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Show HN: Retro 3000: 80s-style CLI API but with modern capabilities and easy API(github.com)
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I really love his trick of returning a pointer to the inside of his own allocated memory which is then compatible with C's stdlib string functions, while having his own string functions use pointer arithmetic to get the real struct
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This is because there is a metaphysical reality behind everything and humans instinctively recognize that even from a young age.
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There's also AppGrid[2] for Mac, which I've been using for years and still use to this day. It's simple but flexible. [2] https://github.com/mjolnirapp/appgrid
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Microsoft almost definitely has a 30-year-plan with TypeScript that is only slowly being revealed.
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You can choose not to run the code by choosing not to buy that computer. Let the market come up with an alternative that guarantees that it doesn't do anything unethical and allows you to inspect it. Alternatively, and probably a bette
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People have freedom and rights, but their freedoms are restricted by the rights of others. People have a right to use their knowledge toward a goal, which includes keeping it secret if need be, as long as it does not impose on the rights of
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> This is like saying the outlaw of murder encroaches on your freedom to end life. That's a great analogy, and it further proves my point: suicide is murder, and nobody has a right to take their own life, because it doesn't onl
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That's exactly what the GPL is: limiting the developer's freedom for the sake of the expanding user's freedom. This is completely unethical.
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You can email him, he responded within days every time I've ever emailed him.
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I think my main gripe with Windows is that it has one less app-accessible modifier key. As a power user, this is invaluable to me and Mac has it.
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Everyone has different criteria for what a new and improved OS needs. Some say make it safer. Some say it must be much simpler. Others say why is it so inefficient, make it faster and focus on mixed level languages. Nobody can agree and nob
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1. Novelty. We get bored easily at our jobs, and Lisp is different (but not Haskell different), so we're naturally pulled towards learning about it. 2. Nostalgia. A lot of people here have enjoyed Lisps for years or even decades (mys
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Actually can you just email me instead? You're the only person interested in it and it'd be easier to just email you the details than to setup yet another blog post system.
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Anywhere from my pinky to my elbow, depending on the day and hour. Sometimes connecting them in a straight line.
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I had literally the exact same experience as your first two paragraphs. Where my experience diverged is when I met a doctor of some kind who explained that it's the same kind of pain that truckers often get for resting their arms on th
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Sure, I'll write a blog post about it next week and post it on https://sdegutis.github.io , check back there in a week.
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> "Clojure took some more time because I had to unlearn some habits. [...] In Clojure it's hard to do the wrong thing, compared to JS or Lua." I've seen and even written a lot of really really awful Clojure code w
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Novelty. That’s the explanation. People love novelty. Especially programmers who tend to get bored easily at their jobs.
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The modifier key positions are different on an Apple keyboard vs a PC keyboard, so my muscle memory is completely broken when using Windows since I got used to them on Mac.
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JS tooling has come a long way, and I've had pretty much all of these benefits by using Create-React-App within the past year. I don't remember ever needing to make project-wide changes because of an upgrade. It's also possib
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Persistent data structures: Useful but you can get that in JS too, and if you can get your whole team to agree on it, you can avoid mutable data structures. I've been able to do that 100% for years now. Multi arity functions: That&#x27
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True but there's also things like Sweet.js, and non-s-expression languages have been able to get macros too, such as Elixir. I'm firmly convinced that s-expressions are almost pure novelty with no legitimate benefit.
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I agree that a good IDE experience is a core part of the language nowadays. And in my experience, VS Code + TypeScript is by far the best IDE experience, far better than Clojure + Emacs ever was. A significant amount of productivity that I
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Last week I tried writing a new Love2d mode for Emacs in Emacs Lisp, but it was on Windows so my muscle memory for Paredit wasn't helpful. Editing s-expressions is a nightmare without some kind of automatic help. Last night I wrote the
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Ports get registered? I just assumed we were all picking whatever open ports we could find.
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Slightly off topic, but C/C++/Rust are always the go-to languages when talking about high performance. People love the speed of C but it's so bare-bones that they move to C++, or it's too dangerous so they move to Rust.
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> "To understand Thiel’s ideas, we need to" Wait a second, why do we need to care about Peter Thiel's ideas about religion? Wikipedia says he's an American businessman. > "I’ve never met Peter Thiel. The co
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The obvious common sense definition of "open source" is "I can see the source." This is probably what everyone in this thread automatically thought of, except those to whom the agenda of the Open Source Initiative is of
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The thread we're in is about appearance and partially about weight. And people who argue that obesity is not a problem generally use phrases like "unconventionally shaped". So I still think it was a reasonable guess at what y

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