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Re-framing text-mode apps(functional.works-hub.com)
14 points by nathell 8y ago|0 comments
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by nathell 8y ago
Ooh. Was just about to mention it. It's been a life-changer since I'd read it some three years ago.
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by nathell 8y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by nathell 8y ago
Smells like an MIT incarnation of the Scottish Book [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Book
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by nathell 8y ago
Ooh. In the language puzzles subgenre, I’d add the stranger encounter from „The Edifice,” by Lucian Paul Smith (1997). One of the most memorable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edifice
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by nathell 8y ago
Clojure (and EDN) has it in the form of tagged literals. https://clojure.org/reference/reader#tagged_literals
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by nathell 8y ago
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178889
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“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”(twitter.com)
45 points by nathell 8y ago|11 comments
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by nathell 8y ago
It's the fastest secularizing one, though [1]. And, with recent sexual abuse reports and the success of a related movie [2], I sense we're on the verge of an outbreak of an unprecedented wave of anticlerical rage. [1]: http:&#x2F
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by nathell 8y ago
RMS on parrots: DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred
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by nathell 8y ago
And this: https://www.sqlite.org/malloc.html "SQLite can be configured so that, subject to certain usage constraints detailed below, it is guaranteed to never fail a memory allocation or fragment the heap."
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by nathell 8y ago
Clojure error messages are on slate for improvement in 1.10, though: https://mobile.twitter.com/puredanger/status/102810365424144...
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The CRAPL: An academic-strength open source license(matt.might.net)
1 points by nathell 8y ago|0 comments
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by nathell 8y ago
I read and occasionally translate poetry. I find that, as a programmer, reading poetry strikes some of the same chords within me as reasoning about code: expressiveness, attention to detail, finding the perfect way to convey complex ideas.
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by nathell 8y ago
$deity forbid, no. The problem with this is that once you get beneath a certain threshold, you find yourself on a self-reinforcing spiral which it's hard to get yourself out of; a spiral not unlike that of homelessness. Watch Black Mir
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by nathell 8y ago
The manpage namespaces are called sections. I think it would make a lot of sense to put these pages in section 1u ('u' for 'um').
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by nathell 8y ago
Will these chips have an equivalent of Intel IME? If not, I'll switch in a second.
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by nathell 8y ago
This is much older than 2017; the version at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html dates back to 2000.
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by nathell 8y ago
This looks great! I'll very much consider using it for my next project, if only for the warm feeling in the stomach that my bugs are close to the project itself. Huge kudos to the author. The one thing that I'm not sure about is t
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by nathell 8y ago
I'm also reminded of this IOCCC entry: https://www.ioccc.org/1987/westley/westley.c . Strictly speaking, it's not composed of palindromes because of the mirror-image brackets and slashes, but still, impre
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by nathell 8y ago
And Finnish has saippuakivikauppias.
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by nathell 8y ago
Here's a handcrafted one in Polish, 33K+ characters: http://www.palindromy.pl/pal_naj.php
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by nathell 8y ago
Haskell's one language I know which has a `where` similar to the one described in the article.
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by nathell 8y ago
I wonder how these engines compare to cloud services described in [1]. [1]: https://blog.rebased.pl/2016/12/08/speech-recognition-1.html
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by nathell 8y ago
Will it also shave off fifty-odd KB from executable size?
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by nathell 8y ago
Speaking of 2048, I made a clone called "words-oh-so-great" [1,2] that uses letters instead of numbers, and they disappear when forming a word. [1]: https://github.com/nathell/wosg [2]: http://212
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by nathell 8y ago
I’ve personally listened to Tymoteusz Król giving a seminar lecture on Wilamowian. Lots of historical background in there. This guy is a heck of a geek, of the rarely-encountered kind.
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by nathell 8y ago
And Dojo and YUI and a couple of others.
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by nathell 8y ago
I think this bit is a piece of wisdom: "I’m a firm believer that we should understand how things work underneath the hood so that we can make the most effective use of at them. No program should rely on the particulars of the iterator
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by nathell 8y ago
So much of the fun rings true. I'm reminded of the days I was writing a Z-machine emulator in Haskell [1], ostensibly as a uni class project but also as a way to teach myself Haskell and have fun; I had the infrastructure in place and

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