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> can often get concepts across faster than plain documentation by using imagery that would stand out in a plain readme

This reminds me of why's (poignant) guide to ruby

https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-1.html


I'm afraid you're in the wrong thread

Hahhh.. Thank you.

> As a Racketeer, it's my dream language. All the power of Racket...

Interesting. For me the interesting part of Racket has always been the language itself. What else is there that you like and can use from Rhombus?


“Easy to use and uniquely customizable”

The customizable aspect being an open-compiler API that is accessible to a wide audience.

I love parenthetical syntax but I accept that some people don’t like it and find it hard to work with.

I see Rhombus as taking a key innovation in Python - indentation syntax - and giving it an extensibility that is impossible to add to such an established language.


I suppose this is better than nothing, but how do they track companies that don't comply and still use fake/mobile/hidden numbers?

From mobile it's a bit unclear that there's a whole website beside this article. I, for one, noticed the hamburger menu only after I read your comment. I suppose GP had the same problem.


That's still not what this is about. Take the example in the article: people who don't write code 100% of the time but have to think about mechanical and electrical engineering consideration for most of the time. You don't describe that as DevOps.


Sure, but that doesn't seem anywhere in the realm of "I need to know what's on my $PATH or how to set up a security group in AWS"


No, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE!


There's a flyby in 2030, but no landing.

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

The landing plan was scrapped last year. :/

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


On the 50 is Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote). On the 200 is Bertha von Suttner, the first woman to win a Nobel peace prize. I admit I had to look her up.


Oh, funny, I learned about her last week, in a biography of Alfred Nobel, but i only saw pictures of her young.


> The days of people being intimidated by computers have been over for a while now so I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Oh, I wish...

We have a couple of applications where we used to show useful error messages that users could copy-paste to us when they opened a ticket. We had to remove them because they scared some users. Now, per our customer's request, we sometimes only show "ERROR". Yeah, that's better...

Also, in the ticketing system we have to hide technical messages when passing the ticket between teams because the user would interject telling us they don't understand (which is ok, to a point: they have all the context they need to understand we're not talking to them, but ok...) but some would get really angry and frustrated and complain to our customer's IT that they don't want to see the technical stuff.

Also, my parents that get scared if something in red with numbers shows up on their screens.


Perhaps 'Error' in tasteful smoked glass overlay, but with a QR code that encodes an error number?

(Spent some time last year supporting students online - noone was going to take a screen shot of their laptop so we ended up with them emailing photos off their phones)


We're talking about public websites. Nobody moved the goalpost. It's always been about online presence, hence public websites.


no. you do move goalpost. you talking about public webiste, and now you need to make public entire git for it.

do you see difference between history of edits and internal documentation about the public website and public website itself? or sources to build website vs website itself? it is nuts not to see distinction of that.

github repo != public webpage. this is nuts.


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