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by pcmonk 12y ago
I love how they're also contributing upstream to libuv. This is how you do an open source, community-focused project.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Just because a language allows you to morph its syntax doesn't make it any more powerful. I'm not sure how this is considered an "advanced" thing. It's certainly a convoluted thing, but that's not at all the
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by pcmonk 12y ago
To me, the first is much easier to read, but perhaps my mind has been warped by functional programming languages. At any rate, the thing that's strange about it is how verbose and hackish everything is. It's obvious the language
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by pcmonk 12y ago
How can any sane person think this is a reasonable way to program? While perhaps stated with slight hyperbole, this is actually a serious question. I don't see how, for example, these pipable functions give any additional real express
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I'm deuteranomalous too, and I first thought, "I can distinguish these colors easily, I'm glad they chose colorblind-friendly colors". Then I read the color list and realized there were more colors than I thought.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I actually wrote one of those a while back: http://pcmonk.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/phlisped-an-experimen...
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Could You See the Curvature of the Earth in this Airport?(wired.com)
1 points by pcmonk 12y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 12y ago
That's a good matrix for early-to-mid stage programmers. My only issue with it would be that it doesn't go high enough. I'm a level 3 in probably half of those categories, and I don't feel that I'm anywhere close
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by pcmonk 12y ago
As great as Project Euler is for learning programming, it's definitely not a good measure of most aspects of programming. It measures a very small subset of the required skills. This chart gives a more complete and nuanced way of eva
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by pcmonk 12y ago
"To believe that “plain language” programming would be more readable is Utopian, even intellectually dishonest. For if I say, “a linear function of a variable is equal to the sum of a constant and of the product of a variable and a sec
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by pcmonk 12y ago
I disagree about insertions and deletions. The primary purpose of colors should be to communicate more information without us having to think about. Having standard color schemes is really helpful. If every service uses different inserti
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Probably random noise. Or else because it kind of tracks the arc of github going mainstream, and Java and Javascript are very mainstream.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
In the world of tiling window managers, there are a few well-known names. Xmonad is one of them.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
When I was thirteen, the dad of one of my friends was a software engineer, and he liked to tell stories about cool stuff he did (he's a pentester). I was interested, so he gave me a CD (7 or 8 years old, though I didn't know it)
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by pcmonk 12y ago
So, we're going to try to stabilize our currency by tying it to every failing currency across the world? If bitcoin gets mainly used as a replacement for hyper-inflationary currencies, then it's never going to be a viable alterna
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Why? Why wouldn't they just sell it immediately, for all the reasons why merchants sell it now?
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Using bitcoin for transactions won't help if the merchants immediately sell them (all the buying pressure just got cancelled out). Right now, bitcoin is only held in large quantities for speculation. Speculation, as he notes, has onl
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by pcmonk 12y ago
"Articulate programming" looks a lot like Lisp macros to me. Can anyone explain the difference?
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by pcmonk 12y ago
That fixed it. Thanks.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
Sweet, I didn't realize that. Sadly, the result flashes on and off and is essentially unusable for me (either in xterm or a TTY on Slackware64 14.0). I can tell it's working, though. This also seems to work over ssh, though, whi
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by pcmonk 12y ago
For the record, that's not pure terminal (it opens up another window). This project works even in a bare vterm. I'd love to see this work over ssh.
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by pcmonk 12y ago
There's no other word in English to say "from the US". When I'm talking with my Latino friends who don't like me using the word "American", I just say "gringo". But that obviously doesn't
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by pcmonk 12y ago
When I discovered it, I hadn't done much interactive fiction for a while, and for some reasons it really got to me. I had no idea what to expect going in, and the experience of exploring it, even if it's essentially non-interacti
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by pcmonk 12y ago
For much art, the beauty is in the skillful use of a medium to say something that one wouldn't have expected to be able to say in that medium. Art is all about limitations. Photorealistic paintings are impressive because they aren&#x
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by pcmonk 12y ago
It was likely downvoted since it was essentially content-free. While we can all appreciate a good joke, they lower the signal-to-noise ratio. This isn't reddit. A good comment says something constructive about the product.
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by pcmonk 13y ago
In the comments, someone gave this nice solution: for x in range(100): print x%3/2*'Fizz'+x%5/4*'Buzz' or x+1
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by pcmonk 13y ago
Ah, well, that doesn't look so bad. I'll have to play around with it. Thanks.
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by pcmonk 13y ago
When I learned about D3.js this was exactly what I wanted to use it for. Unfortunately, I've mostly avoided web development, so my javascript isn't good enough to quickly code anything up. You're right, though, this could
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by pcmonk 13y ago
I don't think that qualifies as "commonly-accepted". It's not a bad format (for trees -- it doesn't look like it generalizes to DAGs or graphs), but a standard format might be helpful.
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by pcmonk 13y ago
Yeah, I guess that's essentially the ideal.

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