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by yiyus 11y ago
Nothing at all. But, if Julia takes off, I would not expect it to be the main selling point. It can be a very interesting feature for somebody into language design, but the average Joe working in a lab is not going to learn a completely new
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by yiyus 11y ago
The scientific community is not going to adopt any new language until most used idioms can be easily found in a quick search and copy-pasted. It is extremely difficult to arrive there. I totally agree that having dynamic dispatch in the fir
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by yiyus 11y ago
I do not do that. I have copied and pasted git clone commands directly in my terminals many times. The questions is, for those who do it, how often you notice a malicious command and this saves your day.
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by yiyus 11y ago
Indeed, there are some exceptions. In the book "La Colmena" (I guess it is called "The Hive" in English), by Camilo Jose Cela, there is a man who invents words. He meets with writers in a café, and all of them listen to
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by yiyus 11y ago
Thank you very much for a very detailed answer. It is much clearer to me what are the strengths of the project now. Something I wonder is if there are any plans to make blabs capable of dealing with the heavy computations needed in scientif
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by yiyus 11y ago
Isn't this the case for every word? I would cut off my right hand if you found, for example, the word banana in old texts from the time before bananas were discovered.
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by yiyus 11y ago
As somebody who has to deal with spreadsheets every day and hates that workflow, I really appreciate the initiative. That said, I would like to see a more clear explanation of what is the use case. Scientific computing is a too general term
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by yiyus 11y ago
At difference of complaining about people complaining, which I see is worth your time... Take it easy people. The web site was not clear for me, the author was asking for input so I raised my point. I already apologized for using the wrong
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by yiyus 11y ago
Yes, but isn't it expected to find that information in the "About" section of the main site instead of needing to search for it? I am just asking for an introductory paragraph like the first paragraph in that Wikipedia articl
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by yiyus 11y ago
Answering the question in the introduction: No, I do not remember how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was. I do not even know what you are talking about. And since you do not even give me a link, I am not sure I should care. I finally figured
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by yiyus 11y ago
Disinhibition.
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by yiyus 11y ago
I would think any question starting with "Would you..." gets more chances of getting a "Yes" as an answer when the person you are asking is drunk, whatever is the question.
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by yiyus 11y ago
What about Limbo? It is not even mentioned. I would expect to see it below Alef.
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by yiyus 11y ago
That's not true. Funding is important, but once you have it you stop looking for more. I've been working in research for years, both in companies and universities, and I have always been involved in long-term projects, so I have n
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by yiyus 11y ago
This is a key aspect. There is a pressure (both institutional and self-imposed) to produce something original and unique, so trying to reproduce other people results is seen as a lost of time. Either you confirm previous results, which is n
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by yiyus 11y ago
IANAL, but I guess the file format itself is not covered by the GPL 3, only the reference implementation. They specifically say that "FLIF is completely royalty-free and it is not encumbered by software patents". So, I suppose peo
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by yiyus 11y ago
"This is another piece of art" would be as useful as the interpretations in this site.
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by yiyus 11y ago
They probably will.
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by yiyus 11y ago
Just FTR, the Spanish word for "surround" is "rodear".
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by yiyus 11y ago
> We live in a world where an idea that does something that has never been done before can be built at home and shared without cost [...], all without it having any use or any place in the market. Outside of art, that is something we did
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by yiyus 11y ago
Overreacting by immense proportions is what reddit does. I do not know any details about Victoria's firing and I do not care about them, but obviously somebody up there did a terrible job managing the whole situation.
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by yiyus 11y ago
s/o/u/
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by yiyus 11y ago
You are not alone. See, for example, suckless.org.
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by yiyus 11y ago
What I expect from a music player is to play all my songs in random order, such that once a song has been played, it is not picked again until all songs have been played. There is a difference between randomly picking an element from a list
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by yiyus 11y ago
It depends how you define success. It is indeed a remarkable achievement to have survived this long and have a (growing? I think so) speaker community, and I could agree it is worth learning. But the goal was not to just work, or have a sma
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by yiyus 11y ago
It would have only one page that said: "This is not for you".
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by yiyus 11y ago
I have interest in these languages because, in general, I have high appreciation for simple solutions to complex problems. I find very interesting how they solve different challenges. I just learn a bit about them, but do not learn to speak
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by yiyus 11y ago
It is not the same case. Esperanto was one of the first attempts. Now that we have Esperanto, Intelingua, Ido, Novial, and many others I have not even hear about, trying again with a new international language would be a good reason to post
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by yiyus 11y ago
My projector does, in some way.
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by yiyus 11y ago
Eventually, will this work "out of the box"?

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