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by btbytes 8mo ago
Not surprisingly, it is J [1], an APL dialect. [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/
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by btbytes 9mo ago
have you read about Erlang supervision trees? https://adoptingerlang.org/docs/development/supervision_tree...
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by btbytes 1y ago
Common things in all these Pro-Apple threads: 1. Macbook users who have/are using non-Apple laptops that find the average work-issued Intel laptops to be just meh or worse. 2. People that only buy some exclusive Lenovo, Framework lapt
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by btbytes 1y ago
The new `uv format` is just a shortcut for `uv run --with ruff ruff`.
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by btbytes 1y ago
For many years I went without looking at LinkedIn at all. I even deleted my LinkedIn account for couple of years in mid '10s. I have found a lot of value in LinkedIn recently after I started interacting with news, posts, and people tha
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by btbytes 1y ago
It is called Uniform [Function] Call Syntax. D has had this for decade(s): https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/uniform-function-call-sy... Nim too has it: https://nim-by-example.github.io/oop&
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by btbytes 1y ago
The number of web projects that fall into these categories vastly outnumber “complex” projects. For complex there is always WASM.
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by btbytes 2y ago
If you want to talk to someone who has been in the industry (both non-tech industry, to tech industry, to tech industry giants) for 20+, you can reach out to me. I'm happy to hop on a zoom/teams call. Contact info in bio.
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by btbytes 6y ago
Here's an implementation using plain javascript and a JSON file to store short-codes and target URLs: https://www.btbytes.com/posts/url-shortener.html
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by btbytes 6y ago
You don't have to override the template in the lua code to include the mvp.css file. use --css argument to set the location of the css file. it can even take multiple arguments (one for mvp.css and one for chartss.css). In the current
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by btbytes 7y ago
As user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the help of Pandoc). You can see that the example chapter of this book looks exactly like the bookdown output[2]. The bookdown PDF explains in detail how to use Rmd+
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by btbytes 7y ago
D's default package manager already allows you to write code like this which 1. runs the code like a script 2. downloads dependencies if they are required. #!/usr/bin/env dub /+ dub.sdl: name &quot
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by btbytes 7y ago
This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesthetically close to what you d
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by btbytes 7y ago
There is a whole book on the ill effects of too much light in modern times -- Lights Out ( https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lights-Out/T-S-Wiley/... )
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by btbytes 7y ago
nim/zig/red. * I already use nim and I'm very productive in it. * Would like to use Zig for "system programming" when and if something like Nim (and D) are inadequate. * Red because its a REBOL and it can be a mind
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by btbytes 7y ago
I have a whole page on nim here - https://www.btbytes.com/nim.html Edit:typo
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by btbytes 7y ago
I'm the author. You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me. At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.
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by btbytes 9y ago
My comment was about the presence of culturally rich languages in India, including Tamil. You and the original commenters have made this about Tamil's antiquity. Why the low self-esteem and victim complex? This is not forum/thread
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by btbytes 9y ago
Same with Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam etc.,
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by btbytes 9y ago
So can you with D. With D, in addition, you can link against C shared libraries (dynamic linking) AND you can write standalone libraries in D that even C can link against (see Mir/betterC). AFAIK, you can do neither of these in Go.
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by btbytes 9y ago
I have an OpenShift account and now I'm shown an "additional action needed" page on login. When i complete it and hit submit, it tells me that email already exists. Not at all pleasant :(
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by btbytes 9y ago
Excelsior JET -- https://www.excelsiorjet.com/ AOT compiler producing native binaries.
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by btbytes 9y ago
What does "cooked-in" mean in this context. Never heard of this expression before ;)
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by btbytes 12y ago
This is a better typeset version (without the bold font-face and using monospace for code): https://github.com/btbytes/pol/raw/master/POL.pdf
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by btbytes 14y ago
I suggest that you open up the doc source on github so that you can attract contributions from people while still maintaining editorial control. A good example is: python-guide.org -- http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html
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Building a Technology Company (hasgeek): outsource vs open source(jace.zaiki.in)
5 points by btbytes 14y ago|1 comments
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by btbytes 16y ago
Quick recipe to make a blog post from the command line. $ cat - > newblogpost.txt type in what you have to say ^D Use pandoc to convert the text bits to html bits $ pandoc newblogpost.txt -f markdown -t html -o ne
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by btbytes 17y ago
Try http://github.com/btbytes/webgen.py . This is a static site generator written in Python. It's a single Python file, with support to mardown, textile etc. The template is one single file too which is based on YUI.
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by btbytes 17y ago
I wrote one http://teh.appspot.com/ many months back. The source is here: http://github.com/btbytes/teh/tree/master
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by btbytes 18y ago
Thanks. The feed is in Atom format. It works in Safari, but not in Firefox. Feedvalidator tells me that the date does not follow RFC-3339. I'll fix that.

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