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Dear disgusted former readers,

I recognize that obscure vector programming languages probably aren’t what you came here to read. Please proceed over to www.miaminights.com to proceed with the gossip and trashing.

The truth comes out - Microsoft has never cared about the developers beyond using them as leverage in the battle for the platform. If anyone is surprised by this, they’ve been asleep for the past ten years.

God you fucking schmuck haven’t you ruined liberalism enough? Please, make an ecocar out of granola and ride that shit to Darfur or something because I am so, so tired of you. OUT OF MY FACE!

K is a terse array-oriented programming language.

Download old, free interpreter here

Here’s an intro

My notes, so far. Note that “monadic” means the operator takes one argument (! 10); dyadic means it takes two (2 ! 10).

• ~ monadically is NOT.
• _ is the monadic trunc operator. _ 10 = 10, _ 10.9 = 10
• ! is the dyadic mod operator. 100 ! 2 = 0, 101 ! 2 = 1
• | (pipe) is the monadic array reverse operator. | 1 2 3 = 3 2 1
• ? monadically is the array uniq operator.
  

  ? 1 2 3
  1 2 3
  ? 1 2 3 1
  1 2 3

• @ is the dyadic array index operator.
  

  names: `tom `bob `frank
  names @ 0
  `tom
  names @ 1
  `bob
  names @ 2
  `frank

• # monadically is the array length operator. # 1 2 3 = 3. This is in Mr. Shasha’s primer.
• # dyadically is the array fill operator. 10 # 7 = 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
• Precedence is right to left; stupid. #names % 2 is an error; (#names) % 2 returns 1.5 as you’d expect.
• & monadically finds the indices of an array that match an expression.
  

  & names = `frank
  ,2
  & ~ names = `frank
  0 1

  FYI, ,2 means the same thing as PHP array(1); - an array with one element whose value is 2.

Ever wished you could do this in Javascript?

alert(”Hello!”);
sleep(30);
alert(”Done!”);

Now you can. Narrative Javascript takes your Javascript and transforms it into a gigantic switch{} statement, saving and restoring the program state as it goes so that it appears to be one function call to your program. Pretty smart.

I’m watching a Fox News special debunking global warming.

1. How to detect font resizing (there’s on onFontResize event in JS)
2. How to detect the currently focused element via JS, without adding a ton of onFocus/onBlur handlers to everything
3. JS-based min-width/max-width for IE

Is this the turning point in the war against child obesity?

It is done!

Holy crap - that’s a tiny camera for 10mp!