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github.com 9y ago

Neural Redis

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blog.rokkincat.com 10y ago

Circuit Breakers in Elixir

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bryaninspired.com 10y ago

ElixirScript: Processes, Generators, Embracing the Environment

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Sunspring – Sci-Fi Movie Written by an RNN

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neopythonic.blogspot.com 10y ago

Adding Type Annotations for fspath

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github.com 10y ago

Hamster-GTD

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llogiq.github.io 10y ago

Safety = Freedom

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ncase.me 10y ago

Neurotic Neurons

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dave.cheney.net 11y ago

Why Go and Rust are not competitors

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www.hughhowey.com 11y ago

Why Kindle Unlimited Short Fiction Still Makes Sense

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blog.fogus.me 11y ago

The best things and stuff of 2014

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mute.bradconte.com 11y ago

Mute – An AdBlock filter for internet comments

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danielkeep.github.io 11y ago

A Quick Intro to Rust Macros

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antirez.com 11y ago

Redis cluster, no longer vaporware

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Open-source projects that could use documentation help?

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terribleminds.com 12y ago

Publishing Is Not A Religious War « terribleminds: chuck wendig

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skel.weebly.com 12y ago

Skel: A Streaming Parallel Skeleton Library for Erlang

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

BeamJIT – A LLVM based just-in-time compiler for Erlang

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zef.me 12y ago

Setting Up Development Environments With Nix (2013)

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petdance.com 12y ago

Resume tactics from the grocery checkout lane

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convergence.io 12y ago

Convergence

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seminal.io 12y ago

Seminal Web Texts

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github.com 13y ago

$ git pray

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matias.ca 13y ago

Quiet Mechanical Keyboard

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mainly just, "how to deference the address you just got to get the value you want." Might be covered under the "syntax" heading as well, but the concept was still gone over for those that hadn't quite grokked it yet.

I can't speak for jvns, but for my degree, "UNIX BASICS" was essentially "Command-line basics" (an intro class), and Assembly was pretty much just the actual language syntax, registers, pointers, and interrupts. The word "syscall" might have been mentioned once or twice, but only in a hand-wavy, "don't worry about this right now" kind of way.

It depends on the state, though most are "at will." Some companies will do a "trial period" in which some of your benefits are held back for anywhere from 60-90 days, so that may be what the parent is referring to.

off the top of my head, I would say it's similarity to Ruby means that Ruby devs would have an easier time learning the language than learning an entirely new one. Crystal also seems to have an extensive standard lib, which lua does not. (that's not a criticism of lua, just an observation. I know luarocks has made the lack of a large stdlib much less of a pain point for lua)

I used both nim (back when it was still nimrod) and rust for a while, before eventually settling on rust. I tried to give nim a chance, and was told that "they will grow on you" ("they" being the things you mentioned that were "unique decisions instead of what you're used to from other languages"). They never did, and though I got used to avoiding the problems I initially had with them, the language just never "felt good" to me.

Thanks for pointing out my "y'all" typo -- fixed. I just don't like the way "y'all" rolls off the tongue, and never enjoyed using it. But, as you say, there has to be SOME second person plural. I just like the way "yinz" sounds, I guess. /shrug

My wife talks this way all the time, and when we were first dating it really bothered me. Eventually I came across an explanation of the regional-ness of it on the internet somewhere, and I asked her if any of her family is from the Pittsburgh area. As far as she knows, they aren't, but they are from Columbus, OH, which is just down the highway a bit.

I heard that Pittsburgh-ians also tend to use "yinz" for the second-person plural, which I find much better than a plain "you," and much, much better than "You all" or "y'all". (Though I'm now told it is not as commonly used as I assumed it was)

Anyway, I love reading about the various ways american english has diverged, given time and distance.

Not sure if this fits the bill, but you can do code generation at compile time with cargo using build scripts: http://doc.crates.io/build-script.html

I have an as-yet-unpublished crate that takes a JSON API spec and generates an API client for it (in rust) at compile time using this method.

I don't really understand this issue. If I write a one line function in rust, nested within another function, I will use a closure. Which, incidently, rarely requires me to annotate any types.

From Node.js to Go 10 years ago

the point that has been known for decades is not, "Switching from Node.js to Go gives you better performance," it is "switching from a high-level language to a low-level language gives you better performance." This point _has_ been known for decades, but new generations of programmers keep re-discovering it. (note: I am not critizing new programmers, I am one of them. in fact, having recently switched from python to rust, you could say I am one of the many re-discovering the performance joys of lower-level languages)

I’m Sorry 10 years ago

I believe that, what he wants us to take away from this, is that once he "proves" himself to be who he says he is, his life will change in ways similar, but worse, to the ways that it has since he claimed to be Satoshi. It is this change, he seems to be saying, that he is not courageous enough to face.

Sounds like B.S. to me, but who tf am I to judge?

About a year ago I made Rust bindings, but they are out-of-date now, as I kind of stopped participating in the wren community (not their fault, I stopped participating in a lot of communities due to some happenings in my personal life). I will have some more time coming up here soon, and hope to get back into it.