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by 5166cc9c39fa61 7y ago
And not surprisingly that makes it less readable. It is a lot harder to have one-character names when you need to scroll across many pages to look up what they mean. So the more code you have, the longer code you need. As Eric Evans points
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 7y ago
I think a good introduction to this style of coding is the first "proof of concept" prototype interpreter for a small subset of J, also written by Whitney: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabul
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 7y ago
> Array languages are the most "obscure" of all paradigms I have looked into. Even concatenative ones have some few resources about how work. Have you tried looking at APL books? There are dozens of books on APL you can find. T
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> If the city was willing to sell at cost (seriously, morphine and oxy isn't expensive to make at all), it would also destroy that economy, and potentially free some back in the hands of the people. There is a proposal for heroin bu
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
I would take elisp over TypeScript any day. The tooling around TypeScript is hot garbage, debugging async code is a huge time waster, and things that are trivial with dynamic binding turn into major undertakings because of the module system
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> Maybe it's the display, since I still only have the old 1600x panel. It is most likely due to poor quality batteries. The "cells" in a 9-cell battery are 18650 batteries, which vary in capacity from 3400mAh at the high e
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> 16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible. I found a way to turn 16:9 into an advantage: if you go for 70-character columns, you can get a 3-column display in a tiling WM or Emacs if your resolution is 128
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> If you haven't touched an NMB Thinkpad keyboard, you haven't actually used a proper Thinkpad. All these years as a Thinkpad user, and I had no idea of NMB vs ALPS vs Chicony. I thought the variation in the keyboard feel in th
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's. Were you using PowerBooks? Touchpads were unusual in laptops until about 2000, when things started going downhill. Al
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
If you are wondering "why drop support for the 386?," the diff for the removal of 386 support from the Linux kernel is a good read: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds&
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> Many German cities are so overcrowded that you need to network like in socialism to get what you want, as there are things that money can't buy (or at least only a lot more money can buy). Similar situation in New York City for th
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> Except the Wolfram Language provides access to vast information about the world. Which is mostly pulled in from public data sources, such as the CIA World Factbook, US census and economic data, US Geological Survey data, Wikipedia, Ope
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies. The blind person that told me about how much better Gopher was than the modern web for blind people was not a techie, and I don't think it is moral to t
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
Rather than throwing even more money at Wolfram, it would be even better to put up a fund (maybe a crowdsourced campaign) to buy the rights to Macsyma and PDEase to release them under the GPL.
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by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
Those are some really good examples of the opposite of what you intended to say. > * Wonky unwieldy hypertext systems instead of the WWW Which ones? Gopher wasn't hypertext, but it is still going and still a good idea. A conversion