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by nickknw 8y ago
Oh that's clever! What a cool way to do your personal site. Definitely makes it stand out
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by nickknw 10y ago
> healthy primary income provided by the synergy between them and their community Definitely interested in this.
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by nickknw 11y ago
Haven't tried Reflux but I would recommend trying Redux before it. It is heavily inspired by Elm and has been very pleasant to work with. Reflux also bypasses the 'unidirectional data flow' part of Flux, which gives you added
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by nickknw 12y ago
Well that's a bit disappointing, although probably pretty important to their business model. Will make the news of a jailbreak for PS4 that much more exciting at least :)
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by nickknw 12y ago
Oh I see - you just needed to be a licensed developer to get their version of it before, is that it? > You still can't do anything with it if you aren't a licensed developer. Not sure I follow - what is stopping non-licensed de
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by nickknw 12y ago
Well this is pretty exciting. This opens up the door for PS4 games to be written in any language that uses LLVM as a backend, right? So in the future, PS4 games could be written in D, Rust, Ada, ActionScript... Especially with the indie foc
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by nickknw 12y ago
Glad to see another language that has chosen to avoid NullPointerExceptions. Some of you might take issue with the way it is implemented (special syntax vs general type), but IMO it is still much better than having NPEs.
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by nickknw 12y ago
> Digressing, were there any discussions about using var like in Swift (instead of let mut)? What is the rationale for not making that more minimalistic? I was interested in the answer to this too. I found these which helped me understan
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by nickknw 12y ago
It looks similar to Elm[1] to me. Which is great as far as I'm concerned, I'm a big fan of that approach - the more exposure it gets, the better! [1] - http://elm-lang.org/
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by nickknw 12y ago
Here is a practical everyday example where languages that can represent emptiness in the type system come in handy. He ends up using pointers and mentions: "Using pointers also means that clients of the library will need to perform the
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by nickknw 13y ago
Ahh, now that makes sense, thanks! The HTML5Rocks article cleared up my concerns. For anyone reading this later, it was the section starting with this paragraph: Inline Code Considered Harmful It should be clear that CSP is based on whiteli
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by nickknw 13y ago
> How would you like to be largely invulnerable to XSS? No matter if someone managed to trick your server into writing <script>alert(1);</script>, have the browser straight up refuse it? I don't quite get how this h
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by nickknw 13y ago
This exchange has really helped me understand more about Docker and why and when to use it. Thanks!
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by nickknw 13y ago
I agree, it is! I did a light comparison[0] between a logic programming solution to sudoku (Prolog) and one using constraint programming (Scala + JaCoP). I thought Prolog was a little nicer because it was shorter and more declarative, but t
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by nickknw 13y ago
I for one thought this was a fantastic article, and quite well-written.
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by nickknw 13y ago
I would say it used a dead simple function as a device to help explain a bunch of other things.
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by nickknw 13y ago
Checked out the debuggex tool. Impressive!
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by nickknw 13y ago
Thanks! And I'll make a note for myself to put CoffeeScript in there too.
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by nickknw 13y ago
Great to hear a real-world example of the concrete benefits, thanks!
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by nickknw 13y ago
Author here, that's it exactly.
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by nickknw 13y ago
Cool post! Love the illustrated approach you took.
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by nickknw 13y ago
It sure sounds like it is! I'm a far cry from a Haskell expert unfortunately, so I'll have to leave it to someone else.
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by nickknw 13y ago
I took a long break from this series due to, well, cancer. But I'm cancer-free now and recovered enough to start blogging again, so here's the next part!
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Seven Languages: Week 4 (Scala) - Day 1(nickknowlson.com)
3 points by nickknw 13y ago|1 comments
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by nickknw 13y ago
Still, it would be nice to have these results independently verified and put alongside all the rest. What do you think, bhauer? :)
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by nickknw 13y ago
> As a negative person, I focus on all the way things can go wrong. I've envisioned what would happen with each one. But as a positive person, you don't see them. Or, if you do see them, you think they're so unlikely that you don't cons
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by nickknw 13y ago
> Personally, I feel the whole "positive attitude" thing is a detriment. People with "positive attitudes" tend to ignore problems because they don't want to upset others or make waves. I think I know the kind of people you're talking ab
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by nickknw 14y ago
This sounds like it was possibly some time ago. If so, don't discount the effect of having less resource-intensive sites too.
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by nickknw 14y ago
Awesome job on this! How does it decide which word to use initially? From what I can tell it picks the first one. I think the experience would be greatly enhanced if it did just a little extra processing and picked the most used word first.
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Counting powers of two - a neat pattern(nickknowlson.com)
3 points by nickknw 14y ago|0 comments

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