chhickman

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EbookFoundation/Free-Programming-Books(github.com)
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by chhickman 5y ago
There has been an open source successor to REBOL called Red[1] for years but progress seems to have been pretty sporadic. [1] https://www.red-lang.org/
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by chhickman 5y ago
Well, I would say that any physical implementation of a Turing machine will eventually halt because you cannot guarantee an infinite energy supply. So if we're willing to ignore physical limitations then humans can be Turing complete -
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by chhickman 5y ago
I would much rather see something like this: string longString = `This ` allows ` differentiation ` of `formatting
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by chhickman 5y ago
You can still observe a related effect to this in Windows 10. Open up any large(ish) file in NotePad++ or most any other editor and place the cursor in the text and drag to the bottom of the screen so it starts scrolling. If you hold the mo
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by chhickman 5y ago
One of my favorites in this vein is the channel below. This guy really knows how to "do what you can with what you have available". https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%AAnhs%C3%A1ngt%E1%BA%A1oVN-tr...
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by chhickman 5y ago
Punishment via fines should be entirely replaced with something more generally equitable: time. $60 parking ticket should be replaced with 1 hour of community service, which (mostly) equally "inconveniences" a blue collar worker a
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by chhickman 5y ago
Evil plan: Create a network distributed system (kind of like Seti@Home) specifically for doing this. If there was enough participation to make a difference the advertisers would have to invest in countermeasures which could lead to an arms-
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by chhickman 5y ago
I use a FireFox plugin that applies CSS for colorizing visited links on HN: a:link{ color: orange !important; } /* visited link */ a:visited { color: green !important; } https://mybrowseraddon
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by chhickman 5y ago
This one has been very influential to me: Big Ball of Mud Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder http://www.laputan.org/mud/
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by chhickman 5y ago
There's no shortage of very striking counter-examples to what you're saying in recent events. I think it's far more accurate to say that the educated can be led astray by complex ideas that are difficult to prove and the uned
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by chhickman 5y ago
The original promise of separation of concerns wasn't simply a code organization scheme, it was that we would be able to write composable software where components could be added or replaced with minimal systemic impact. We were going
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by chhickman 5y ago
I don't have time to watch the video right now, but after skimming the language reference I get the impression that is is sort of a modern-ish take on the 4GLs from 80s/90s - not the sexiest thing but I feel like there's defi
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by chhickman 5y ago
This is perhaps going to be an unpopular sentiment, but I think far too much breath is wasted on the "don't be clever" edict. No examples even spring to mind of any past experience where I ran into someone's "too cl
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by chhickman 6y ago
I think one of the failures in thinking around project cost and outcome is that not enough people realize that the effort around a project scales logarithmically, not linearly. This really means that small projects don't "scale do
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by chhickman 7y ago
Awesome yes... but definitely not irrational.
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by chhickman 7y ago
I agree that a Hello World is fairly useless example for anyone already familiar with programming languages. Perhaps something like a Fibonacci function should be the de facto short syntax example, as is common in functional languages. More
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by chhickman 7y ago
Cowgirls and cowboys! Yeehaw!
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by chhickman 7y ago
> Extrapolating unwarranted conclusions is bad. But that's practically all they're used for!
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by chhickman 7y ago
> It would be interesting to see something using WASM to run a web server in the browser. You could possibly get one going on top of something like this: https://browsix.org/
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by chhickman 7y ago
> The only reason I have the 'pro' version is the "safety" feature that lets my wife know where I am, approximately. >Anyone got a good alternative for that? Take a look at Life360. You don't need the paid ver
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by chhickman 7y ago
> Refueling nuclear aircraft carriers have projections start to finish, a half decade long. The difference is that those projections weren't spit out on the fly by a engineer after a 15 minute pitch of some manager's great new
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by chhickman 7y ago
I don't think I have ever experienced this. I do however experience something like the opposite: music I don't like can evoke anything from a mild sense of dread to an almost caged-animal level of irritation - a very physical leve