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by nnq 9y ago
> Julia's [was] designed with scientific computing in mind. Swift was designed for general purpose app development. General purpose always wins. Or should always win. Because in reality nobody has any idea what "the purpose
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by nnq 9y ago
> Even the original examples had shared data. But the language didn't provide much support for controlling that sharing. Can you elaborate on this?
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by nnq 9y ago
...and how does one do nested/tree-like data in TSV? One doesn't, only just ad-hoc invents something akin to sexps or json but unstandardized. Real-world data rarely has a natural fit for "tabl
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by nnq 9y ago
If this sounds "too painful for the animals" to you, then other things done routinely in medical research would be 100x times beyond "pure torture" or "hellish" to you, meaning your cruelty threshold is waaaaa
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by nnq 9y ago
I think parent meant that a SIM phone can just be used by any carrier, regardless of support for it... I wouldn't need an "iPhone carrier", just "whatever any-phone carrier" for my iPhone... Some features like vvm w
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by nnq 9y ago
In a different realm, there are people that find even ol' JSON annoyingly strict, and we prefer to just grab JSON5 instead ( https://github.com/json5/json5 ) at least for system-local configs. ..there was a wise say
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by nnq 9y ago
> It would force the consumer of that data to replicate the environment. It won't, because JSON is a standard. Imperfect like all standards but practically good enough. And "plain text" just means "an undefined syntax
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by nnq 9y ago
Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards eith
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by nnq 9y ago
> is for sale, but we see "Related Links: Subliminal hypnosis tapes Mind Control Pictures to Color" yep, the "magic" of add-tech "getting smarter", we'll see more and more of these :|
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by nnq 9y ago
Now, if I were a cult leader (or fascist politician) and wanted some materials to convince my followers to give up mobile phones and other "fake news" spreading devices that would poison a believer's mind, this would be... g
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by nnq 9y ago
> AAA game engines I think most game programmers have a typical "incremental" mentality , where they need to see progress all the way, even at the learning the language stage. And then studios want easily replaceable programm
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by nnq 9y ago
It's more like going "breadth first, depth later" vs "depth first, breadth later". RH argues for the second. I 100% with OP since if you start "breadth first" you can just exhaust yourself before you'
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by nnq 9y ago
...did they solve the Internet connectivity problem? Did their mesh network thing ever work? If they didn't, no wonder it didn't catch on, kids needed connectivity first, hopefully with ability to play videos and easy to share t
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by nnq 9y ago
NO. Your attention span is limited, if it gets saturated with "things I'm likely to buy" or "things I need", then I'm not going to see: (1) new and interesting things that could really open new possibilities (e
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by nnq 9y ago
> but the language will be less ambiguous for human users too I'd bet against this. The human brain works very differently, we always keeps something like "trees of contexts" in our head. And why would you thing left recur
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by nnq 9y ago
I'd guess that 90 is enough for basic computer usage and some kind of very basic programming. So, theoretically, if all the world's information would be in computer processable form, you could augment your brain with software that
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by nnq 9y ago
> can usually be eliminated by adjusting the grammar Never understood this backwards way of thinking. You first write/immagine the grammar that you want to write, whatever is most intuitive for you. Then you figure out what kind
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by nnq 9y ago
Blockchain tech and the whole "trustless economy" freak me out precisely because I think they can work ... The things that emerge out of this and scale long-term can have some really scary consequences: (1) a working "trus
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by nnq 9y ago
Not sure how much ASLR would be relevant w.r.t. genomes and cancer... Malicious hackers are on the one side very smart (the cancer genesis process is not smart at all ), but on the other side they make poor use of evolutionary strategies,
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James VI and I: the king who hunted witches(historyextra.com)
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by nnq 9y ago
Just a hint: there's two letters in IO - Input and Output. If I imagine a complex animated 3D shape in my head, I have like really no easy way to "pull it out" and share it to anyone else. Besides spending up to ~1 week ske
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by nnq 9y ago
Even if you hit roadblocks from time to time, the general cosmic-scale conversion of "dumb matter" to "computation capable matter" can only be... exponential. Imagine all matter in a planet the size of Earth converted to
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by nnq 9y ago
THIS is what really freaks me out about quantum mechanics... how eerily close it seems to what a computer engineer working on optimizing a simulation would design...
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by nnq 9y ago
> one forgets if a certain new syntax is available in the whatever version they are and need to check the manual several times You know that the current standard practice in JS-land is to always target the latest version, transpile speci
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by nnq 9y ago
Simple execution model for server-side apps: each request is practically a separate process, sharing nothing with the others... so basically you can even have an infinite loop in the code specific for one request, some code calling an exten
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by nnq 9y ago
> "there’s about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place" > Facebook's systems detected what was going on and stopped the messages from going through Wwwwhaaat?! Some peo
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by nnq 9y ago
Eve's whole focus on "observability" of code and data seems kind of overwhelming imo... I mean, the 2 most successful paradigms for "full-strength" interaction with computers are (1) code in general purpose programm
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by nnq 9y ago
Does anyone have a similar guide but Android oriented?
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by nnq 9y ago
> mood swings Friendly advice: drop the sugar first. It's really really hard, I know... Caffeine is most likely to mess up your mood when you also consume sugar, or alcohol. That's why green tea for example works much better: i
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by nnq 9y ago
> ibuprofen What source motivated to start using ibuprofen? Aren't you worried about liver and kidney damage on long term. (And the more obviously annoying side effect to becoming habituated enough to a good OTC available antiinflam

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