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by lgessler 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't make the point I wanted to, which is that GP (on my reading) seems to think that breaking changes are necessary and unavoidable for the long-term health for a PL. I'm saying Clojure seems to be perfectly fine even
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by lgessler 7y ago
It doesn't have to be like this. Clojure is over 10 years old and has more or less achieved its vision of never having a breaking change in the core language. This comes at a cost (many rejected proposals, very very slow acceptance of
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by lgessler 7y ago
I don't think there's anything inevitable about AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. This absurd design pattern has its roots in Java's misguidedly restrictive approach to abstraction, which all but requires classes and inherit
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The Cult of the Noble Amateur (2018)(pnreview.co.uk)
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by lgessler 7y ago
It's approximately same sound that's in "all": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_back_unrounded_vowel
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by lgessler 7y ago
I'm generally in agreement and want to anticipate an objection—that the sounds of foreign words often fall well outside of any given person's native set of sounds. Take Iran for example. It's rendered often in English as [ɑɪ.
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by lgessler 7y ago
Overview page
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by lgessler 7y ago
Ha! BTW Sacha, thanks so much for Discover Meteor , it was what I cut my web dev teeth on! Somehow I hadn't heard about Vulcan until now. It looks really interesting and I'll be looking into it more.
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by lgessler 7y ago
So sad to see Meteor solidly in the avoid quadrant, but it seems deserved. Meteor is what I learned how to do web development with back in 2015, and it was fun . It didn't take much to make stuff happen, and the baked-in live sync was
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by lgessler 7y ago
Sure, and we could argue about whether mutable code is necessary at systems layers. But at application layers (i.e., the ones most developers work at), cost of development is almost always going to come before performance, and I think it&#x
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by lgessler 7y ago
Some of my favorite Clojure libraries in this space: - instaparse: takes EBNF (and other formats) as a string and gives you a parser instantly (!!!) https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse - re-frame: React-Redux alter
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by lgessler 7y ago
I'm thinking of writing a project with a similar stack, is there any chance your code is open source? Also, what's your experience with Fulcro been like? Do you have any thoughts about it in comparison with other Clojure SPA libra
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by lgessler 7y ago
By that method, every true friend would be predicted to be a false friend. Sounds aren't what's important here--divergent meaning shifts in cognates is.
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by lgessler 7y ago
One is a function, one is a call to that function. I think this is just hard to grasp because in other languages there's often not occasion to use a function pointer. But compare these two code snippets in Python and Scheme: >
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by lgessler 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haec_ornamenta_mea
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JavaStation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lgessler 7y ago
I'm not sure what the particulars are in this article, but if the suggestion is that Japanese is unusually expressive and English is unusually impoverished, that probably isn't true. In general, Language A and Language B, unless t
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by lgessler 7y ago
> A single verb in Yasunari Kawabata’s short novel Snow Country is translated in 29 different ways because what we would render as “I think” can in Japan mean “I remember,” “I long for” or 27 other things. Ugh. That might be correct in
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by lgessler 7y ago
This analysis ignores the social significance of divestment (i.e., which might somehow contribute to other actions which are more impactful), though it might still be that even after accounting for this divestment isn't what environmen
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by lgessler 7y ago
In its most literal form I don't know if I would say I disagreed with the core of what Stallman was saying in the email (that "sexual assault" should perhaps be revised in its usage), but Stallman was tone-deaf at best to hav
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Scooping the Loop Snooper: Proof That the Halting Problem Is Undecidable (2000)(lel.ed.ac.uk)
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by lgessler 7y ago
I think GP is using 'semantics' to refer to the emitted code, which is "simple" in the sense that it e.g. doesn't have a runtime or a garbage collector. What isn't simple is all the features of rust that are un
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by lgessler 7y ago
Reminds me of a talk I went to by a Benedictine monk who has spent time traveling the world digitizing texts that are at risk, especially when they're threatened by religious persecution or war. Really fascinating talk, perhaps the clo
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by lgessler 7y ago
At least in general usage, outside of any domain-specific conventions, "continuous" doesn't have to have the temporal sense. The first entry in the OED for "continuous": > a. Characterized by continuity; extendin
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by lgessler 7y ago
I agree with you, though I think a few things maybe don't hold anymore: > Sign and date your comments! > (Should be an editor command to do this) Now that everyone uses a VCS (well, almost everyone), this is no longer necessary.
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The Nonfeasibility of Fully Automatic High Quality Translation (1960) [pdf](mt-archive.info)
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by lgessler 7y ago
Dead link for some reason: https://web.archive.org/web/20190619190008/https://www.cs.uo...
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by lgessler 7y ago
This reminds me of how weed is currently sold in DC. You pay $60 or so for a sticker or a dozen cookies, and a courier meets you somewhere and also happens to offer you a "gift". IANAL but my guess is that since possession of weed
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by lgessler 7y ago
> This is true for Hindi and Urdu, esp when you're exposed to both. When you study both the languages theologically and linguistically, the differences become ever more apparent. It is only the mash of Hindi-Urdu called Hindustani [
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Tutorial on Modeling Language Change(github.com)
2 points by lgessler 7y ago|0 comments

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