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There has been an open source successor to REBOL called Red[1] for years but progress seems to have been pretty sporadic. [1] https://www.red-lang.org/

Well, I would say that any physical implementation of a Turing machine will eventually halt because you cannot guarantee an infinite energy supply. So if we're willing to ignore ph…

I would much rather see something like this: string longString = `This ` allows ` differentiation ` of `formatting ` indention ` from ` leading ` string ` spaces ` using ` back-tic…

You can still observe a related effect to this in Windows 10. Open up any large(ish) file in NotePad++ or most any other editor and place the cursor in the text and drag to the bot…

One of my favorites in this vein is the channel below. This guy really knows how to "do what you can with what you have available". https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%AAnhs%C3%A1ngt%E1…

Punishment via fines should be entirely replaced with something more generally equitable: time. $60 parking ticket should be replaced with 1 hour of community service, which (mostl…

Evil plan: Create a network distributed system (kind of like Seti@Home) specifically for doing this. If there was enough participation to make a difference the advertisers would ha…

I use a FireFox plugin that applies CSS for colorizing visited links on HN: a:link{ color: orange !important; } /* visited link */ a:visited { color: green !important; } https://my…

This one has been very influential to me: Big Ball of Mud Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder http://www.laputan.org/mud/

There's no shortage of very striking counter-examples to what you're saying in recent events. I think it's far more accurate to say that the educated can be led astray by complex i…

The original promise of separation of concerns wasn't simply a code organization scheme, it was that we would be able to write composable software where components could be added o…

I don't have time to watch the video right now, but after skimming the language reference I get the impression that is is sort of a modern-ish take on the 4GLs from 80s/90s - not t…

This is perhaps going to be an unpopular sentiment, but I think far too much breath is wasted on the "don't be clever" edict. No examples even spring to mind of any past experience…

I think one of the failures in thinking around project cost and outcome is that not enough people realize that the effort around a project scales logarithmically, not linearly. Thi…

Awesome yes... but definitely not irrational.

I agree that a Hello World is fairly useless example for anyone already familiar with programming languages. Perhaps something like a Fibonacci function should be the de facto shor…

Cowgirls and cowboys! Yeehaw!

> Extrapolating unwarranted conclusions is bad. But that's practically all they're used for!

> It would be interesting to see something using WASM to run a web server in the browser. You could possibly get one going on top of something like this: https://browsix.org/

> The only reason I have the 'pro' version is the "safety" feature that lets my wife know where I am, approximately. >Anyone got a good alternative for that? Take a look at Life360…

> Refueling nuclear aircraft carriers have projections start to finish, a half decade long. The difference is that those projections weren't spit out on the fly by a engineer after…

I don't think I have ever experienced this. I do however experience something like the opposite: music I don't like can evoke anything from a mild sense of dread to an almost caged…