rbonvall

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by rbonvall 3y ago
Not only a name, there's also an xkcd! https://xkcd.com/2793/
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by rbonvall 3y ago
No, the TWSBI Eco can only be filled from a bottle. The TWSBI Swipe supports both cartridges and converters.
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by rbonvall 3y ago
Objective advantages are: more ink capacity, more variety of ink colors, reduced plastic waste (if you use bottled ink).
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by rbonvall 3y ago
You can improve just by learning the right technique (how to hold the pen, how to write by moving the arm rather than the wrist) and learning the proper letter shapes. That won't take more than a couple of hours, and from then on you j
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by rbonvall 4y ago
That would be expanding the abbreviation, not explaining it. If context calls for it, one could write "extract this tar ball (a file format for packaging many files into a single one)"
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by rbonvall 4y ago
If I remember correctly, git was originally distributed as several small programs like git-checkout, git-reset, etc., some written in C and others in shell.
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by rbonvall 4y ago
I think you will enjoy this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
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by rbonvall 4y ago
The "formal proposal" part was my December Fools joke.
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by rbonvall 4y ago
There was a formal proposal to adopt a German syntax for Scala: https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala....
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by rbonvall 4y ago
Not as bad as the website listing websites that do not list themselves.
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by rbonvall 4y ago
But regular expressions, one of the culprits of Perl unreadability, have not faded, and are very much alive in all languages, and usually in ways that make them even less readable than in Perl (e.g. requiring backslashes to be escaped, or w
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by rbonvall 4y ago
LET is a great syntactic improvement, but the UI is still the same. I'd love if the formula box supported the basic things one expects from a code editor, like syntax highlighting, formatting, indentation, comments, etc.
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by rbonvall 4y ago
> Almost all bugs are logic bugs or inconsistent state bugs (thanks OOP!), almost none are type bugs. The whole point of using types is making inconsistent states type bugs. Types are logic. This article presents a great example: http
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by rbonvall 4y ago
This time there was a good reason for postponing the switch. Originally it would have been the same day of the constitutional referendum. It was a good call to remove one potential factor of chaos from that day. Having to deal with online c
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by rbonvall 4y ago
Let me present this intuition I've developed. • You have a producer of Cs, then you can turn it into a producer of Ds by post-processing its output with a function g: C → D. • You have a consumer of Bs, then you can turn it into a cons
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by rbonvall 4y ago
Here you go: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-for-correc...
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A DSL for λ-Terms in Scala(mez.cl)
2 points by rbonvall 4y ago|0 comments
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by rbonvall 5y ago
In my experience, just offering the ability to export to and import from Excel workbooks goes a long way in winning the spreadsheet-loving crowd.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
There is a precedent for this: British PHP. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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by rbonvall 5y ago
I've been using this mapping for so long and it's so ingrained in my brain that I completely forgot about it. It used to happened that I'd start typing jjjjj into a textarea or a word processor, and it took me a while to real
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by rbonvall 5y ago
One single fractal to-do.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
Maybe because of the use of the "double bang" pattern to convert a value to boolean: !!41 === true !!0 === false
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by rbonvall 5y ago
I think automatic string concatenation and singleton tuples were not introduced according to some high-level goal. They are just historical baggage. Automatic string concatenation comes from C, and the singleton tuple syntax probably just s
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by rbonvall 5y ago
Don't worry. eat and drink are just old commands, but rewritten in Rust.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
Crockford himself says JSON was not invented but rather discovered.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
Standardness notwithstanding, using tput is more readable and memorable. I can type this from memory: echo "I'm $(tput setaf 4)blue$(tput sgr0)." but I couldn't get this one right without looking it up: ec
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by rbonvall 5y ago
I'd suspect it's the opposite, they may be too sensitive to color.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
They are approximate in the sense that the float literal 1.1 is not equal to the real number 1.1.
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by rbonvall 5y ago
When I create my own programming language, the syntax for float literals will be: ≈3.14159
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by rbonvall 5y ago
Since this is done for fun and not for any kind of official recognition, it counts if you think it does.

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