59nadir

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by 59nadir 13y ago
That tone is implied because that's what they thought when they designed the language. He specifically says that exact thing... They were trying to make development of the kind of projects C++ was used for easier and as such it was a r
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> Also the conceit of SICP (not really justified) is that they don't have to teach you syntax, because homoiconicity. What syntax is there to teach?
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> Rather than get used to using H J K L, I spent that evening waiting for a new vi executable to build in my home directory. >Laziness will find a way. Doesn't sound like laziness as much as it sounds like the thinking of an obst
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by 59nadir 13y ago
I think websites in general are getting away with bloat overall. Ever since I started using noscript I've gotten increasingly annoyed by how every site seems to wanna run scripts from at least 3-4 sources that I know aren't essent
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by 59nadir 13y ago
You realize you're the only one "going" when you pick just one single phrase out of his whole post and make this kind of remark on it, right? You're not exactly contributing to the discussion...
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> I made a few abortive switches to Vim that didn't last a week because my productivity was too hampered What exactly was it you were doing faster and better in your previous editor (which was?)? > the environment [was] too extre
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by 59nadir 13y ago
"The terrorists have won.". This line always strikes me as kind of missing the point. Terrorists aren't the one infringing on your privacy and dismantling your rights.
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by 59nadir 13y ago
Is that so? I personally go to HN for the comments, mostly. The articles themselves are just fuel for discussion, as I see it. Then again, I only use the daemonology Hacker News Daily as well, so I'm hardly seeing all of it.
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> Unless we see a mass boycott of the next election that forces both parties to radically change their approach A mass boycott would do nothing in terms of change. It is the political equivalent of letting a child eat as much ice cream i
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> This was interesting, but I would have liked a little more detail. While I agree that detail would be nice, but I think what's actually needed is a semblance of some actual analysis. There's nothing about this article that ac
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by 59nadir 13y ago
All I see here is "Hey, guys, I'm kind of a big deal and I made a logo like this that I don't use, so you should change yours. I'm kind of a big deal, guys...".
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by 59nadir 13y ago
While I do agree to a certain extent you have to think about the scale of the time frame of immortality and factor in the other circumstances you'd have to face. Is everyone else immortal? Fancy watching everyone you love die while you
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by 59nadir 13y ago
> America is the A+ student, who volunteers at the homeless shelter and teaches at-risk kids how to read. Do you really see the US this way, honestly? A country that's basically been terrorizing other countries almost non-stop since
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by 59nadir 13y ago
I don't follow HN enough to recognize "an endless streaming of [duckduckgo] posts". Regardless, as a user I will happily inform people about what I see as an alternative to Google. I'd do the same for xmonad (or tiling w
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by 59nadir 13y ago
Fair enough. About 3/4 of my searches are purely technical searches done when I'm programming (in what I'd say is a fringe language (Racket)) so I guess I'm just getting lucky with documentation and whatnot. The very few
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by 59nadir 13y ago
Just switch to duckduckgo already. You don't need either of the mentioned search engines. I switched completely a couple of weeks ago and I haven't had a problem searching for _anything_. I have a hard time seeing what people thin
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by 59nadir 13y ago
This is why everyone hates you, America.
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by 59nadir 14y ago
One would think a company that has success in mind would have the brains/motivation to actually learn about the culture they're setting up in. [A pattern could emerge if one were to draw parallels to wars in far-away Asian countries, though