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by sdegutis 10y ago
The article says: // This was useful in C to avoid accidentally // typing variable = null. These days it will // confuse most people, with little benefit. The use of "was" and "t
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by sdegutis 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. Btw why are the Linux and Mac versions both 21mb but the Windows version is only 1mb? Magic? I'm gonna assume magic. Also: it doesn't seem to use Electron! Cool! But wait, it us
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Then maybe it should be: "Don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant and necessities." Maps, email, search, are all needed in modern life. RSS readers lost out to Twitter & Facebook years ago.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
In my experience, Clojure + CIDER are pretty much exactly what you're describing. Especially once you get into the advanced evaluation features. I no longer think in terms of s-expressions or text, but I think in terms of the actual se
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Also Maps.
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Good point. Although I guess my broader point is that the decentralized nature of web development is actually kind of a huge disadvantage in pretty much every way except "flexibility", and that the cons very much outweigh the pros
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But creating and running a Hello World GUI app for iOS only takes a few seconds, even when running it on your live device.
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Not at all.
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Encouraging is not the same as enforcing. People should have the freedom to say what they want. Just because someone cries and says "they hurt my feelings" doesn't mean we should put mandates and rules in place to stop it fro
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Regardless of whether any of these are considered "rude" or "disrespectful" (which btw is an opinion that many Trump supporters openly disagree with), it's a very real form of censorship to mandate that people aren&
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You can't say Merry Christmas. You can't say you understand homosexuality to be a disorder. You can't call a man "he" if he identifies as a "she". Do any of these in school, business, or government and you
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On the other hand, there's some dangerous censorship happening in the public school system and in the business world and in government, and I think a lot of Trump supporters recognize this and are worried about it.
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Well you could always do something like base64, which might be a fine work-around in some situations.
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Does this mean it's far more likely that indie game developers can get their games in the legit Nintendo game store rather than some relegated "secondary" game store like Xbox did in the past which nobody ever actually goes t
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Also, "I learned $A and got really good at it, and shunned $B figuring $A was superior in every way, but my experience with things similar to $B convinced me to learn it, and ultimately I realized I like it much better than $A, and hav
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Look at that same statement from the opposite direction: despite constant progress, most people are dissatisfied with current state. Awful way to live! Not an attitude to rationalize and look at the upside of!
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Sure, just make two protocols that nil's class conforms to, one for list and one for atom.
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Can confirm: Hiccup is really great.
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Or speeding it up...
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People are less and less understanding of the fact that nobody lives in a vacuum and all our actions affect other people. They're stressing individual liberties, which you see in the mainstream political opinion of "if it doesn&#x
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Also 31, also coding since ~15, and also had trouble wrapping my head around Rails. For me I think it was mainly because with Rails, the implicit conventions are actually hidden rules, and they're not always intuitive either, which mad
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Taking this example: let malloc = ffi('void *malloc(int)'); let mem = malloc(10); How do you manipulate that memory? How can you do the following in mJS? int* mem = malloc(10); mem[0] = 3; mem[1] = 7;
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Our solution has been to raise them. My 8 year old loves drawing and enjoys Minecraft, so I taught him how Minecraft is mostly just pixel art. Now he's into drawing pixel art. And he's getting better every week! In just a year or
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Pixie (kind of Lisp) mentioned a few days ago was built on RPython, and Hy (similar kind of Lisp) is built on Python's VM.
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> "You're literally forbidden by work from talking to people outside the company including friends and family." Wait, what? This is the first I've heard of Apple forbidding you from talking to anyone else . Unless
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Yeah basically that. People don't want extensible services or open platforms. They don't want full control over their data. They don't want 100% privacy. These are all niche things that like less than 1% of people want. Most
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Remember when people used to visit the people they care to listen to, and would actually sit down, and physically listen to them? But now our lives are too busy and filled with non-stop schedules so we just don't have time anymore. And
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That's not true. The vast majority of people don't turn off caching. The default caching behavior Safari provides is probably tailored to real-life usage. I could be wrong, but I'm assuming Apple isn't that dense.
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If my understanding of the universe is correct, he's going to join a really high paying start-up gig working on a "revolutionary" new email app that's basically slightly cooler than what we already have now, and then App
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Very professionally done. Hope all goes well for everyone involved. Anyone know what this "opportunity in another space" is?

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