snej

// Tails has grown a bit and moved out into its own repository: https://github.com/snej/tails/
// Please visit it there!
//
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// click the "Revisions" button above, or go to:
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onlurking

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

matteocrippa

Flutter

A quick cheatsheet of useful snippet for Flutter

Widget

A widget is the basic type of controller in Flutter Material. There are two type of basic Widget we can extend our classes: StatefulWidget or StatelessWidget.

Stateful

StatefulWidget are all the widget that interally have a dynamic value that can change during usage. It can receive an input value in the constructor or reference to functions. You need to create two classes like:

nyuichi

#!/usr/local/Gambit-C/bin/gsi

; Copyright (C) 2004 by Marc Feeley, All Rights Reserved.

; This is the "90 minute Scheme to C compiler" presented at the
; Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group on October 20, 2004.

; Usage with Gambit-C 4.0:
;
;    % ./90-min-scc.scm test.scm