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61.
by perturbation 12y ago
I had this idea as well (after seeing Make a Lisp on HN). Anything that you found challenging in porting the Python version to Nim?
62.
by perturbation 12y ago
One thing I've been curious about with R: Why is it that popular libraries in R are replaced with other names when enhanced? I.e., plyr->dplyr, reshape->reshape2, etc.? Is it a namespacing thing? I guess if there's not a
63.
by perturbation 12y ago
Two areas I would make the case that Nim is better at (than Go) are interop with C and creating a DSL (as with Jester, the Sinatra-like web framework): https://github.com/dom96/jester/blob/master/readme.m
64.
by perturbation 12y ago
Thanks, that's a very clear (and thorough) explanation.
65.
by perturbation 12y ago
Doesn't Go have the potential to be faster than Java since it's compiled to native code (rather than compiled to byte code)?
66.
by perturbation 12y ago
Shame to see gradha go - I read and enjoyed his ranty posts on macros, and he's contributed to a lot of repos. He is right that there was some breakage in libraries with 0.96 to 0.10.2 - I'm hoping that things will start to settle
67.
by perturbation 12y ago
What I really like about this post (that's somewhat different from others that I've seen about Nim) is that it goes beyond the syntax of the language and macros to dive into tooling (nimble, editor plugins) and popular libraries (
68.
by perturbation 12y ago
Posting from a Crunchbang desktop - not the best thing to be the first thing to read as I get up in the morning. I expect I'll be able to do some apt-repo magic and switch over to Debian when the next stable release comes out, but I ho
69.
by perturbation 12y ago
Should mkdir be first (so that it short circuits if $the_dir is unset?) I haven't done anything in bash in a while but that seems to be how it works on my computer (Debian Wheezy, bash 4.2.37).
70.
by perturbation 12y ago
Speaking only for myself, I've found the following to be broadly true with Node.js and Go: If I'm building a strictly server-side app using Express, it's a joy to use Node.js (especially for a prototype) - everything more or
71.
by perturbation 12y ago
> Did Calculus exist in 3 B.C.? > Math has always existed. It still exists to this day. > Math is discovered. I really disagree with Platonism; I had trouble explaining why I had such a visceral reaction against it until I read &q
72.
by perturbation 12y ago
>...one C++ implementation manages to outperform all the others ... by more than one order of magnitude As does the cached Javascript version. All of the implementations in the path benchmarking by fiat use a naiive algorithm (recompute
73.
by perturbation 12y ago
An interesting take on the above: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/02/16/exorcising-laplaces-demon...
74.
by perturbation 12y ago
Smalltalk (as a language/environment) fits really nicely with 'the Cloud'. It already runs in its own VM as the normal way of distributing applications, so provisioning should be cake... I've never heard of Seaside or A
75.
by perturbation 12y ago
It's interesting that the pendulum has swung the other way in favoring readability over features. In many ways, Go seems to have something Pascalian lurking under its surface - WOCA with static compilation (and fast compile times), re
76.
by perturbation 12y ago
To the curious - I got this working (thank you def- for the rosetta code examples!). Point of correction - the library I was actually using for bignum support was GMP, not GSL. (I was getting confused because I used functions from GSL for
77.
by perturbation 12y ago
Anyone know the recommended way to do interop with C and Nimrod? I've been doing Project Euler problems in Nimrod, and wanted to use some library functions from GSL for bignum support, but I couldn't really get c2nim to work with
78.
by perturbation 12y ago
(Slight rant): HL7-all-the-things as a solution to interoperability (hey, v3 is this new fancy thing called XML!) The incentives are often backwards for hospitals to want true interoperability - this is with HIEs have been known to fail -
79.
by perturbation 12y ago
I threw this together pretty quickly since it doesn't look there's a good way to check Project Euler solutions, so it is flawed in a number of ways (for one, I don't have an answer to every problem). Feedback is greatly appr
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Show HN: Check Project Euler solutions (not complete)(project-euler-solution.herokuapp.com)
2 points by perturbation 12y ago|1 comments
81.
by perturbation 12y ago
Did this pretty quickly: http://project-euler-solution.herokuapp.com/ Give it a shot? Don't have answers to all questions.
82.
by perturbation 12y ago
What is an O Level?
83.
by perturbation 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I think the title is kind of off-putting. These really are valuable skills, but anyone who got into arguments or did debate in high school, etc., etc. developed at least the rudiments of making arguments and di
84.
by perturbation 12y ago
The larger problem of 'language drift' seems inevitable- C++ from 15 years ago will have auto_ptr's sprinkled throughout, Common Lisp (compared to Scheme) has had stuff added and added to it, Java has more stuff tacked on as
85.
by perturbation 13y ago
Node.js sort-of dodged a bullet here. It includes a version of openssl that it links against when building the crypto module (and, I would think, the tls module). Node.js v0.10.26 uses OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013. However (in openssl.gyp):
86.
by perturbation 13y ago
At least the time limit is too long to use for Suicide-note-as-a-Service. If it were shorter, I would worry about that being the primary use case for something like this.
87.
by perturbation 13y ago
<sarcasm>That seems to be the principle use case for Javascript, and that is (arguably) the lingua franca of our generation. </sarcasm>
88.
by perturbation 13y ago
From the default linux install script for OpenFL ( http://www.openfl.org/haxe-3.1.1-linux-installer.tar.gz ): # Set up haxelib sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/haxe/lib sudo chmod -
89.
by perturbation 13y ago
f p=2,3:2 s q=1 x "f f=3:2 q:f(asterisk)f>p!'q s q=p#f" w:q p,?$x\8+1 8 (Not sure if this is going to mess up the formatting, so apologies in advance). This (shamelessly stolen from a usenet sig) will print out a table o
90.
by perturbation 13y ago
I grant you that this would be an interesting research project, but Linus isn't going to rip out the internals of the linux kernel, start from scratch, and re-implement everything in Lisp just for kicks. Too much work for too little r

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