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by jimws 7y ago
This tutorial uses Pascal as the implementation language. Is there a similar tutorial done in a language that is mainstream today? Like Python? Go? Rust?
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by jimws 7y ago
I am one of those who moved from Perl to Python. As a Perl coder I loved writing clever hacks. After a few months of Python I began appreciating simplicity and elegance in code.
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by jimws 7y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/susam/texme . It does not introduce a new Markdown flavor. Just the regular Markdown + support for Latex.
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by jimws 7y ago
> But there is a point where using a simple and elegant tool stops being simple and elegant - it can only be tortured so far outside its intended use-case before it stops being useful. An alternative tool I've begun to like is TeXMe
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by jimws 7y ago
When a website disappears completely, there is no web server to respond with HTTP 300.
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by jimws 7y ago
Problems like this can be easily caught by linters like eslint or standardjs.
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by jimws 7y ago
These open source groups could surely use a chatbot to log the chats to some place for archival and make the archive searchable, can't they? By the way, I find IRC/Slack good for real-time support. By nature of being real-time sup
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by jimws 7y ago
Open space offices is another similar fad that I cannot stand. Who wants to be at the constant risk of being interrupted and be distracted by side-channel chatter! The situation has become so bad that I cannot find many companies I can work
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Ask HN: Is there any programming language with a Physics-like dimensional types?
3 points by jimws 7y ago|3 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
This is something that bothers me a lot. I have traveled to the UK a lot and oh, what a fine nation! I love being in the UK. Good weather, amazing people, great food and drinks! The literary culture is still very strong in the UK. But what
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by jimws 7y ago
> Most people don't have side projects. Do you have any citation to back this up? My anecdata indicates otherwise. Most people I meet in IT do have side projects. They may not be popular or successful but they exist.
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by jimws 7y ago
I think you can use ".intel_syntax noprefix" with GNU as to assemble Intel assembly.
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by jimws 7y ago
What are the advantages of pipenv compared to plain pip and python3 -m venv/virtualenv? The latter works fine for me. What are good reasons to switch to pipenv?
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Explainer: Reducing User-Agent Granularity(github.com)
12 points by jimws 7y ago|9 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
There was a recent thread[1] that shows how to setup Lisp development environment in Vim.[2] If you know Vim already, then check it out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735148 [2] https://susam.in&#x2F
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by jimws 7y ago
Yes, the project is disingenuous. It claims there is a bug but really it is just functioning as designed.
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by jimws 7y ago
Just provide the commands again as text. I don't have to wait for the entire asciinema to replay. I can ctrl+f what I need and copy-paste.
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by jimws 7y ago
Thank you for making this point. Plain text is really underappreciated. When I visit a project README, I don't want to wait for the entire replay. I just to skip to the part of the documentation that is relevant to me. A short asciinem
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by jimws 7y ago
This did sound like a disclosure to me as well. A disclaimer would be something like, "Use it. Your mileaage may vary. I am not responsible for any troubles you encounter whilen using it."
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by jimws 7y ago
This is an awesome project with awesome write up. I miss the days of pixelated console games. The constrained environment led to so much creativity. Are there any new games like this being written anymore?
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Ask HN: What hobby projects do you work on after your 8-hour workday?
1 points by jimws 7y ago|1 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
Lisp had this kind of interactive programming support for a long time using SLIME and Emacs. Why isn't this a more common feature in the more recent languages?
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by jimws 7y ago
> Looks just like PDF. It's better than PDF. Text in PDF is not reflowable. This demo is by virtue of being HTML under the hood. Looks good even after resizing the browser. I wish PDFs had a reflowable mode. What would it take to ad
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by jimws 7y ago
I have seen this in CentOS. Also see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/159390
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by jimws 7y ago
> Is there any persuasive reason for a college student today to try desktop Linux? I think not if we look at Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. But maybe small ones like Alpine Linux? This brings up a good question: What good free and open source ope
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by jimws 7y ago
Who else here dislikes Systemd? I do. There is so much hidden magic in terms of configuration that when things go wrong, they really go wrong. One of the things that burnt me initially was that journalctl logs are not persistent. They disap
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by jimws 7y ago
> Most non-trivial theorems about TMs are un-provable[0] Did you mean "conjectures"? Theorems need to be provable by definition, don't they?
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by jimws 7y ago
After Picasa (the desktop tool) was sunset, Darktable became my tool of choice. It is free and open source and understands real life photo related editing better than GIMP.
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by jimws 7y ago
The interesting question is: Has someone "harcoded" a clever optimisation specifically for Collatz conjecture? Or did the general optimisation techniques figure this out of their own?
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by jimws 7y ago
That's the reality of a lot of open source based services. Did you know that the entire PyPI was run and probably still is being run by just two guys?

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