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   by omaranto 10y ago

   I thought Ruby ensured there was only one symbol with given contents, so that equality testing for symbols reduces to pointer equality. I don't Python strings behave that way. But at any rate I wasn't thinking of performance chara
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   Oh, I like that idea: compensate via a convention for Python's lack of a symbol data type. :)
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   What do you use single and double quotes for?
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   I thought Windows shipped with .NET which includes a command line C# compiler, csc.exe.
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   No.
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   The link points to a page that only contains the text "return true to win" in large type on a white background. As with most modern art, I don't get it.
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   With Strunk & White I think you should ignore their advice which is often confused or nonsensical and just imitate their prose which is delightful. This review explains it better than I could: http://chronicle.com/articl
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   by omaranto 10y ago

   As Gauss wrote: "In our opinion, however, such truths should be extracted from notions rather than from notations." (Nowadays most technical math is written in English, but back in Gauss's time people used Latin. He really wr
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   Literate programming: presenting code in human order(johndcook.com)

   4 points by omaranto 10y ago|0 comments
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    by omaranto 10y ago

    > What is central to philosophy is _abstraction_. From that vantage point it more closely resembles software engineering than any other human activity... That probably made a bunch of mathematicians smile.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    You could switch from a purely tiling window manager to one that supports both tiling and tabbed containers, like i3.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Absolutely! Programming is much more comfortable with a physical keyboard. I wasn't suggesting coding on a phone is ideal, just that it is possible.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    What do you mean you "cannot" code on tablets and smartphones? There are nice interpreters and compilers in the official app stores for major mobiles OS, aren't there? I've used Python on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Confusing UI? It's text separated into a sequence of pages: you read a page and when you're done you advance to the next one and so on. I like that sort of UI, books use it too.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    This culture of tiny one-function modules sounds like Joe Armtrong's proposal about the "Key-Value database of all functions". http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768...
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I agree that a smartphone can be a useful investment, but aren't iPhones really expensive (as are "flagship" Android phones)? My smartphone cost me about $90 unlocked, my wife's $130. I thought we were saving several hun
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I almost overlooked this article because I got turned off by the opening description in base 10 The article talks about the last digit: That's also the remainder upon dividing by 10, a perfectly sensible thing to discuss. Similarly w
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Have you seen Magnar Sveen's videos? He has a series called Emacs Rocks of short (most are <5 minutes, I think) videos each showcasing one related set of commands, a series called Extending Emacs where he writes a new minor mode for
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Thanks, I couldn't quickly figure out how to link to just the Emacs videos. They were fun to watch, thanks for making them!
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I don't know what subjunctive means so I don't know if you are right about that, but I am a native Spanish speaker, so I can tell you that those examples you gave using "washing" (a gerund, I think) would use the corresp
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I don't think you give Emacs enough credit: sure you can write an Elisp function to do exactly what you need, but you can also usually do it in a few keystrokes using built in commands. Try VimGolf in Emacs sometime, my experience is t
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Tim Visher recorded a series of videos of himself playing VimGolf in Emacs [1]. If you want to play there is a great VimGolf client for Emacs [2]. [1] https://vimeo.com/timvisher/videos [2] https://github.co
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    The book Real World Haskell was written using such a system. I don't know what system they used, though. It let you attach comments to a specific paragraph.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Yes, that's right.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I did mean csc.exe. On my machine csc.exe came pre installed but was not on the path.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I might add that the C# compiler seems to come pre-installed on windows, nowadays.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    In case someone unfamiliar with vi reads this: do not get the impression that vi deletes all your work whenever you stop typing for 5 seconds.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    A less extreme version of the Stephen King story Quitters, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc .
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    The title is strange: the article is actually about how Go solves problems for web developers, not about why .
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    It's not something that requires explicit consideration: probably anybody you ask will tell you that no, they don't need to play videogames; people who play them normally do it because they enjoy it, not because they need to.