It must be nice to live in a world so isolated that smartphones just completely passed you by. Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone.
Idris is one of those languages that when I learned it felt like it was offering me a glimpse into a possible future. I love it when that happens.
I mean... Amazing stuff. How..? My mind refuses to believe it's actually possible EVEN AFTER I TRIED IT AND SAW IT WORKING. The universe is a lie.
So as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city? It always looks to me no so much as a city, but…
Basically only two paradigms survived the 90s. The Unix way (via Linux, BSD, Darwin) and the VMS way (via Windows NT). Everything else is either ultra-niche, dying, a mainframe so ancient and terrifying nobody will go…
This puts Labour in a very difficult position. The bill will, of course, carry. But this will expose the wide gulf between the Labour leadership and its traditional white working class base (who were overwhelmingly…
Orwell's advice on how to write better English is at best naively harmfully, and at worst cravenly hypocritical. He never followed his own "rules", why in the hell should anyone else? Answer: because his rules are…
It's not entirely clear with the GPLv2 that that's the case. The FSF claims that because modules are loading into the address space of the kernel that makes them an integrated part of a single program and not mere…
Lisp's propensity for terse, expressive code. Persistent data structures. A novel approach to concurrency by mainstream language standards.
Clojure is currently the sexy lisp du jour. When I first learned Clojure, to me it was the first time programming truly clicked with me. That first time I ever felt that spark of "oh my god, so that's what programming…
And it is wonderful. It's one of those games that manages to push buttons in your brain you never knew you had, and make you feel like a genius when something finally clicks. And it does all this without ever needing to…
That both indicates to me why Perl 6 is cool, and also why it's a bit mad. Junctions, in the core language? Really? Wouldn't they be best placed just being a library?
It's basically impossible to write safe code in C. Surely that makes it pretty damn poor at what it does? Especially since system code is the place where safety matters most.
It must be nice to live in a world so isolated that smartphones just completely passed you by. Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone.
Idris is one of those languages that when I learned it felt like it was offering me a glimpse into a possible future. I love it when that happens.
I mean... Amazing stuff. How..? My mind refuses to believe it's actually possible EVEN AFTER I TRIED IT AND SAW IT WORKING. The universe is a lie.
So as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city? It always looks to me no so much as a city, but…
Basically only two paradigms survived the 90s. The Unix way (via Linux, BSD, Darwin) and the VMS way (via Windows NT). Everything else is either ultra-niche, dying, a mainframe so ancient and terrifying nobody will go…
This puts Labour in a very difficult position. The bill will, of course, carry. But this will expose the wide gulf between the Labour leadership and its traditional white working class base (who were overwhelmingly…
Orwell's advice on how to write better English is at best naively harmfully, and at worst cravenly hypocritical. He never followed his own "rules", why in the hell should anyone else? Answer: because his rules are…
It's not entirely clear with the GPLv2 that that's the case. The FSF claims that because modules are loading into the address space of the kernel that makes them an integrated part of a single program and not mere…
Lisp's propensity for terse, expressive code. Persistent data structures. A novel approach to concurrency by mainstream language standards.
Clojure is currently the sexy lisp du jour. When I first learned Clojure, to me it was the first time programming truly clicked with me. That first time I ever felt that spark of "oh my god, so that's what programming…
And it is wonderful. It's one of those games that manages to push buttons in your brain you never knew you had, and make you feel like a genius when something finally clicks. And it does all this without ever needing to…
That both indicates to me why Perl 6 is cool, and also why it's a bit mad. Junctions, in the core language? Really? Wouldn't they be best placed just being a library?
It's basically impossible to write safe code in C. Surely that makes it pretty damn poor at what it does? Especially since system code is the place where safety matters most.