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User Story(beyondloom.com)
10 points by kick 5y ago|2 comments
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by kick 6y ago
Fox News was notoriously famous for having extremely negative coverage on African Americans during the 1990s through 2014. They still are famous for that. National Review was extremely famous for it, too. The New York Times was also a con
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by kick 6y ago
Journalism was rarely feigning objectiveness: during the 1920s through the 1970s, some of the strongest voices in favor of labor were journalists. "Neutrality" is largely a construct, or meme, that has been pushed by Rupert Murdoc
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by kick 6y ago
No, they say that hackers "not only broke into their database; they changed the names and passwords of profiles" but they admittedly do not attribute that to the group. You can't negate "They don't accuse Sci-Hub
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by kick 6y ago
That link is transparently pushing something, and what it's pushing definitely isn't "the truth." The only thing, and I repeat: the only thing that absolutely ridiculous, fearmongering, slanderous article even says o
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by kick 6y ago
Drew is an Alpine maintainer. Alpine, which you might know as probably the most-used server-side Linux distribution in the world right now, bootstraps everything in its repositories, just like every major Linux distribution on the planet.
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by kick 6y ago
I figured that was implied with the mention of Ken Thompson in the same sentence ("Ken Thompson's APL") and all.
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by kick 6y ago
Morten Kromberg (big guy at Dyalog; coincidentally, author of the post we're discussing) in "justifying" why Dyalog isn't libre, just a few days ago: There is little risk of the demise of Dyalog APL any time soon. Our c
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by kick 6y ago
Yes, the one mentioned in the post. https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard/
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by kick 6y ago
"the best syntax" Yes, absolutely. By a long shot. For starters, J can actually be parsed. (k can also be parsed, for what it's worth.) "Easiest to learn"? Spend ten minutes using J's built-in Labs feature.
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by kick 6y ago
If you're interested in recent developments in array languages, I recommend checking out: BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ ngn/k https://git.sr.ht/~ngn/k/tree/master/it
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by kick 6y ago
He has a lot of really good blog posts and software toys on his site and on itch. I recommend looking through them. He also has a web comic that's pretty good, but he hasn't updated it in a while. http://beyondloom.com&
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by kick 6y ago
http://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html
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by kick 6y ago
The SE chat is really worth lurking if you're at all curious about APL; nearly everyone who has written a publicly-available array language implementation who isn't dead or over sixty is active on it.
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by kick 6y ago
You could check and see if it was ever posted on the Shootout site with archive.org, but when I checked coverage was spotty. The point of these benchmarks is everyone being able to run them themselves, though.
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by kick 6y ago
If you look at my post history, it's actually primarily free software APL implementations! ngn/k is amazing. John Earnest's work with his own variants is really fantastic. I dislike klong and Kona.
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by kick 6y ago
He wrote solutions for Shootout (predecessor to that Debian page) problems a few years ago; a lack of k in benchmarks is not due to a lack of k being volunteered: http://www.kparc.com/z/comp.k k is really fast. Half of
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by kick 6y ago
There is privacy. Citing a philosopher that made his life into a joke doesn't magically make privacy disappear.
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by kick 6y ago
He didn't say his name, though. At minimum it's a desire to stay pseudonymous, and I think it should be respected. The idea that privacy can be violated like this solely because random Facebook users are interested in it and on
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by kick 6y ago
Why do those people deserve to know anything? They obviously haven't sought it out, and given he hadn't contacted them in years, it's completely pointless to assume they were close. Answer: They don't. Privacy should be
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by kick 6y ago
Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you have concerns over
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by kick 6y ago
It's amazing how rude Facebook, reddit, and in this case, greedy companies, can be. If he cared enough about anyone knowing who he was, he'd have told someone. This is just blatant disregard for a man's privacy.
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by kick 6y ago
Did you mean KDE Plasma 5? Plasma 4 was comparatively short-lived (and arguably, far from perfect).
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by kick 6y ago
(This user was lying, and their link is, as 'dredmorbius notes, a thinktank funded by Exxon and the Koch brothers.) https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira... https://gizmodo.com/th
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by kick 6y ago
Consider: it's not that Linux users are hostile to criticism, it's that your criticism is of the laziest, least-intelligent part of the spectrum of criticism.
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by kick 6y ago
Facebook isn't a collection of books, and it isn't a collection of speech: the speech is a side effect. Facebook is a virality engine. How do you get content that's appealing to the widest variety of people shoved into their
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by kick 6y ago
Drew...doesn't, actually, use much of it at all. I don't like the article, but you picked the one person who basically lives by what he rants about.
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by kick 6y ago
Censoring words and topics is literally the textbook definition of censorship; are you trying to be dense?
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by kick 6y ago
They didn't contribute a thought, though.
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by kick 6y ago
Congratulations, you've committed a felony. That's what Doctorow's protesting: that Amazon forces you to commit a felony to do something as basic as changing a file format. He points this out in his Kickstarter: What's

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