59nadir

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by 59nadir 12y ago
I run Xmonad with no status bars or anything and it works great. No clutter, just the windows I want to have there. I tried it out as an experiment on my laptop to get more screen real estate and then I carried it over to my next desktop in
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> In which case you still aren't going to get anything done, but for other reasons (lack of libs, playing with the language instead of doing anything productive, advocating for Lisp instead of doing anything productive, etc). Curiou
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by 59nadir 12y ago
You know no one is disallowing you from using whichever tools and methods you want, right? Just as people are welcome to write assembler code, you are allowed to go back to oldschool photography. There is a reason, however, people generally
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> In general, the US is a consumer paradise compared to Europe. In the US, it's better to be a consumer than an employee. In Europe it's the opposite. Yeah, that's why every time there is a TnC/EULA dispute european c
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by 59nadir 12y ago
Sweden runs almost exclusively on plastic and technology, so much so that even a lot of older people don't even get physical bills anymore. To say "Europe is..." about anything is a pretty broad statement. Your one or two tri
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by 59nadir 12y ago
4 hours of sleep is not a nap. The refreshing feeling you get after a nap is completely different from the one you get when you've gone into deep sleep.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> 6) He didn't focus on graphics. He made design choices that would drastically simplify development at the expense of quality and/or performance. This lent itself to a blocky 'style' that was both easy to handle and
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by 59nadir 12y ago
I think it's kind of sad that most of the comments in this thread are about other languages than Racket and only barely touch on the articles points (mostly the stuff you don't need to actually try the language (or any lisp) to co
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> After recently having to work with modern PHP, I have to say a lot of the criticism of the language is unfounded. It's changed a lot since I first used it. Criticism doesn't become unfounded because things become better. Thin
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by 59nadir 12y ago
The TL;DR should be: Google suspended my Google Wallet account when they shouldn't have.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> ... the general uselessness of lambdas ... This sounds interesting. Why do you feel this way?
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by 59nadir 12y ago
I think the sentiment of this piece is very sound, but I don't know why I would ever expect anything out of Apple to be up to me to change. I've never known them to listen to anyone about anything and I don't know why this is
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by 59nadir 12y ago
No, that's pretentious' older brother: Elitist.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
Depends if the "real world" is the US, Sweden or, for example, Bulgaria. In the US, this might be the case. In Sweden, mostly you'll find kids, moms and people studying (depending on the city, if it has a university or not).
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by 59nadir 12y ago
I think everyone wants to imagine some reason for this man being contacted, but I would put forward a different view: The FBI just aren't bright enough to do a cursory Google search, because they 'have all the info anyways'.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
You sound like a terrible interviewer.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
I was surprised to find that google translate did a good enough job at conveying the idiocy: Let the state of #Israel to win and take your gloves without spare any Gazan! Talk about putting the war home: Gazan Commander and his family immig
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> At the moment the majority of web technologies are using JSON The majority of which technologies? The CV generators that are already out there, which are the most relevant ones, don't use JSON. How are you creating a low barrier t
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> I don't like fish because it has almost no features, compared with bash. Which features would that be?
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by 59nadir 12y ago
Is it just me, or does it feel just a tiny bit ridiculous to see Twitter proposed as being on a CV? GitHub, sure, but Twitter? Shouldn't we just add our WoW accounts and maybe our old ICQ numbers too? For people interested in standardi
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by 59nadir 12y ago
You might want to edit all your very sure posts about how this is an american thing, seeing as you've been corrected now. Being that it's what you base most of your argument on you might as well just delete them entirely.
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> Ignoring the joy of writing software with much more powerful abstractions for a moment (Python, Ruby, JS, PHP all look like jalopies now compared to Haskell) Just out of curiosity: Which abstractions are we talking about here that Hask
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> I am right now working on a UI-driven app that will be deployed to Android and on the desktop. I am using C++, Qt and platform code where necessary. This doesn't seem very performance-critical. I doubt the best tool for the job is
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by 59nadir 12y ago
The principles used in FP are actual principles you could employ in imperative languages... and people do, because they are obviously good. It's a matter of there actually being principles instead of the alternative; nothing . This
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by 59nadir 12y ago
Seems like your university is doing it wrong. While I do believe that the principles used in FP languages are vastly superior I don't think this is really a matter of debate. The advantages are obvious and if you didn't realize it
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> It is still the dominant language for large-scale low-level systems. He didn't say it wasn't the least dominant. He asked why it was to be considered the best. Dominance is a thing of legacy and you have to take into account
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by 59nadir 12y ago
The thing is that it's impossible to read an interview, article or anything by Wolfram and not be washed over with hyperbolic statements about what his products mean and do. Last time I saw The Wolfram Language, for example, on HN it w
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> This remains a massive unsolved problem in the gaming industry. No. Very much no. There is absolutely no shortage of servers for almost any game. Getting hosting, either private or public, is extremely easy and comparatively cheap fo
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> I have a friend however that shudders every time I mention making programming more visual. Whenever someone mentions making _programming_ more visual I just get this feeling I don't really understand what they mean. The act of pr
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by 59nadir 12y ago
> There might as well be no concept of "words" or "lines" in a seasoned lisp programmer's mind, there's only sexps and forms. And it's so much easier to reason that way, which is not a fault of vi'

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