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Ask HN: Any good Lisp-lile language that compiles to both JS and Python?
7 points by nnq 8y ago|5 comments
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you're describing a "tech lead", not a manager
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> Python or Julia ...replace that "or" with an "and". Python is unavoidable, and it makes no sense not to become proficient at it unless you already know another language usable also as a "systems scripting langu
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People died in Natzy camps because other people took the position of "it's not my problem"... An action is extremist or not depending on consequences and context. I know, as a fellow European, it's easier to not care whe
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by nnq 8y ago
Same here. After getting bombarded with extermist-ish content after watching some random socio-politics video, now I use incognito for lots of stuff I watch on YT that's not tech/science/unpolarized-art/business.
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...imho this is a small-scale view of the fact that we live in a bullshit society: our social systems can't properly handle "people with too much free time who don't know themselves what to do with that free time". For
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by nnq 8y ago
that logo looks amazing, referring here especially to the ability to create endless logo variants by interspersing thematic visuals between the letter of the logo... for some logos the "base case" doesn't really matter, you
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> has been a familiar night phenomenon for decades does't really fit with your theory...
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by nnq 8y ago
parent is right in that when you realize there's significant functionality that is not captured in the requirements, then it's it's good idea to NOT REWRITE ... when you end up reverse-engineering requirements from an existi
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by nnq 8y ago
HP spectre x360 has a centered trackpad... but I higly advice AGAINST this device for tons of other reasons (including the trackpad, btw, which is top-hinged-real-click and glass-made variety but it's still horrible).
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> my X1 Carbon 6th gen probably not what you care about, but the MBC justifies its higher price by significantly higher screen quality ... and by the fact that MBPs (and Surface Pros I guess too now) are the only notebooks that manage t
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> It just doesn't make any sense to retain someone indefinitely if they're not going to produce anything of value They likely will. Whenever a new projects starts, engineers can be recruited for it from the pre-vetted internal
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What I still never saw so far, and what this article also avoids, was an actual explantion of - why ever choose Vue over a minimalistic React setup? I mean, yeah, when people say "React" they mean "Reach + a ton of other he
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Huh?! Any moderately complex usage of DRF requires tons of boilerplate, or ton of app-specific abstractions... Also, just having to write a view, then a serializer ... to actually write it!! Imho the ideal framework would work with a m
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> humans can extrapolate and make reliable predictions about the future based on really small sample sizes You severely underestimate the bandwidth of your eyes and ears and other senses, and the volume of your brain's memory (des
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Thinks like TensorFlow for Swift are probably partially motivated by the same problem you mention. Swift overall seems like a good possible static language for ML, but gaining popularity is a slow thing. Actually I really can't seems t
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Does anyone else have an absolute dread of FIXING / REPAIRING something? And a solution for this dread? Sometimes I'm at a point where I would put my hand in a running blender together with a live kitten or something painful and
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If you have nothing to hide, you are literally worthless! (In a financial sense, not saying this as an offense.) People should get it that in a full fledged information economy the only thing that will have value will be information tha
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Hmm... living mostly in France I see at least one person wearing a muslim or hebrew head-thinggy on the street almost every day. Is the law actually unenforced? Or are these people clerics (Imams or Rabis) going to/from work and they a
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One would say that anything that offsets the narrowness of perspective you usually see in discussions between healthcare professionals is worth it. Yeah, most advice here is harmful, but so are things in other fields where we have learned t
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> Spending all day at the beach with no sunscreen hasn't always been insane Huh?!
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Agree. The user experience of just running stock Ubuntu is so much better than Window 10 + WSL... Just reboot to Win when needing to do some gaming, graphics/video editing or excell voodoo and that's it. Same as with Emacs and VIM
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> Culture is in shambles and recovery from the magnificent impact of the Internet Some of us see the destruction of this culture thingy as a good thing and are truly rejoycing now, ya know!
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...who told you that lie? An educational psychologist? More like "at age 12 even the most incompetent teacher can teach things involving abstract/counterfactual thinking to even the least intelligent child"... the bad ol&#x27
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> analog computers all over again Biological coding is quite digital/discrete in its nature, from genes up, that's why it scales and has things like error correction. You can get all the precision you need if you get EC and s
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So? Encourage regional independence (to have lots of small countries), and discourage "middle of nowhere" places by not paying from gov money the maintenance and construction of its infrastructure. Mega-infrastructure monstruositi
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You can also take it as a "the disease is its own cure" situation: Overpopulation => Ageism => Overworked people => Less children => Less overpopulation That "one child policy" was the solution. People should
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That's a nice sounding comment, but... could you be a little more specific about what particular "traditional Unix-y things" did Python 3 say "no" to? ...I can't really think of many, if any at all. Sometimes
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> reasonably good mobile targets What's the story of Swift for Android nowadays? Last time at looked it didn't seem a practical idea... I mean, even Google chose Dart of all languages for their Flutter cross-platform mobile t
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I did. And it seems awesome. I just dont see people with "software engineering" background taking any serious liking to it. So it creates DIVIDE between the "software engineering folks" (that want regular-looking-OOP-and

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