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da4c30ff··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
I'm aware of these, but thank you nevertheless. Clojure has plenty of nice things balancing the scales, so it's not all pain and misery!
da4c30ff··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
The take I have is that with a dynamically typed language you still have a static analysis step. It’s just that the analysis happens in your and other developers’ brain and it is objectively worse. I honestly can’t think of a single thing in favor of dynamic typing.

I write Clojure in my day job and it’s insane how often we have issues where it would have been immediately caught by a static type check.

da4c30ff··on How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
I don't have an ADHD diagnosis but clearly have some of the typical symptoms.

My brain is constantly in an obsessive state, meaning that I get an obsession about something and my brain just focuses on that single topic for some variable amount of time (days, weeks, months) until I get a new obsession. I'm quite unable to think (or do) anything else during that time.

Last November I experienced something that I have not experienced before. My mind was at peace. I had no obsession for at least two weeks. It felt amazing, I was so content.

I started to read Wizard of Earthsea, which I finished few days later. Then I read Tombs of Atuan in a few days as well. I read The Farthest Shore about halfway before my brain rebooted into its usual obsessive state. This was the most I'd read in almost 10 years!

I wish I could experience that peace of mind once again.

da4c30ff··on Emacs 26.1 released
It's doom-nord from the doom-themes package.
da4c30ff··on Emacs 26.1 released
Also better look and feel[1] for Mac (including dark mode) users with

  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-transparent-titlebar . t))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-appearance . dark))
[1]: https://imgur.com/aRdxPk0
da4c30ff··on Data Loss at GitLab
Git really should have issue and merge/pull request data shipped with the repository. Does anyone know if this has been planned or not?
da4c30ff··on The Emacs dumper dispute
If that's all you need, maybe μEmacs[1] could do it?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS

da4c30ff··on Games on GitHub
What, no id[1] in the major companies?

EDIT: Nevermind I found it way down the list, but still, id is pretty major company when it comes to games.

[1]: https://github.com/id-Software

da4c30ff··on Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
Not really related to the article, but would you look at that web page. This is what all of them should look like! Nothing fancy, just good content, 64.91KB in total.
da4c30ff··on Show HN: Opensource Desktop Implementation of the Threema Crypto Messenger
Screenshots?
da4c30ff··on Something Secret This Way Comes
Currently there's only a tokenizer/parser implementation publicly available. I'm currently working on the type system.

Progress has been a bit slow, but I will be posting here on HN if I end up making something worthwhile.

da4c30ff··on Something Secret This Way Comes
This is something that I'm actually writing for my own programming language, coincidentally also written in Rust.

My idea was to label each expression with these flags, i.e. is the expression constant?, tail recursive?, etc., and then make that information available for the text editor and other tooling, so the user can instantly see certain things about their program, and see the type of optimizations the compiler will do for them.

da4c30ff··on Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction
Maybe they could add an option to order an on-demand print from a service like Lulu.com
da4c30ff··on GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
I think he means the CLI.
da4c30ff··on Comparing Rust and Java
There is an RFC[1] for making enum variants first-class types.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1450

da4c30ff··on Show HN: Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp
For emacs, there's the electric-indentation-mode and the fantastic aggressive-indent-mode.

https://github.com/Malabarba/aggressive-indent-mode

da4c30ff··on Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

    3.5 Use object method shorthand.
I disagree. With anonymous objects it breaks the syntactical uniformity of the expression. I think it is much clearer when each field is given a name(and a value) the same way.
da4c30ff··on Anko – Pleasant Android development in Kotlin
What about layout versions for different screen-sizes, orientations, etc.?
da4c30ff··on Rust Priorities after 1.0
I wish I could use 'type' as a variable name or as a field on a struct. It's one of the most used identifier names and the inability to use it is frustrating.
da4c30ff··on Light Table 0.7.0
I wonder how many people contributed under the assumption that their contributions would remain under GPL. I assume the CLA specifies their right to change the license?
da4c30ff··on Earnest – A writing tool for first drafts
Inspired by this I wrote a minor mode for Emacs called draft-mode. It can be found at https://github.com/gaudecker/draft-mode
da4c30ff··on I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
Solidarity
da4c30ff··on GitLab – Open Source Git Management Software
I was thinking what GNU could be if they launched GitLab or some alternative to replace the archaic Savannah. It could take the project to a whole new level.
da4c30ff··on Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue
An honest question: Isn't it that in some legal systems, an absence of license means public domain?
da4c30ff··on JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
What is wrong with standard unix timestamps?