tangentstorm

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by tangentstorm 2mo ago
Decker is amazing. I've started a set of tutorials (decks + videos) as a byproduct of trying to teach my 8-year old daughter to program with it. https://itch.io/t/6632495/decker-programming-tutorials-video...
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by tangentstorm 3mo ago
Not even remotely. it's just plain vanilla C, with dense formatting. Whitney makes extensive use of macros to completely change the language.
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by tangentstorm 4mo ago
Yes to pretty much all of the above. It's an extremely terse array programming language in the APL family, but with ASCII primitives and strong distributed programming / IPC support. There are also at least a couple companies that
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by tangentstorm 1y ago
Perhaps you would enjoy https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
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by tangentstorm 1y ago
He has done this many times on his YouTube channel! For an example, this guest was particularly clever and charming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP2zkl_44o J/k. It's me. I'm the guest. :) BUT: this was o
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by tangentstorm 2y ago
For one: https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker It even looks a bit like Hypercard, by default (it's lo-fi, but there are colors under the hood).
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by tangentstorm 2y ago
Location: NY Remote: Strongly preferred Willing to Relocate: Probably not Technologies: python, js, kdb/k/j/apl, pascal, rust, go, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangentstorm/ Email: micha
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by tangentstorm 2y ago
You have unlocked: Irony!!
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by tangentstorm 2y ago
Oh. I had hoped this was about https://ryelang.org/ .
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
This seems like an awful lot of worrying about a problem that doesn't actually exist.
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
Yes but in whatever language you're imagining here, a "list" probably isn't the kind of list that lisp uses (linked lists of cons cells).
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Show HN: Learntris, a test-driven programming challenge(learntris.org)
2 points by tangentstorm 3y ago|0 comments
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
> Even though you aren’t writing the 3P code yourself, by including it in your project you are committed to understanding it—and refreshing that understanding if you want to upgrade it. This is a nice thought, but I suspect hardly anyone
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
Is this something you can actually configure on modern processors, or is it more hypothetical advice for future chip makers?
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
Oh, interesting! I heard other array programmers talking about jq, and (having not seen your website) went off to study the json transformation language, which is also kind of cool, but nothing to do with kdb or q. :)
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
Nice to see this getting some attention again. I hope some people venture out to learn about the actual J language: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/GettingStarted For what it's worth, I've also st
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
Good point. I did now. Both models stuck with their second answer. (I see now I didn't know how to share ChatGPT links properly. Updating the links now...)
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
I tested their first example in ChatGPT 4. Interestingly, it gives the correct answer on the first try: https://chat.openai.com/share/d86fe16a-9dfd-4753-8eaf-6d2948096ea3 I then gave GPT4 a "chain-of-thought&
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
I am such a person! I make J videos at http://youtube.com/@tangentstorm (many of them are recordings of live-coding on a single J application), work professionally in another array language called K, and also use forth (one
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
This reminds me of the association between tetanus and rusty nails. Why would rust make the presence of bacteria more likely? Is it a food source? No, tetanus on a rusty nail was just an example used in an article many years ago. Sadly, I c
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
yes, you are the only one. that's part of what makes you special! [j/k. i like it too, but i'm sure you're still special. :D]
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by tangentstorm 3y ago
I was able to get ChatGPT 4 to produce a working websocket server in rust fairly quickly I know rust but had no experience with the networking crates or async runtimes. Getting it to also serve HTTP, it fell into quite a few issues. Part of
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by tangentstorm 4y ago
I've had the pleasure of alpha-testing several builds of lil and decker. It's nice to see that it's out in the wild now. Some of the little applications I made in an hour or two each (with live help from the creator of Lil):
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by tangentstorm 4y ago
I don't know if this counts as major, but I work on a presentation tool written with J and Godot. It's a "time travelling" REPL recorder built atop a console widget library. The Godot integration is written in rust (so a
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by tangentstorm 5y ago
Does trying to build a Youtube channel around J count as professional? I've been livestreaming a presentation tool / time-travelling REPL for J for a few months now: https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-prez It
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The Ridiculously Early J Morning Show (J Coding Livestream)(twitch.tv)
7 points by tangentstorm 5y ago|1 comments
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by tangentstorm 5y ago
I'm working on an outliner/repl presentation tool (for programming videos) in J, and I started livestreaming the process for an hour each morning. If you've ever been interested in learning J (and you're up at this hour)
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by tangentstorm 5y ago
I once found myself implementing Ulam's spiral in J, and was so taken by the (one) line of code it required, that I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBC5vnwf6Zw
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by tangentstorm 5y ago
Wait, do you actually know the author? I only ask because he's a good friend of mine, and another friend was just showing me your APE code. Small world. :)
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by tangentstorm 5y ago
Happily, Nelson's patent has finally expired. :) https://patents.google.com/patent/US6262736

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