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by soapdog 5y ago
If there is one thing that Racket, Pollen, and that community do pretty well is documentation. Check out https://docs.racket-lang.org and https://pollenpub.com Also, debugging the compiler is not as daunting if you w
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by soapdog 5y ago
Be aware that Racket is a language toolkit and offers the tools and workflows to work with language development. Also, I didn't claim that my functions were a new language, I said that Pollen is a language. Pollen is not just a bunch o
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The Blog Is the Program(andregarzia.com)
55 points by soapdog 5y ago|9 comments
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by soapdog 5y ago
Runtime Revolution is not discontinued, it is alive and well, it just rebranded to https://www.livecode.com many years ago.
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by soapdog 5y ago
Just do a Google search for the kinds of maps the some American schools use, you'll be amazed. Once, my wife had to hear from a university geography professor in America that Texas was larger than Brazil. When contested the professor s
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Ask HN: Is there any good Ad Blocker for Safari?
1 points by soapdog 5y ago|4 comments
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by soapdog 5y ago
They sell Bialetti's that work with induction these days, example: https://www.johnlewis.com/bialetti-venus-induction-stove-top...
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by soapdog 5y ago
AFAIK, Gemini is the protocol and Gemtext are one of the types of documents. Be aware that you can transfer HTML documents over Gemini, and that many clients render more than just Gemtext. My own little client Fafi, built with Racket, can r
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by soapdog 5y ago
Whenever Gemini is mentioned here in HN people will ask: "Why not a subset of HTML with HTTP" or some similar "Why not $SOME_OTHER_TECH" question. Which for me is the same as hearing "Why not chocolate cake?" a
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by soapdog 5y ago
There are cheaper ways to kill a whole family as any organised crime boss will be happy to tell. Also, I don't like google either, but jumping from google used to be good too to your DNA will aid bioterrorism is kind of a far jump. Peo
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by soapdog 5y ago
I also wrote about this topic at: https://andregarzia.com/2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.htm... , it might me interesting for people who enjoyed this post to also read mine. The author has very good points but th
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by soapdog 5y ago
Oh no, I remember having a great time working from there. It used to be a great place.
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by soapdog 5y ago
Let me go on a brief tangent about Amazon. First, they are very hostile to the author. They force the price down on the eBook by leveraging their royalty range. Basically ~75% if the book costs up to ~9.99, if the book is more expensive tha
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by soapdog 5y ago
That is what I said. It is not about upselling stuff for those who do not want it. It is about making it easier to connect with people who do. This makes sense for some situations but not for others. The grocery shop example you mentioned i
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by soapdog 5y ago
I see people here talking badly about Paddle highlighting that access to customer data is a feature. I think that many here don't realise that without customer data, they are not your customers. They're Apple customers. If you dec
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by soapdog 5y ago
I agree, and to be honest I'd rather the TLS was optional because this would open Gemini to a lot of retro computers. Anyway, there is Mercury which is a simplified Gemini without encryption IIRC which solves that. The important part i
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by soapdog 5y ago
People here saying they'd rather use just text-only HTML, or HTML+CSS sans JS, don't understand that what attracts people to Gemini is the ease of implementation . The main quality of Gemini is that it is easy to understand and i
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by soapdog 5y ago
Gemini is not about the pages without JS and stuff. Gemini for me and many other people is about having a specification that is simple enough that normal people can implement clients and servers from scratch and have fun doing it. You can k
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by soapdog 5y ago
> 3 main protocols that today form the backbone of the decentralized web: IPFS, WebRTC & Ethereum Err... I'm deep into decentralisation and I don't use any of those protocols. Anyone saying that there is a backbone for dec
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by soapdog 5y ago
Everyone commenting about bezels being huge :-/ people, bezels are there so you can hold the tablet more comfortably. Anyone who made extended usage of tablets with and without bezels can quickly figure this out. It is more ergonomic,
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by soapdog 5y ago
A lot of the hostility on this thread is coming from people who are not actually a part of the LiveCode community. People love to sprout opinions about stuff they don't use, are not invested in, and don't have any familiarity with
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by soapdog 5y ago
I'm one of the kickstart backers and I'm OK with this move. In the end of the day, what we all want is the language and its ecosystem to be healthy so we can use it to develop our applications. After eight years of the FOSS versio
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by soapdog 5y ago
http://www.apollo-core.com/apollOS.html is 404 now. I wonder what it had there.
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by soapdog 5y ago
Looks really cool. I wonder how it compares to teal
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by soapdog 5y ago
Check out the MNT Reform: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
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by soapdog 5y ago
question: "How to avoid being hit by laser in a room of mirrors?" me, a connoisseur: "This requires further reflections..."
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by soapdog 5y ago
You can't really do it because of licensing reasons. One cool thing Common Voice brings to the table, besides all the fantastic data, is the licensing.
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by soapdog 5y ago
checkout bookfunnel: https://bookfunnel.com/ I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I have written a post on the topic of writing a technical book recently which might interest people who are thinking about doing it: https://andregarzia.com/2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.htm... I have also laun
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by soapdog 5y ago
Thanks a lot for the link. :-)

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