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by yiyus 7y ago
The first example is a new version of mesh based on the k programming language (afaik, still under development). If you are not familiar with k or other array languages, you may find much clearer the examples in which he shows the previous
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by yiyus 7y ago
The people in the saturated hospitals know what's going on. HN or Reddit had nothing to do with that.
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by yiyus 7y ago
No, I don't. I think that extensions are extensions which by definition are not part of the standard. Compilers should allow extensions, but the standard does not necessarily have to. I do not say it should be done this way, but it is
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by yiyus 7y ago
During WW2, there were not a large supply of shut down weapon factories. Car factories, for example, could be retrofitted to fabricate ventilators. It will not be easy, it will cost money and a relatively long time, but it will probably be
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by yiyus 7y ago
I don't see any problem with syntax not allowed by the standard being a breach of the standard.
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by yiyus 7y ago
There are many people who enjoy producing "silly products and services". Eg: many people who are left at home spending time doing what they enjoy will make beer or wine. Some of these beers and wines will be excellent, people will
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by yiyus 7y ago
> "harmonises" in the sense that it takes one of the most common programming symbols and changes it? I don't know of anyone that sees "2 & 3 = 2" and thinks "yeah this makes sense". There are a few
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by yiyus 7y ago
Postscript is a concatenative (stack-based) language, not algol-like at all. Just as array languages, concatenative ones are terse and regular, but reversed (left-to-right evaluation instead of right-to-left). In my opinion, it is a fair co
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by yiyus 7y ago
Analogies are just analogies. The point of my comment was that you need to approach this with an open mind, forgetting what you already know from other languages. > Overly-concise code being difficult to maintain is a well-accepted fact.
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by yiyus 7y ago
Roughly: let max = list[0]; for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) { max = Math.max(list[i], max); } With a|b, you get the maximum between a and b. / is reduction. So, |/list, will be equivalent to list[
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by yiyus 7y ago
I love small languages (lisps, forths, apls) and think that there is much to learn from them, but you need an open mind. You need to start from zero and totally forget your ALGOL-mindset while you are learning the new paradigm. It's li
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by yiyus 7y ago
The author is a K professional developer who works with K on a daily basis and have implemented a K interpreter in JS (oK). He is not frustrated, he is making a point. It looks like you perfectly got the point.
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by yiyus 7y ago
> A gas station has to be one of the riskiest place to catch the virus When talking about travelling options, the alternatives are trains and buses. In a train or bus station, the volume of people is several orders of magnitude larger, a
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by yiyus 7y ago
Multiplication of octonions is non-associative and usually expressed by simple juxtaposition.
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by yiyus 7y ago
It's totally worth it from a pedagogical point of view, both to learn the FE method and to learn the programming language.
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The geometric and exterior products used in GA are non-commutative too.
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As someone who has to teach GA, may I ask what you tried and what you found difficult? I see problems with the non-standard notation, for example. I also think that it is much easier to understand 3D-GA starting with 2D or even 1D, and of c
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by yiyus 7y ago
> If people put in as much effort to understand quaternions as has been expended in this article, then quaternions would probably be just as easy to grasp and the system being described. You can do anything you do with our numbers with r
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by yiyus 7y ago
That makes sense. Using a timeout is much more appropriate for this specific article.
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That's curious. I have the opposite problem. Solving difficult problems is a main part of my job. I love a challenge and get totally absorbed by a good problem. I read everything I find about the topic, I try different solutions, I thi
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by yiyus 7y ago
For sure, there are a few cases like the one you mention (I personally work with this kind of code in a daily basis), but that's not the reason most people use Fortran. There are many libraries with a level of robustness and performanc
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by yiyus 7y ago
I do not know what you are talking about. We study Ramón y Cajal in school, the most important grants in Spain are named after him, there is a Ramon y Cajal square or street in every city... Even the most ignorant Spaniard knows him and wil
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by yiyus 7y ago
Having such a repo would be great, but IMO we'd still need those dumb PDFs.
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by yiyus 7y ago
I have always thought it first appeared in K&R, but I do not know where I got that from.
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by yiyus 7y ago
You can be fine with looking at a few pictures and some wikipedia pages, but it is not comparable to making a real trip. Books are worth it.
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by yiyus 7y ago
And apple is a horrible name for a computer because you may find fruit, amazon fire will give you trees in flames, and word, office, windows... It is difficult to find things when you do not know what you are searching for.
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by yiyus 7y ago
I guess you love the extra menu items you only get with Shift+Right button.
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by yiyus 7y ago
The comment was relevant, and welcomed. Sorry if my response gave other impression. I just don't agree with that premise of the article. There is extremely bloated software that can be replaced by a few lines of code but, in general, m
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by yiyus 7y ago
It looks like yours was a case of NIH syndrome. That has nothing to do with minimalism.
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Q for mortals

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