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This tutorial uses Pascal as the implementation language. Is there a similar tutorial done in a language that is mainstream today? Like Python? Go? Rust?

I am one of those who moved from Perl to Python. As a Perl coder I loved writing clever hacks. After a few months of Python I began appreciating simplicity and elegance in code.

Take a look at https://github.com/susam/texme . It does not introduce a new Markdown flavor. Just the regular Markdown + support for Latex.

> But there is a point where using a simple and elegant tool stops being simple and elegant - it can only be tortured so far outside its intended use-case before it stops being use…

When a website disappears completely, there is no web server to respond with HTTP 300.

Problems like this can be easily caught by linters like eslint or standardjs.

These open source groups could surely use a chatbot to log the chats to some place for archival and make the archive searchable, can't they? By the way, I find IRC/Slack good for r…

Open space offices is another similar fad that I cannot stand. Who wants to be at the constant risk of being interrupted and be distracted by side-channel chatter! The situation ha…

I am curious if there is a programming language with a type system that would cater to types in Physics? For example, I could say: deftype distancd from double; deftype time from d…

This is something that bothers me a lot. I have traveled to the UK a lot and oh, what a fine nation! I love being in the UK. Good weather, amazing people, great food and drinks! Th…

> Most people don't have side projects. Do you have any citation to back this up? My anecdata indicates otherwise. Most people I meet in IT do have side projects. They may not be p…

I think you can use ".intel_syntax noprefix" with GNU as to assemble Intel assembly.

What are the advantages of pipenv compared to plain pip and python3 -m venv/virtualenv? The latter works fine for me. What are good reasons to switch to pipenv?

There was a recent thread[1] that shows how to setup Lisp development environment in Vim.[2] If you know Vim already, then check it out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21…

Yes, the project is disingenuous. It claims there is a bug but really it is just functioning as designed.

Just provide the commands again as text. I don't have to wait for the entire asciinema to replay. I can ctrl+f what I need and copy-paste.

Thank you for making this point. Plain text is really underappreciated. When I visit a project README, I don't want to wait for the entire replay. I just to skip to the part of the…

This did sound like a disclosure to me as well. A disclaimer would be something like, "Use it. Your mileaage may vary. I am not responsible for any troubles you encounter whilen us…

This is an awesome project with awesome write up. I miss the days of pixelated console games. The constrained environment led to so much creativity. Are there any new games like th…

I have recently begun to feel that my day job does not give me the satisfaction I once used to get. More and more stuff is moving to AWS. More and more stuff gets automated. Instea…

Lisp had this kind of interactive programming support for a long time using SLIME and Emacs. Why isn't this a more common feature in the more recent languages?