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by westoncb 5y ago
Okay I think I see what you're saying here. The terminology of reducing "UI vocabulary" threw me off some, since you could alternately describe it as an expansion of UI vocabulary: so many things don't have a convention
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But... I didn't dismiss them, I specifically addressed the flawed structure of their argument. They made some more assertions in the second paragraph but didn't offer any support for them so I haven't addressed them separatel
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That makes a lot of sense.
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Electron seems to have reached the status of being a political topic. For many people it's something to rally around or (more frequently here) against. You're either for it or against it. The above arguments would not be taken ser
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by westoncb 5y ago
It seems like there would be a large space (that's sidestepped here) between learning basic syntactic differences and 'mastering' Lisp. Are there not novel concepts (outside of syntax) which programmers struggle with in that
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I'll second the advice to take up a sport or other physical activity. Easiest for me to get going with was 'body weight fitness' aka calisthenics, since all I needed was my apartment + youtube videos + time/practice. It
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I don't think they're actually doing any compiling in this demo though, but maybe I'm mistaken?
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> However the rate that solar can be added is nowhere near fast enough ... Any idea what the bottleneck(s) is/are?
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by westoncb 5y ago
My recollection from Infinite Assassin is that for someone not pretty literate in mathematics it would nearly be nonsense.
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Glancing at the code, it looks like he's rendering everything via DOM elements. I think player sprites are positioned using the top/left properties; could potentially optimize by keeping those props constant and just updating `tra
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This seems really nice in terms of how it's structured, performance capabilities etc., but unfortunately the lack of anti-aliasing (of lines and shapes) and fuzzy-looking text give a first appearance of low quality. (Maybe this just j
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by westoncb 5y ago
That’s an interesting example, though I read it as a kind of parody of jargon rather than actual jargon. It’s a tricky case though since jargon also has multiple senses and your classification fits one of them. I’m curious whether you would
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by westoncb 5y ago
And there’s what I was looking for :) I did overlook that ‘idiom’ applies to a full language/dialect. I think you’re overstating your case though when you say “It does not have the sense of a specific technical meaning for a word, dist
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by westoncb 5y ago
"a technical meaning in a specific field" is one of the definitions of idiom (as given above)—they literally list 'jargon' as a synonym ("The specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially
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by westoncb 5y ago
Seems like "idiomatic" already fits this perfectly. Is "term of art" in some way different? maybe has a more of a "you can't really understand it as an outsider," sense?: Idiomatic: A speech form or an
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by westoncb 6y ago
This matches my usage too, though I'd add that my #1 use for Sublime is notes. For me, VSCode could replace Sublime if they just allowed you to open a separate "zen mode" window (not fullscreen, but otherwise like VSCode&#x27
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> from overexertion trying to be "passionate" about his job. This phrasing captures the issue exactly, imo. The split is between someone who is "trying" to be "passionate" about their work, versus someone fo
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by westoncb 6y ago
It's pretty different. If nothing else, it's playful with Feynman—almost done in jest as an aspect of the rogue part he often played, and largely innocuous. Others have already written about the issues with e.g. New Kind of Scienc
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> i think it'd be simpler to not fuss with these layers at all You should check out some example code for react-three-fiber (e.g. https://codesandbox.io/embed/r3f-bones-3i7iu ). If you have any experience with w
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by westoncb 6y ago
I've gone through a similar experience. I like the other concepts in keyboards like Ergodox/Moonlander etc., but as far as actual key-press-feel, none of these enthusiast keyboards come close to e.g. macbook keys. I think my ideal
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by westoncb 6y ago
Such a cool project. I found skimming the author's tutorial vids useful to get a sense of how it works: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SBYFBlr9k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIr0IP-MxDQ
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Thanks :)
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I hadn't seen that—looks perfect for my use case. Electron has certainly had its downsides (app size, of course), including the difficulty of integrating with Rust (via Neon). I'll keep an eye on it though I'd be concerned ab
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by westoncb 6y ago
A Rust/Electron/three.js cross-platform disk-space usage analyzer. It's meant to be easy to learn, efficient to use, and nice to look at. I have a beta up and would love any feedback: https://diskatlas.com/ I
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Is this the case just because it's common for these arguments to be structured as contradiction proofs? Since contradiction proofs are arguments that operate in connection with the structure of proofs in general rather than exclusively
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Apparently John Carmack thought highly of Ken's programming, too: "Carmack: Well there's a big difference between who I consider the most talented and who I would necessarily hire, because you have to hire people that fit rig
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I worked on this for quite a while: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd
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Yep: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-m...
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I've been developing one that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux and provides a unique/aesthetic/effective visualization. It's definitely more for the audience that enjoys sleek, convenient interfaces over tiny files sizes
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I have built a couple Electron apps, one of which will be available as a commercial product soon. The main advantages (over executing your app in-browser) to my knowledge: 1. You can execute native code outside normal browser sandbox 2. You

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