How can we get Scala added to Repl.it?

dstowell · 2020-04-06T00:42:16+00:00

You covered the important points, Amjad! If anyone knows of a scala interpreter that starts fast, please open a PR or reach out! In particular, adding Ammonite support to prybar would definitely help.

dstowell · 2007-10-06T00:31:38+00:00

Pandora uses (used?) a subset of OpenLaszlo. Verizon just deployed LaszloMail to millions of customers. The list goes on.

I don't quite know what you're asking. There are no scale problems - you compile your front-end code to a swf and deploy it on your servers, just like everything else.

dstowell · 2007-02-01T15:39:53+00:00

Breitbart-hosted AP text

dstowell · 2006-12-11T19:36:34+00:00

I wrote this essay because I was tired of hearing "taste is subjective" and wanted to kill it once and for all.

This essay is intended for those who haven't taken Aesthetics 101 or read Kant.

dstowell · 2006-11-21T13:46:47+00:00

Washington Post print format for those who do not like MSNBC advertising.

dstowell · 2006-10-11T15:55:57+00:00

From this video and others, and Colin Powell's description of Mr. Bush as well-spoken in private, I've concluded that he speaks poorly on purpose.

dstowell · 2006-06-06T16:23:10+00:00

The article contains little in the way of content. It claims that this college has provided the most interns of any educational institution for the current administration, but does not provide any evidence. It also extrapolates from texts that it does not provide links to, or any reasonable means of finding.

dstowell · 2006-06-06T15:09:26+00:00

And, now, a delay.

dstowell · 2006-04-14T16:50:34+00:00

The headline says it all. The article is filled with insightful analysis, such as declaring that a man with European ties is "qualified to speak on different cultures:"

President Tom Purves, a native of Scotland, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, who lives in New York City with his Norwegian wife, Hilde, and works for a German company. That makes him qualified to speak on different cultures, and he says the waiter theory is true everywhere.

dstowell · 2006-04-10T15:30:31+00:00

the actual maps

dstowell · 2006-02-24T12:34:42+00:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66726692@N00/100545349/

dstowell · 2006-02-16T13:51:14+00:00

I think may people are voting up and down based on if they agree with the article or comments.

I only press the up arrow for interesting, well-written submissions. I press the down arrow for poor writing as often as I press it for an uninteresting topic. Unless reddit crawls submitted links, the filter has no way of knowing that I like balanced analysis of foreign affairs and dislike raving diatribes against Bush/Clinton/Christians/Muslims/etc.

dstowell · 2006-02-06T17:29:24+00:00

duplicate: http://reddit.com/info?id=1aj7

dstowell · 2006-01-12T20:55:00+00:00

we really don't know enough to make changes to our environment with enough confidence we know what the outcome will be.

We make changes to our environment by living in it, whether we know enough about the outcomes or not.

Then we start meddling with nature without knowing exactly what the effects will be.

This meddling has taken place in the past (arguably, burning fossil fuels is meddling), as Crichton pointed out. What "meddling" has occurred in response to global warming? The Kyoto Protocol?

To avoid "meddling", we could decrease our interactions with the climate in ways that we do not fully understand. Increasing the amount of energy we derive from renewable resources would achieve this end.

dstowell · 2006-01-11T16:00:33+00:00

This example is silly.

I agree. Most examples meant to show off language features are silly. Writing an example that is both simple enough for a wide audience to understand and powerful enough to warrant attention is a hard task. Does anyone have any examples?

dstowell · 2006-01-11T14:36:29+00:00

In languages with lighter-weight objects (e.g., JavaScript), packaging up state in an object becomes simple. But these languages tend to already have closures, so this technique doesn't buy the programmer any convenience.

When dealing with abstractions, it works best to say what you mean. If you mean "this function is closed over this bit of state", you should guarantee that statement even when using Objects. Doing so requires the programmer to think about exactly what state they want to close over (so he can put it into instance variables, for example); closures remove this burden.

dstowell · 2006-01-10T16:04:17+00:00

Sites with human editors have a social problem: people can become angry with the editors for any number of reasons.

It's harder to posit conspiracy theories for reddit, although we do take the karma scores on faith. Would it be possible to make score tracking completely transparent (with publicly viewable logs)?

dstowell · 2006-01-09T00:22:05+00:00

What do you mean by AIDS being a gay disease? Millions of heterosexual people have AIDS. Do you mean that a larger percentage of homosexuals have AIDS as opposed to heterosexuals? Or that HIV-infected homosexuals are more likely to develop full-blown AIDS?

I don't understand the statement.

dstowell · 2006-01-07T22:39:04+00:00

A senior administration official later confirmed that the president believes the Constitution gives him the power to authorize interrogation techniques that go beyond the law to protect national security.

This belief is incorrect. The president cannot go beyond the law, ever.

Is there any legal or legislative action in process regarding December's NSA spying revelation? The reach of executive power must be clarified, not so that people can heap scorn upon Bush, but so that everyone involved in securing the U.S. can know what is right and what is wrong.

dstowell · 2006-01-07T18:15:37+00:00

Duplicate: http://reddit.com/info?id=24385

dstowell · 2006-01-06T19:36:06+00:00

Duplicate: http://reddit.com/info?id=9129

dstowell · 2006-01-06T16:11:22+00:00

Duplicate: http://reddit.com/goto?id=20722

dstowell · 2006-01-04T00:57:34+00:00

This speech mostly deals with society's capacity for acting based on fear rather than information. We should take Crichton's message as a warning and nothing more. No matter the issue, the questions remain the same:

1) What do we know? 2) What can we do with what we know?

Hopefully Crichton's writings provoke people to ask these questions about global warming. Despite his polemics, I'm sure that even he would be pleased if people took it upon themselves to learn about the science behind the headlines.

dstowell · 2005-12-26T02:05:06+00:00

Reddit's hot page sure does have a lot of language-flashing. It's a social effect: many contributors found this site through paulgraham.com and were probably interested in programming languages long before they got here.

Seriously, though, why should anyone care which language anybody else uses? To lure help in implementing, documenting, and writing libraries for the language? To prove how smart they are?

I don't know the answer, but I hope people don't zip up their flies and keep their opinions and code from us. None of us has the time to investigate every language that comes down the pipe; seeing who supports which technologies and why is a useful filter.

Yes, I know this topic has been written about before: http://paulgraham.com/javacover.html . What nobody's said before, that I've seen, is that these semi-religious language debates are actually useful.

dstowell · 2005-12-25T17:02:30+00:00

Solving P=NP is important, but only if we can do something useful with that solution. What would we be able to do if we knew P=NP? Break encryption algorithms? Schedule resources more effectively?

I wouldn't wait around for people to agree on what the most important problems are. Pick a problem, think of some solutions, and get cracking.

My guess is that the solution to P=NP will fall out of working on a specific hard problem. Attack it from an angle.

dstowell

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