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by rdc12 12y ago
But Julia is a really young language, drawing that comparison is a bit premature, be more interesting to look at that in 2-4 years time
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by rdc12 12y ago
Tools that are safer then shell scripts exist, doesn't mean that end users have them installed, doesn't mean people will chose to you them either
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by rdc12 12y ago
Frequent snapshots and backups (non-local)
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by rdc12 12y ago
Why not have an integrated editor (which most term emulators have to some extent). Or extend (via a plugin?) the terminal to support the needed operations. Or use a completely different style of terminal, that is more akin to an emacs buffe
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by rdc12 12y ago
It looks like you write your own tests, in the folder ~/t/ and this is a wrapper for running them all. "Now it’s time to fill your t/ folder with tests, you can start with a simple one: t/01_compile_scripts.t. It ch
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by rdc12 12y ago
The language IO has a very simple grammar[1] and ignoring libraries is a pretty productive language. I suspect that you are on to something, but instead of the grammer being the guide instead the abstraction that the language gives you, but
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by rdc12 12y ago
Agree, thats pretty much my argument for Brainfuck being a simple programming language. Thou I phrased it more as analogy then equivilance. Brainfuck is a simple language in the same way a Turing Machine is a simple computer, conceptually s
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by rdc12 12y ago
It is pretty trival to write a BF compiler to C, each instruction has a clear C equivilant and the parser is dead simple to write as well. It is less then an hours work to write a naive BF->C compiler
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by rdc12 12y ago
Depends if Sony is hosting them or not (this is only partially a joke)
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by rdc12 12y ago
That is quite intersting, at one point the main language in AI for Europe was Prolog and in America it was LISP, or so I read. I wonder what other instances this kind of cultural differences occured, and if the internet has had any effect o
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by rdc12 12y ago
Ricciardo had an amazing season, I didn't think he was going to do much after his time at Toro Rosso. That race made me wish I could isolate two drivers, to compare Ricciardo and Vettel.
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by rdc12 12y ago
""Society of Mind" by Minsky is a very interesting read. It's more high level and philosophical, but it's definitely worth it. It's almost 30 years old though, and I'm not sure how much his work has held u
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by rdc12 12y ago
Amazing seeing the chaos of some of the wet races, the early laps of Brazil 2012 is a pretty good example.
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by rdc12 12y ago
Would any of that even fit on a floppy disk?
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by rdc12 12y ago
And the relative rarity of floppy disk drives in machines in the last 10 or so years.
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by rdc12 12y ago
Does a flaw in a system have to be relative to another system, or can it be a flaw in isolation? How does that show resilience, numerous Tea Party members have been elected, it may have been under a Republican banner, but that is more a sym
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by rdc12 12y ago
Personally I view that as being a pretty big flaw in democracy, but it also works the other way when the extremist element has a hard time gaining influence. But that is not a guarantee either, the Tea Party being a good example. It may be
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by rdc12 12y ago
Which is very problematic, the minority will forever be limited to the whim of the majority. On the otherhand if you look at the super wealthy minority, allready have a disproportionate say in poltical matters, donations, lobbyists etc.
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by rdc12 12y ago
The last time I saw a FizzBuzz post, I wrote a fairly typical mod and if version, and one that used a mod and lookup table both in C. It turned out the compiler (clang and I think gcc as well) had converted the branchy version into a lookup
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by rdc12 12y ago
They covered that towards the end. There are still areas where CIRCLean can be improved. For example, there is an issue open to deal with BadUSB-style attacks, in which a thumb drive mimics another device type (such as a keyboard) with mali
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by rdc12 12y ago
Forgot to mention some form of HDL, probably Verilog and further delving into problems with parallel code and the various models on offer.
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by rdc12 12y ago
The language that I most want to learn in the short term is Ocaml, been seeing a fair few posts about the language showing up in the past year, it seems like the community is a good fit for me. MirageOS looks very intersting, and I want to
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by rdc12 12y ago
Does Intel's fabrication plants count?
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by rdc12 12y ago
Would discovering the fossils of some complex species on Mars (or any where else in the solar system) be any worse for getting past the great filter then the discovery of fossils of dinosours on earth. We allready know that mass extinction
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by rdc12 12y ago
Good chance that the creator of Elm, has heard of google thou
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by rdc12 12y ago
"I suspect it would quickly be better than any FOSS kernel currently available" It would take a very long time for that to be even possible. The hardest part of writing an OS today is more about the amount of hardware out there to
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by rdc12 12y ago
At the same time his approach to others, would make him an extremly difficult person to work with. I enjoy looking at some of his work, but I could never actually work with him, which is quite sad.
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by rdc12 12y ago
An article doesn't have to be news, to be useful to somebody. Everybody has to start learning somewhere.
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by rdc12 12y ago
How many of your points actually deal with their ability to write fast/safe C++? Most of them deal with more management or UI design and their desire to write in Rust instead. And considering where firefox was five years they have done
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by rdc12 12y ago
It was mentioned right at the start, the article is also from 2009 when Clojure was very new

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