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Re:Racket v8.0 on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:21AM (#26141233)
Hello everyone, I am really interested in the "language-oriented" approach from Racket. But as a person with limited skills in computer programming (mostly scientific computation, read not a software-dev), I haven't been able to find a decent walk-through of how one would go about building a DSL.

I have many use-cases in mind for a DSL ( research projects and hobby). So would you know of some full-fledged (open-source) use cases where racket has been used to create DSLs ?

Re:Do Things that Don't Scale (2013) on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:54PM (#26107010)
I wonder whether there are any examples not within the startup world but building your own personal “brand” (for want of another word), or competitive edge if that works better.
Re:Kayfabe on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:20AM (#26002860)
I am reminded of this post by Matt Taibbi on the parallels between the Trump presidency and WWE. A very interesting read: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/controversy-creates-cash-688
Re:How to Plan and Stay Organized on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:21PM (#25864433)
Hey! Great post. The link to the launch house website doesn’t seem to be functioning though.
Re:Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:28AM (#24129467)
Baker has been with Mozilla since the very beginning. I don’t how she is being “woke” here.
Using the space bar to quickly look into the contents of any file: pdf, images, txt files.

And this works also within other apps like spark where I can use the space bar to quickly verify what attachements are present.

Don’t think windows does this.

Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:22AM (#23857518)
A lot of times its simply difficult to find what one really likes doing. But I agree that ones who do end up "succeeding" really follow the template you propose here.

That being said, running after high remuneration in and of itself isn't bad. Sometimes its just what you have to do because a lot of other people depend on it.

Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:05AM (#20292540)
If I remember my Sanskrit correctly, it too has duals. But not specifically gendered duals. So two of them are going is written the same way irrespective of whether "the two" are male or female or neutral.

Yeah Sanskrit has a neutral as well. Makes the language much simpler. (In my opinion) .

Re:One power law to rule them all? on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:55AM (#20081235)
Lognormal distributions can be generated via processes that follow geometric Brownian motion.

Power laws can be produced using stochastic processes called sample space reducing (SSR) processes. Stefan Thurner from Vienna has done a lot of work on this.

Hope this helps.

She is being held in solitary for 22 hours at a time. Isn't that a bit harsh for contempt of court?
Re:In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:42AM (#19053984)
I don't see why you say that french BD follow the same fate as some of the other things you talk about.

From personal experience, growing up in India we always had either Astérix or Tintin to read. Even some of the lesser known works such as those by Giroud were available.

Now that I have been living and working in France for 6 years, one possible reason for this lack of penetration of french products is the language. There is very little effort to actually make the products accessible to the world at large. Now we may discuss the merits and demerits of this but the fact remains that if we want our products to be known all over the world, we have to make it known to the world. And most of the world speaks English.

Mes deux centimes.

Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:23AM (#18843656)
And yet we tolerate the french...
Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:13AM (#16611214)
Repair cafés seem like a wonderful idea. However, does anyone of places where one could learn some basic stuff to repair electronics etc? I dont want to hurt myself or blow the fuse in my apartment
Re:Eldar Black Holes on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:35AM (#16453965)
Probably the most accurate comment here.
Re:50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:48PM (#16312031)
If his civilisation television series is anything to go by, probably not the best person to read as far as learning about history goes.
Re:Ask HN: Is Aadhaar safe? on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:50AM (#16185133)
No.
Hardly surprising in the united states I would think.