sifoo

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by sifoo 8y ago
The Agile movement was all about dropping the process hoop jumping and focusing on solving problems efficiently, that's why it was considered extreme. Too extreme, as the one true implementation to rule them all is worse than what the
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Catching Exceptions without Trying(github.com)
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Show HN: All work and no Tetris(github.com)
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by sifoo 8y ago
Agreed, that's one of the more important advantages of Common Lisp in my book. But the reason it works so well is that the standardized version was based on plenty of experience and experimentation, and that it's powerful enough t
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by sifoo 8y ago
Besides basic semantics, there's not that much stack juggling going on really. Cixl offers four stack operators, drop, dup, swap and clear; the idea is to use more convenient constructs like let bindings, closures and multi methods to
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by sifoo 8y ago
Thank you! PostScript is another example.
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by sifoo 8y ago
Glad to see Forth getting some attention, took me around 25 years of coding to find it. For those looking for a different take on the same ideas, I'm working on a Lisp-inspired Forth here: https://github.com/basic-gongf
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by sifoo 8y ago
There are several leaner alternatives for application scripting, is it really worth dragging V8 around to get that capability? Lua would be one alternative. The reason I'm asking is that I'm working on a more Forth-inspired altern
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Unified Function IO(github.com)
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by sifoo 9y ago
Lisp trades some of the strictness and static typing of Haskell and Scala, and the convenience of Python I guess; for more raw power. You won't really have a clue what macros are capable of before you see it yourself, I wholeheartedly
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Compiling to C(github.com)
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by sifoo 9y ago
No, that's my point; there are thousands of very experienced and dedicated coders out there who are not sick of it; because we've been around long enough to not blame our tools, and we have enough experience to appreciate its uniq
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by sifoo 9y ago
Every C compiler and major C library out there to begin with, given that it's the most important and fundamental language in the real world right now. Did you get it this time? Have you been living under a rock lately, or are you just
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by sifoo 9y ago
Right, question something and you just don't want others to be happy. Good luck with that. Every C compiler and major C library out there to begin with, given that it's the most important and fundamental language in the real world
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by sifoo 9y ago
How is questioning the choice of project to fund feeding trolls? I was under the impression that diversity was mostly considered a good thing, that has to go for perspectives as well. I just don't get why Rust desperately needs a lot m
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by sifoo 9y ago
I'm not quite as enthusiastic about their choice of funding target. There are plenty of other worthy languages and tools out there that could use that money better in my mind. It's the C++/Java thing all over again, but stepp
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by sifoo 9y ago
And not everyone who needs/wants that is going to prefer Rust's complexity and rigidness to the simplicity and flexibility of C, or the even more complex yet more flexible C++. It's preferences, priorities; not black or white
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by sifoo 9y ago
Until we have as much code written in Rust as is currently implemented in C, experience hasn't shown anything. The same claims and promises have been made for C++ in relation to vanilla C for ages, and it's just not true. An exper
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by sifoo 9y ago
There's a lot of talk about full stack developers lately, I'm still waiting to find the first full stack manager. Someone who's visionary, yet realistic; confident, yet empathic; powerful, yet humble. I feel like there's
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by sifoo 9y ago
It's not magic; it's vast amounts of experience; writing more code than, and twisting brains in ways that, normal people can't even imagine; and sticking with it for decades. I have no idea if I'm 5x or 10x or whatever,
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by sifoo 9y ago
Traditional Yoga contains a set of exercises for the muscles surrounding the eye. Many problems seem to be caused in part by constantly focusing on the same distance/angle; which leads to lack of muscle tone, which in turn affects eye
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by sifoo 9y ago
Been there, done that :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16081592
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by sifoo 9y ago
As far as books go; K&R contains a lot of wisdom despite it's apparent simplicity; and the language hasn't really changed that much since last edition. But to answer some of your questions: CMake is by far the most convenient
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by sifoo 9y ago
One of my all time C favorites.
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by sifoo 9y ago
Will recommending my own project get me hell-voted? Cixl is a straight forward 3-stage (parse/compile/eval) interpreter that is designed to be as fast as possible without compromising on simplicity, transparency and flexibility. T
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by sifoo 9y ago
Karma has nothing to do with revenge, karma is just another word for consequences. Every action leads to reactions; if they didn't the universe would have descended into chaos in no time at all. And thats how we learn, by acting and st
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by sifoo 9y ago
At least they have a chance to fight for their survival, which makes all the difference. If it's horrible when done to humans, it's horrible when done to animals. And as long as we keep doing it to animals, we shouldn't expec
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by sifoo 9y ago
Sounds like a bedtime story in my ears. We're eating more and more meat, and demanding that it gets cheaper and cheaper while the stock market index needs to go higher and higher. It won't stop until the majority is willing to loo
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by sifoo 9y ago
Have you bothered to look into it? It's not like the information is impossible to find, even if they don't exactly advertise the icky parts of their business. 'Eating Animals' by Jonathan Safran Foer is a good place to s
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by sifoo 9y ago
What's the difference then? Piling up living beings in awful conditions to kill them in the most cost-effective way is pretty much the definition of a concentration camp. And making them grow faster than they're supposed to at the

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