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by nsm 6y ago
Vim/emacs key bindings for the browser like Vimium. Prevent me from quitting the browser accidentally - Ctrl + Q Tree Style Tabs which I would happily pay for. Third party bookmark service like Pinboard, although this could be accompli
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by nsm 6y ago
Note that modern Smalltalks allow exporting code out to plain text files so one can use Git and code review tools just like any other language.
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by nsm 6y ago
Writing unit tests _is_ part of the interactive development style in Smalltalk. In fact TDD arose out of a lot of (ex)-Smalltalk developers. When you have an environment as mikelevins describes, where the debugger allows you to author-as-yo
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by nsm 6y ago
I'd also add this talk "Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w as well as the whole series of things that Tudor Girba & co. are
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by nsm 6y ago
> At the end of the day, you quit your environment and shut down. How do you ensure your interactive work is not lost and the environment is still what you expect it to be when you start again the next day. How would you compile such a p
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by nsm 6y ago
My partner and I made a Sudoku explainer [1] for my nephews using this. It was a really good toolkit once we wrapped our head around React. [1]: https://sudoku.nikhilism.com/
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by nsm 6y ago
I have been using Pharo Smalltalk to solve Advent of Code this year and it’s been a really fun experience! I wish I could use Smalltalk more places, particularly because of the interactive development and the visualization toolkits. Somethi
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by nsm 6y ago
This is my favorite paper now for 2 years in a row :)
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by nsm 6y ago
Seconded. This notion of "stacked diffs" is extremely powerful and I miss review systems that lack it. Currently using it for years now in Phabricator by following https://medium.com/@kurtisnusbaum/stacked-dif
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by nsm 6y ago
I agree. Also, there are certain things that simply cannot be cooked on non-gas because they require the food to be cooked directly on the flame. For example Indian rotis - https://youtu.be/ZckBv7JR__0?t=241 - need to go di
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by nsm 6y ago
I believe it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25178437 and the language discussed is Koka https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/manual.html#sec-effect-...
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by nsm 6y ago
This seems like a great use case for a chromebook. Have you looked into that? It seems like the Apple premium may not be worth it. You get long battery life, a very slimmed down machine that can run a browser and a terminal, and they are ju
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by nsm 6y ago
Yes, but the bundled JRE is slimmed down, to the point where, last I checked, the bazel standalone binary is ~50Mb.
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by nsm 6y ago
This is a lovely overview of a software developer using Talon day to day - https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/emily-shea-voice-driven...
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by nsm 6y ago
Sure! Yet, (as I mentioned in a sibling comment) living in a beautiful place with really clean air where one can be outside 11 months of the year is way better than most of the world, so I find this tendency to go "OMG everything is no
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by nsm 6y ago
I never implied that one shouldn't take the necessary precautions that you mentioned (respirators, filters) _during_ that month and stay indoors. I am merely stating that "Now we have COVID which means you want to be outside, but
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by nsm 6y ago
“Making is show business now” https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/08/making-is-show-business-now...
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by nsm 6y ago
Or we could incentivize people not to live in places with wildfire risk by NOT offering insurance (with some sort of graded phase-out for people already living there).
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by nsm 6y ago
I think this is hyperbole for the majority of people who do not have existing respiratory or other health conditions. Air quality in SF proper was only bad (by which I mean Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or above) for roughly a month this y
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by nsm 6y ago
What is the advantage of this over the more popular embedded solution which is AFAICT Qt? It was quickly glossed over in the slides without any explanation. I guess one is Dart is a safer language than C++.
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by nsm 6y ago
The ninja author has a (relatively) recent blog post about design decisions and lessons learned: * The success and failure of ninja http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html
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The (Extremely) Loud Minority(hankchizljaw.com)
3 points by nsm 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsm 6y ago
- Easy build system. Must be parallel, saturate all cores, and handle distributed builds as a built-in first-class feature. Should be able to produce static binaries or dynamically linked binaries. Should be able to consume binary dependenc
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by nsm 6y ago
Gecko, which is the rendering engine used by Firefox, has existed for longer than Blink/Webkit (powering Electron). It also supported a UI toolkit (described in XML and a wrapper on Gtk etc.) called XUL [1]. I think OP is talking about
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by nsm 6y ago
Thank you for this report. I've passed on the information to the right team and they are looking into it.
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by nsm 6y ago
This is an excellent point. I know someone who is having a really hard time finding jobs because they just got out of school, but there are hardly any entry-level positions and the ones present are highly contested. They must have applied t
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by nsm 6y ago
There is this entertaining series called Houyhnhnm Computing that imagines computing invented by a different species. https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html
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Non-Posix File Systems(weinholt.se)
388 points by nsm 6y ago|155 comments
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by nsm 6y ago
To me WASM is interesting because it provides a way to distribute _non-JavaScript_ applications that _already exists_ over an easy to access platform that is the web browser. It provides a much simpler target than transpiling to JS. For exa
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by nsm 6y ago
> We want a unified good build system for rust, not a ridiculous mess of difference package managers and build systems like in some other language ecosystems. Sometimes, conformity is a better approach, and I would be deeply saddened to

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