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by tabtab 4y ago
There are implementations/dialects of APL that use "ASCII-friendly" operation names. The "J" and "K" language are examples.
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Why has Hacker News been de-featured from front page?
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by tabtab 4y ago
A write-up describing why Functional Programming never "sticks" in mainstream dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/qg99f0/...
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by tabtab 4y ago
But Apple, MS, Google, Amazon, etc. use their size to control formal and de-facto standards, giving them a competitive advantage.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Re: The distinction has more to do with when they were discovered than what causes them. Well, okay. But so far there's no evidence to suggest the brain uses quantum effects discovered/verified fairly recently. The "common&
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by tabtab 4y ago
I believe what was meant was quantum-only or primarily-quantum effects rather than the aggregate effects we normally see (classic physics & chemistry), which are probably the result of quantum physics, but we have "classic"
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by tabtab 4y ago
We don't currently fully know how anesthetics work largely because we don't really know how the human brain works on a large scale. We'd have to solve that before seriously proposing quantum effects. In other words, it's
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by tabtab 4y ago
I'm going to let a crow do my taxes.
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by tabtab 4y ago
You just encourage dependency on and hanging out near humans.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Real-estate is (still) relatively cheap in Utah. And the LDS church saw them as a "source" of religious conversion.
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by tabtab 4y ago
That might be true, but first, how many are going to actually try the headsets? Second, the 3D factor "gets old hat" over time, many say. It's like riding a roller coaster 50 times. The 51st becomes routine. (I've done i
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by tabtab 4y ago
Meta could have purchased or cloned the concept of "Second Life" so that people can do VR with regular computer/TV screens. That's a much more approachable first step. When that catches on, THEN focus on physical 3D head
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by tabtab 4y ago
Fund research into: 1) State-ful GUI markup standard. HTML/CSS/DOM is a poor fit for CRUD/GUI. 2) "Dynamic Relational" database. Dynamism is a desired feature of databases as the "NoSql" growth shows, but
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by tabtab 4y ago
Indeed, being homeless in Minnesota in the winter is a death sentence.
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by tabtab 4y ago
I agree. Set theory is more powerful and flexible than taxonomic trees (although not perfect). It's why I believe the future is Table Oriented Programming (TOP), where code blocks are either in or managed by RDBMS. Code-centric tools r
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by tabtab 4y ago
We have that in C#, it's call LINQ. In the wrong hands it kills kittens.
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by tabtab 4y ago
APL. I didn't care for the particular symbols, but the concept blew my mind, and got me interested in "table oriented programming" (TOP) and later the SMEQL query language (what SQL should have been). I'd often make tabl
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by tabtab 4y ago
GPD is also personal choice. There's no Grand Law of the Universe which says GDP should be the primary metric. Its importance is an invention of human minds, out of either human nature and/or historical happenstance.
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by tabtab 4y ago
A common example is "lines of code". If you pay by lines of code, then coders will bloat up code to pad their metrics, making it verbose and redundant.
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by tabtab 4y ago
One problem with this idea is that if you don't grow your GDP, countries that do grow it will stomp you militarily and/or diplomatically.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Good point. What's people-friendly may not be machine-friendly, and vice versa. Further, what's human writing friendly may not be human reader friendly. When writing, verbosity reduction matters most; but when reading, clarity o
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by tabtab 4y ago
Re: A good markup language describes an abstract hierarchical structure of the document, and lets a separate program to adapt that structure to the desired output. I have to disagree. Often the abstract nature is hard to describe and&#x2F
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by tabtab 4y ago
A critique of "mainstream" FP: https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/qg99f0/...
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by tabtab 4y ago
It looks like X Window does most the of rendering, correct? (based on header: "#include <X11/Xlib.h>")
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by tabtab 4y ago
> college recruiting materials might well brag that at their institution, there were not one, but two computers on campus. Our community college highlighted their Vax minicomputer by having a special window that showed all the flashing
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by tabtab 4y ago
During the early 2000's there was an IT slump in CA due to the dot-com crash, so I spent a lot of time sending out resumes. Eventually I created a script to quickly customize them for a given job ad. It had topic meta-tags, and each to
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by tabtab 4y ago
I think it may just need clarification and examples.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Those aren't chubby pigs in modern video games, they're humans!
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by tabtab 4y ago
I actually like the VB-style, but VB did it mostly wrong: if you start the block with X, you should always end it with "End X". Thus, you'd have While ... End While instead of crap like "Wend" and "Next" (
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by tabtab 4y ago
I notice I'm a "visual thinker" while others seem to be "linguistic thinkers". Both approach problem solving differently and perhaps do better at different things. Certain calculus problems I could solve without doi

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