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by krilnon 5y ago
Glad to see this showing up every few years. After its initial launch, I think I helped the creator add the localization and lightspeed features: https://joshworth.com/updates-to-the-solar-system-map/ ...and we eventua
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by krilnon 9y ago
Awesome! It's surreal to see a familiar name making such a neat app. I saw this earlier today and had a small moment of triumph since I'm terrible at solving sudokus myself. A few people visit kF every once and a while; feel free
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by krilnon 9y ago
Are you the same yeldarb as the one from kirupaForum?
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by krilnon 10y ago
It's documented. I used to be very fluent in the AS3LR, and I found it in a minute or two here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionsc... The formal language specification came fair
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by krilnon 10y ago
VoiceOver: yes, as reported in this article: http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engine... > [Jordyn Castor] was a driving force behind accessibility on Apple's soon-to-be released S
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by krilnon 10y ago
I'm excited to see that Alex Warth is involved with this. In my late undergrad days, I was really excited by his OMeta language. It turned out that I'm actually really bad at writing PEGs (or even ANTLR grammars), so I wasn't
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by krilnon 11y ago
There was a funny discussion on an MIT mailing list this summer when an (apparently) tone-deaf email was sent out by MIT Professional Education entitled "4 Ways You May Be Enabling Hackers"... which warned about the dangers of cyb
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by krilnon 11y ago
Writing valid XHTML was good practice for writing valid XSLT. Browsers would definitely choke on invalid XSL. I remember spending a fair amount of time looking at that pale yellow Firefox error screen that would point out invalid XML docume
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by krilnon 11y ago
There's an official specification for what and how a program that claims to be a JVM implementation should operate given Java bytecode. So someone writing a language that compiles to Java bytecode would typically either target the spec
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by krilnon 11y ago
From the article: > I have a working prototype of a JavaScript VM that is highly optimized for NGINX’s unique requirements and we’ve begun the task of embedding it within NGINX Open Source.
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by krilnon 11y ago
> I wrote the sorting algorithm in as3isolib Oh neat. I don't recognize your username, but I submitted the first entry in the logo contest for that library in 2008, which ended up being fairly close to the final logo. > Flash is
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by krilnon 11y ago
You're right about Fireworks. Some people do like to use the Flash authoring environment for general web graphic work, even though that's not its primary intent. A friend of mine still uses it for all of his web tutorials and book
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by krilnon 12y ago
You're right to point out the cultural divide w.r.t. tooling. It just seems to me that when two different people come up with pretty identical names for something and focus an essay/paper on that name, then there's likely an
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by krilnon 12y ago
Ah, great; thanks for pointing out that it has changed. The last time I looked at Rust in detail was mid-April, so I hadn't seen that.
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by krilnon 12y ago
The author's term "anti-sloppy programming" immediately brought to mind a former colleague's paper, aptly-titled "Sloppy Programming" [1]. Interestingly, Rust is a programming language, while this paper descri
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by krilnon 12y ago
> You'd expect the artist(s) of the record to get my $12 minus a service fee, but what I'm sure happens is the artist(s) only get the price per play x 3 and Spotify pocket the rest. I think companies like Spotify end up spendin
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by krilnon 12y ago
Might you go back when ES6 is widely supported by browsers / Node? I don't mind either way, but since the parent comment mentioned that arrow functions were coming to JS, it was interesting that you specifically said 'never&#
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by krilnon 12y ago
> you begin to learn it is all just posturing Yeah, I think that's probably the most common motivation behind the interaction spotlighted in the article. > Here's a sample interaction between an experienced programmer and a
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by krilnon 12y ago
> They also made the mistake of showing a link that includes the word "Typography" Including some aesthetics-stretching cases seems like a fairly honest/transparent thing to do for an open-source project that someone is bl
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by krilnon 12y ago
Nah, it's real. Adobe had a WebGL competitor, Stage3D, at the time, but I didn't work on that at all. As an intern, I would run a few useful benchmarks per day, but it was more reliable to run things I knew would heat up a laptop
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by krilnon 12y ago
I haven't worked anywhere with tasty nearby brownies since then. =-/ I know I ate something unhealthy often at the Stata Center's cafe, but I think it was a large cookie that didn't need to be heated.
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by krilnon 12y ago
It was just for fun. Part of my job at the time was evaluating benchmarks, so things like the water simulation were on my mind. I don't remember if there were microwaves on each floor that I might have used instead. I don't dog-ea
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by krilnon 12y ago
Sure thing. I was an intern at Adobe working on a new programming language. The office has a cafeteria, and I would often buy lunch there and get a brownie to save for later. I like brownies better when they're warm, so I came up with
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by krilnon 12y ago
I used Sikuli back in 2011-12 for some random automaton tasks, and often wish I would remember to use it more. - Advisor wanted a one button way to run a convoluted research prototype I had made, and I didn't want to have to dig into C
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by krilnon 12y ago
"I look at the feature set of Swift, and I have to ask myself the question: what’s the point? What is really trying to be solved? And does it provide significant benefits over languages that already exist?" One reason may be that
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by krilnon 12y ago
It was primarily developed at Macromedia, if you don't count that Waldemar Horwat and others greatly influenced its design via the whole JS2/ES4 situation in the years prior. That's why AVM2's IR used to be called the Ma
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by krilnon 12y ago
The demo is neat, although the flashy, impressive part (NL->program) predates this particular piece of work. For example, Greg Little's "sloppy programming" is from 2008-ish: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid
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by krilnon 12y ago
It seems to work reasonably transparently most of the time. I was in one of the author's classes in ~2010 and I think the class schedule was put online in the same way.
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by krilnon 12y ago
Nope. "you don’t even need to type semi-colons." [1] [1]: https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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by krilnon 12y ago
I'm not going to abuse this myself, but at MIT you can create seemingly-unlimited @mit.edu email addresses using Moira. Getting a bunch of fresh IPs might be trickier, but you could probably wander around different WiFi access points,

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