phlakaton

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by phlakaton 7mo ago
Unless you are compiling really large systems of DSL specification, speed of parsing is not the operation you want to be optimizing. XML for this use case, even if you DOM it, is plenty fast. What are more concerning are the issues that res
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by phlakaton 7mo ago
Agree with all this, but am not sure how it applies to this case. This seems rather the opposite behavior: accelerated bad de facto behavior because de jure enforcement is infeasible. We are seeing this in the world of digital media, wh
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by phlakaton 7mo ago
I presume they're beating some ill-timed traffic lights and overstating the savings.
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by phlakaton 7mo ago
I fancy myself pretty good at writing software, and here's my path in: All the tools I passed up building earlier in my career because they were too laborious to build, are now quite easy to bang out with Claude Code and, say, an hour
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by phlakaton 8mo ago
I don't think anybody's proposing to throw recursive entity definitions at Claude. Just a little light informally-defined angle-bracket markup.
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by phlakaton 8mo ago
HTML is far loosier-goosier in its syntax than XML allows. There was an attempt to nail its syntax down in the pre-HTML 5 days; that's XHTML. When HTML 5 pivoted away from that, that spelled the end of these two things ever coming toge
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by phlakaton 8mo ago
It's common practice when dealing with sites and clients that don't have fancy quoting features, going all the way back to USENET forums and probably before. It avoids just this ambiguity when you might be mixing quote and comment
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by phlakaton 9mo ago
This seems like the way. Why would Rustaceans bother to "argue their case" before an unwilling board if they can just do the rewrite themselves? Maybe it will succeed, maybe not, but you don't need SQLLite's blessing to
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by phlakaton 10mo ago
I'm on vacation so don't have my copy of Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style at hand, but I'm not sure he would subscribe to this manifesto. Now if you were willing to switch to en-dashes, maybe we could
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by phlakaton 10mo ago
This generalization is very, very wrong. I can tell you, from my personal college network, many students had monetary constraints coming in, and many certainly had monetary constraints coming out. Some of that was choice of career path; som
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by phlakaton 11mo ago
Also (to my mind) two of the most successful Kickstarted video game projects so far: Pillars of Eternity (a personal favorite) and Torment: Tides of Numenéra . (He just needs to jump on a title like Numenéra: Into the Planescape to com
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by phlakaton 1y ago
Sorry, I think they're probably all out of funds after chipping in for Trump's new royal ballroom.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
If you think of bat as in the same category of functionality as a pager, I think it works. Unlike cat, bat already seems deeply interested in the presentation of text on a terminal. Pagination involves several aspects of presentation of tex
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by phlakaton 1y ago
What if the great boon of AI is to get us to do all the thinking and writing we should have been doing all along? What if the next group of technologists to end up on top are... the technical writers ? Haha, just kidding you tech bros, A
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by phlakaton 1y ago
Now look, you.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
It is known for not being Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
Embrace your inner Bringhurst – switch to en-dashes.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
But not everybody here has to try and manage many GB or even TB of assets in their VCS. I wager game company build/dev engineers know what they are doing in picking Perforce.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
In Go, of course, thingService would implement the interface Thinger.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
There are many features of BeOS I loved, but for some funny reason the one that just thoroughly won me over from day one was the three-second boot time on my crusty Mac. Might've been a bit of a cheat. You'd never know it. It was
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by phlakaton 1y ago
Thanks! But my real question is why the departure from OCaml. I'm guessing performance wasn't the rationale there.
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by phlakaton 1y ago
I'm curious to know more about the Pyre to Pyrefly transition, specifically the rewrite in Rust. Was that merely a case of trading in a lesser-known language for the language du jour? Were there specific advantages they wanted to get
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by phlakaton 1y ago
I am keenly aware that virtually every acquaintance of my age is connected to me via Facebook. If it disappears, they all disappear. There is no replacement. There is no backup plan. That being said, I've already cut Facebook out of my
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by phlakaton 1y ago
I don't have objections to the tool. My issues are with how much power we have assigned to that tool. The right to claim renumeration for, and restrict use of, one's work should not IMO extend for multiple generations. I'm no
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by phlakaton 1y ago
Yeah, it's not that e.g. Haskell won't allow side effects, it's that side effects are constrained: 1) all the side-effectful operations have types that forbid you from using them outside of a side-effect context; 2) and it&#x
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by phlakaton 1y ago
"Surely this is a joke," I thought as I read this. Then I did a Google search just to make sure...
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by phlakaton 2y ago
The use of anaphoric exprssions is not something I think I could recommend. But it's fun to read about.
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by phlakaton 2y ago
Paul Graham's On Lisp is also a powerful argument to try the language, even if some of the stuff it presents is totally bonkers. :-D https://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
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by phlakaton 2y ago
You can name almost anything (these are general-purpose languages, after all), but I'll just throw a couple of things out there: 1. A compiler. The actual algorithms and datastructures might not be all that interesting (or they might b
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by phlakaton 2y ago
You want Robert Bringhurst, poet and typographic nerd. He gives them special withering attention in his Elements of Typographic Style. I think he referred to them as Victorian excrescences?

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