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m48

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    Comment #20276527

    Obviously bundling nearly all of Chromium with an app is inherently inefficient, but out of curiosity's sake, has there been any objective analysis of exactly what makes this use a…

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    Comment #19022005

    Oh, I never noticed that. That's pretty interesting—although unfortunately, that syntax does not look terribly convenient to write, which is the main thing I'm after here. I think …

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    Comment #19021857

    Well, thinking about it more, I did realize there's a pretty nasty edge case with my hypothetical JavaScript syntax: let let x = 5; let x = 6; // should this set the variable "let …

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    Comment #19019869

    Does one actually need whitespace to separate identifiers? This is something that's always bugged me a bit. Aside from C-style type declarations ("unsigned int x;"), C-style syntax…

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    Comment #12740951

    I was always under the impression this program was a level editor made primarily for use with for the author's Clean Game Library [1], a game engine for a functional programming la…

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    Comment #12675528

    A quick explanation of what this is, because it took me a bit to figure it out: it appears to be an interactive fiction engine written in Clojure. The linked example game is runnin…

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    Comment #12536040

    Started screwing around with a limited version of Visual Basic 6 when I was 8 or 9. I had always liked the visual design of computer programs, so the programming was sort of a mean…

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    Comment #11232206

    I've looked into it a bit. The answer appears to be… sort of. It depends on your definition of "modern," how many hoops you're willing to jump through, and which dialects of Lisp y…

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    Comment #9207697

    This may not be completely acceptable, but I swear by Mempad ( http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm ). It's not open source, but that isn't a huge deal breaker for me, since it can impo…

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    Comment #8808462

    I'm not completely sure it's his code. In his comments, he says it is for "those who are interested in trying something like this," and the readmes of most of the repos thank Tavis…

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    Comment #8805432

    I also have hand problems. I use speech recognition to type everything, including code, and a game controller to move around the mouse. The controller I'm currently using, a PS4 co…