snapdangle

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by snapdangle 6y ago
Perl and CPAN definitely do not get enough flowers for their contribution to TDD.
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by snapdangle 6y ago
You might want to go ahead and inform those investors who bought Amazon or Booking.com stock in the early 2000s that their orders of magnitudes of returns were really no such thing.
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by snapdangle 6y ago
With which JavaScript version? At the time HOP was written I remember JavaScript still doing all it's for loops in C-style and there was certainly no arrow syntax to make anonymous JS functions manageable. There were also no functional
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by snapdangle 6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to break this down! Your description and summary blocks have started me wondering... has there been much work done on converting APL statements to more verbose explanations? The sigil-to-meaning mapping is like
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by snapdangle 6y ago
I'd be very interested in reading more about the differentiating features of GNU APL. There is a great big announcement at the beginning of the GNU APL docs that talks of a decision needing to be made around a gap in the ISO specificat
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by snapdangle 6y ago
True but if I understand correctly (and I'd be happy to be corrected by someone with more K experience), the smaller size of input data should also have an impact on real world parser performance (including the memory usage involved th
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by snapdangle 6y ago
The original K design was laid out in the 1980s when the constraints were even tighter than what they are today. The utilization of very short operators means not only the interpreter easily fits into cache but also the custom function defi
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by snapdangle 6y ago
I'm awaiting delivery of a printed Mastering Dyalog APL book while reading this! I landed on kdb+ after seeking a reasonable alternative to the so called "best in class" Elastic Search/Kibana tooling, fell in love with K
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by snapdangle 6y ago
According the recent 18.0 release presentation, it sounds like they are aware of how different an experience this is relative to other interpreted "scripting" languages. To that end, they have added support for a Run function that
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by snapdangle 7y ago
That is categorically untrue. Verbal cultures in Australia have kept an accurate account of a coastline that existed over 10,000 years ago. Meanwhile, the supposed collective knowledge in books is constantly second guessed and taken with gr
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Thank you for raising this very significant detail to the comment section!
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Raku includes an incredible amount of new tools for writing one-liners. Furthermore, you can convert your one-liner into a command line app simply by wrapping the code in a `sub MAIN($pos-arg, :$named-arg) { ... }`.
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by snapdangle 7y ago
It's worth checking out the Red ORM, great progress is being made and it feels very Perl 6 native in terms of its semantics.
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Perl 6 is my go to scripting language. The concerns about code styles don't apply at that point because it's all me. And the multi paradigm nature of Perl 6 means I can solve any given algorithm using a style that fits how I'
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Considering the amount of crap that is heaped on Perl 6 for even daring to exist, maybe in the future you might consider using language that highlights something that you find impressive. Otherwise it comes off as more cheap shots. Thanks f
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by snapdangle 7y ago
All the companies that got the trillions of dollars in contracts sure think so.
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Why is it that no one in astrophsyics seems to understand that electricity has mass?
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by snapdangle 7y ago
If Google Podcasts has gone from non-existence to being "one of the most popular platforms" in a matter of months, its actually an insanely good reason not to engage with them at all.
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by snapdangle 7y ago
Which are nevertheless accessible from any podcast app. To suggest that Google trying to muscle into the podcast space by leveraging their search engine to direct people not to the podcast feed but to their own service is in any way equiva
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Even at it's slowest, Firefox was never even close to an order of magnitude slower. Geek culture has zero loyalty, otherwise people would run the product that has moral integrity even if it costs them a few milliseconds in load times.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
One explanation is that he made drastic reforms related to the tax collection capacity of the priestly class. This was in addition to/a consequence of his re-conceptualization of the state religion. After he was deposed by that same pr
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Reini, get off your crazy horse man! No one in the world, including the author of the Parrot threading model, thinks it is the "best" threading model.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
To me it seems pretty clear that you said "probably" out of knee-jerk both-siderism.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
The UK was always a special-case member of the EU, always demanding it's own uniqueness and pushing neoliberal garbage at every corner. The EU council should never have bent over so far backwards for the UK in the first place and it wo
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Nobody at a concert is going to wait through commercial breaks, for starters.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
> Also, you might not want your tax dollars going to support professional sports, but many people do. That was my other point. We live in a democracy and the people generally are in favor of sports. So let the taxpayers vote! If a majo
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by snapdangle 8y ago
This also boggles my mind. The only ones allowed a say in what happens to a city are.. the people just moving to it? Aka the same ones who are responsible for a majority of the current issues?
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Sorry, but that seems a bit confused. If there are not enough votes for a stadium, then there will not be enough votes to throw out a candidate for "not backing" a stadium. Not allowing people a voice in the question and then blam
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by snapdangle 8y ago
I believe the point being made is that the _value_ of the crypto system is largely controlled by small groups. Forks rarely achieve the value and status of the prior coin (considering ETC the "fork" here as it was the chain that d
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Sorry dude, but the crux of your joke is that elite programmers shouldn't look at Perl 6.. because it took a while to develop? And it is hardly "tongue in cheek" when you talk trash about the language (which you have never us

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