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by _vya7 1y ago
Tay all over again.
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by _vya7 1y ago
Ha, anyone remember Microsoft's Tay?
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by _vya7 1y ago
That kind of makes sense for a lowest common denominator. Then what is it good for? Just simple apps?
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by _vya7 1y ago
I remember using pip and venv back in like 2009. Last time I checked, maybe 5 or 10 years ago, the recommendation of the community was generally to just use Docker instead of all these tools. Did that not catch on?
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by _vya7 9y ago
After spending 50 months with Clojure, I can safely say it's my favorite server-side programming language (with Datomic as my favorite database), and the tooling (CIDER + Paredit + Emacs) is really downright amazing in terms of product
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by _vya7 10y ago
I think it's just a few isolated projects. The only ones that come to mind are this one and NightCode.
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by _vya7 10y ago
> The whole world deserves to experience what it feels like to be in your present moment. I'm glad the author found something that helped him through depression. Unfortunately this is not a silver bullet. It won't work for ev
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by _vya7 10y ago
My "aha" moment when trying to understand channels in Go was when I realized that everything about how this feature is designed comes from their answer to the question "how could we 'fix' select() in C?". In fa
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by _vya7 10y ago
This makes a lot of sense in the context of programming languages, where counting usually starts "where you are", thus 0 moves forward. But it doesn't really apply in the natural world, where 1 is a much better starting numbe
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by _vya7 10y ago
Really enjoying seeing a lot of new projects based on Hammerspoon. And very glad for the people who created it, because maintaining the precursor was a daunting job and took too much of my time and gave me too much stress.
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by _vya7 10y ago
This is actually why I prefer Emacs. I can literally do all my development work in Emacs, with a full-featured shell (e-shell), directory explorer (dir-ed), REPL and full IDE for Clojure (CIDER). It's pretty great.
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by _vya7 10y ago
Sometimes anger is justified. And sometimes it calls for a good venting. Sometimes it even calls for a little activism. And sometimes all of these are just futile, because richer people are in control of what you see and hear, who have inte
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by _vya7 10y ago
He either completely misses the point, or completely gets it. Every single one of these "benefits" are very well thought out and calculated shams meant to deceive and manipulate impressionable kids into working insane hours for le
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by _vya7 10y ago
At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where
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by _vya7 10y ago
Some of the comments here are really missing the point. antirez's original text editor was a full featured text editor -- meaning fully customizable (and fast!) syntax highlighting, and a very intuitive search feature -- written in p
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by _vya7 10y ago
Speaking of vim, just a reminder that @antirez made a terminal based text editor in pure C with no dependencies, not even ncurses, in under 1000 lines of code, complete with search feature, and customizable syntax highlighting for variable
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by _vya7 10y ago
Maybe not such a shame. Having something (mostly) static like CSS has lots of performance advantages. Imagine the web being even slower than it already is, that's what DSSSL probably would have resulted in.
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by _vya7 10y ago
What, like dad jokes? > I have a fear of speed bumps. Im slowly getting over it. Dad jokes are one of those things were people shake their heads and sigh, as if they're displeased, but internally they're laughing their butts
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by _vya7 10y ago
I heard of zsh back around 2012, lots of colleagues who I respected very highly were using it. But I just never could get behind the idea of using someone else's defaults. Even when I switched to Emacs, I hand-picked every line in my c
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by _vya7 11y ago
Well and fine, but those tools then need to be maintained forever , and they become yet another tool in the stack for developers who come on board to a company which has adopted them. It's easier and quicker to learn a new library l
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by _vya7 11y ago
That's kind of how news works. It does whatever it can to grab our attention and keep us as long as possible. So it shouldn't be surprising when we read a news article and feel the way the article intended for us to feel. The way
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by _vya7 12y ago
For those who are not familiar with Lua, or who have heard the prevalent "conventional wisdom" about it, here's a quick clarification: A. Lua's source code is really really small and extremely well-commented[1]. B. Lua i
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Show HN: Mjolnir, an automation/productivity app for OS X(mjolnir.io)
43 points by _vya7 12y ago|29 comments
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by _vya7 12y ago
> But in the given example, shouldn't the compiler be able to see, via a simple analysis, that this function is only being applied to lists of numbers? No, that's the beauty and curse of dynamic languages such as the Scheme m
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Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
199 points by _vya7 13y ago|186 comments
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Ask HN: cheap ways to host your own email server?
53 points by _vya7 13y ago|52 comments
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Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic?
11 points by _vya7 13y ago|28 comments