pasquinelli

> Contrast to slot machines, which are not random, but are in fact preprogrammed to provide payouts in ways which maximize the earnings for the house and the addictive value for the player.

this isn't correct. slot machines are random. my first job out of school was, in part, making sure slot machines were random.

people think the machines are rigged because they don't understand the rules. the machines are fair, it's the pay tables that are rigged.

slot machines are truly random. the rigging is in the pay table.

that's not actually irony. i'm not bothered by only using lowercase.

hey, do you know that just because i don't like something you do, it doesn't mean you're bad, or even that i'm saying you're bad?

doing something more doesn't make you better at it. learning to do it better is what makes you better. people are quite capable of doing a lot of something without ever getting better.

question marks for non-questions drive me crazy. when i read them i hear an annoying tone, that's all. makes me vomit.

> In my experience, tech employment is incredibly bimodal right now. Top candidates are commanding higher salaries than ever, but an "average" developer is going to have an extremely hard time finding a position.

what an interesting way to say most programmers find it extremely difficult to get a job. you sound like you have some kind of insight, but is there anything notable about jobs drying up for people who aren't cheap enough or who aren't valuable enough? that's just how jobs dry up. anytime it's a bad job market for workers it'll be like that.

it is a great way to frame the coming tech crash. it allows whoever remains to fancy themselves as top talent.

i think it's silly to think we just need gooder coders with better morals. if the tech industry didn't do what it does it wouldn't enjoy the position in society it has.

this is a statement you can't possibly be sure of and the fact you're making it shows a lack of reflection.

harlequin romance zone, for sure.

that's wild because public libraries aren't in business to begin with. they're a public good, they exist to give the public something, not to extract profit from them.

oh, lol.

so then it does matter

> He's really succeeded in reducing European reliance on, subservience to, and respect for the USA.

is that so?

if it doesn't matter, why is the DoD pushing for it?

i'm really not trying to be snarky or anything, but right at the top of the om page it describes the language as concatenative and homoiconic. without searching that or asking an llm, do you know what those terms mean? or what fold is?

could be there's nothing wrong with the page and you're really just not the audience for it. hacker news has many currents, most of which don't interest me, and that's fine, i don't feel the need to weigh in on everything.

marketing isn't concerned, it's an experiment in programming languages. the attention of someone who needs to eyeball the syntax before they understand how to read it has zero value to a project like this.

splashing code examples at the audience encourages superficial assessments of the language.

i think they're talking about the types of cars popular in the us vs. the eu.

the great thing about these sorts of personal choices is that you can make them for yourself without having to be afraid of any of the consequences that would come from actually confronting power.

good thing i can talk myself in a circle to pretend everything bad is good. yes, in years past i touted the fact that all the best minds in the world want to come to america as a reason america no. 1, but now thst that doesn't seem to be the case as much, america still no. 1 somehow. see how i'm moving around electons on the internet? i'm really thinking, aren't i?

> The language is intentionally neutral and apolitical, without any stance on social or political issues.

does this mean something?

i was very confused by your description of xoscript as typeless. only typeless languages i know of are languages where a variable can only be a word. i assume you mean it's dynamically typed.

every new language that gets on hn gets two criticisms: they don't show code first thing, and they don't start with what problem is being solved by designing a new language. i'm not very interested in those things. i would, however, like to be told what it is in a concise way. you've basically got, if i understand correctly, a smalltalk-like system here, prototype based instead of class based, with dynamically scoped variables, and you're tooling it with server side scripting in mind. that tells me a lot more than code.

as for the what-problem-are-you-solving-by-designing-this-language criticism, if we're honest we can see that every language is either designed as an experiment, "what would a language be like if...?", or it's designed as a matter of personal ergonomics, "i want language X with differences i, j, and k cuz i like it that way." i'm completely fine with that.

> Hollywood and politicians will shame us for not switching

how much would you bet?

it takes forever for it to get tricky. if you turn 4 directions it would have the same tension as the original. you could keep the same controls with obstacles. a maze could be fun-- kind of _irritating stick_, but _snake_, which, naturally, you'd call _stick snake_.

i don't understand what this means. the stretch feeling is an involuntary muscle contraction that is happening to resist extension on the opposite side.

i didn't know gas prices were decided by vote.

iirc that value at key zero won't be included in any array handling functions. if that behavior were toggleable we'd have the kind of nonesense that early APLs allowed before they realized that's a bad thing to stuff in a global variable you can write to at any time in your program.

i think i might prefer indexing starting at zero, but it really isn't important. with c it makes total sense for zero-based indexing. frankly though, for lua, how it works and what an array is, it makes more sense for one-based indexing, the only counter-argument being that 1-based indexing puts off people who learned a thing one way and are unable or unwilling to do it a different way. to even include it on a list of considerations for not choosing lua is a bit silly, but to highlight array indexing and only that as the only thing you'd need to know... well i don't know how to put it that wouldn't be impolite.

either way, at least you can't toggle between indexes starting at zero and one, (at least not that i can recall.)

the thing about tacit programming is that it wouldn't use 'a' in the above. if you wrote average in j without it being tacit, it would probably be more readable to you. the question of how to thread data around without naming it is an interesting one to me.

i'm curious who you think pays american tarrifs

that's what people say when china's doing well.