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by sgrove 10y ago
Would you mind elaborating, or sharing some papers on the subject? I'm particularly interested in a dialect of ReasonML that would use the BuckleScript compiler + ConcurrentML but target the BEAM VM, and I'd love to know how bad o
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by sgrove 10y ago
For me, PolyConf is a bit like the Strange Loop of Europe, which is one of the highest compliments possible for a conference. * It was well organized * Had quite a range of topics on interesting topics that poked you right in the intellectu
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by sgrove 10y ago
I spoke quite a bit about ReasonML during 2016, hopefully this should cover a lot of what Reason is, how it relates to OCaml, and how it's different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCmLQ1-YqQ Happy to answer any ques
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by sgrove 10y ago
I believe most models will refuse to turn on any washlet function if there's no pressure on the entire seat (not sure exactly what the predicate is, but something along those lines). Certainly my model[0] in SF is that way. [0] - ht
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by sgrove 10y ago
> That is easily the most physically demanding VR activity that I've found so far Have you tried soundboxing? I'm on OSX so can't try it, but I really want to give it a shot - it seems awesome, and a good workout. Bringing
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by sgrove 10y ago
Do you have a link? Sounds like it'd be a very interesting watch. Edit: I found one that has an example (I think) around 7:38 http://www.nicovideo.jp.am/watch/sm13963118 - the collision detection pushes megaman in
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by sgrove 10y ago
There's actually a not-too-terrible talk going over some of the challenges of compiling PHP, and how initial promising gains turn out to be very difficult (as OP said) to maintain as you try to encompass the full language. Some great e
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by sgrove 10y ago
Do you have a source for this? It seems fairly unlikely for a lot of reasons.
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by sgrove 10y ago
I believe the canonical JS implementation is (or will be?) https://github.com/jordwalke/ReLayout - written in Reason and compiled to JS via Bucklescript. Lots of very nice reasons and benefits for this, including rea
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by sgrove 10y ago
Rather than insight, the post you're replying to shows a lack of imagination. Just off the top of my head, I ask myself how much revenue TechCrunch pulls in, and what it originally started as - and I can see a path for PH to become a &
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by sgrove 10y ago
Hear hear! I want to work with really good people that I like, communicated well with, and are excited about what they're doing (among other attributes as well). It's fairly rare that I come across someone with all of those qualit
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by sgrove 10y ago
If you'll forgive the shameless plug, I talked a bit about ReasonML here, hopefully it helps clear things up https://youtu.be/QWfHrbSqnB0?t=29m34s Basically, just a new syntax and a blessed-stack approach that really,
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by sgrove 10y ago
Precursor would be very challenging to build in ~120 lines of vanilla JS: https://precursorapp.com
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by sgrove 10y ago
I think Jet.com is actually F# [0] (which is of course very similar to OCaml, but has quite a different ecosystem/tooling/etc.) [0] - https://tech.jet.com/blog/2015/03-22-on-how-jet-chose/
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by sgrove 10y ago
It's probably worth elaborating your opinion here. I've used ClojureScript heavily and feel I have a good sense of the comparison, but someone else reading your comment wouldn't be any better informed for it. I'm genui
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by sgrove 10y ago
I agree, but I'd take it a step further - the 15+ million Lo(memory-unsafe!)C for the unix kernel other (all?) trivial apps sits on is also not a good thing.
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by sgrove 10y ago
Speaking of funding, Sam has a Patreon page to support his amazing work (and transitively the children learning to code with his tools). It's definitely worth supporting with a few quid a month at https://patreon.com/sa
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by sgrove 10y ago
Sam Aaron is so inspirational to see in person - so focused on achieving something of cultural significance (teaching a generating to code by drawing them into music-via-code), so effective in his mission. I can't recommend enough see
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by sgrove 10y ago
I have Prime, but I can't seem to figure out how to stream it - it only shows the option if I'm not logged in. Anyone know where to click?
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by sgrove 10y ago
Just a bit of a fun post on the subject, I quite like this koan about OO vs Closures [0]: The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard
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by sgrove 10y ago
This used to be very big in South Korea at least, before (modern) smartphones took off. I suspect it's less compelling than just watching internet video now that we have that.
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by sgrove 10y ago
Why is annotation important? I agree it needs to be possible, but ultimately I want to push the majority off into inference, and only explicitly annotate when necessary or formalizing interfaces OCaml-style. Though I sure do wish I could ha
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by sgrove 10y ago
It's hard to say which is more exciting for me, but it probably comes down to effect handlers in a production-capable (if not production-ready) language that can work across different compilation target. Lots of interesting tooling tha
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by sgrove 11y ago
I've used this (thanks seliopou!) to convert my bash-based (Mirage) deployment scripts over to OCaml, and am significantly happier with the end result.
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by sgrove 11y ago
This has always been a big challenge for me with SQL - programmatically composing queries, filters, etc. has been 1. very difficult across the board and 2. very function-oriented rather than data-oriented. I still hold out hope for a datalo
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by sgrove 11y ago
I'm curious how Webrender is able to render native controls (buttons, text inputs, etc.) via this method - I suppose they have access to APIs not exposed in e.g. WebGL that make this trivial?
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by sgrove 11y ago
Good point, I think it would indeed mean pulling in all of OCaml's runtime model.
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by sgrove 11y ago
Well, yes and no. The surface area for memory-unsafe problems is much smaller, but it's still there. To @cheez's point, Mirage did contain a very dangerous vulnerability (see https://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog&#x
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by sgrove 11y ago
What about binding to the OCaml implementation at https://nqsb.io/ ?
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by sgrove 11y ago
They open-sourced their content-editable component, which sounds very impressive (basically, "let's fix content-editable once and for all") http://facebook.github.io/draft-js/

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