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by metacontent 5y ago
Why's guide to Ruby is the only other book of that ilk that I'm aware of. https://poignant.guide/
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The One True Lisp Style Guide(github.com)
2 points by metacontent 5y ago|3 comments
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by metacontent 5y ago
Would the results of trying to find agreement between a number of different Lisp style guides be useful or interesting to anyone other than myself?
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by metacontent 5y ago
This is just my own personal hair brained idea, but my own idea on the best way to reduce the price of housing is simply to make it harder for people to buy a home. Hear me out. I do not mean increase the price of homes. I mean to drive pri
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by metacontent 5y ago
I don't want to attack you, but its hard not to attack a comment like this. Building more housing won't solve the homelessness problem, building a lot more housing might lower prices a little bit which might mean that some middle
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by metacontent 7y ago
I looked at that book, but I was worried about the Gtk part, the book is now a few years old, is the Gtk stuff still relevant? My worry is that Gtk seems to always be coming out with new versions and its hard to know whats still relevant an
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Try Standard ML in the Browser, Courtesy of Univeristy of Saarland
1 points by metacontent 7y ago|1 comments
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by metacontent 7y ago
No it doesn't "prove" it. But if you look at his crimes, they are believed to include high target underage sex trafficking. Luring the rich and famous into compromising positions for the purposes of blackmail, or just simply
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GraphQL for Ruby, Trusted by GitHub and Shopify(graphql-ruby.org)
3 points by metacontent 9y ago|0 comments
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by metacontent 9y ago
Vim, because it does what I need.
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by metacontent 9y ago
* Ruby is a nicer language than Python. Not only that, it's cleaner, more flexible, and faster. It's a shame more people don't think for themselves rather than just jumping on the PR bandwagon. But that's life.
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by metacontent 9y ago
* Raw performance Last time I checked I think that Ruby is faster than Python, and people generally seem to be okay with Pythons speed so I don't really think Rubys speed is as huge an issue as people make it out to be. Also, if this p
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by metacontent 13y ago
Apple established a lucrative unix based desktop by giving it away for free with cool looking hardware, but only after they made it big with the iphone. If it wasn't for the iphone Apples "unix based desktop" would still be a blip, and prob
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by metacontent 14y ago
I'm not quite sure if this applies, but can't anyone currently write a Lua script for World of Warcraft? In which case the script could possibly be connecting to and interacting with the WoW servers? If one thing can be said about Lua, it i
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Luvit – Asynchronous I/O for Lua(luvit.io)
104 points by metacontent 14y ago|36 comments
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by metacontent 14y ago
I'm sorry, but could you please explain what you mean by "predicated in reality"? I feel stupid, but I just don't understand what that means, and I'd rather feel stupid than remain ignorant.
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by metacontent 14y ago
If you enjoy understanding how your computer works and enjoy tinkering with it then Linux is likely your dream desktop. I think there are enough people out there like that to make it viable in that capacity. However, after spending several
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by metacontent 14y ago
You are certainly cutting this guy a lot of slack. This isn't Jim telling you about his crazy weekend while you stand around the watercooler, this is a professional journalist writing a story for one of the largest and most well respect new
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by metacontent 16y ago
>This is fairly meaningless because lower income does not necessarily mean a worse living condition or less happiness. I agree, only comparing income is rather misleading. JW's don't smoke or do drugs and so have a far smaller problem w
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Ask HN: They say no one knows all C++ so what parts do Game Devs need to know?
13 points by metacontent 16y ago|8 comments
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by metacontent 16y ago
He is probably not interested in talking about stuff when he could be doing stuff.