stewbrew

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by stewbrew 8y ago
"A sort of subset of Emacs Lisp, but being Lisp-1 with lexical scoping" Couldn't we please base such things on scheme or clojure (for Lisp-1) or common lisp (for Lisp-2).
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The same is true for Spanish. But they had a much better basis to begin with. The problem with English is that it's a mix of many influences (I'm not talking about different accents but about entirely different languages) that nev
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"What are some of the specific factors that might ameliorate or exacerbate the effects of dyslexia over a lifetime?" I remember a study that compared dyslexia rates among mother tongues (or countries?). The dyslexia rate was much
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Interesting. My first impression was that only the heads were real (looking through some kind of curtain) and that the paws were stuffed.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Thanks for the background info. I was wrong then.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
So, the argument basically boils down to: It's a bad thing to use a dsl or similar only for gui. It's a good thing to use a whole new language you have to port all your code to and that has only a small ecosystem so you can also w
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Why do they want me to learn a new language to make use of a gui runtime+lib? Seriously. What makes that language that revolutionary so that nothing else, no other tried & tested & loathed language, could have been used instead? I d
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by stewbrew 8y ago
It probably wasn't much better before.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
What makes you think he was a hunter & gatherer? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondsee_group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedello_culture They had settlements, mining, knew how to work
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Can we have one of these man-sized with straps so I can put it on my back, please?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
A few decades ago, books were often rather expensive. People didn't buy a book but borrow it from a library and they shared book with others. Or they planned to sell a book later on. In such a situation, it's better to make notes
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Oberon (originally) wasn't just a language but also a single-threaded environment with cooperative multitasking (somewhat similar to Smalltalk but with a fast & efficient compiler).
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Every time I read a discussion about generics in Go, I remember discussions on the Small/SmartEiffel list where people argued that Eiffel doesn't need this or that because it can be emulated with a feature already available in the
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"literature doesn’t, can’t, have the influence it once did" Well yes, since books or print in general aren't the culutally defining medium any more. Anyway, I think some people will get bored with TV & movies and will lea
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"Do authors explicitly write subtext?" So there is only one subtext to a text? If a subtext was intended by the author and never discovered by any reader, is it still a subtext? If a reader constructs a subtext that contradicts th
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I just wish common lisp people would embrace static typing so that I could ask the reply/compiler: After all these changes, is the code still formally correct (as far as types were specified)? Typed racket/clojure show it's p
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by stewbrew 8y ago
You should be more precise on what kind of role you're aiming at. I know plenty of "data analysts" who use Excel and little else. It really depends on the task at hand.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The OP told that he stayed tough he had other options with probably better options for short term benefits and that he thinks he is happier on the long term. You asked if he doesn't delude himself into thinking that he is happier. I ac
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I wonder who is more eager to justify their decision and to tell themselves they're better off now: Those who tore down all bridges and left in anger? Or those who stayed and climbed up the social ladder even though they hate their liv
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"2 to 6 months" It would be interesting to know how this turns out on the long run. I also think that in real life, these decisions are not always about you alone.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Well yes, but these notebooks are little more, aren't they.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Some simpler notebook-like environments stay closer to source code in that they basically are source code with interleaved results (e.g. as comments). IMHO they hit a sweet spot between REPLs and those notebook environments inspired by math
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by stewbrew 8y ago
It probably depends on the community and the journal but I was a reviewer for a journal (not blinded, not CS) and in my experience a good paper is everything, credentials are nothing. I read quite a few papers from university bprofessors wh
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"Search every word of every website you visited" That will most likely return a lot of hits for sites I didn't like and would like to forget about.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I really wish people would simply forget about markdown and restart with a slightly more sensible and extensible markup. I personally always thought that some sort of latex/context with a simple markup for common commands would be more
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"But Java - AFAIK - was the first language that aimed for platform-independent bytecode + network delivery of code (Applets, Webstart)." Oberon had that too to some extent -- at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy. O
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I personally like Kruschke's Bayesian Data Analysis very much. It does a wonderful job in introducing readers to Bayesian statistics -- a good first text book for Bayesian statistics. For a more classic approach to statistics, I also l
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by stewbrew 8y ago
In addition to Smalltalk, which was already mentioned, lisp and IIRC some implementations of forth also provided image-based development. Didn't really work out that well though.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The eclipse plugin sometimes doesn't provide the best developer experience though. I doubt they would accept that for intellij idea.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Kotlin is a nice language but being tied to jetbrains with no useable ide/editor around but jetbrain's own idea it won't rise that high. A working lsp language server would help.

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