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vinodkd

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About vinodkd

armchair architect, wannabe language designer

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    Comment #44769366

    not in number of subscribers - they know the channel already, but in quality of content and production values. I think that's what OP meant. F9 could get 2M subscribers by just doi…

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    Comment #35828665

    Just read it like a novel. Ignore the exercises. What struck me that it took 8 or 9 chapters until they even presented a loop, and it was none the worse for doing that. Actually he…

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    Comment #34714043

    Thanks. Also, nice blog post about MMM. Good analogy to finance.

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    Comment #34690176

    Funny, I arrived at this "all software is.." piece last week. Hypothesis: All of software *is* about change management ---- It dawned on me that all the software design efforts - D…

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    Comment #33594473

    At one point I was so used to Notational Velocity that I needed it on Windows and didnt want to adopt other available solutions. So I built a barebones clone in Java: https://githu…

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    Comment #32533271

    but maybe, they'll end up learning anyway? one thing i realized when i went back to studying online is that i was no longer the student who needed to prove something to someone els…

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    Comment #32096050

    I'm a little late to the party, but humbly submit my thoughts/design from a while back for your review/feedback: https://github.com/vinodkd/halo/blob/master/doc/UserGuide.md... Edi…

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    Comment #32096026

    I'm a little late to the party, but humbly submit my thoughts/design from a while back for your review/feedback: https://github.com/vinodkd/halo/blob/master/doc/UserGuide.md... Edi…

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    Comment #32095995

    I'm a little late to the party, but humbly submit my thoughts/design from a while back for your review/feedback: https://github.com/vinodkd/halo/blob/master/doc/UserGuide.md... Edi…

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    Comment #31469215

    The second para of the article addresses this, as does the summary at the bottom. Maybe read the article and respond if your concerns about this particular article are still valid?…

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    Comment #31322979

    From the article: > These rules may sound complicated, but really, they are about understanding the fundamentals of how a computer works. ... and from the post that the article lin…

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    Comment #31244965

    Agree. And after years of using it, I discovered osage, and after a few years more, gvpr. It gives and it gives. And yes, I'm forever fiddling with it to make it look the way i wan…

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    Comment #30897610

    Not sure I agree. I didnt know about gitjournal until vHanda's post, but immediately saw how it could be a replacement for my use of Google Keep (which I use when I'm on the go vs …

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    Comment #29871481

    nope, no hate for google keep. i just hope they dont make it go away. really useful for all sorts of notes/lists

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    Comment #29819920

    same. tried FF and Chrome on Windows, and FF on Ubuntu. Blank space where the editor should be.

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    Comment #29370386

    Thanks for this link. TIL. Also, the videos linked from the site were useful

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    Comment #29144290

    Some really interesting ideas in a well organized article. Bookmarked!

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    Comment #29144035

    or frink [1], which started off as a tool like the others mentiond here, but is now a full fledged units-based programming language. See some examples of them here [2] 1: https://f…

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    Comment #28877670

    didnt mean it as a joke. I did not have another label for my pickiness as you call it. i'm still learning these terms via my child who has been diagnosed, but the thing that bother…

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    Comment #28877601

    minor nit about your website: the top menu's css might need adjusting. On my laptop (dell xps) the last letter of each word shows up in the next line, like so: Abou FAQ t s Trigger…

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    Comment #28713934

    Does tcl qualify as an ur-language? No reserved words, words compose into commands, commands into scripts. ideas like upvar and uplevel.

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    Comment #26097817

    I love new languages, and I love that you have all the basic elements of webapps as first class citizens. ....and then I saw that the page is still written using React and db acces…

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    Comment #25954888

    Advance apologies for coming across strong, but for an article advocating clarity, it is utterly devoid of an examples of how to actually achieve it. If your title starts with "How…

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    Comment #25266729

    (minor): please dont ask for my email on every page. deters from me trying the language!

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    Comment #24610796

    Did you know that Graphviz can also output its own dot format, but that the output contains layout information? That might help you get started with the 2nd part. There's also an e…