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Urbit: new whitepaper and demos(urbit.org)
7 points by pcmonk 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 11y ago
DRAKON is one of my favorite old-time visual programming languages. There's a lot more information on the Russian Wikipedia page, including an astounding 225 references: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%A0
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I worked on a similar project for a while (the poorly-named Phlisped), and I came to many of the same conclusions as these guys did. A few notes: I'm not sure reducing keystrokes is a useful measure. I can't think of a better on
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I'm not sure the words "project" and "company" are the best words for it, but this idea is definitely important. It's a general principle in life to never take yourself too seriously. If you find yourself not
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Polyglot Program (1991)(yarchive.net)
28 points by pcmonk 11y ago|6 comments
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by pcmonk 11y ago
The code generator is awesome. There's hardly a syntax error. The file headers are the best. Nitpick: although tty == tty is, as you say, vacuously true in this case, that's just because tty is a pointer. If tty were a float, t
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Welfare cuts, privatization, etc. "widen the already unsustainable systemic inequality that poses an existential threat for our entire species."? That's insanely hyperbolic, and it makes it difficult for me to take the rest
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by pcmonk 11y ago
This is a good article that comes up every so often. If you haven't read it, you should. The art is not quite as lost as advertised, though. A lot of C programmers pack structures that way out of habit. There's definitely some
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I've personally been pulled into another project, but I do think there's plenty of unexplored space in the structured code editor arena. Paredit is good, but I'd like to see a more visual way of dealing with the structure. T
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I grew up homeschooled in the Phoenix area, and and most of my friends' families had a single income. My dad is an engineer, and even though I have ten siblings we lived just fine on that income. My mom worked briefly as an engineer
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Having been homeschooled myself, I can attest to most of the advantages he describes. Personalized education is a very powerful thing, especially for what he calls "asynchronous learners".
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Scientists find radioactive WWII aircraft carrier off San Francisco coast(mercurynews.com)
4 points by pcmonk 11y ago|0 comments
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Tortilla Flat(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pcmonk 12y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 12y ago
This is something the compiler can't optimize very well. For one thing, the spec requires that they appear in the given order. If this wasn't the case, a significant amount of code would break. I've seen a good bit of code
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by pcmonk 12y ago
> I think human intelligence hits an asymptote due to mortality. There's only so deep an individual can go, and a limit on how much you can replace depth with breadth. I don't know exactly what you mean by "human intellige
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Which part of the right supports basic income?
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by pcmonk 12y ago
"It is unique in that it is in written mostly TeX and hence is a somewhat more elegant design than other converters. A small portion of it is written in Perl." I have no conception of how any software written mostly in TeX with a
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by pcmonk 12y ago
And of course, this is on the same day as their cybersecurity summit at Stanford.
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Vacuum Catastrophe(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pcmonk 12y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I'm a bit out of the loop on hardware startups, but has YC funded many successful hardware startups? The only one I've heard of is Pebble. Lowering the barrier to hardware startups is an awesome thing, of course. Hardware has a
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Stack Exchange has a convenient list: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Man, that map is impossible to read. Even as a fairly mildly colorblind person, there's no way I can distinguish the colors.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Urbit is not intended to be deliberately obscure. Communication is hard, especially with such radically new ideas. That's why we're building this repository, to lower the barrier to entry. Urbit is vast and new and often diffic
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I suspect even "I can think of no use case for this app" would be more appreciated than "is it fully buzzword-compliant?" Additionally, phrases like "What you're really saying is that you have the rewards syste
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by pcmonk 12y ago
When I feel like I'm doing good work, I'm a lot more productive, and I care more about doing things right vs just getting them done. Obviously constructive criticism needs to happen -- the author isn't disputing that. In fa
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I see this argument come up all the time to argue against typing faster, learning a decent editor, and now typing vs writing. Like with you, the hardest part of my job, and also the most time-consuming, is thinking out the right solution.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I love how everybody is high in self-expression. I'm not sure, though how cperciva ended up on top in need for harmony.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
It's not any shorter. The extra check as to whether or not to print the line break cancels out the mod 15 check. In my opinion, it's cleaner to have three conditionals of the same type than two checking mods and a third checking
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)(wall.org)
2 points by pcmonk 12y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Thinking more rationally in a foreign language is actually a well documented[0]. I know I myself have noticed it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/foreign-language-de...

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