gavinlynch

why would you want to view a programming language algebraically?

hey bbitmaster :)

i remember when you were creating that debugger, long time no see. (what's it been, a decade?) Fceuxd was always the best romhacking emulator, gotta love those conditional break points!

this takes me back to the old days of beta testing, and hanging in #rom-hacking on irc hope you're well :)

I feel this is a great time to point out that Plato disliked a lot of democracy.

Well, this is the future of the music industry. It's an incredibly sound ivestment to increase the buy-in of major players to increase the overall long-term viability of the product. It's kind of a "duh", but to be fair many companies miss the "duh"

I find this specious: What modern web app isn't minifying/concatenating it's Javascript and CSS source? All of your concerns are easily remedied via a proper build procedure. And we're talking about, in relative terms, miniscule amounts of data for the web. 33 kb? C'mon now.

This was my impression as well.

Assuredly, like most/anything in life, repetition and dedication will be your regex salvation.

Tools such as this are shortcuts for newcomers to grok the various operators rapidly. I think they are very worthwhile.

Time? It's been 25 years.

I wonder what is preventing Stallman from doing it himself? It is, after all, open source.

>> "The underlying sentiment I read was -- "you mean I will be stuck unable to tell everyone I work with the latest bleeding edge tech because there is a newer, cooler faster hemorrhaging tech out there, after I spent nights online evangelizing about how awesome this last bandwagon I jumped on is""

Let me ask you a simple question: Do you trust the professional opinion of someone who would complain about this? And loudly, at that? Do you think this person is representative of a majority of front-end engineers?

>> "It was rather amusing and sad. The amusing part is how the stereotype of immaturity and childishness was just re-enforcing itself."

Which community of people have established a stereotype of immaturity and childishness that was just reinforced?

>> "The sad part is that here is Google spending man months ... of work and giving it back to the community and as a thank you they got spit in the face ("how dare you release open source projects, that you spend money developing, in a direction I don't agree with!").

"Giving it back to the community and getting spit on"... Google is a for-profit company. They're not doing this for charity. There are many facets to the idea of replacing javascript as the client-side language of the web. Would that we could all act like adults when discussing this on the merits. That doesn't always happen, as we are human beings. I agree that getting angry at the Dart team is irrational and non-productive.

Okay. So what are we talking about here again? I'm still confused. Perhaps the confusion is my fault and not your own. But if you could elaborate a bit, that might help.