BeautifulSynch

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by BeautifulSynch 2y ago
I mean, it would be really nice if we didn’t have to drop into SVG or XWidget to mix text with GUI elements… But agreed that Emacs is more user-extensible than all the other options presently out there, purely from how easy text-oriente
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by BeautifulSynch 2y ago
As I understand his claims, “less code that ran faster” was after switching from existing web frameworks to web.py, a from-scratch web framework he wrote himself to ‘do the right thing, simply’ (as all the best frameworks do). The decision
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by BeautifulSynch 2y ago
> And yet, most programmers have an irrational fear of built-in metaprogramming because it "makes hard to understand code". But seemingly nobody is afraid of bad metaprogramming, like code generation. Which I would argue is mor
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by BeautifulSynch 2y ago
That’s not a matter of the language; and I don’t mean that in the “No True Scotsman” way either. Lisp definitely allows you to write code that is very easy to come back to and understand. I’ve written code like that, and I’ve seen code li
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by BeautifulSynch 2y ago
Something was bugging me about this article the first time I read it, so I made a mind map. Turns out, not once does the author actually give a reason why Python was better than Lisp for Reddit. The only references to that connection at all
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by BeautifulSynch 3y ago
Not a Firefox user, but this feels like a culture gap. I use multiple applications where configurability through user-code is part of the SLA, and dropping support would be as utterly unacceptable as, say, dropping the toolbar. Considering
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by BeautifulSynch 3y ago
Scientists are people too. These efforts have always struck me as a desperate attempt to cling to conventionally intuitive views of what humanity and sapience actually means, in the face of physical laws which don't seem to treat &quot
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by BeautifulSynch 3y ago
I think the difference here is whether we're considering the plausibility that there aren't any security violations versus the overall frequency and severity. Centralization significantly increases the chance that all the syst
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by BeautifulSynch 3y ago
I've actually seen this usage pattern in the practical usage of logic programming libraries. Common Lisp's Screamer [1], for instance, or Clojure's less-mature core.logic [2]. Though to be fair, both of these libraries are in