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by zem 1y ago
this will work very well with free threaded python you don't need sub interpreters. I agree that it's the most promising approach I've seen yet.
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by zem 1y ago
it's philosophically wrong to say "you need to buy a phone, give some company your personal information, and pay for connectivity on a recurring basis, simply to be able to use a public service"
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by zem 1y ago
pytype is based in part upon byterun https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/developers/i... I learnt a lot about bytecode interpreters from working on it, and it helped me understand t
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by zem 1y ago
this looks extremely promising https://microsoft.github.io/verona/pyrona.html
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by zem 1y ago
what is a ytb?
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by zem 1y ago
and with http://www.geoffreylandis.com/infinite.htp
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by zem 1y ago
post office and USDA (pre trump regime slash-and-burn of course)
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by zem 1y ago
looks neat, and definitely in the spiritual tradition of shoes! how does deployment work? can this be used to ship apps where the end user doesn't need to be aware of hokusai or ruby?
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by zem 1y ago
python packages that do a lot of metaprot can only be properly type checked if you replicate that metaprogramming at the type level. e.g. if dataclasses were not part of the standard library they would need a plug-in to be handled correctly
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by zem 1y ago
language tooling is a sweet spot for rust, for sure.
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by zem 1y ago
I don't know about short, some of those screens took forever to beat! (and I finally hit one I just couldn't and abandoned the game, but it was indeed fun up to then)
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by zem 1y ago
deluxepaint and fantavision were both amazing beginner-friendly art and animation (respectively) apps from the dos era, whose equivalents i have yet to see.
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by zem 1y ago
I think it's unfortunate they threw the bit about hickey in there; the part about a shiny new language helping relieve the tedium of enterprise software was a good one
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by zem 1y ago
you wouldn't get it
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by zem 1y ago
off the top of my head, making sure that the building rent was paid and maintenance and supplies taken care of for various offices, managing calendars for the executives, managing software licenses, doing any government paperwork that was n
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by zem 1y ago
interesting! how are the administrative tasks managed, or are there just not that many of them? I've worked for a pretty small startup that still had a dedicated admin person who had a ton of stuff to do, though maybe Indian companies
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by zem 1y ago
I looked at the careers page and could not see any administrative roles - I wonder it they pay the same for these (very impressive if so) or outsource those roles to staffing agencies.
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by zem 1y ago
I think of it as "we have a team developing this product, the product makes money, and we use that money to compensate the team". if the team as a whole needs support people in order to do its work, it seems like a great thing to
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by zem 1y ago
do sales folks have the option to take the flat salary instead? or is that seen as a lack of confidence in their abilities?
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by zem 2y ago
one of my favourite things about the first earthsea book in particular is that it is a remarkably thin book with the feel of a much larger novel. I have never seen that particular feat managed better - the book is not particularly dense i
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by zem 2y ago
not just the software, it caught on as a reasonably standard term for an instantaneous communication device, and a bunch of other SF works used it in tribute to le guin
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by zem 2y ago
same, I used to skip tehanu when I reread the series, but find it an excellent book today. it also helps that it's now the start of a second trilogy, so the shift from the first trilogy isn't really an issue. (I think younger me w
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by zem 2y ago
yeah, I know it's alive :) but I was hoping it would be one of the standard recommendations for javascript devs to reach for when they wanted a better type system. (I was also sad that it never developed a good option for desktop apps,
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by zem 2y ago
speaking of typescript and dart, the language i was really rooting for in that niche was haxe. wish it had gotten more mainstream.
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by zem 2y ago
I mean, that's one way to get Indians!
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by zem 2y ago
i love how that has a double meaning of "something so great everyone stops to applaud" and "something so bad the show cannot proceed". (and i'm amused that i cannot tell which one you mean here; ui animations are ve
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by zem 2y ago
"ringworld" had a nicely poetic passage about how the 21cm band had been swept clean by all the hydrogen in the universe and was therefore a natural frequency for aliens to try establishing communication over
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by zem 2y ago
clarke's "the fires within" was coincidentally also published in 1947
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by zem 2y ago
pratchett is my all time favourite writer, and I love the discworld series, but I never got a good sense of the "spaces between" the way tolkien could do it - e.g. the logistics of traveling from ankh morpork to the ramtops were a
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by zem 2y ago
brag is a pretty user-friendly parser generator for racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/brag/index.html

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