msvan

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by msvan 7y ago
I don't think this is true. I've spent lots of money on "necessary equipment" for my hobbies, and that hasn't made me commit more time to them. People buy expensive running shoes because they see themselves as being
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by msvan 7y ago
The best way to learn a language is to need to learn it. If you come in contact with a foreign language daily, it becomes much easier to both practice and motivate yourself to continue to practice. As someone who has spent thousands of hour
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Ask HN: What Happened to HARC?
1 points by msvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
If you like Rust and Lisp this is also a cool project: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp .
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by msvan 7y ago
IE7 had tabs.
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by msvan 7y ago
> Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users. One of the things I disliked about communities moving to Twitter away from bulletin boards/forums was that before, I could write somet
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Scaling the REPL Experience [video](youtube.com)
1 points by msvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
OCaml has some metaprogramming facilities through the ppx system. It wouldn't be my first choice for metaprogramming, but it's there if you just want to know the full map of how different languages do it. I have found the ppx syst
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by msvan 7y ago
Given a camera focused on the players, given commentators on set, given known histories of the players, their recent successes and failures, their past encounters against each other, given stakes, given a ticking timer and the psychological
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by msvan 7y ago
And for even more interesting games, watch human chess instead of computer chess. Grenke Chess Classic is happening right now. It should be noted that newer versions of Stockfish are generally slightly stronger than neural net based approac
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by msvan 7y ago
Yes, and Clojure exists in opposition to static types. There is always core/typed, but Rich Hickey does not like static types and Clojure was not intended to be written in that way. These days, with languages like TypeScript on the ris
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by msvan 7y ago
I am very tired of the phrase "easy/hard to reason about." It sounds so hand-wavy every time.
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by msvan 7y ago
My reasons for choosing what I chose do not fit into a Hacker News comment.
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by msvan 7y ago
I've spent a lot of time getting an MA in mathematics, but I sometimes feel that I should've just gone straight for computer science. I never intended to do pure math research. My CS friends know more about databases and distribut
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by msvan 7y ago
I still think it's a little bit bizarre that Microsoft now owns both Atom and VS Code. Surely it can't make sense in the long run to keep both of them going.
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by msvan 7y ago
Clearly, because every human problem is a problem of reasoning.
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by msvan 7y ago
They are selling a brand, not kerning.
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by msvan 8y ago
It'll be interesting to see if this works. If it does, it means that Reddit mods can gain full ownership of their communities and do something more than just run a volunteer subreddit. If you run a popular sub, I think it's reason
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by msvan 8y ago
It's hyperbole. Relative to larger languages, there are few users.
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by msvan 8y ago
This is OCaml's problem: it's a great language with no users. ReasonML is trying to solve this by making it more approachable, and they're making steady progress.
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by msvan 8y ago
splice.com also has this slightly scummy business model, where you lose your credits if you cancel your subscription. I suppose it works though, since the model keeps being used everywhere.
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by msvan 8y ago
There is this: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery/blob/master/README.md
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by msvan 8y ago
I don't hear as much about Clojure these days, and I don't know if it's because my reading habits have changed or if the community has become quieter. My impression was that other languages have captured the zeitgeist and tha
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by msvan 8y ago
Same, never hade any problems where I live. Not all problems are technological.
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by msvan 8y ago
Digital goods are not worthless because they can be downloaded easily. Distribution costs shouldn't matter much when determining price. Competition should though, and there is plenty of competition for people's time between digita
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Interpreting the “Xi Jinping Era”(thechinastory.org)
2 points by msvan 8y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 8y ago
I don't think it is fixable. Embedding Chromium is going to eat computer resources. This is the price of simple development for the desktop.
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by msvan 8y ago
Flash version, if your browser still supports it: http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/ .
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by msvan 8y ago
I bought a Google Chromecast Audio. Spotify, Soundcloud and Pocket Casts support it on iOS. I'm not actually sure what the officially Apple sanctioned way of getting audio to my speakers is, but I haven't felt the need to find out
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by msvan 8y ago
Tipping should be made illegal. It's the only way to remove this broken system. No restaurant can go first in abolishing tipping, because it would make them look more expensive than everyone else. If you don't like the service, co

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