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Love seeing so many people streaming development of their #GitHubGameOff entries! Spotted some @godotengine,@unity3d, and @nim_lang projects so far... Add yourself to the list or follow along at itch.io/jam/game-off-2…

9:01 PM · Nov 2, 2018

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A short recap of our 2018: nim-lang.org/blog/2019/01/0… What did you achieve with Nim in 2018? Share your experiences either here, or on Reddit (reddit.com/r/programming/…) and HackerNews (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188637…) discussions.

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Posted by u/miran1 - 36 votes and 46 comments

1:15 PM · Jan 9, 2019

A #bounty pool has begun for this #Nim compiler feature request. Add your support 'cause every little bit counts! #OSS #opensource @nim_lang bountysource.com/issues/6817160…

3:41 AM · Feb 11, 2019

I'm sharing a basic skeleton @OBSProject plugin written in @nim_lang using our @fragcolor nimline magic. Just build and drop, only the headers are required. gist.github.com/sinkingsugar/2…

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Basic OBS Studio plugin, written in nim, supporting C++ (C fine too) - obsplugin.nim

4:21 PM · Feb 10, 2019

A quick post on some @nim_lang features that can make using hts-nim (wrapper of @htslib) (github.com/brentp/hts-nim) a bit more ergonomic: brentp.github.io/post/hts-nim-s…

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hts-nim is a library that allows one to use htslib via the nim programming language. Nim is a garbage-collected language that compiles to C and often has similar performance. I have become very...

5:53 PM · Jan 25, 2019

I just tried the hello-world example of @nim_lang. Code in Nim using Vim. :-D Thanks to @bhutanisanyam1's excellent interview (hackernoon.com/interview-with…) with @m_ratsim. Without that I won't know the existence of Nim.

9:20 AM · Jan 20, 2019

Want to see what's new in Nim world? Here is our new video: youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9ywA…

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Arne (aka Krux02)* debugging: * improved nim-gdb, $ works, framefilter * alias for --debugger:native: -g* bugs: * forwarding of .pure. * sizeof union* fe...

7:27 PM · Apr 16, 2019

Fluent.ai systems run entirely offline, offering complete privacy - no one will ever be listening in. Les systèmes Fluent.ai fonctionnent entièrement hors ligne, offrant une confidentialité totale. lnkd.in/gGQHYNk #speechrecognition #Alexa

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One of the only ways to improve Alexa is to have human beings check it for errors

7:09 PM · Apr 11, 2019

Our Wikipedia page could use some love. Help us by correcting spelling mistakes/grammar and by expanding the content that's already there. 📙 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(prog…

10:18 PM · May 7, 2019

A frequent question on pytorch-bert: How to pretrain BERT from scratch? Our repo is not made for that but here are great codebases scaled to >64 GPUs: - XML: github.com/facebookresear… - Megatron-LM: github.com/NVIDIA/Megatro… - fairseq: github.com/pytorch/fairseq

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Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python. - GitHub - facebookresearch/fairseq: Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python.

11:44 AM · Apr 28, 2019

[video] Nim - First natively compiled language with hot code-reloading at runtime - Viktor [ACCU 19] youtube.com/watch?v=7WgCt0… HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197385… Reddit thread: old.reddit.com/r/programming/…

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#nim #c++ #ACCUConfNim is a statically typed systems and applications programming language which offers perhaps some of the most powerful metaprogramming cap...

4:37 PM · Apr 24, 2019

With nimline by @fragcolor, @nim_lang and @qtproject work wonderfully together. I uploaded a quick sample github.com/sinkingsugar/n…

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A sample of a Qt app written using mostly nim. Contribute to sinkingsugar/nimqt-example development by creating an account on GitHub.

3:12 PM · May 27, 2019

Our first release candidate of Nim 1.0 is here! Say hello to Nim 0.20.0. 👑 nim-lang.org/blog/2019/06/0…

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We are very proud to announce Nim version 0.20. This is a massive release, both literally and figuratively. It contains more than 1,000 commits and it marks our release candidate for version 1.0!

3:13 PM · Jun 6, 2019

.@archillect flickr.com/photos/michael… furtho.tumblr.com/post/166184396…

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Alpha Beta grocery store at night, c1937 (via here)

5:40 AM · Jul 3, 2019

Beoplay H9 and E8 2.0 - travel companions designed to improve any journey this summer. #upgradeyourjourney

2:20 PM · Jul 1, 2019

A single backer just posted $1000 #bounty to this feature request on @kivyframework About Kivy - #opensource UI framework written in #Python , running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS #UI bountysource.com/issues/8429833…

1:25 AM · Jun 21, 2019

Beosound Shape - a collision between art and technology.

2:00 AM · Jul 27, 2019

.@archillect flickr.com/photos/8710128… hisafoto.tumblr.com/post/176928430…

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大森とストーリー 25 Oomori , Tokyo Konica C35FD FUJI 業務用100 大森とストーリーシリーズ

6:20 AM · Jul 3, 2019

Testing 500px.com/photo/77041535

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Explore this photo titled Nantasket Beach by Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) on 500px

6:13 AM · Jul 19, 2014