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841.
by mhd 7y ago
Vindication for both XHTML and the ternary operator.
842.
by mhd 7y ago
Anyone remember Motif's UIL? Plus ca change…
843.
by mhd 7y ago
One problem I had with Hy is that some codebases really depend a lot on annotations, which gets a bit messier in Lisp syntax.
844.
by mhd 7y ago
I'm a big fan of the Wirthian language family, and while I think FP is eminently usable, I still think Modula-3 would be a better fit for Gophers. A M3 frontend for FPC would be a great combination...
845.
by mhd 7y ago
I'd say that Javascript/Electron is easier if you come from a webdev perspective, from a tabula rasa point of view I highly doubt that the usual react/redux rigamarole that's often used is that easy. Not even sure if I
846.
by mhd 7y ago
So, what coffeescript features are we still missing after this round?
847.
by mhd 7y ago
Maybe someone really wants to bother Bertrand Meyer.
848.
by mhd 7y ago
What do you use it for? When I read the headline I hoped it was about using that TV for programming/browsing, just to see with what little you can get by.
849.
by mhd 7y ago
How do you guys collaborate then? Either Word, Google Docs or some bastardized Wiki (Media-/Doku-) are quite popular for documentation and collaborative writing in the larger scale, but I found the todo/organization space to be fr
850.
by mhd 7y ago
"Go away, or I shall replace you with a very small elisp snippet!"
851.
by mhd 7y ago
Or PostScript.
852.
by mhd 7y ago
Not surprised that certain people are outraged about this, more that there's a significant part of those people in the "free software" community. I thought that ESR is pretty much the end of the spectrum there and that the yo
853.
by mhd 7y ago
I'm quite surprised by the rhetoric surrounding this, coming from a few posters. Much less Stallman-esque (or even ESR-ish) and closer to Gamergaters, /pols and other alt-right-adjacent folks.
854.
by mhd 7y ago
I think the most secure thing a JS platform could do is provide a decent vetted standard library, so that one doesn't have to bring in too many potentially insecure random developer github projects in the first place.
855.
by mhd 7y ago
Note that Bellard already wrote a (small) HTML/CSS engine for his Emacs clone. So we're only a small step away from Bellard-Browser.
856.
by mhd 7y ago
It's a bit like if a C programmer looks at a Schwartzian transform.
857.
by mhd 7y ago
During the development of Perl 6, Haskell and similar languages weren't ignored. If I recall correctly, the first actual interpreter was written in Haskell (by Audrey Tang). The way I see it, Perl initially (up to version 4) was mostly
858.
by mhd 7y ago
When I read the title, I honestly thought this was about some kind of algorithm I wasn't aware of (cf. red-black trees).
859.
by mhd 7y ago
IIRC copy_expert just lets you enter the postgres COPY command that's used to start the transfer manually, which by itself doesn't change anything. It does allow you to use the BINARY transfer format, though, and that's quite
860.
by mhd 7y ago
Seems like a pretty good overview, but I'm not surprised at all that in the end it's COPY TO/FROM that won out by a good margin. Listing all the columns in order seems a bit superfluous and error prone, though. I'd recom
861.
by mhd 7y ago
This is a total tangent, but it might be interesting to scrape map output for meaningful words formed by the braille characters. Or we just leave that to enterprising conspiracy theorists, as a new kind of "backwards masking".
862.
by mhd 7y ago
If I remember correctly, one of the selling points of the Roxen/Pike combination back then was its ability to dynamically render headings as images without much effort. "Weird flex", as the kids say these days, but times were
863.
by mhd 7y ago
It's been a while since I had to program native, non-cross-platform Windows apps, but isn't the flip-flopping mostly about what's considered the standard for UI programming, yet older technologies still work? I could stil
864.
by mhd 7y ago
This is Perl, the native language of Tim Toady, so this is to be expected. Never mind that functional and imperative programming have been attached to OO languages since at least SmallTalk…
865.
by mhd 7y ago
My fault, could've expressed it better. And as someone who actually like(d) Tcl/Tk, I understand the urge to defend it perfectly. If we're comparing UI implementation languages, it doesn't look good from a historic persp
866.
by mhd 7y ago
Which is why "design" is mostly visual and user interaction is at its poorest since the inception of the WIMP interface, never mind how many friggin' "UX" experts we got now strutting around.
867.
by mhd 7y ago
I was comparing it to the average RAM of computers when Tcl/Tk was still in its hype cycle and you heard bloat arguments against it, which must've been the 90s. When Tk was still yellow-ish.
868.
by mhd 7y ago
I'd argue that despite all cries about non-native styling and behavior, MacOS Classic, OS X, Windows 95, OS/2, Next, Swing etc. had more in common with each other than they do with webapps (unless we're talking about ExtJS en
869.
by mhd 7y ago
The problem I see with many electron applications isn't just that they're bloated (they probably are in about the same relation to average RAM that Tcl/Tk apps were or early Gnome/Mono ones). [Edit: To clarify, I mean th
870.
by mhd 7y ago
We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. Representing speech with a very limited set of code points. It might be a bit lossy, so you could lose the tone of the voice and other speech characteristics,

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