rlander

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by rlander 11mo ago
Except const is not sufficient. It will prevent the reference from being reassigned but the const can still reference a mutable object.
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by rlander 11mo ago
Maybe you haven’t seen this yet, but there is a (recent) option to fork a conversation when you click on the thee dots of a reply.
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by rlander 11mo ago
True, but GDP is often a decent proxy for material living standards, especially across countries and over time (so long as we note what it leaves out).
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by rlander 1y ago
That’s not a small cycle count for a normal household. 90 × 24 = 2,160 total hours. I sous vide now and then, about twice a week for 6 hours each, so around 12 hours a week. That works out to roughly 15 years of usable machine time for the
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by rlander 3y ago
> if Imba offers a new approach it fails to communicate this on the landing page and focuses on code compression instead. Fair enough. While it does touch upon `memoized DOM`, you're correct; it might not be sufficient for readers
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by rlander 3y ago
I feel like you missed the point of Imba. It's not solely focused on code compression (although that does appear to be a secondary objective). Instead, Imba is all about empowering developers to create declarative user interfaces witho
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by rlander 3y ago
Opa was ahead of its time by at least 10 years. Have you seen Electric Clojure [0]? [0] https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
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by rlander 3y ago
What an amazing story! I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive while reading through it.
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by rlander 5y ago
Does that apply to neutered males?
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by rlander 5y ago
That’s weird. We moved to a new house and I was surprised one morning to see the cat scratching the upper balcony door, waiting to be let in, even though he’d never used that particular door until that day. He seems to always wait by the do
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by rlander 6y ago
How is Elixir’s design different from Erlang’s? Semantically they’re pretty much the same language. A better example would be Java/Clojure.
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by rlander 6y ago
> Elixir code out there is much cleaner than erlang code bases. You do understand this is just your subjective opinion and not a universal truth, right? You are basing your argument as if it was a fact that Elixir is “cleaner” (whatever
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by rlander 6y ago
You’re missing the crux of the argument: auto-currying. In languages like Elm and Ocaml all functions are single arity which means a multi-arity function is just a partially-applied single arity function thus you can treat all functions as
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by rlander 6y ago
IME it is. Many Elixir apis end up forcing an unnatural parameter order just so that the entire body can be piped through. Clojure is way more consistent in this regard: - thread first (->) when operating on maps. - thread last (-&
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Lamprey, a New Parasitic Language to Write Elixir in Erlang(github.com)
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by rlander 6y ago
Well I believe that no pipe is better than a a handicapped pipe operator. The Elixir implementation inverts the classical order of piping last in functional languages to the detriment of it. IMO a language should either support pipe last AN
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by rlander 6y ago
> Elixir just did it better imo and this person seemingly can't stand that people seem to like it more. The post does read more like venting than a structured critique, but a few of his points are still valid. Every time I hear some
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by rlander 6y ago
Why I choose Erlang: - simpler syntax: there’s no Erlang program that you can’t read after getting comfortable with the language. Seriously. Go read OTP source or Ryaks, everything is extremely clear and explicit. To me, easier to read also
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by rlander 6y ago
> adds a tons of complexity over just using JS. What "tons complexity" are you talking about? Clojure is a much simpler language (in the decomplected sense) than JS. Less syntax, better build tools, uniform stdlib, no webpack&
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by rlander 6y ago
Please don’t listen to the peanut gallery. The re-frame docs are in a league of their own and most of us appreciate the enormous effort put in to make them awesome. Keep rocking.
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by rlander 6y ago
*Edit: Let My People Go Surfing is the name of the book. (Couldn’t edit the original)
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by rlander 6y ago
Yes! Btw, the founder, Yvon Chouinard, a renowned mountain climber, wrote a great book about the story behind the company which is regarded as the “philosophical manual for the employees of Patagonia”. Awesome read imo.
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by rlander 6y ago
Thanks, already subscribed to those channels. Thing is, much like a lot of comments here where devs want to learn new tech but struggle to come up with a side project idea, I can’t really think of anything useful that’d be within a beginner
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by rlander 6y ago
That side table is amazing. How did you learn woodworking? I’ve been meaning to get into it but have no idea where to start.
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by rlander 6y ago
I’m just finishing Eiger Dreams, what a great book! I wish Krakauer would write more recent mountaineering books.
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by rlander 6y ago
Basically anything that is protocol-oriented like WhatsApp. A lot of people will say fault tolerant, low latency, highly available and massively concurrent systems, and they’ll be right, but I think that’s only half the story. You also get
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by rlander 6y ago
To be fair, if you’re rewriting an Erlang system in Python/JS and you don’t feel like you’re losing much, Erlang was the wrong choice from the beginning. The cases were Erlang shines are very hard to replicate in these languages.
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by rlander 6y ago
I have my own share of objections, mainly concerning the over-engineered nature of RabbitMQ, but most of the “huge learning curve” items that you’ve described can be learned in an afternoon by a motivated software engineer. Besides, she wil
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by rlander 6y ago
Thank you, good sir. Those’d be parts 2 and 3 of the business plan, with 4 and 5 being “???” and “profit”. In all seriousness, I’m just hoping to revive a simple (and awesome) game.
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by rlander 6y ago
I'm working on a browser-based MMO based on Game Neverending [0] (the game that eventually morphed into Flickr): [0] https://www.giantbomb.com/game-neverending/3030-48604/

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