qu1j0t3

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by qu1j0t3 1y ago
Yeah basically true; it's described as "neutral" but it absolutely is not. I have to admit, though, the New Haas revival is so amazingly good that it makes me want to like Helvetica.
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by qu1j0t3 1y ago
1) Overexposure. Same problem that Georgia has: Otherwise a very serviceable Matthew Carter design. 2) It's a screen font. In print and display applications, it really does look gross. Source: A Friendly neighbourhood typographer
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
I'd upvote this twice if I could. It is a great strength of the popular subset of SQL that it is _not_ Turing complete.
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
It's not just you: Its typography and design is quite unsuitable to reading. The lines are too long, there is not enough leading, the typeface is badly chosen, and the black blocks everywhere are unpleasant and off putting.
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
It uses a SAT solver, not Prolog. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686801
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
"since the result will be not as performant as what they can do with C" -- This isn't the main reason, but it's also not really true. Paradigm changes don't imply "less performance". To the extent programm
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
I assume you're already au fait with Inform* family of languages...
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
It may "sound terrifying" but it's likely to be much more pleasant than you think: https://github.com/Anniepoo/swiplwebtut/blob/master/web.adoc
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
Speaking of Fortran: please paste the equivalent JavaScript
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
The Power of Prolog series is great and what Markus is doing is vital: We must teach that Computer Science is not an exotic, marginal way of approaching software development, but the foundation that we constantly draw upon and inhabit. Find
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
Not forgetting Picat! https://www.hakank.org/picat/
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
This is something like what Oxide Computer is trying to do, but of course you have to use their hardware to benefit. https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
The even more immediate objection is that a binary blob is the opposite of portable?!
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by qu1j0t3 2y ago
don't confuse "module system" with "package manager"
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by qu1j0t3 3y ago
And yet, deadly disasters do happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayano-Shushenskaya_power_stat... Key: "It seems they were used to the high levels of vibration" - Diane Vaughan wrote an important book tha
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by qu1j0t3 4y ago
Every large DC will have hit it (Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc). But it's a shame that all their operational knowledge is kept secret.
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by qu1j0t3 5y ago
Nobody works entirely by themselves. They always rely on a village, family, spouse, etc.
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by qu1j0t3 9y ago
> you could possibly make a city where driving is king and there is effectively no congestion. It would just be absurdly expensive and hostile to everyone who doesn't have access to car. This is exactly what has been done in most of
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by qu1j0t3 10y ago
They sure do at Amazon. Frugality is one of the explicit leadership principles and initiatives often have cost saving as a primary goal and always as a secondary goal.
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by qu1j0t3 10y ago
Jobs was notoriously a capricious micromanager at NeXT; see e.g. "The NeXT Big Thing", Randall Stross. Thanks to the secrecy that shrouds everything Apple, it's hard to get a handle on whether he became a more evolved manager
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by qu1j0t3 10y ago
In particular, paper tape.
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by qu1j0t3 10y ago
What are you using it for?
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by qu1j0t3 10y ago
And read the bash manual at least ONCE. (It's not the man page.)
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by qu1j0t3 12y ago
Wow, what an extraordinarily ignorant and obtuse remark. Way to go HN!
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by qu1j0t3 13y ago
"The core problem seems to be that we just don't (yet) have good words for this particular space of abstractions" How about "functor," "monad," "applicative" etc.?
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by qu1j0t3 13y ago
Recursion and iteration are equivalent, so it's not much of a stretch to call it a core concept (for more, see SICP & the lambda calculus). It is the only form of iteration available in functional programming . Monads are not only
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by qu1j0t3 16y ago
Try discussing the blog post instead of the author's bio. It may be a more convincing (and grown-up) way to air your disagreement with it.
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by qu1j0t3 16y ago
@mahmud I don't have to invent backronyms for urmom.
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by qu1j0t3 17y ago
Great column. It's so good I expect a million frantic rebuttals from Americans who don't like the truth well told.
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by qu1j0t3 17y ago
And if you want the value of pi, why not just use the same method invoked by bc in that code snippet: 4*atan(1) http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#atan

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