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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i find complaints against twitter to be somewhat alien because it is a fairly major source of good content for me. as an example, i just browsed my twitter for a minute or so on my phone and came across a discussion on programming languages
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
in my finite state machine framework that i built, this is what i do. a state machine is modeled by a class and the states are child classes. for state methods, which are defined by the parent class, i force them to be overridden. then if t
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
same. i mean, it could be that perforce has great visual tools and people prefer complicated, esoteric cli tools. it has the perception of being more hardcore. perforce's APIs are actually pretty good as well. they aren't document
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that can happen, but it can also serve as an excuse. in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is. > there’s a reason why more complicated tools li
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
in general, i find the aggressive title changing on hacker news confusing. it’s been happening a lot recently where i can’t find a post by eye where i know i knew the title or where the title was changed away from the exact title of the
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have recently become interested in lua, especially the fun looking love framework [ https://love2d.org/ ]. but one thing i have had trouble understanding is what lua is particularly useful for and/or used for. can some
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have been looking and looking but can't find good streams or videos of people coding in a lisp (e.g., common lisp) or a smalltalk. this is really disappointing because i would love to see these (supposedly) more dynamic environments
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i don’t think it’s a problem of abstraction itself. it’s a problem of poor abtraction. most APIs and things of this sort aren’t some beautifully crafted abstraction that even try to take care of things nicely for you. and efficiency of comp
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i feel you are approaching this from a too human-centric point of view. who is to say animals care about what you want to communicate about? and who is to say that we don't fail to be able to understand what they wish to communicate
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
this memo is kind of funny in its informational tone. i had always just assumed foo and bar came from fubar once i became familiar with the usage. on another note, i have always disliked the usage of these terms. they stand only for interna
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
does it make sense to you that a "hole" has mass, electric charge, and angular momentum and is completely characterized by these properties?
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
in my own personal experience, my primary source of linus news comes from articles being posted about him ranting or cursing about something. i didn’t post those. someone else did, and i read them. normally, i will follow these up with read
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i never claimed he wasn't entitled. i have simply stated i am tired of his complaints and rants. and my point is that the world he has helped nurture is not without its travesties, so maybe he should concentrate on that rather than con
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i didn’t say he did create any of those. i only said he created git, which is true. i also didn’t blame linus like you say. i removed my response because, well, it was negative. i would just appreciate linus taking a less combative approach
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
yea, and i hate it there too. we’re quickly turning society into a numbers game, making a very low percentage of us rich.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
haha. no worries. :)
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
as a note for others, the programming language they developed and use is pyret. https://www.pyret.org
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
cs at mit is in the eecs department.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i just wish even gmail would prevent spam. for the past month or so, i have been getting increasing amounts of spam hitting my inbox. i wonder what google is good at anymore besides making their products worse. youtube has been nothing but
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
> I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it to keep things going forward. there has and it's called labview, although by hardware you may
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i would just like to get error messages that actually said something more than something went wrong. yea, no shit something went wrong, i already know that, but what and why and how do i fix it are questions i want answered. i know the code
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
this behavior in iOS drives me absolutely insane. and somehow apple gets away with it when it's just as intrusive as the shit microsoft and facebook do. in that interface, and in mac os x as well, it seems it will upgrade at a certain
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
automator is really cool. i haven't used it for years, as i don't really use a mac for anything other than browsing the web these days. on windows, it seems someone could build an automator-like app pretty easily using the powersh
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
it's disappointing to see such a contentless puff piece upvoted on hackernews. "radically reinvent?" "cynical view"? "minor qualifier"? it's a suffocating piece with dangerous language meant to subtly
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
labview is a general purpose visual programming language. it's as general purpose as, say, python. it's just different and proprietary.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i didn’t dismiss it at all. it’s okay for me to wonder why i would want to do such a thing, especially when people claim it as such a simple thing and is instead a rather subtle thing that requires time and attention. i have other interests
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have some honest questions for you though. i write software daily yet don’t have much knowledge of what you have described here and have even less inkling to want to do any of that. so i think setting up an effective e-mail server is simp
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
what does that mean? haven't both tesla and spaceX historically struggled with operations under his leadership? don't you think he'd have learned by now if he could?
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
you aren't accurately describing this situation with your analogy.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have heard of the fuel leaking at takeoff thing, but it doesn't make sense to me why that would mean the plane would be fueled just enough to takeoff. if it leaks, it leaks. unless a full fuel tank caused a major increase in the leak

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