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by vorg 9y ago
That variety of Lisp with its particular brand of syntactic sugar is LL(1), and its lexing LL(k). Because of its circumfix notation, a Lisp language can be LL(0) when the prefix symbols and tokens are defined appropriately. That was the poi
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by vorg 9y ago
> that's a point in favor of a language that's LL(1) rather than context-dependent and 5 points in favor of a language that's LL(0) rather than LL(1). The logical conclusion of your argument is to use Lisp everywhere.
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by vorg 9y ago
> let's have Tomcat and Groovy or something on WebAssembly :D ! Not sure if Apache Groovy is a good example of software that might benefit from a WebAssembly target. Somebody already tried creating an edition that compiles to Javasc
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by vorg 9y ago
Kotlin was designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with IDE IntelliJ (and hence Android Studio), whereas Ceylon joining the Eclipse Foundation was just an afterthought and its Eclipse IDE integration isn't guaranteed to be great
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by vorg 9y ago
I notice the name of Ceylon has changed to Eclipse Ceylon [1], in the same way Groovy became Apache Groovy when it joined the Apache foundation 2 years ago. [1] https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ceylon
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by vorg 9y ago
> There’s one option for dependency management and handling of compilation and preprocessing (gradle) Even if Gradle was the only option, you'd still have two choices of which language to write the build scripts in -- newcomer K
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by vorg 9y ago
> prefer Kotlin over Clojure is that I am a huge proponent of static typing If you're into static typing on the JVM, then Kotlin is the best choice because it's got the best-of-breed types. If you're into dynamic typing on
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by vorg 9y ago
From where I dwell (China), this link comes back with Error 403 Access to this resource is denied Access to this resource is denied Guru Meditation: XID: 24445124 Varnish cache server Is this only available from certain place
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by vorg 9y ago
Australia and New Zealand are in the same boat as Canada, and Sydney and Auckland as Vancouver. The countries have high immigration, especially Chinese. Those cities are bounded and the land already developed, but climate doesn't seem
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by vorg 9y ago
> the code points required for new emoji support are now considered final, and stable to be included in updates from major vendors such as Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung. Didn't see any Japanese brands in that list.
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by vorg 9y ago
> monadic combinators are more powerful [than context free parsers] Monadic parsers can do context-sensitive things that context free parsers can't, but they can't have unordered options which context free parsers can. So reall
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by vorg 9y ago
> Over the past decade, the police have recorded fewer crimes and the courts have prosecuted and convicted fewer defendants. But those who are found guilty of any crime – from burglary and fraud to sexual offences and murder – are more l
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by vorg 9y ago
> "kids" (or more accurately, "new developers") are the least likely to want to do busy work, as they'd prefer to be able to build stuff fast You're grossly underestimating the proportion of new entrant work
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by vorg 9y ago
Apache Groovy's lack of marketing is highlighted by the fact you're referring to it as "Groovy" instead of "Apache Groovy" which is what the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) recommend it be called on first use
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by vorg 9y ago
It's been almost a decade since I used Apache Groovy, but I don't remember its printf being type safe. Its method signature is void Object.printf(String, Object) and it evaluates types at runtime.
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by vorg 9y ago
> Mangarevans combined base-10 representation with a binary system. They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2 Because base-10 seems to originate from two handfuls of fingers, I wonder why they d
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by vorg 9y ago
> The significance of these negative results is not that they disconfirm a strong prediction of string theory, but that they pull the plug on the last remaining hope for connecting standard string theory unification scenarios to anything
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by vorg 9y ago
There were many similar complaints when the Go language itself was announced, there already being a programming language named "Go!"
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by vorg 9y ago
> "Golang" is a search engine hack Although "Go" is the name of the language, "Golang" can also be a submission title hack so as not to confuse those who "Expected to see an article about the developme
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by vorg 9y ago
> this is a forum for software developers I always took HN to be a forum for people either starting up a business or into "hacking" things. Of course many software people visit here, probably because many fast-growing businesse
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by vorg 9y ago
> If you're not a developer * You wouldn't mean software developer, would you? Property, product, and marketing campaign developers interested in a start-up business might not be happy with IT types monopolizing the word &quo
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by vorg 9y ago
The "useless idiots" involved in surveillance usually have a psychological need to let on they're part of the action, or sometimes the puppeteers want you to know you're being watched. By the way, I didn't overlook
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by vorg 9y ago
Perhaps blog posters on the Go language need to refer to it as Golang in titles, etc.
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by vorg 9y ago
Another benefit of talking to oneself is to find out who's listening in on your computer/phone microphone, or bugs in the apartment. By saying different things to oneself in different locations, one can hone in which locations are
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by vorg 9y ago
> What if the universe were entirely empty except for two astronauts. One of them is spinning, the other is stationary. The spinning one feels dizzy, doing cartwheels in space. But which one of the two is spinning? From either astronaut’
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by vorg 9y ago
At high school and uni whenever I carved my name with pen into the page edges of my newly bought textbooks on the first day of term to dissuade book thiefs, I always held the book face up while doing so. It would have felt unnatural to hold
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by vorg 9y ago
All my Chinese and Japanese books have the spine text going vertically down. Some have English text mixed in though, which is (horizontally) downwards. I can't imagine a book with French text mixed in (horizontally) upwards with the Ch
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by vorg 9y ago
I'd say certain countries have gotten together behind the scenes to take turns playing bad cop. Now it's America's turn, a few years ago it was Australia who refused to sign.
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by vorg 9y ago
> you can judge success of UBI only over decades and generations of people. People who grew up in a world of UBI will have a totally different view on life Thay's why I think experiments like the Finnish one also mentioned on the li
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by vorg 9y ago
Regarding the short first tip: > Google works continuously to fix bugs and improve the building process. Just by updating it from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0-alpha2 you will save a lot of time. if you use a new "major changes" version tagge

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