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by macournoyer 15y ago
Since in Ruby false and nil are the only "falsish" values and everything else is true, their values has been chosen to make a boolean test as efficient as possible. See: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#...
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by macournoyer 15y ago
Oops! Indeed (7 << 1) + 1 # => 15
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by macournoyer 15y ago
Fixnum values (numbers smaller than native one machine word minus 1 bit) are stored in an object pointer. When you do object.id it returns the address stored in that pointer. For Ruby to know that the value in a pointer is a Fixnum (and not
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by macournoyer 15y ago
Looks interested! But I find the function args syntax very confusing: greet =: user msg console log('hello #{user} #{msg}') You're using whitespace as a message separator AND as an argument separator. Also, I don't think it i
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by macournoyer 15y ago
I've been coding in my spare time in and out since I got my first computer. I didn't do it because I wanted to be a good programmer, but because I love creating stuff and programming is the easiest way I know to create stuff. I'm not happy
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by macournoyer 16y ago
"free customers"? Leads or prospects perhaps.
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by macournoyer 16y ago
FWIW, I A/B tested a "long" sales letter with a cleaner, shorter and nicer looking one (imo) for my info product targeted at programmers. Long: http://createyourproglang.com/index2.html Short: http://createyourproglang.com/ I've let the
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by macournoyer 16y ago
Sorry Miles didn't mean it was a bad idea. I appreciate you posting it here. I just hope nobody gets offended that there's not much to see atm.
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by macournoyer 16y ago
Thanks for the pointers. It is indeed much more fun to work on an app that looks hot! I've seen pilu's theme, but I'm aiming at having themes designed by professionals (no offense to pilu), with quality similar to http://www.woothemes.com/
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by macournoyer 16y ago
Sign-up to the newsletter, that's how I'll let ppl know what's up.
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by macournoyer 16y ago
This is my blog post. Not much to see atm. I'm only validating if there's enough interest at the moment. Didn't expects it to get posted to HN. That being said, any feedback on the idea are greatly welcome :)
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by macournoyer 16y ago
Similarly, I'm reading 50th Law of Power ( http://www.amazon.com/50th-Law-50-Cent/dp/006177460X ) How to be fearless, drawing some parallels w/ 50 cent life. Excellent book!
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9 Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Often Make(jonathanvolk.com)
3 points by macournoyer 16y ago|0 comments
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by macournoyer 16y ago
Hey Aaron, glad my book was helpful. What do you feel is missing from it? Now that I think about it, looking at instruction sets made it click for me too, so maybe it's something i should include. And nice work with your language!
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Richard Branson's secrets to business success(virgin.com)
1 points by macournoyer 16y ago|0 comments
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by macournoyer 16y ago
If you're not looking for a homerun, I suggest you look at niche markets. I'm making about 15k/yr w/ my niche product: http://createyourproglang.com/ . Where I live it's not enought to replace my job, but it's a nice complementary income.
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by macournoyer 16y ago
I had a similar issue w/ Paypal, but one phone call w/ a very nice lady later, everthing was fixed.
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by macournoyer 17y ago
I sure do take this as constructive criticism :) The idea of the book is to build a simple language not the strongest or more complete one ever. I'll add more details and change the copy on the site. Thx a lot for the suggestions!
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by macournoyer 17y ago
Thanks for the comments, you're right, I'll definitely change the copy on the site.
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by macournoyer 17y ago
Hey, I'm the author of the book. I agree the marketing site is not perfect, I'm still looking at ways to improve it, sorry if if it sounds like a scam. Any tips on improving the copywriting or anything are greatly appreciated!