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elviejo

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    Comment #49011758

    That is why Iverson invented APL. As a notation to get rid of all those inconsistencies in math notation. And for years he taught math classes with APL on the blackboard without co…

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    Comment #48682605

    You did well. My daughter is now 10 yo and I haven't finished my library. :-(

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    Comment #47425343

    Another example a web link that points to a page that no lnger exists. It's a null pointer exception.

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    Comment #47390189

    How does flint compare to to NuShell? My current favorie pipe shell. PS: your current readme reads like AI generated. Which subconciusly makes me wonder: If the author couldn't bot…

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    Comment #46609658

    Thank you I was also expecting Literate Programming.

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    Comment #46292253

    One of the clearest thinkers I had the privilege of knowing was Dr. Eli Goldratt author of Theory of Constraints. Fortunately for us he defined as his life's mission to teach the w…

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    Comment #46244634

    Steve jobs killed it when said it would work on the iPhone because if the "huge" memory and battery resources. He said Javascript and HTML was everything you needed. Here is the or…

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    Comment #46182383

    There is also verso / recto that uses the same technique. https://github.com/nickpascucci/verso I actually wish for a tool that would use two things: 1) navigate code like a file s…

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    Comment #46078887

    Eiffel is the language you are looking for. It's pre-conditions and post-conditions prove the properties of the code that you actually are executing. The book that does the equival…

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    Comment #45945612

    In Eiffel we have multiple inheritance. It's such a powerful tool. And a natural way to model the world. For example if you think of your typical OOP book You have Vehicles with en…

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    Comment #45530786

    I agree with disabling history in youtube.com... Now I only watch videos from my subscriptions as opposed to whatever the algorithm feed me.

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    Comment #45279336

    Code is not only code. It's like saying physics it's just math. If we read: F = m*a There is ton of knowledge encoded in that formula. We cannot evaluate the formula alone. We need…

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    Comment #44933445

    Mmhhh how about a youtube version that looks like a usenet forum of my channel subscriptions. Where each video is a topic. The summary is part of the topics. Ideally the same softw…

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    Comment #44884956

    Her autobiography is fascinating!!! I really wish it was turned into a movie, or trilogy... RIP

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    Comment #44801077

    The Goal and It's not luck by Goldratt. Showed a better way to manage anything in particular ourselves. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl even in the darkest of times we ki…

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    Comment #44664845

    I think Flex was that better XUL

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    Comment #44626007

    I applaud the idea of bringing back the Visual Basic model to the web. Again I don't expect people under 45 to remember how easy it was to develop a user interface that reacted to …

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    Comment #44556264

    The Elon fan boys, are always under that impression. Plus the PR machine is always trying to create that impression. Take a look at the wikipedia page for Tesla, there has been an …

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    Comment #44417891

    I've been working on implementing @mpweiher "Storage Combinators" [0] and "polymorphic Identifiers" [1] in Eiffel [3]. Currently I'm stuck implementing a storage combinator with Ei…

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    Comment #44415448

    I'll add the 'dtrx' (Do The Right Extraction) as one of those tools that are worth to learn compared to the more basic alternatives

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    Comment #44150809

    Programming languages are extremely important yet we don't pay for them and their people that develop them. See also Evan Czaplicki creator of Elm https://youtu.be/XZ3w_jec1v8?si=6…

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    Comment #43962381

    You can also look at pldb.com It has a huge list of programming languages and its attributes.

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    Comment #43512827

    Pinterest but for links. Wasn't Pinterest, Del.ici.us but for images instead of links

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    Comment #43363693

    I know I'm a snob... but I can't read science news using the imperial system.