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by pierremenard 6y ago
This article looking at frameworks as introducing cyclic dependencies of interpretation is illuminating: https://parametri.city/blog/2018-12-23-language-oriented-sof... > The trouble with frameworks is that to use i
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by pierremenard 6y ago
The article seems to argue that 1) there is no viable search competitor to Google, therefore 2) search must be a much harder problem that takes more engineers than we expect, therefore 3) it's hard to reproduce Google's success be
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Spacemacs! Apart from the obvious evil mode navigation stuff: - Magit, to quickly organize hunks into commits and do general git things - Org mode, to organize TODOs, thoughts and even draft code snippets and designs - Language-specific lay
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Is that equivalent to `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` on OSX?
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Training Data for Autonomous Canines(scale.com)
1 points by pierremenard 7y ago|0 comments
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by pierremenard 7y ago
It certainly is! :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Calvino, Invisible Cities — human life is so rich in complexity and detail that an infinite number of projections can be constructed to study slices of it, that are each worthy of their own story Hesse, Steppenwolf — read this at an angst-f
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Curious why you think Moby Dick is not a good book. I thought it was going to be a long drag, but found the writing extremely enjoyable. Apart from the obvious "literary merit", reading this book feels like being at sea, isolated
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Memory leaks can certainly be more sinister than the example used here. It's not possible to never use global state — it makes sense in some cases. And then you end up with harmless things like adding memoization leaking memory when no
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by pierremenard 7y ago
See Section 1.2 this & 1.3 of the MIT Unix teaching OS for a great intro to FDs and pipes: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6/book-riscv-rev0.pd...
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Plot Economics of the Coronavirus(ribbonfarm.com)
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Basically making an OO DSL inside Haskell. It's a cool idea, but there have to be nicer looking ways to do it right?
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by pierremenard 7y ago
Incredible how many people and things were inspired by H2G2, including Radiohead: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ev4ga7/thom-yorke-confirm...
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by pierremenard 7y ago
> Third, modernism was built on the principle that formal experimentation is the only thing that matters. This is the most appealing thing about modernism to me — instead of continuing an exploitation of techniques that had been perfec
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by pierremenard 8y ago
The logos are parodies of real self-driving car companies (Zoox, Embark).
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by pierremenard 8y ago
This was wonderful, thanks for sharing! Are you a Borges fan by any chance?