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by nickmain 14y ago
Words fail.
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A programming editor to replace emacs?(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
3 points by nickmain 14y ago|0 comments
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FlasCC (C/C++ compiler for Flash) to be open-sourced(twitter.com)
1 points by nickmain 14y ago|0 comments
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Adobe’s Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol(blogs.adobe.com)
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Down the rabbit hole of types(alarmingdevelopment.org)
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The High Cost of Interruptions(infoq.com)
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Enfield: a programming language designed for pedagogy(blog.fogus.me)
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by nickmain 14y ago
Even a 3 second interruption can have consequences: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/study-a-3-...
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Probability Theory — A Primer(jeremykun.com)
143 points by nickmain 14y ago|7 comments
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by nickmain 14y ago
The Haxe macro system is also pretty powerful. As well as consuming Haxe AST fragments, macros can have compiler-managed dependencies on external files. We have an Omnigraffle parser that can run within the macro environment and do some sim
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by nickmain 14y ago
Via http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/RegEx101
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Regular Expressions 101(regex101.com)
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Dangling by a Trivial Feature(prog21.dadgum.com)
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The user has to accept the endorsement - it is not automatically displayed.
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"Smiling" and "Comedic Timing" are two of the predefined skill tags that I find useful.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Some of the plugins I would need (e.g. Haxe support) require the premium version.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Are you trying to replicate Geogebra or Desmos ?
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by nickmain 14y ago
Yes - but such a system would be optional and small/open-source developers wouldn't be afraid to innovate.
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TEDx: The Geometry of Chocolate(youtube.com)
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by nickmain 14y ago
That was my point - an individual practitioner is like any one of those roles I mentioned. The problem is that we are all lumped together under the nebulous term "programmer" - and that leads to unnecessary antagonism.
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Programming is like building a house - except that no one talks about themselves as being a "house builder". There are carpenters, electricians, HVAC contractors, general contractors, landscape architects, plumbers, cabinet fitters, tiling
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by nickmain 14y ago
The license means nothing unless you're copying Gruber's code. Gruber doesn't have a trademark on the name "Markdown".
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Does it address any of the issues presented in the article ?
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MIND is a non-profit and a neuroscience research institute, with the mission of improving Math education. With all the hype around computer-based instruction, a big part of that goal has to be the ability to measure and demonstrate positive
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by nickmain 14y ago
To get an idea of what ST Math (mentioned in the article) is all about, this TEDx presentation is probably the best intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLje8QRrwg Disclaimer: I'm a developer at MIND Research.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Do those terms cost money ? I was excited to use MPS in the runtime of an open-source compiler, but if users of the compiler had to pay in order to use it for closed-source apps then that would be a big turn-off.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Looks like a viral license that would prevent this being used in any closed-source applications: http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/license.txt
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Humans are a force of Nature, not a force apart from Nature.
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by nickmain 14y ago
There are already at least 2 implementations of PHP on the JVM: http://quercus.caucho.com/ http://www.projectzero.org/php/
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This is not the entire source of Sparrow - just the binaries required to relink with the LGPL libraries if you should choose to modify those.

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