stewbrew

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811.
by stewbrew 13y ago
A file-based wiki like dokuwiki wouldn't suffice the requirements, I suppose.
812.
by stewbrew 13y ago
This is all good and everything but: Who uses Nimrod? Who are the people behind Nimrod? Will they still be/stand behind Nimrod in 5-10 years from now? I didn't know Nimrod has a Javascript backend. This makes it even more interest
813.
by stewbrew 13y ago
V8 isn't exactly slow though: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
814.
by stewbrew 13y ago
A comparison with respect to available tools for debugging etc.?
815.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Is there something similar (i.e. syntactic sugar/macros for defining callbacks that provide similar functionality) for "plain" javascript as base language?
816.
by stewbrew 13y ago
The way I see it, go & erlang is rather about concurrency (and parallelism). async the node way is single threaded. Anyway, the reason probably has rather to do with JavaScript (V8's speed) and node's eco-system (tools, librar
817.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Looks like a nice language. The warning of "Caution: This section is already outdated! XXX" in the language manual makes me wonder though whether it's ready to use.
818.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Great idea. It would be nice to see a chart with the distribution of scores though or at least the quartiles next to the high score.
819.
by stewbrew 13y ago
I don't quite understand why somebody compiles a list of books that is less informative than the results list of a book search engine -- no reviews of the books, no personal remarks etc.
820.
by stewbrew 13y ago
What you call "costs" actually are salaries/jobs for people living there -- unlike fees paid to MS.
821.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Do I understand the chart correctly that people get paid exclusively for writing vim plugins (VimL)?
822.
by stewbrew 13y ago
What features do these languages offer that make it worth watching them? Neither of them seems to offer anything novel.
823.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Studies have shown that depressed people sometimes have a more adequate world view.
824.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Looks like a GausWheel for people who don't want to move in order to move.
825.
by stewbrew 13y ago
Just yesterday this blog post was on r-bloggers that shows how to use it with R: http://things-about-r.tumblr.com/post/53690776834/time-is-on...
826.
by stewbrew 13y ago
This sort of "entrapment" is legal in the US? But maybe they wouldn't care. Anyway, wouldn't it be more useful to invest the time, money and energy in facilitating social integration of these individuals. Just asking.
827.
by stewbrew 14y ago
I simply assume that with "type system" you mean "statically typed language" since lisp is strongly typed, which implies having a "type system": bigloo & typed racket demonstrated that static typing & lisp/scheme aren't incompatible
828.
by stewbrew 14y ago
IIRC hippie-expand requires users to press a keyboard shortcut (like omni-complete in vim). This plugin seems to always present a completion menu (updated after every keypress).
829.
by stewbrew 14y ago
That's why they build special showers (that are on floor level) for elderly people. No reason to sleep under a dead tree.
830.
by stewbrew 14y ago
According to this article the screenshots of a performant top office suite are bad and the screenshots of an admittedly beautiful but otherwise not too useful once-overhyped app are good. Uhm ... I don't know if I really care.
831.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Well, the last time I tried todo.txt-touch (for android), synchronization didn't really work and I lost information after a few days of trial. Development also seems to have rather stalled. There are only very few commits (other than cosmet
832.
by stewbrew 14y ago
IMHO I doubt that any language that is bound to some infrastructure (i.e. jvm) and isn't actively supported by the organization behind that infrastructure will ever become a "major" language. If there were a native clojure interpreter/compi
833.
by stewbrew 14y ago
abc@example.com would seem natural to me -- but I still use e-mail and didn't get twitter.
834.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Epistemology is a field of philosophy not psychology.
835.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Epistemology is rather about what "knowing" means. It's not a set of rules that tell you how to learn a language etc.
836.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Such data is called ordinal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement#Ordinal_s... ). You could use arithmetic means etc. if the distance between the categories were equal. Unfortunately, nobody defined what 1, 2, 3 ... stars
837.
by stewbrew 14y ago
"because if they don't patent it someone else will" AFAIK it won't be worth the stamps if there is some prior art. I.e. once release nobody can patent it. The above statement is false. They patented it to hinder competition. Note: I'm not a
838.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Why does a language have to have advanced whatever features if it does the job, i.e. if it's good enough to write most of a cross-platform app in a maintainable manner while producing efficient code? Note: I am not a haxe user and would be
839.
by stewbrew 14y ago
What problem does rust solve other languages (D, SML, OCaml, C++11, Objective C, vala, go etc.) did not -- apart from helping with the NIH syndrome? Does Mozilla actually use a language that still is a moving target with respect to its lang
840.
by stewbrew 14y ago
As somebody who knows Haskell only superficially, this line of code and the author's statement makes me wonder if people can read their own or somebody else's code after some time.

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