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vmorgulison The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

Gopher is still alive :)

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

Veronica-2 is the gopherspace search engine:

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgophe...

vmorgulison Self-Adjusting Stack Machines (2011) [pdf]

GitHub of CEAL:

https://github.com/matthewhammer/ceal

vmorgulison Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on Lisp

Something that could work with git is to use a map.

Transform:

    (a1 a2 (b1 b2))

To:

    -------------
    parent  child
    -------------
    root    list1
    list1   a1
    list1   a2
    list1   list2
    list2   b1
    list2   b2

It should work with diff too if the ids are preserved.

vmorgulison Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on Lisp

> ... but there must be a reason why diagrammatic languages have not received the acceptance as widespread as text-based languages have.

Or maybe because of the Deutsch limit (text is denser):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch_limit

vmorgulison Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (1988)

Very cool!

Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106259

vmorgulison Coup attempt underway in Turkey

> EU source says Turkey coup bid looks substantial, 'not just a few colonels'

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-eu-idUSKCN...

vmorgulison Coup attempt underway in Turkey

The both can be true.

I think the coup is related to the recent position of Erdogan towards Russia.

vmorgulison “Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]

There is Nemiver too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemiver

vmorgulison WebAssembly Specification Prototype

Something in text: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen...

    \\//

vmorgulison Squirrel Programming Language

AngelScript too:

http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/

vmorgulison There Is No Distinctly Scientific Method

There is the Occam's razor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

vmorgulison RelDB: The Desktop Relational Database Management System

An overview of Tutorial D (the language of RelDB):

http://reldb.org/docs/AnonymousAndFirstClassOperatorsInTutor...

More instructive.

vmorgulison Ōryōki Web Browser

There is Cocktail written Haxe (can compile to C++):

https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail

vmorgulison Ask HN: How do I stop myself being toxic?

IMHO you are not really toxic. Toxic people have not enough empathy to ask themselves about that.

vmorgulison Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

It's a very good tool.

Meld is the equivalent under Linux.

vmorgulison Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

I switched to SMPlayer because of the integration with OpenSubtitles.

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

vmorgulison What the ISO C++ committee added to C++17 working draft at Oulu 2016 meeting

My favorite is "template<auto>". An universal smart pointer:

    template <typename T,auto f> struct smart
    {
     T* pointer=nullptr;

     ~smart(){f(pointer);}
    };

    smart<char,free> buffer={malloc(...)};
    smart<FILE*,fclose> file={fopen(...)};
    ...

Something to keep in the "potential subset".

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p012...

vmorgulison Table-oriented programming (2002)

> But the geometric space explosion of cross-products makes you want to create new abstractions to cover more ground, and you start to lose what tables gave you to begin with.

What kind of abstractions are you thinking of? ORM?

There is an interesting comparison between tables and s-expression on c2.com that might interest you:

"The average for TOP is higher than es-exp's in my opinion, so they are the better general-purpose tool, especially if complexity of a project grows over time. I rarely see project complexity shrink over time, thus it seems more logical to emphasize the higher end when making a judgment rather than the lower end. If you see dark clouds on the horizon, you should pick the bigger umbrella even though the current rain may be light. -- top "

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreTablesGeneralPurposeStructures

vmorgulison What's your favorite children's book?

Treasure Island - Stevenson

vmorgulison Ask HN: What is best programmable drone with camera

In that case you can take a look Walkera's products:

http://www.walkera.com/

vmorgulison Moving to MemSQL

Not related to the content of the post, but I wonder why tapjoy.com is blacklisted by Disconnect (via uBlock Origin)

    ||tapjoy.com^
    Malvertising filter list by Disconnect

vmorgulison Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

Mine is called "apt-all.sh" and installs gcc, clang, qemu and some libraries:

https://github.com/vmorgulys/sandbox/blob/master/stackcity/t...

It's a big list of "apt-get -y install".

vmorgulison Ask HN: What is best programmable drone with camera

3DR is known to use free software for the autopilot and the ground station:

https://3dr.com/solo-drone/

https://pixhawk.org/choice

https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner

vmorgulison Tell HN: New layout defect with Firefox ESR 45.2

Done. Thank you.

vmorgulison Tell HN: New layout defect with Firefox ESR 45.2

Ok.

vmorgulison Ars Technica founder on the AR-15

Because you can add a bayonet.

vmorgulison Ottawa doctors' high-risk MS treatment yields 'impressive' results, Lancet finds

In general, it's 30%.

The results are over (69%). Very promising.

vmorgulison WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype

I expect a reboot of the web with wasm.

As wasm defines a VM, the browser could become useless.

vmorgulison We need constrainable lightweight markup languages

Totally agree.

What do you think of Pandoc?

http://pandoc.org/

vmorgulison Tor Project Statement on Jacob Appelbaum

Thank you a lot nisa. You're right it's very clear (especially the reddit thread).

I like a lot this kind comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/4mkh8j/confirmed_jacob...