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Re:A Python-based programming language for high-performance computatio...
on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:55AM (#28594460)
> Seq is a Python-compatible language, and the vast majority of Python programs should work without any modifications
Re:What they don’t tell you when you translate your app
on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:01AM (#28470439)
>The actual identifier should be something like “Open a ticket (imperative, button)”
Or even better: "ui.ticket.actions.open" — trying to shoehorn linguistic categories into translation files is a painful experience, but dumb specific IDs work great and make untranslated captions apparent.
Re:Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language...
on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:35PM (#28260777)
Building an AST is an easy task once you've figured out your grammar and error recovery mechanism, but these are essentially a kind of language-specific design work that can not be automated.
Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Te...
on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:24AM (#28086152)
> Should the internet be a free for all place without moderation?
The better question would be: do you want an arbitrary person (like me) to decide whether you have a right to send an arbitrary pack of bytes?
Neither "society" nor "voters" nor "corporations" make these decisions. It is always an arbitrary person who does. Should one person surrender his agency into the hands of another?