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He seems to be operating under 3 main delusions (with a healthy dose of caste-related inferiority complex mixed in): 1. Confusion about the differences (or even the fact that they …

@dom96: what do you think about a Common Lisp-like "condition" system [0] in Nim? [0] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...

Even though I don't like Go's explicit error handling, I think this is a very reasonable comment. I don't like Go's explicit error handling because (1) I think it clutters up your …

I've never used the JS backend or C++ backend, so I can only talk about the C backend. With the C backend, the Nim code is transpiled to C code (surprisingly readable C code, as fa…

Can you provide any more info about your project? Maybe my startup http://objectai.com/ could be of assistance. (My email address is my HN username @ my startup domain, if you'd pr…

Nice work! My startup http://objectai.com/ has just launched something similar, Pizza Photo Editor: https://pizza.pics/ Pizza Photo Editor is still early-stage -- we're still addin…

I write my Nim code in Vim. I've never had any problems with auto-suggests. My Vim config for Nim can be found here: https://github.com/jboy/dotfiles/tree/master/vim (based upon ht…

Yes, my startup Object AI uses Nim code in production. We have in-house implementations of machine learning, computer vision & image processing code in Nim, using a library called …

Sounds awesome! (to another wearer of 90s industrial band t-shirts) Which company?

I think the parent's point was about whether the AlphaGo AI can generalize to a different board size (as a human player presumably can) rather than about what is the normal Go boar…

Fight Club meets Hackers meets American Psycho, with a soundtrack like The Social Network.

Ah yes, good catch. I meant "statically-typed".

Hi Marcus, have you ever taken a look at Nim? It's quite similar to Swift in several respects, but it has a primarily Python-like syntax (including indentation by blocks rather tha…

Quite possibly! That's the extra dimension added to the experiment. :) It would be even more fascinating if you could cluster facial expressions or motions as "more female" or "mor…

I think it would be amazing if they could combine this voice-modulation technology with a facial motion capture technology (like in Avatar) to display artificial/shifting faces as …

There were two particular points in the article that strongly resonated with me: > But the problem is not confined to referendums: in an election, you may cast your vote, but you a…

Agreed about using intermediate variables. What's better than comments to describe what the code does? CODE that describes what the code does. (Let the code describe WHAT the code …

"Sometimes you must bow to existing convention" is indeed a reasonable point, so I suppose I should clarify/refine my position. If you're implementing an STL-like container in C++,…

Some C++ programmers, perhaps. But I've just explained why `empty` & `clear` are ambiguous. Even if `empty` & `clear` can never be removed from the STL containers, there's no requi…

This article is a good start, but I found it much too light on detail. Each section ended just when I was ready for it to dive into details! For example, in the final section "Make…

Hi Andrea, as always, I'm very impressed by the diversity of high-quality, useful Nim projects you produce. :) I agree with the other posters that the multi-line [ ] syntax is not …

Hey, I did something similar about 12 years ago! I'd tried the Dvorak keyboard layout and found that I liked the guiding design principles, but decided that the actual layout was a…