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by 616c 12y ago
I agree. I abhor political talk on HN, but this resonated true with me when hearing the comparison of US troop operations in Iraq to that of Vietnam in those instance. The idea of kill counts, popular in Vietnam, and targeted assasination
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by 616c 12y ago
So I was in language courses in Cairo for a while. I was the only language major; all the other students were students from my university in a specialized diplomacy and government service track. Unlike me, they had to pass language profic
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by 616c 12y ago
Well this will seem silly, but my bad. After looking at all your tools, I never looked at the HashiCorp site. I had no idea it was not a one man shop. I saw your last name and the branding on the project pages and I made a judgement a fe
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by 616c 12y ago
Ah. Well then correction, you told me SIGWINCH was not implemented in BICON and you did not have the time to work on it, which is definitely understable.
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by 616c 12y ago
Mitchell, do you even sleep? Every time I see one of your tools, I feel like I need to pay you a hefty sum to teach me how to start coding productively, cuz Hashicorp output seems ferocious. Keep up the good work.
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by 616c 12y ago
Yeah. I was going to say the only Scheme I have seen run in Slime/Swank is Chicken Slime, which is custom fork that overlays slime to handle specific extensions to Chicken scheme. I also play with Racket and had no idea a slime varia
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by 616c 12y ago
I have seen it come up many times, but is anyone still using it or tried it long term? I checked a year ago or so and it appears both Git commit-wise and blogwise Fremlin had moved on to better things, but when people dismiss Lisp, I don&#
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by 616c 12y ago
Nimrod is also becoming a real possibility, check out the Jester framework. I forget the other's name, but it did reasonably well on TehcEmPower benchmarks and runs behind the Mongrel2 web server via ZeroMQ sockets. Very cool stuff.
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by 616c 12y ago
As one of the few terminal users of Arabic in this site (emphasis on the terminal part), I want to thank Behdad and others for harfbuzz and other great libraries. His contributions have been significant, and BiCon Arabeyes project was one
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by 616c 12y ago
Interesting, they did a talk at Education City in Qatar and I had no idea about it? Very disappointed, and surprised they had talks with these kinds of experts on this talk (censorship avoidance is not looked kindly upon there).
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by 616c 12y ago
I know that to be the case, I was cribbing something I read from Moxie on the F-Droid Forum where he presented his view of Cyanogen, which was pretty inaccurate.
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by 616c 12y ago
The F-Droid thing will certainly will not happen. Moxie, one of the core developers of the WhispherCore products, had a pretty argumentative debate on their forum and his own Github issues regarding their repackging of his software TextSecu
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by 616c 12y ago
As an aside (and please do not take it as a flame), this is a very neat article that shows a class of languages in a paradigm I have never considered: Lispy languages (semantically) without Lisp morpho-syntax. I had heard of Julia of cours
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by 616c 12y ago
I work with Yemeni dudes. It is pretty ballsy to travel into Yemen for the last two years. This is coming from a dude who has travelled to some weird and shitty places in the Middle East. When I first came here to work, said Yemeni dudes
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by 616c 12y ago
That is optional. (Source: Me, administers over 100 Apple devices with Configuration in day-to-day operations.) The software is so-so, but asynchronously managing USB connected devices is annoying, even with a shiny Apple interface.
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by 616c 12y ago
As a newfound convert to the Conkeror browser, which basically allows you to configure everything through JS and use MozREPL to talk to your browser instance purely through JS, how is this different (notwithstanding the obvious choices in a
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by 616c 12y ago
I did not, but am considered it when I saw it. Have either of you used the Mozilla build process? Chromium/Chrome Build Process: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructio... Firefox B
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by 616c 12y ago
Thanks for the note. I really appreciate it.
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by 616c 12y ago
I obviously cannot speak to your comments re baseband process and firmware/OS. That is basically the unsolvable problem in all of this without social/legislative change in the US. I cannot see the FCC or the rest of the governme
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by 616c 12y ago
I think I skimmed the first one. When I heard about Torquebox (or the upcoming Torqbox), I thought it would be interesting to try JRuby for beefier web apps to scale out better. Unfortunately, no one really seems to focus on web app serve
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by 616c 12y ago
> You write: "All of them come from Arabic (not just the letters, the scripts) as well, and as an Arabic speaker I find that attitude strange. I could be reading too much into it." > > I think that's where our discon
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by 616c 12y ago
Hardly optimal, to be honest. The QR code nature is because all diacritics are not used at all, period. Those dots actually signify, you guessed it, different letters (ironically, they are grouped into Arabic by articulation: b, t, and th
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by 616c 12y ago
And not so ironically, Behdad Esfahbod, one of the original developers of HarfBuzz, works for Google now, according to his blurb on Github. https://github.com/behdad I actually emailed him a few times before I discovered ml
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by 616c 12y ago
And for the Arch Linux peopkle, have a Nastaliq font if you need it (or want it). https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-nastaliq/
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by 616c 12y ago
I can see the value in said script, but I have to live a more pratical lifestyle: as an IT guy, if I could stop reading English, Arabic, or Persian every time it is in an ugly font, I would. And if you want to see ugly fonts, try Arabic new
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by 616c 12y ago
I understand you might find my comments on history annoying, but I was pointing out a few things because the average reader is not familiar with such things, namely these scripts are not specific to Urdu despite Urdu reading-writing communi
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by 616c 12y ago
So I skimmed the article once, then read it again. I see the writer is here. I just want to say I understand your sentiment, but your title and content are filled with some annoying misinformation and discrepancies. First of all, Nastaliq
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by 616c 12y ago
I am curious why iPython-like tools are not possible in Erlang. As far as long you have a REPL, is that not a solid base to start an iPython like project in any language? (Notice I said base, not the whole enchilada; I recognize that would
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Egison: A Lisp Written in Haskell with Advanced Pattern Matching(github.com)
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by 616c 12y ago
Yeah, this is a common problem. From a previous post from someone else on HN, I began reading about N20, which is focused on Websockets as its first class transport. I am reading the docs because this is one of its many interesting feature

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