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   by xiaq 9y ago

   Hi, I am glad that you like it! In case you haven't noticed it, the demos on the homepage (which is a slideshow with animations) also works without JavaScript, it degrades gracefully into a top-down layout.
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   Author here, happy to answer questions. :)
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   Elvish: friendly and expressive shell(elvish.io)

   10 points by xiaq 9y ago|0 comments
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   Examples are a great way to learn. Problems arise when they are the only way one learns.
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   FWIW, here is a pretty complete shell mostly written by me in ~18K lines of Go: https://github.com/elves/elvish
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   Given how fast Maps can iterate as evident from the article, I would say that is premature optimization.
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   There is something missing in the "simple vs. easy" argument. You need to put things in the perspective of evolution. Designing an "easy" language is easy because you can usually resort to human intuitions, yours or some
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   Shameless plug: Elvish ( https://github.com/elves/elvish ) is a shell with a rich UI. The idea of enriching shell's UI is not new though, zsh and fish are both prior arts.
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   by xiaq 9y ago

   The trend is universal, although some developing countries have not reached that stage yet. Kurzgesagt has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
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    by xiaq 9y ago

    > 2. Replace Email > This will be done by notifications and direct messaging. Kids these days don't bother with email. Pg is not talking about personal emails for messaging. Personal messaging is mostly "read, reply, and for
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    by xiaq 9y ago

    One thing Apple has totally messed up in the Chinese market is localization. When I read Apple advertisements or texts on macOS or iOS UI, I always feel it's some foreigners who just learned to speak Chinese, yet trying to use Chinese
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    by xiaq 9y ago

    I agree with the first part, but the article has a point on WeChat. It is a very good example of how app vendors have stronger brands while smartphones are seen as commodities in China.
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    by xiaq 9y ago

    Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    Now that we're seeing WASM being supported, it would be awesome if code in the textbook runs in the browser.
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    I like the fact that many people consider "reading source code" a way to get Go answers. Go code, the standard library in particular, is really readable.
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    But the recruitment bar for everyone is roughly the same, no? If non-CS graduates generally are worse (which might be true), only the best of them get hired. This only makes sense if interviewers prefer non-CS graduates.
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    > 1. Restrict what language can do. Without pointers, you won't have to explain what pointers are and won't have to introduce complex mechanism to deal with them. Pointers are not complex, and pointer operations are not complic
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    Hi chubot, I didn't realize that you are developing a shell as well. It's great to see competitions. Can you share some ideas that you learned from the authors of said shells? I would love to hear those, designing shells is not an
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    If you are interested in a shell with first-class function, list and map values and pipelines that pass such complex data (instead of structureless bytes), you might be interested in elvish: https://github.com/elves/elv
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    If you enter an English query, it will translate to German, though
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    I've always thought about integrating this functionality into elvish https://github.com/elves/elvish but cannot cone up with a good syntax. dgsh has a good one, but unfortunately using & breaks its traditional
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    Good point, laws will be much easier to search if they are stored in a revision controlled system in the first place. But I think that it is even harder than what Open Law Library is trying to do.
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    I don't think you went off-topic at all. The article says "avoid judgement of a particular thing, since it will become outdated in future". E-prime says "now you can't make such judgements because I have taken away
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    https://github.com/swirepe/alwaysontop is this what you need? ascii.io seems down, but there is another screencast hosted here: https://asciinema.org/a/3779
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    In China, we do this in schools (at least in my hometown). High school starts at 8:30 in the winter, and 7:30 in the summer.
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    Rust, Go, C++, D(youtube.com)

    1 points by xiaq 10y ago|0 comments
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    > I actually don't know if Google has closed offices to avoid legal trouble. Google Beijing?
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    I am curious, which internet giant?
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    > Catching multiple exception types > Support class constant visibility Reminds me of what Rob Pike once said, "[Java, JavaScript (ECMAScript), Typescript, C#, C++, Hack (PHP), and more] are converging into a single huge language
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    by xiaq 10y ago

    I am curious, how did Fortress die?