IS 1.41, isn't it. Or am I missing something.
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   by lang 15y ago

   I wasn't aware of this. This looks like a bad design choice indeed. I hate when libraries convert stuff implicitly for you. html5's localStorage has a similar problem. Only, it converts whatever you are trying to store into a string. Would
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   by lang 15y ago

   Doesn't seem to work on ipad
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   by lang 15y ago

   I don't understand this fixation on js either. Even more, i don't understand the fixation on html, css and all so called web technologies. Common, web was never designed for the sort of applications we are trying to make it run. We need a t
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   Untangling event handlers spaghetti(cs.brown.edu)

   1 points by lang 15y ago|0 comments
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   by lang 15y ago

   I find metaclasses philosophically unsound. If one introduces metaclasses, what about meta-metaclasses, meta-meta-metaclasses. In this regard Self's prototypical oop seems more coherent - there are only objects. Even object/class duality lo
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   by lang 15y ago

   If I'm not mistaken the authors of Smalltalk realized that metaclasses were a mistake long before they appeared in Python. Yet they were added to Python anyway.
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   by lang 15y ago

   php is not unique in having big memory footprint. AFAIC Python and Ruby are also memory hogs. An interesting question is how memory efficient a dynamic PL can be. Given that in modern computers memory access (cache misses) is fairly expensi