Hackernews on Xah Lee. 2022
- hackernews on me. 2022
- i got some fairly good vibes.
- hacker news on xah lee, 2022-04-10
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30976337
when you have a compiler that claims to compile JavaScript ES2015 code to JavaScript ES5, but does not support some objects in the ES2015 spec, such as map, set, symbols, then your compiler really isn't complete is it?
fuck the JavaScript coders and industry idiots. brainless sucking up to what corp tells them what is.
many programing language, their variable name or function name allow only unicode letter characters. (including, go java JavaScript python perl ocaml haskell rust nim)
what is unicode letter? basically, no emoji, no math symbols, no dingbats, no punctuations. only characters that are in alphabet or chinese characters.
this is a major problem because that means you cannot use math operators such as sum โ or circle plus โ as function name.
now that text recognization from image is part of windows 11, i have no use of powertoys anymore.
currently using my biological intelligence to understand 2fa, passkey, authenticator app, Hardware security keys. very complex stuff.
Usually, in programing languages or any computer related stuff, you ask why something is this way, vast majority of experts are unable to answer, they don't know.
There are people who know it, but very rare. Typically they are people who are active at the time certain design or way is formed, and are active participants.
This applies to programing language, protocols, user interface, keyboards, music notation, banking, check, credit card, etc.
1505 tabs in Firefox, all xah lee site articles.
did massive renaming of article titles in past week, adding a year. so one can get a sense of what year the article is written, historical context.
perhaps a thousand done, maybe 5 thousands to go. lol.
this is for pages that are essay (opinions, blog, commentary, etc.). not suitable for tutorial pages, eg python tutorial, math subjects.
to get the count in firefox, you need to right click a tab, select all, and right click on the close, it'll show count. i asked grok ai.
firefox shoulda have count at top.
updated
in c, cpp, python, golang, emacs lisp, they are a single function due to hack of c lang.
also, we can see that, in past ten years, many programing language tries to fixe this problem. e.g. python had 3 totally different formatting mechanisms each separated by few years.
in Wolfram language, What's the difference between AssociateTo and AppendTo for association
https://x.com/i/grok/share/j4qK5rVK8cksjszYF6l4i5MXa
JavaScript toy, for beginning coders.
discovered that you can split windows on Microsoft Windows terminal.
minor updates
Summary: Ugly programing languages, protocols, in computing industry, is gonna be with us, forever. Because, it is not a matter of excellence in technical design, but rather, money and corps and power.
If you want better software tech, you need to get rid of corruption in society first.
Get is analogous to emacs lisp load.Needs is analogous to emacs lisp require.perl cult
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massive. the importance of syntax.
Syntax is the most important aspect of a programing language
The quality of a programing language, can be judged by how much of it can be explained by its syntax alone.
hold shift and right click.
complete update on Wolfram language string functions.
major update. now the association section is complete.
updated my php tutorial from 2007, just a tiny bit.