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Re:Lisp's Influence on Ruby on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:16AM (#48537267)
I don't want to be a gatekeeper, but Clojure, Janet and similars doesn't even have cons cells; that's hardly 'the same programming language'.
Re:I have officially retired from Emacs on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:57PM (#47938056)
If you are on Linux/Gnome, try out Stage:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.aganzha.Stage

Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @01:01PM (#47692996)
Whats wrong about Github pages?
Re:Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:59PM (#47663578)
Do you know TreeSheets[1]? It kind of sounds similar to your notebook idea.

https://strlen.com/treesheets/

Re:Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:25AM (#47120866)
Not just Tailwind; most of the listed criticism are still valid and relevant, even after those products had success.
Re:Microsoft makes Zork open-source on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:03PM (#45997698)
I suggest: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

Re:Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml on Monday November 17, 2025 @11:42AM (#45955291)
I don understand: If there are so many developers willing to contribute with non OCaml languages, why they don't just implement their own mod installer in Perl, Java, PHP or whatever a "sane" language is?
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:33PM (#45906190)
I don't get what's miserable or unhappy about criticizing the political incoherence of some people. You may disagree with them, but why the personal attacks?
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:15PM (#45903638)
If you won't say who is the person you're talking about, can you at least tell an example of that cringe behavior?
Re:Abstraction, Not Syntax on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:44PM (#45583928)
I think if people want a more powerful, programmable config language, maybe they should use something like Lua or Scheme instead of reinventing the wheel with those new niche languages.
For correctly obeying the rules, you first need to understand and interpret them.
Any scientific source on that "well accepted fact"?
Re:Inkscape 1.4 Released on Friday October 18, 2024 @10:27AM (#41879778)
I don't think they are saying "proprietary" as in "secret, closed source", but just as in "custom format" that is built around one particular application.
Re:An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device on Sunday July 28, 2024 @11:05PM (#41097648)
I assume those scripts are edited on a regular desktop/laptop computer and then uploaded to the phone
> I do not know what the next-best single-user, single-process, non-bloated OS would be to run on modern hardware that still has some reasonably modern software and can be used for distraction-free (hobby) development the way FreeDOS could.

Not sure why would you want a single-process OS on modern hardware, but there are some alternatives that run much less things on the background than regular Linux: Haiku, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or some lightweight non-glibc, non-systemd Linux-based like Adelie or Alpine.

Re:Linux When? on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:36PM (#40290536)
It's just common online courtesy to add to the title a short description of the project like (Zed, code editor) to save users some valuable time.
There are Javascript frameworks and CSS frameworks. Tailwind is the later one. Even the Tailwind front page describes it as a CSS framework.
Well, if you don't populate all expansion slots, it takes more space than it needs.
Re:Ledger on Sunday February 25, 2024 @02:08AM (#39498378)
This, but with SQL instead of Excel.
Re:FreeBasic on Friday December 22, 2023 @07:16AM (#38733419)
With GOSUB you can use RETURN, but not with GOTO. GOSUB is for subroutines. (At least that's how it was on MS BASIC.)
Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:41AM (#38220210)
What advantages do you find over Linux?
What's wrong with Pinebook Pro's keyboard? I have one of those, and the keyboard works just fine.
Re:Zig is now also a Windows resource compiler on Saturday October 21, 2023 @04:10PM (#37970067)
There are GResources for the GTK/GObject ecosystem:

https://docs.gtk.org/gio/struct.Resource.html

Re:Tell HN: My bank just sent me brownies (and it's pretty f'd up) on Saturday September 02, 2023 @12:47PM (#37363164)
I wish my bank was fucked up enough to send me brownies on my birthday
Re:Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it on Sunday July 09, 2023 @12:09AM (#36651427)
Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM and never turn off your computer nor close your browser.

I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.

Re:The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer on Saturday July 08, 2023 @10:22AM (#36644707)
In my own experience, Chromium browser (which is the base for Google Chrome) works much better (faster) than Firefox on my Pinebook Pro (ARM, Linux).

But I think the author is using Chrome under emulation, so bad performance is expected.