BruceForth

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by BruceForth 15y ago
Godwinned in 1st comment. (edit: apparently it wasn't actually the first comment)
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by BruceForth 15y ago
I wonder if there are compilers that don't compile an empty file correctly.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
Blub programmer telling why you should program in Blub.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
Maybe because they are?
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by BruceForth 15y ago
> The ability to run Mac OS X apps on the iPad, with full access to the file system, peripherals, etc., would make the iPad worse, not better. For iPad users, yes, but not for Windows users.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
Gaaahh.... Just because C++ and Java do something incredibly stupid when it comes to exceptions, doesn't mean exceptions are bad. Just that C++ and Java suck. (hint: exceptions without restarts are retarded)
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by BruceForth 15y ago
> another german trait is that everyone believes that everyone is to be fooled easily. Historically, they have a reason to believe so.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
So, when will Linus be released from mental institution? [0] http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/2/247
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by BruceForth 15y ago
things about php that make me sad: 1. it exists 2. it's used 3. many of its users make more money than me 4. it has poisoned the market, clients have learned to expect and even demand php-braindeath
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by BruceForth 15y ago
I would presume they use a keyboard. On a more serious note, as a native Finnish-speaker, I've always written all of my code and comments in English. It's just so much simpler than any other alternative I can think of.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
From the second article: > I lost seven pounds in the first week, mostly from going to the bathroom as all the accumulated dairy mucus was cleansed from my bowels (now I know why cows need four stomachs to properly digest this stuff) WT
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by BruceForth 15y ago
There are still 24 hours in a day, doesn't really matter all that much in which order you do stuff when they still take the same amount of time.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
Common Lisp can be compiled one function at a time, and functions belong to packages, which are pretty much key-value databases you can modify, where keys are strings (name of the function) and the values are the functions themselves. So if
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by BruceForth 15y ago
> The more I think about it the more I think program development should viewed as changing the state of a Key-Value database. This is pretty much how I view my programming in Common Lisp.
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by BruceForth 15y ago
I think Python-style implicit kw-args are a mistake. It means that caller can depend on the name of your function parameters and you can't change them without breaking existing code, which may not be yours. Explicit kw-args, where the names
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Ask HN: How to get paid to program in Lisp?
2 points by BruceForth 15y ago|3 comments