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japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Pandoc – A universal document converter

Either pandoc or shellcheck, for sure. Both of them are sensible choices to use Haskell for

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data

Oh, right, I see it now. It wasn't visible straight away on my phone.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data

My first result was a Chinese porn website. Thank goodness I'm at home and not at work right now. You may wish to add a disclaimer about that.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Fast Typing: Keyboard Layouts

Switching to dvorak definitely helped me. I did as the author suggests, learned dvorak and switched to Emacs. Ever since, I've never struggled with RSI

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Backbone Cabal

There is no Cabal.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Haskell In New Clothes

Contrary to the other commenters, I see this as a huge improvement. Maybe I'm more used to languages like C rather than what, ml, python, pascal?

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

Pinetrees are eco fascists (mostly admirers of the unabomber) who use the pinetree emoji in their names.

Trad-cath-leninist is more straightforward: traditional (I.e. Reactionary/fundamentalist) Catholic (as in the church) + marxist-leninist.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

My impression of twitter was of an insular bizzaro-world where communities that are essentially invisible in meatspace become enormous and have outsized influence; k-pop fans are huge on twitter and almost always trending, but are barely known outside of their own circles elsewhere, not to mention all the incredibly granular political groups (the long and bloody trad-cath-leninist vs pinetree-eco-fash wars are so drawn out you'd be forgiven for not realising it's only 20 people per side, posting 24/7)

It always amazes me that normal people like journalists still use such a strange website.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?

With the topic of this thread being slate star codex, it saddens and discourages me that use of a pseudonym is not allowed on letter.wiki.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)

> If you must do religion, why not Christianity or Islam?

I'm amazed this aside isn't getting you downvoted. Have you been under a rock for the last 2000 years? The horrors of Abrahamic religion far outstrip anything Buddhism is responsible for.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Collapse OS – Why Forth?

A Forth shibboleth is that you have to implement your own in order to understand it. Try reading the assembly, then forth source, for jonesforth: https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth

This is how I learned.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: The Go Language was rid of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave

You're thinking of INTERCAL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third

Maybe I'm showing my power level a bit here. To me it means "tweaking something's aesthetics in a way that doesn't improve, perhaps even degrades, performance".

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third

To use computing slang to talk about music: this is just ricing. At best you'll sound out of tune with the rest of the band, at worst you'll run into wolf intervals and other issues with just intonation.

This touches on the biggest reason we stick with 12-tone equal temparament in the West: social reasons. Having a standard means we can play together, in groups or at jams, without having to negotiate which tuning system we use (an argument most working musicians I've met see as utter wank and a waste of time).

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: For Roleplayers Who Start Writing

Could you tell me about your method for this?

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What programming language offers the best all-in-one experience?

It's a varying question and depends what you mean by an all-in-one experience. There's no one perfect language.

My answer would probably be Python, though.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: “Baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again

I don't think it's ever been meant to listen to per se, more to dance to; hence why it used to be called dance music.

Which is funny because I find a lot of edm listenable outside of a dance context, especially hardcore.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Better C – A subset of D Programming Language

What's the best way for an experienced C programmer who doesn't know C++ to learn D?

What's the story in terms of using existing C (or C++) code with BetterC or D in general?

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

As another developer: stop being lazy. It was much worse back in the day in terms of browser differences.

japanoise | 5 years ago | on: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

Disagree. Learning a codebase from scratch is tricky; it's better if you have someone to teach you. So if the one contributor gets bus'd, then it'll take time (=money) to get up to speed.