Master of Camouflage

turdmalone · 15 days

Glad to see it's not just my cat that does this

internet_party · 24 days

Holy crap, your username is awesome.

TobogganFetish · 1 month

Well done! :)

vector_theory · 1 month

Needles. Getting blood tests, IVs... it freaks me right out.

Skute · 1 month

Came here to make sure the mandatory xkcd was posted. Thank you sir

mexicanseafood · 1 month

Hahaha, oops. Thank you

mexicanseafood · 1 month

To clarify this should be read as "The default leader is \ but can be changed with..."

letsgetsilly · 1 month

VS2010 + Resharper + ViEmu is a great combo, I've used it myself, very nice.

gottagetthatwa · 1 month

Hahaha, I've seen that show too, I can understand your confusion.

gottagetthatwa · 1 month

Mushashi. It is set in the same time period (It actually starts just after Shogun ends) and as much as I enjoyed Shogun, I liked Mushashi even more. It's a different sort of book though, read the goodreads description to find out more.

attractivechaos · 2 months

Absolutely the latter! It is combination of the core languages itself, the (mostly) well-designed standard library, and the polished tools. All of these have improved staggering amounts since C# 1.0.

untogethered · 3 months

Whoa, awesome. I had no idea. As a new blogger, thanks a bunch, I'll keep this in mind.

cqwww · 3 months

I'm in!

MatrixFrog · 3 months

Mobile one was actually kind of nicer to read for me.

Awesome post, thanks for writing this!

pythonauts · 3 months

Best in-depth articles. Doesn't necessarily correspond to top voted things on proggit. I see value in that, personally.

pythonauts · 3 months

Love it! I really enjoy articles that are in-depth like this, thanks for collecting them like this. Subscribed.

Also, was cool to see my latest article in there! Thanks!

nickknw · 3 months

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nickknw · 3 months

Well having Datalog available inside another more general language sounds like a pretty perfect combination then.

Datalog/Prolog-in-practice tends to show up in relatively narrow areas where the problem can be described declaratively with relative ease.

And I bet in those areas that it match Prolog/Datalog's strengths, using it beats the pants off of non-declarative solutions. At least, from what I've seen so far.

Thanks gecko! Although now I have no more excuses for putting off a further exploration of Prolog... :)

nickknw · 3 months

Possibly it would have. I'll write up more in the following posts about a couple of specific situations that gave me the most trouble. I'll keep your advice in mind and see if it becomes any easier if I try and approach the problem that way.

Thanks!

nickknw · 3 months

That's really interesting. So really understanding Prolog can be pretty useful even when building an application in another language.

From your link to Wikipedia:

In contrast to Prolog, [Datalog]

disallows complex terms as arguments of predicates, e.g. p(1, 2) is admissible but not p(f1(1), 2),

imposes certain stratification restrictions on the use of negation and recursion, and

only allows range-restricted variables, i.e. each variable in the conclusion of a rule must also appear in a not negated clause in the premise of this rule.

I haven't used Prolog enough to know - do Datalog's restrictions turn out to be a big limiter in practice? Does it flat out stop you from being able to solve some things? Is it just a bit less expressive?

nickknw · 3 months

Wow. This echoes exactly how I felt when trying to grapple with Prolog. It really is totally different. It is weird. And it may take a bit more effort than I'm used to in order to really grok it. And that is okay.

Thanks fancypantalons

Side note: I always find it really humorous when I read a comment like this and then find out your user name is something goofy like, well, fancypantalons).

nickknw

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