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by sourceless 11y ago
I don't 100% agree with the author that the reduceron is a "Haskell Machine" - it seems very much to be the motivation for the project, but I think it's more of a 'strongly typed functional language machine'. I
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by sourceless 11y ago
https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/ It's still fairly young technology but there has been work on processors for HLLs. The one above (if my understanding is correct) is effectively a combinator processor,
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by sourceless 11y ago
I taught my girlfriend LaTeX using Overleaf -- having the PDF by the side and being able to see changes immediately really helped. And now she has a really beautiful-looking CV.
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by sourceless 12y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of subtleties and disagreements. To cite another example, do you include the Isle of Man? They've long been though of as a seperate people. In addition, 'Irish' could mean a number of things (Northern or
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by sourceless 12y ago
Briton is the correct demonym for a citizen of the United Kingdom[0]. Britons is the preferred way to speak about all residents of the British Isles without having to use a qualifier, e.g. British people, People of Britain. Compare Finland,
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by sourceless 12y ago
I think it's for a similar reason sites such as reddit and 4chan (though their topics are often rather lewd) have seen so much success. They're like big melting pots, and all the good stuff floats to the top. Sometimes even the mo
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by sourceless 13y ago
First, no, key word being 'like' - it's a comparison. Second, yes, you're right, but no need to be a pedant, the meaning original commenter employed is widely accepted and understood.
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by sourceless 13y ago
I tend to remember it as such: your code calls from libraries, but frameworks call your code.
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by sourceless 13y ago
I might give this a go, but I've never had great success with distraction-free modes. I tend to work better with as much information as possible - tmux, with vim (multiple tabs) and repl panes, as well as browser open for docs or seein
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by sourceless 13y ago
Dystopian society. A new, incredibly accurate set of psychometric tests (something like IQ/MBTI on steroids) is discovered, and society as we know it is restructured into a kind of pre-emptive meritocracy. Perhaps even a different angl
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by sourceless 13y ago
raises hand I'm currently reading all the papers/talking to people so I can design one (still torn between doing something historically accurate or modern, new, and potentially useful).
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by sourceless 13y ago
What happens if I put a sealed envelope inside the schnail mail envelope? Is that opened too?
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by sourceless 13y ago
No HTTPS on login page.
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by sourceless 13y ago
Once you're past syntax and basic concepts, he best thing is probably just to write programs. Maybe try some libraries out. And when you do something you've never done before, (at least on small scale things) do a plan that's
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by sourceless 13y ago
I'll admit this excites me a little. I'll definitely be having a play.
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by sourceless 13y ago
1) If they're so big on moving away from disc sales, why sell discs at all? Afaik some stores already sell download cards for games, why not use those? 2) It may well be that it has to check if it's connected every 24 hours, but w
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Show HN: A 2-Hour Project - mincss, a tiny css minifier(github.com)
2 points by sourceless 13y ago|0 comments
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by sourceless 13y ago
Noted, thanks
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by sourceless 13y ago
Perhaps, I guess I'll find out
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by sourceless 13y ago
Cool, the angle I'm planning to go for is the one Nikolas0 mentioned - an API and plugins so that it can be integrated into things like blogs and forums easily.
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by sourceless 13y ago
That's next on my list - starting with a JSON api, maybe I'll make a gem.
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by sourceless 13y ago
Ooh, that's something to consider... thanks!
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by sourceless 13y ago
Why stop at email? `$ send_condoms --amount 2 --size normal`
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by sourceless 13y ago
Thanks!
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Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address(mailrubber.me)
23 points by sourceless 13y ago|22 comments