tmm84

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by tmm84 5y ago
Maybe this because of personal historical perspective but I think I have an idea as to why. PHP7 wasn't released yet and FB was the creator of it. I think those two decisions influenced using Hack (as the staff may have been big PHP us
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by tmm84 5y ago
This has been my personal experience. I came from a non-RoR background but I have done plenty of programming. The amount of clever solutions advanced ruby-ists come up with can be hard to comprehend and add to that the dynamic module resolu
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by tmm84 5y ago
I can't think of any code rot either. As long as it is built against the standard it tends to just work. I also find the idea of using no libraries a big thing in more advanced users of CL. The more advanced of a user the more it makes
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by tmm84 5y ago
Simple digestable examples that show off power is kind of a cart before horse situation. However, I will try to feed your curiosity. One simple example I can describe is from the book Practical Common Lisp and it is talked about to some deg
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by tmm84 5y ago
This picture sprang to my mind when thinking of the consequences of trucking. Essentially, the sunlight from his driver side mirror aged the right side of his face. This is why I wear sunscreen almost constantly when going outside and to ke
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by tmm84 5y ago
I agree with this. Facebook made money hiring non-American workers and now they are being fined (I would highly doubt the money made/saved by hiring immigrant workers was invested to offset any "costs"). So, the money they di
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by tmm84 5y ago
My personal thought on the why it isn't popular is the fact Common Lisp has multiple implementations. Which one do I pick? What are the differences? What's the compatibility like should I decide to switch to another implementation
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by tmm84 5y ago
For the thing that keeps exciting me, has been for about 5 years now, is single board computers. At first the Raspberry Pi and the forks of it were exciting to me. But as time as has gone on more CPU power, memory and even graphics have bee
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by tmm84 5y ago
I've heard this so much from my grandmother, who is turning 90 this month in fact. That's 1920s but that kind of thinking was still around. I remember when I was really young how my great grandmother used to talk and act. She was
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by tmm84 5y ago
I guess the reason more people put up with the noise is because everyone loves a well cared for lawn without clippings laying around. Another thing I hate is that on some streets they push things like nails and glass into the roadway causin
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by tmm84 5y ago
Gambit has some syntax to call functions in the host language (C/Python/Ruby/etc). That syntax is what is used to call Javascript functions that exist in the context where the compiled script is executed (window/node). A
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by tmm84 5y ago
Having lived in Japan for the past decade I can say that game centers (arcades to those outside Japan) have changed. I remember playing rhythm based games (pop-n-music, taiko drum master, etc.) and some fighting/shooting games for a fe
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by tmm84 5y ago
The part of the article that I was waiting for was how they got it adopted in Japan. Having worked in Japan for almost a decade I can easily say it is not an easy feat to change Japanese corporate mindset when it comes to a programming lang
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by tmm84 5y ago
If the person learning just wants to write some HTML in a file and put that on a server somewhere as the index.html file then maybe version control is overkill. But, if this person's goal is about creating a web application then versio
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by tmm84 5y ago
When I was just starting out with git and hadn't really learned enough of the more advanced workflows in git I really wanted gitkraken. Much like the jetbrains software it has a license requirement so that can be a turn-off but if you&
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by tmm84 5y ago
The problem was WebAssembly despite what people think isn't a JS replacement. WebAssembly isn't designed to go after DOM manipulation and the rest of the browser world (in short, think calculating physics and heavy number crunchin
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by tmm84 5y ago
I was amazed at the amount as well. The article talks about how it was cheaper than water and more available. I can imagine that doing hard labor you'll drink almost anything to replenish the water you sweated out. Much less the people
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by tmm84 5y ago
I remember playing around with wolfram alpha. It was really interesting to see it search the web, render formulas and solve worded math problems. I thought it was really neat when it could calculate things like atomic weight of a compound o
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by tmm84 5y ago
My cousin's wife did the same thing. She used to work in a bakery and since the bakery closed she switched to being a real estate agent. I think it's because real estate has good commission (at least in theory). But if the market
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by tmm84 5y ago
More like the scene from Maximum Overdrive where the trucks come to the fuel station and demand to be filled with fuel.
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by tmm84 5y ago
I understand this frustration very well. I recall one video on learning Rails, the teacher said it would be better to learn Ruby first and then learn Rails. It wasn't until I actually understood Ruby's deep areas that I could unde
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by tmm84 5y ago
My cousin has had the same reaction when showing anything he liked as a kid to his kids. I believe things like pacing, dialog, time-era and camera work are something that they can't get over. I remember a time when I couldn't stan
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by tmm84 5y ago
I watched the video and saw how most of the suggestions are things that should be part of a "middleware" or a "validator" before getting to a controller. I think the closest C# gets to "macros" are the auto wir
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by tmm84 5y ago
Thanks for showing the Toucan service. I'm trying to learn Portuguese and so few tools offer it.
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by tmm84 5y ago
I too love Scheme. I prefer Racket Scheme but to each his/her own. I think it may be whole running VM kind of model that Common Lisp requires the programmer to keep in mind. What is defined/expanded at run-time VS the compiled nat
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by tmm84 5y ago
Construction. I'd still be making things and I get to use my hands.
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by tmm84 5y ago
Thank you for the MOOC link. I have been looking for a good starting point to get into a Smalltalk language/implementation.
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by tmm84 5y ago
I second this. It works on win/mac/linux. There is loads of readable documentation on the internet (lots of technical theory in it too but IMO easy enough to understand in comparison to Haskell). The Dr. Racket editor is nice and
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by tmm84 6y ago
Neighbourhoods change whether we like it or not. Pinyata stores being bulldozed and a person with the right connections takes over the place is just what happens. Does the car club have a valid reason to meet there? If it is just because th
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by tmm84 6y ago
I think these days most companies just don't care. The quality of writing (news/blogs/articles/etc) has gone down since digital media has been the go to way making information available. Honestly, it costs almost nothing

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