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by steinuil 9y ago
This just looks like bad UI to me. On my desktop browser I often press End to get somewhere near the end of the page, here if you do that it just goes back up. If I accidentally scroll to the end while reading something I can't scroll
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by steinuil 9y ago
A bit off-topic, but I'm italian and despite my best efforts to use english as system language on my Windows installation, I still catch some programs using italian. Where do they even get it from? Date and currency formatting settings
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by steinuil 9y ago
The problems I have are often related to how to use a certain library or a certain function in a programming language I don't know that well, in which case I often try to search for similar code on github to see examples, or look at th
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by steinuil 10y ago
I've been using mobile.twitter.com on my desktop browser for a while in place of the main website, and I find it much better and more pleasant to use.
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by steinuil 10y ago
And? If FreeBSD had a more restrictive license, the developers of those products would have simply chosen another similar project, or used proprietary software.
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by steinuil 10y ago
Wayland works pretty well now, it's just lacking software support. And even that's not much of a problem, because you can run X clients inside it with XWayland. It is not strictly "experimental software" at this point. A
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by steinuil 10y ago
It's a bit barebones, but it's very easy to use. You can also generate standalone executables effortlessly.
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by steinuil 10y ago
I'm writing a shell that does this; right now I'm working on the language itself (a somewhat functional language with basic types and records) and its parser (the syntax is like a terser OCaml mixed with Ruby, designed to be quick
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by steinuil 10y ago
I'm not saying they are, I don't think I've used the language enough to be able to tell what's pythonic and what's not. It's just that I think the language support could be better: why defining a function and c
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by steinuil 10y ago
I had to work with Python a few times in the past year and I really have to agree. The lack of proper lambdas, closures, its reliance on mutable data structures and imperative idioms, and the useless distinction between statements and expre
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by steinuil 10y ago
Yes, that was it! Thanks for finding it.
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by steinuil 10y ago
This reminds me of a text editor I've seen linked here a while ago; it was written by one guy, and he'd been selling it and maintaining it for something like 30 years (and he still got new customers!). I don't remember the na
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Using Voice to Code Faster Than Keyboard [video](ergoemacs.org)
2 points by steinuil 10y ago|0 comments
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by steinuil 10y ago
> I either reject or don't understand FP people when they claim FP doesn't have state). But that's not what state is, closures are just an easier way to define lots of functions with similar parts. EDIT: Sure, you can call
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by steinuil 10y ago
It just got old. Those who wanted to check it out already have, those who liked it either got a job using it or have spent enough time with it to get bored, and those who didn't have probably forgotten about it already. People just nee
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by steinuil 10y ago
The Racket language does not follow any of the Reports, so it's technically not a standards-compliant Scheme. On the other hand, the Racket platform supports both R5RS and R6RS out of the box, and there's a library for R7RS suppor
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by steinuil 10y ago
Speed is probably not your most pressing concern if you're using Scheme, I think. Moreover, Racket has the best ecosystem out of all the schemes, with lots of high quality and maintained libraries and a massive standard library, and it
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by steinuil 10y ago
Thanks! Not yet, but I'm working on a file browser, and I'm hoping to turn most of its code into a small Ruby library. I used this as starting point: https://github.com/garybernhardt/selecta
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On the TTY(sgt.hootr.club)
2 points by steinuil 10y ago|2 comments
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by steinuil 10y ago
Have you tried Elm? It is strongly typed and it uses function to represent html elements and attributes, which end up looking a lot like JSX.
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by steinuil 10y ago
Mike Acton's Data-oriented Design is definitely a must. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
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by steinuil 10y ago
His other talks are great too! My favourite is "A Whole New World". https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks
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by steinuil 10y ago
There was in fact an OS X version of TotD, called "Typing Of The Dead: Typing Lariat", and it was an universal binary too; I think I still had it on my mac a few months ago. I don't think it's sold anywhere anymore; you
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by steinuil 10y ago
> Unfortunately, LISP doesn't quite match [the Von Neumann] architecture, so it has traditionally performed poorly compared to C. Exactly. It has traditionally performed poorly compared to C, but this hasn't been the case for
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Call/cc and other fantastic tales(medium.com)
7 points by steinuil 10y ago|0 comments