Hacker News: razetime

New comment by razetime in "Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language"

razetime — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:29:10 +0000

array languages are used by several companies for their work. K for example is pretty popular in fintech. Some present companies provide services for array languages as well.

https://www.dyalog.com/case-studies/index.htm https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies

Delta Chat is a messaging app that works over email

razetime — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://delta.chat/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227666

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Advocacy for Patches

razetime — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 03:49:10 +0000

Article URL: https://helloboi.osmarks.net/blog-2023-01-01-patch-advocacy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34214069

Points: 1

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The Prolog Toplevel

razetime — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:16:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op17-dlcSRQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501483

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

System for booting multiple diskless machines with a central root FS

razetime — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Technohacker/central-diskless-boot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33453745

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation

razetime — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:47:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-Foundation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450173

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by razetime in "Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?"

razetime — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:56:13 +0000

I don't remember twitter having a serious vibe. It's a mess of vibes. Tumblr is also a big mess, but more on the goofy side. I don't think it would change much even with a twitter diaspora.

Markus Triska Interview on Prolog

razetime — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1tLU0aWRQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33406557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bzip3 is available for Debian Sid

razetime — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bzip3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33406155

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by razetime in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

razetime — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:48:02 +0000

It's a pretty ordinary position to take right now, I believe.

New comment by razetime in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

razetime — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:25:48 +0000

a site doesn't have to justify its existence by being an alternative to anything.

Lil: A Scripting Language

razetime — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33393283

Points: 104

# Comments: 28

New comment by razetime in "Random walk in 2 lines of J"

razetime — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:14:43 +0000

Seeing this snide and shallow comment, I think you could benefit from expanding your mind by learning J: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/contents.htm

New comment by razetime in "Random walk in 2 lines of J"

razetime — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:13:56 +0000

Let's change the first line:

> One misconception is that languages like J are in the same caliber as less practical languages (esoteric languages like brainf*k) that use symbols more than words. The assumption is that these are mostly for recreational programming.

Making some crude assumptions here, I believe you've already invested a lot of time into studying python, or some other well known language. Understanding python or C gives you an idea of hundreds of other languages because they use similar keywords and structures to represent their code. English also helps a great deal in understanding these languages.

Now, looking at this, giving a language like APL or J a chance means that you have to spend time learning their kind of notation. If you spend your time looking at APL without making an effort to understand it, then you cannot be surprised that it looks like regex to you.

New comment by razetime in "Solutions to the Nuova reverse engineering contest"

razetime — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:16:06 +0000

The event was based on the esoteric language Nuova, defined by its implementation.

Solutions to the Nuova reverse engineering contest

razetime — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jared-hughes/nuova

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148347

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by razetime in "APL and Array Programming"

razetime — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 07:30:45 +0000

J has much easier access to graphics with bindings to a window driver and OpenGL .

APL also has support for GUI apps (Windows only) using .NET, but graphics takes some additional effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9floP7POU

New comment by razetime in "Thinking in an array language"

razetime — Sun, 15 May 2022 01:37:22 +0000

Here's some links relating to this style of code that you may find useful:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W83ME5JecI2hd5hAUqQ1BVF3...

https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded

https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/conversation/ngn-...

They're not 1.5 paragraphs per line, but enough to give a taste of the implementation style.

New comment by razetime in "K – A simple, fast vector programming language"

razetime — Fri, 13 May 2022 03:35:27 +0000

Well, yes, there's other languages like Julia, MATLAB and such if you want familiar, approachable syntax for array programming. Nial (https://nial-array-language.org/), which is inspired by APL, mostly uses words instead of symbols, which you may find more intuitive.

In K, terseness is part of the package, and it is considered good, because you can see the innards of your code at a glance, there's lesser text to change if you mess up, so on, so forth. Some time investment in the language may or may not help with this.

New comment by razetime in "K – A simple, fast vector programming language"

razetime — Fri, 13 May 2022 02:53:06 +0000

I hope you have taken some time to understand K's philosophy and goals before making this comment. A tutorial exists here: https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial if you'd like to understand why this solution is good.