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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
If this was another ISP, I might be irritated, or even angry. But I can't work up the effort. I mean, this is Comcast we're talking about. Even by the very low standards of ISPs, they're pretty nasty and generally unpleasan
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
We younger programmers started with Scratch. Sure, it makes pretty pictures, and you don't have to type, but it has only global and object-local variables, barely has function calls, and is generally awkward. Or at least, it was last I
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I disagree...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Given, there are a lot of languages that you can implement reasonably easily in CL...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
For the third time, that's different from being exiled from civil society.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's different from saying he should be exiled from civil society.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes, but it's a starting point we shouldn't loose sight of.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's different from being exiled from civil society.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Speaking as a kid who does know how to use computers, this phenomenon infuriates me. There is a special place in hell for people who claim to be "1337 h4x0rs", but have less skills than the average script kiddie. Especially if the
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That filter's a joke. We beat it several times within a month. on a chromebook .
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>Anyone in a position of power who took a look at Trump and didn't recoil with disgust needs to be exiled from civil society. I don't like Trump, but fighting him isn't worth going against the very principles we fight for.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Good point: I was going to bring this up, but I already had in another post, and I didn't think anybody who wanted rust on their hardware wouldn't care, as they quite clearly liked compiled languages. But this is a huge draw for F
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, the first implementation of APL on a micro was on the 8008, in '73. It wasn't very good, but it did run... Later ('77), TIS APL ran on Z80 systems, and was aparently quite a bit better, although it was
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Oddly, JS is hell now, despite the fact that a lot of the additions to JS have been strictly for the better, and those that aren't are easily ignored. This is largely due to the JS ecosystem, which pushes shinyness over actual good des
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I am curious about Phaser, although I could never get the hang of frameworks or engines beyond the simplest, as I have an unhealthy urge to understand everything.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wait, from the game, or from your job?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Despite HN's rep as the epicenter of the startup culture, I think it's somewhat telling that most anything mocking said culture makes it to the front page. Either my opinion of startup culture (ie: screw it) is way more common tha
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Just like in real life! But don't worry: if you invest in our smart contracts system, we'll make some money this time for sure!
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Can you reccomend any books on PS?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Neat. Rather akin to Infocom's Z-machine (or to the newer Glulx), although less task-specific.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I'm aware, but... urgh. Yuck. I don't think BASIC causes brain damage, but I also don't think it's a very nice thing to work in. Although I suppose it does depend on the dialect, to an extent...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
The same can be said of Lisp and Forth. Would you call them fringe?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
For Forth, that's an easy answer: when you think "hacker" you're thinking of people working on the Big Iron. Forth's niche was small machines, so while it had a good bit of popularity on the micros, its influence on
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's true. And APL and its children is still quite popular in finance. By the way, I found a rather neat page about building a Jupiter ACE: http://searle.hostei.com/grant/JupiterAce/JupiterAce.html
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
If you want to build an SBC, than Forth is the language to write that code in.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
tLoL doesn't really do that. I think you might be thinking of Build Your Own Lisp (And Learn C), another excellent book.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Is there any reason he would have heard of those? They're all pretty fringe, arguably moreso than Forth, for some of them. Some of these do look neat: I've had an interest in both Ada and Oberon, although I haven't been able
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Well, good to know I've been of use to at least one person today...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
As multiple people have pointed out, GreenArray chips are basically TIS-100 IRL, but in Forth. Right down to the quirky design.

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