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by mhd 7y ago
I don't quite get the latter. First of all, if the foundations are sound and the core language provides a good enough module already, neither large frameworks nor small modules need to duplicate that. And if it isn't included, w
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by mhd 7y ago
It's not PostScript instead of JavaScript. It's PostScript instead of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. That's (IMHO) the more important point. One programming language to write and structure everything instead of a bastardized SGML
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by mhd 7y ago
Someone taking a verbose format for writing text and adding feature and feature to it until it supports UI applications? Jesus, that's a horrific vision. Hope something like that will never see the light of day.
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by mhd 7y ago
How many Windows applications have been created in the last five years at all?
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by mhd 7y ago
I get an allergic reaction to any rationale that includes the tired phrase "easier to reason about". That's on my bingo card right next to "promote synergy"... Now, I'm not inherently against having small modul
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by mhd 7y ago
It would get complicated in code if you're constructing your statement from bits and pieces, as the preprocessor would have no way of forming a complete syntax tree out of it, of course. I'm picturing something closer to "emm
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by mhd 7y ago
I'm still surprised that there's no common ratfor/coffeescript/SCSS for SQL.
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by mhd 7y ago
Nice that this is using SML as a core and doesn't totally re-invent the wheel. I appreciate the language name, too. This is just the core language, right? So I could query native datasets, but there's no connection to either an ex
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by mhd 7y ago
> In the World when more and more people belong to unknown 3 months earlier "oppressed minority" nobody wants to take chances. Oh come on. What country are you living in where they only managed to catch up with civil rights in
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by mhd 7y ago
If only they weren't wrong in three ways (taste, nomenclature, artistry).
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by mhd 7y ago
'Adolf' on the other hand went basically extinct.
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by mhd 7y ago
I think it's meant to promote looking at how a literate programming system is mangling program output. It's way more complicated and powerful than just "inverted comments" (like e.g. CoffeeScript did in recent memory). C
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by mhd 7y ago
And which might be known for a few as the main body font of the AD&D first edition books -- not the best use case for it.
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by mhd 7y ago
It's interesting how the software landscape twists and turns sometimes. Go itself has some good Pascal-ish flavor, mostly via Oberon (although I actually liked the comparison with Algol 68[1], flawed as it was) A good comparison of Go-
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by mhd 7y ago
Lout[1] might also be worth a look. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
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by mhd 7y ago
That's great, as long as you're happy with the POSIX Unix utilities ( probably , wouldn't bet my life on it) and whatever Bash 3.x provides. This can break quite fast if you rely on something from Bash 4 (released 11 years ag
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by mhd 7y ago
> Programing isn't poetry. First time I've heard a C-like syntax described as "poetic".
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by mhd 7y ago
> Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from? In my days it was more like "You can't afford RDBMSs at that scale". Reach a certain point and Larry gets a new yacht. Cheaper/open source offerings have move
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by mhd 7y ago
What do you mean? The whole point of ligatures is that you don't enter them, they're not specific code points in text, they're just different glyphs for specific combinations of characters in text (otherwise you're code
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by mhd 7y ago
Siege of Avalon was a pretty great RPG written in Delphi, now open-sourced[1] (no work done on it since ages). I remember liking that it was somewhat "mundane", i.e. upgrading your armor didn't mean that you start out with kn
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by mhd 7y ago
I meant that software for mid-sized companies isn't end-user programming, but not enterprise development either and that Delphi was pretty great for that. Often single developer, often embedded database. Didn't want to imply that
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by mhd 7y ago
Delphi was great for developing custom solutions for middle class companies. Not end-user stuff, but no enterprise either. That kind of software vanishing coincides with that whole business sector getting smaller. From a technical perspecti
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by mhd 7y ago
It's been a long time since a MacOS upgrade was "worth it", from an end-user perspective. They're much more liked Windows Service Packs these days. This used to be way different, every new OS X release was much more cele
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by mhd 7y ago
> You can't make money out of shareware, so now everything is SaaS. This is mixing two concerns: Selling stand-alone applications and the specific shareware distribution model. The SaaS world is struggling with the "freemium&qu
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by mhd 7y ago
> We will (re)examine some of the reasons behind this architectural choice in a future blog post, but the loose coupling of Parsoid and the MediaWiki core allowed rapid iteration in what was originally a highly experimental effort to sup
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by mhd 7y ago
Anyone still remember 'bowman', IIRC the first of the NeXt wms? Man, that fvwm was a versatile codebase.
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by mhd 7y ago
Never mind that the biggest part of the classic finder experience wasn't the look-and-feel, so just a theme won't help you much. And speaking of modern screens, even if you get a copy of the OS 9 font (Chicago?), it would look qui
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by mhd 7y ago
There are some OS 9 ("Platinum") GTK themes, but AFAIK there's no clone of the classic finder available. Nor other parts of the default OS 8/9 desktop. Which is quite interesting, considering that the classic Finder is o
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by mhd 7y ago
I was more talking about _not just_ young people. Studio apartments/small "bachelor pads" exist outside of pure age brackets or even affordability. Something bigger might not be available if you want to live close enough to w
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by mhd 7y ago
Studio apartments aren't a thing anymore? Pretty common in Europe and AFAIK not entirely unknown in high-rent Metropolitan areas worldwide (NYC, Tokyo etc.)

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