KeyboardFire

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Comment · 7 years ago
It's funny that this is the first time I've seen a language explicitly condone "print debugging." It's one of those things that everyone says you're not supposed to do and then does anyway.

Does any other language have a similar feature?

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
That might just have been a failure with the GPS -- I've had the same issue before, but the car icon was offset a bit from the highway, so it looked like I was constantly driving on the grass next to it (that must have come as a surprise to the little imps inside my phone doing the navigating).
Comment · 7 years ago
While I agree that the criticism "you're just trying to look smart" is misguided, it's a bit ironic that his response had the implication that "if I know this thing and you don't then you should be embarrassed [because I'm smarter/better than you]."

(I think that was the source of much of the objection to the comment, and the post makes no attempt to apologize for it, even if it was unintended.)

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
The example they give isn't really convincing, to me. I can see the usecase for this kind of language, but for e.g. searching for a pattern on the shell that isn't just one of a few predefined special cases, it seems like it'd still be a lot easier to compose regexes on the fly.
Comment · 8 years ago
One feature I really miss in a lot of chat clients (that this doesn't appear to have) is the ability to reply to specific messages, like in Stack Exchange chat or Telegram. It makes it a lot easier to follow several simultaneous conversations, or groups with many members.
Comment · 8 years ago
The idea that language limits or constrains the way people think (the stronger side of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is now largely discredited by the majority of linguists.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is really cool!

Crazy idea: what if the first letter of the domain name was used to determine the first letter of the Unicode name of the emoji to select? That way there'd be some kind of mnemonic instead of having it be purely random.

Comment · 8 years ago
It makes me a little uncomfortable that they're using curl|bash for something as simple as "put this 10-line script somewhere in your $PATH," especially when the script involves sudo (to move into /usr/local/bin). Sure, it's easy to inspect the script and see that it's not doing anything malicious, but it makes install processes like this, where it'd be incredibly easy to, seem normal.

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