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by wgoodall01 5y ago
This has been seen in a mainstream lisp before! (sort of) Wolfram Language uses almost this exact syntax—function application looks like f[x,y], but in all other respects, it works like a LISP would.
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by wgoodall01 7y ago
Replace "text editor" with "IDE," and that 700mb figure doesn't seem so extravagant.
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Fitting the World: Determining Physical Scale from Satellite Images(community.wolfram.com)
1 points by wgoodall01 7y ago|0 comments
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by wgoodall01 7y ago
I feel that this isn't quite a fair comparison. Take any other language with a web framework---Ruby with Rails, Java with Play/Spring, any web server which exposes a CGI interface, Python with Django/flask/whatever---and
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by wgoodall01 7y ago
I wouldn't agree with that---media players are often fed untrusted content from the Internet, so a security issue in a shared media player API can be critical. See the Android StageFright vulnerability from a few years back. Writing it
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by wgoodall01 7y ago
Isn't it better to crash than to fail silently, possibly storing malformed data?
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by wgoodall01 7y ago
I'm a student, mainly using GCP for hobby/hackathon projects, and to teach myself. I am massively excited about Cloud Run's free tier---for someone with a budget of zero, being able to get a project off the ground and functio
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by wgoodall01 8y ago
Basically, that sounds like a union for app developers. That might end up being a positive thing.
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by wgoodall01 8y ago
I mean really, what's the difference? They can access that file at any time they want anyhow---as long as they only send it to their server after user consent, I'm really failing to see a problem here. Making a copy of one file th
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by wgoodall01 8y ago
I'd say that the massive investment is necessary because of how uncomplicated this particular system is. Without a large, sprawling, and well-funded project backing it, a simple (and probably far more reliable) solution can lack cred
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by wgoodall01 8y ago
Iirc, you can buy Lightroom 6 perpetually, no creative cloud needed. Might be worth looking into.
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I'm Looking to Hire a Publicist(paulbogaards.tumblr.com)
1 points by wgoodall01 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgoodall01 9y ago
You might want to do that soon-ish, just because of the flakiness of most hard drives. Take a solid backup of the files and put it somewhere reliable. Although it's hard to look through personal files like that, it's even worse if
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by wgoodall01 9y ago
Although raising kids without access to TV/social media may seem like a great way to avoid their downsides, like ad targeting, it ultimately only serves to cut them off from their peers. TV and social media serve as vital cultural refe
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by wgoodall01 9y ago
Create-react-app is the way to go for beginners. It gets you up and running with the full toolchain with 0 setup or configuration - you can get right into learning React itself. All you need is node, npm, and an editor, and you are pretty m