thejsjunky

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by thejsjunky 14y ago
> billed as a call for discussion about sexism I'm curious why some people seem to think that she is exclusively talking about or attributing her problems to sexism. The very first sentence: > Some parts of this article deal with mi
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
It's inherent to the concept of "privilege"; the understanding is that the people with the most "privilege" in the western world are men who are white. If you are making a point that a group has "privilege", it makes sense to point out they
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
Eloquent JavaScript might be what you are looking for: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ It's available for free online or you can order a hard copy.
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
The value is the way you can control execution: pausing, resuming, reaching in to alter state. That's useful even if everything is synchronous. Sometimes out of desire or necessity you need to do something async, and then you will always ha
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
Ah, yes you're right.
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
What you have to realize is what we are dealing with here are Generators ; a generalized way to create custom Iterators. This article is focusing solely on using Generators for a coroutine system and doesn't elaborate on much so it might
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
I can appreciate this sentiment, and to some extent agree, but it strikes me as overly simplistic. The reality is probably more complicated. Just leaving them to their own devices, isolated, is arguably just as bad in terms of propping up t
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
> "Thinking Forth" used to be a go-to resource. It still is, though "Starting Forth" is probably a better starting point. There's a variety of Forths available today, like GForth: http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/ Interested program
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
Reminds me of when I got cable as a teenager. I was really really psyched, it's hard to imagine now. I literally went out,got myself a bean bag chair, and planted myself in front of the TV for an entire weekend to marvel at having ~40 chann
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. > This can be mostly solved by context. T Right, as I said. It's not too bad, but it's easier when you can just translate word for word. かみにいのる gives me "pray to bite" on Google translate; as you say, it suggests t
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
To clarify further for those unfamiliar with the language,a super literal translation of "watashi wa hanbaga desu" is something like: (concerning/as for) myself, (it's) hamburger. On it's own if Bob says this, basically it comes ou
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
forth? lisp? try coding naked? I think if you can find a combination of: - dynamic - REPL - good editor support - lots of libraries - easy bindings for text/graphic display ...that will be conducive to "playful" programming. Some of it
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by thejsjunky 14y ago
While you're at it shouldn't it be "stellar power" etc? Unless the aliens are supposed to be building a Dyson Sphere around the Sun which would be decidedly easier to observe.