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by weavie 9y ago
Good question. I think a lot of it starts with motivation. If you are just studying something for fun then the boring stuff does get really tedious. But if you are studying for something beyond the subject, eg, in my case it was acing my de
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by weavie 10y ago
Not if you do it right.
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by weavie 10y ago
It depends on how many safety guarantees you want in your code. If you want to be absolutely sure at compile time that eg.. your sort function will not change the number of elements in your list, or you need to be sure that you have read in
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by weavie 10y ago
This seems to be the convention in Idris where data IntAndChar = IntAndChar Int Char would not compile with Main.IntAndChar already defined.
515.
by weavie 10y ago
Linkerd, namerd, etcd ... what does the d stand for in all these apps?
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by weavie 10y ago
Theoretically you are obliged to buy a TV license if you watch iPlayer.
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by weavie 10y ago
After using types in Idris, types in Haskell feel like a step backwards...
518.
by weavie 10y ago
Agreed. The man is a machine!
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by weavie 10y ago
I remember in South Africa talking to a gentleman who was obviously quite inebriated about how he was going to get home. His response "I just put my head down, press the accelerator and get home as quickly as possible." I was horr
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by weavie 10y ago
Huh? I was only just starting to get used to flexbox. Are CSS grids meant to be a replacement/alternative/addition to flexbox?
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by weavie 10y ago
I did something similar, but took it a little further and used Minecraft to render the pyramids. [1] It was a lot of fun. [1] http://taoofcode.net/on-triangles/
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by weavie 10y ago
Not a strict replacement, but I am really enjoying Elm. The architecture is very similar - I think it was the inspiration behind Redux. You get to use a more succinct syntax and there is a compiler underneath it that supports the whole proc
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by weavie 10y ago
I have one of these. They are great for just leaving lying around the living room always to hand. No need to worry about it breaking. Easy to quickly grap when the topic of other countries come up with my daughter. Useful when we need a kic
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by weavie 10y ago
Both my kids (17 and 6) do so I see them in passing. From my middle aged "dad" perspective it does concern me at the peurile nonsense that floods their brain...
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by weavie 10y ago
Please do!
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by weavie 10y ago
So one of the first recommendations on that site is for the Clack family. The first link to clacklisp.org has now started pointing to the github project. For a long while before that it was just dead. Clack, whilst being a great concept suf
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by weavie 10y ago
I wish there was a tutorial on how to navigate through the endless sea of broken and undocumented third party libraries.
528.
by weavie 10y ago
> I got a big book on HCI research of the last 50 years or so and I always find nice solutions for my problems there. Since many of the web and mobile problems have already been solved with experiments on research devices that never went
529.
by weavie 10y ago
Made me chuckle. Your view of current affairs must be so confused by now! :-)
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What do economists actually know? (Not as much as you think)(shift.newco.co)
1 points by weavie 10y ago|0 comments
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by weavie 10y ago
Interesting. I hadn't realised this was a problem.
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Analysing the use of outdated libraries on the web(blog.acolyer.org)
10 points by weavie 10y ago|0 comments
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by weavie 10y ago
I'm not convinced it is just the analysts that change the company valuation. When the price goes down, the media looks to attribute a reason to it. They see the analysts said sell and say that must be the cause. The reality is often a
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by weavie 10y ago
I am curious, under what circumstances would cause you to be stuck with companies that accept paypal?
535.
by weavie 10y ago
Balkans =/= Baltic
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by weavie 10y ago
That attitude is why you are subjecting yourself to 8 hours of slavery!
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by weavie 10y ago
I wonder if this still runs on Windows 10?
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by weavie 10y ago
> - Crocs -- indestructible, comfy. Why these are so berated really dumbfounds me. I love my crocs. So easy to slip on, comfy. Good for all seasons, summer without socks, winter with socks. And (imho) they look awesome too.
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by weavie 10y ago
Impatient-mode in Emacs can give you automatic page reload as you type. http://www.50ply.com/blog/2012/08/13/introducing-impatient-m...
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by weavie 10y ago
Does it realistically matter if you don't use a correct address? I ask because I have a number of domains still registered to an old home address. I have never bothered to update them due to laziness and privacy concerns - but the doma

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