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by drnewman 1y ago
Nice explanation
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by drnewman 1y ago
I’ll check it out. Thank you.
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by drnewman 1y ago
I would say more broadly the innovation was two fold: 1) to make these features available in a syntactic form that would seem more familiar to programmers and 2) the powerful insight that when combined with Smalltalk style meta programming
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by drnewman 1y ago
I agree blocks are closures. But they’re call stack aware closures. Which gives them _some_ of the power of continuations. I’m also sure you’re right that they’re not implemented using continuations. However, my understanding is that Ruby w
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by drnewman 1y ago
Yes Smalltalk has continuations. So it can do all of those things as well. But I don't think they're explicitly tied to blocks like they are in Ruby. This really isn't a problem for Smalltalk since it's not as syntax ori
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by drnewman 1y ago
I'd think the preferred way would be to implement them as a separate class. That'd be more in line with the design of other core classes (like TrueClass & FalseClass). It'd also have created the opportunity to create a &q
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by drnewman 1y ago
Yeah, I think I've heard that too.
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by drnewman 1y ago
That's insightful
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by drnewman 1y ago
Blocks in Smalltalk (to my understanding) are closures. Blocks in Ruby are closures that also bring the call stack they were created in with them. One way to think of about it is this: anonymous functions as originally implemented in early
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by drnewman 1y ago
It seems you're pretty upset about your experience with Ruby. I'm sorry that's been the case for you. However, in Ruby blocks aren't just about flexibility, more importantly they're about generality. They're no
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The Rekursiv Chip–A Smalltalk Machine(groups.google.com)
3 points by drnewman 1y ago|1 comments
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Bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets(theverge.com)
2 points by drnewman 2y ago|0 comments
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Earth's ice caps are temporary and rare, study suggests(earthsky.org)
5 points by drnewman 2y ago|0 comments
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by drnewman 2y ago
Laziness is great for collections, and modeling the infinite but as a general model for programming it's a little loopy for my taste too ;-)
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by drnewman 2y ago
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by drnewman 2y ago
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by drnewman 2y ago
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by drnewman 2y ago
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by drnewman 2y ago
Thank you for clarifying that.
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by drnewman 2y ago
Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm so glad that you and your dear one have gotten to such a beautiful place! I had to learn a similar lesson with regard to self-love and care from dealing with type-1 diabetes. My aha came in the f
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by drnewman 2y ago
True, but I think the point of the article is that, in modern life, we tend to err strongly in the other direction.
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by drnewman 3y ago
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by drnewman 3y ago
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by drnewman 3y ago
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by drnewman 3y ago
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Zoom Fatigue is From Boredom not Anxiety(psycnet.apa.org)
2 points by drnewman 3y ago|0 comments
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by drnewman 3y ago
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by drnewman 3y ago
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Emacs Is More Like a Terminal Than an Editor(delonnewman.name)
4 points by drnewman 3y ago|0 comments
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Circadian Rhythm Superpowers of Bears(newatlas.com)
3 points by drnewman 3y ago|0 comments

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