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by mdcox 4y ago
no one wants to automate themselves out of a job, only other people.
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by mdcox 10y ago
Just a heads up, your javascript doesn't work for me in Chrome because it's assigning to a global `history` variable. `window.history` is read-only so the js errors out. If you scope your function or rename the variable it shoul
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by mdcox 10y ago
Funny, Sublime was my gateway drug to Vim. It has "Vintage Mode" (which gives you vim keybindings) which I enabled just for macros since they are so powerful. After a month of going directly to insert mode I started accidentally
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by mdcox 10y ago
Not sure of the original intent, but when I started using Rust I used Rust By Example for finding snippets of things like file io where I get the gist but want to quickly see the pattern or involved parts of the stdlib. The Rust docs are gr
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by mdcox 11y ago
I can't help but feel we're all underestimating boredom in this scenario. Yeah, you have to survive, but eventually things will be stable enough for there to be SOME downtime, with very few options for entertainment. When sanity
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by mdcox 11y ago
Humans have an amazing capacity for addiction. It may be easy to say no to micropayment games, but "products that engender addiction" is a very broad and fuzzy category.
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by mdcox 11y ago
For any other casual viewers unfamiliar with but interested in economics, the 'r' refers to return on capital and 'g' refers to the growth rate of the economy. This section of the wikipedia article on his book seems to
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by mdcox 11y ago
Luckily, the author himself wrote one! http://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/shorter-tyl/
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by mdcox 11y ago
I'm most interested in deterministic languages. Non-deterministic context-free languages would be extremely interesting as well but more out of curiosity than an applicable need. Thanks!
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by mdcox 11y ago
Veering a bit offtopic, but does anyone have any pointers to important recent work on parsing? There are alot of papers out there and I guess I don't know how to sift through them. I've heard the "parsing is solved" li
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by mdcox 11y ago
Would someone mind fixing the typo in the title? It's AvanceDB, not AdvanceDB. Due to the bravado of a name with "advance" in it, it might actually make a difference to how it's perceived.
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by mdcox 11y ago
This is alot of fun. Would it be really difficult to be able to "blacklist" pages from the UI? I keep trying to come up with really disparate topics to find interesting connections, but everything is linked by "Knowledge&qu
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by mdcox 11y ago
For those interested in seeing the language, the README has a link to the tutorial ( http://masak.github.io/007/ ) hidden at the very bottom of the (highly entertaining) narrative.
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by mdcox 11y ago
I'm really curious as to what exactly you mean by this...does the same code through the same compiler not reliably produce the same binary? I know very little about actual compiler mechanics, but non-deterministic compilation seems re
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by mdcox 11y ago
Just switched to OSX for work, and i3 is the only part of my workflow I can't replace. I dearly dearly miss it.
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by mdcox 11y ago
This could be really cool, but I can also see it getting distracting and increasing oversight. The >= and <= signs look nice in Fira Code and Hasklig, but I worry I'd accidentally see them as > and < when debugging. Eithe
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by mdcox 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, what makes those things any different? Do you feel caffeine helps you do your job or is it just something you enjoy?
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by mdcox 11y ago
It's a combination of the fact that the source video takes place in a club with some flashes/strobe effects going on, and the fact that the algorithm looks at things frame by frame (more or less.) When it flashes it sees more&#x2
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by mdcox 11y ago
What bothers me isn't the isolated color scheme, but that without a ton of work (rolling it yourself?) the javascript in .js, .html, .erb, and any other file it might be in is highlighted completely differently.
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by mdcox 11y ago
I totally agree (except for the new-grad conspiracy.) I use Go whenever I need to do something small that requires a simple server or API interaction. Especially if it requires alot of concurrency. It's still a joy to use when I need
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by mdcox 11y ago
Historical Baggage. If someone starts speaking Russian, we've got a whole cultural idea of what it means for them to be speaking that language. I expect they wouldn't want to tint character personalities with biases from reality
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by mdcox 11y ago
Just playing devil's advocate: that doesn't necessarily rule it out. You could argue that part of your memory is lost and so it doesn't effect your identity. Or more likely, when those memories were fresh they influenced be
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by mdcox 11y ago
To pick up the basics of a language similar to one you already know? Sure. I used this site to write something in Nim just a few days ago. Do I know the conventions or idioms? No. Do I know the advanced features of Nim? I sincerely doubt i
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by mdcox 11y ago
Working on one! Give us a few more weeks though, we don't wanna release something we aren't 100% happy with, even as a 0.1 .
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by mdcox 11y ago
Do you mind me asking why? I was going to implement the protocol as an intro rust project, but Wikipedia and others called it obsolete so I ended up falling back onto the familiar IRC bot. My interest is still piqued however...
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by mdcox 12y ago
Hype and marketing can be great! It's empty hype with nothing to back it up that worries me. I don't think that's Gun, but the "throw buzz word" style marketing (especially if there are contradictions) instantly pu
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by mdcox 12y ago
Agreed. I read through the whole site and never saw the word "graph" until I came back and read this comment which puts me a bit on edge. Seems like a good idea, but when the marketing seems to imply a purpose defined via shotgu
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by mdcox 12y ago
A cursory skim leaves the impression of just how alone Haskell is on many syntactic choices (though supposedly with alot in common with "Merd".) I never took the time to learn Haskell, but it always looks beautiful on an aestheti
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by mdcox 12y ago
This is really nice! Just built something quick with it and I find it way easier to work with than something like ncurses, though that might just be because I work with javascript alot. Sorta feels like a terminal based d3 in a way, though
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by mdcox 12y ago
It seems like those with functional programming experience either already understand monads or grasp it quickly. At the same time, those without it have an instinctual eye-glaze when shown Haskell, or a lisp. Would it be better to use Pyth

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