Foober223

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by Foober223 6y ago
The "block scope spirit" is there but not quite the same. A lisp "with-" macro requires you to remember to use it. It's not much different manually writing code to release something, in the fact you must remember an
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by Foober223 6y ago
So if a bad country with concentration camps is doing bad things, you can't counter them? If you try to stop them, it might be a slippery slope to concentration camps?
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by Foober223 6y ago
You can have a policy of reciprocation with 1 offending country, without changing free and open business culture with others.
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by Foober223 6y ago
MIT license = Yes you are licensed to fork and use it commercially as you see fit. Your company has licensed you to do this for the rest of your life and even beyond after you die. A better question is whether your company is ignorant about
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by Foober223 6y ago
File per blog sounds great to me. Fancy solutions evolve out of needs or wants. You don't have those needs. Enjoy the simplicity and screaming fast performance of your website.
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes, we very well may be forced to live alongside the new corona. Just as we do the older coronas. Immunity will be gained in time with the cost of organ health and death along the way. No human decisions, action, or in-action are required
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by Foober223 6y ago
Just in general, Emacs first class treatment of the "old school" IDE features. Wiring up with grep output and ctags files. It's nice to be able to jump right into any project, any language, with minimal setup and get cracking
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by Foober223 6y ago
It's great advice if you don't have the luxury of being a 1st world free loader.
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by Foober223 6y ago
> Why aren't Because lisp and smalltalk lost the language wars. Interaction with dead text files won. No one misses what they never experienced.
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by Foober223 6y ago
USA medium town here. Day to day you wouldn't know anything is wrong beyond everyone wearing masks. I believe I caught it myself several months ago. I had what felt like bronchitis in the lungs. A slight burning or tickle feeling in th
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by Foober223 6y ago
> building quality For top tier heirloom quality, use the native GUI widgets of the platforms you are targeting. The rest written in portable C. If the app is literally just GUI widgets, then then the cross platform nature falls apart. B
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by Foober223 6y ago
> Could this strategy hurt me in the long way No one can know for sure. Kingdom Rush (tower defense) started out as a free web-based game. Later they released on google and apple stores. Didn't seem to hurt them. Probably wouldn&#x2
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by Foober223 6y ago
Welcome to the Rust world order domination brigade. /s
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by Foober223 6y ago
I guess if you can observe the damaging mechanic at the cellular level that is proof of causation. Rather than just statistical correlation. All tests that just look for end results without understanding the mechanism would be showing stat
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by Foober223 6y ago
Napster
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by Foober223 6y ago
The linux kernel for sure. Servers and smart phones. It may not conquer the business desktop soon, but the desktop is a smaller piece of the pie every year. Relational databases will be around forever. The nature of data does not change. Re
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes there actually is "secret squirrel" business going on. Secrets are a thing, especially around money. It's a fact some computer programmers get profit sharing and it is not advertised.
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by Foober223 6y ago
It seems you are arguing agianst a point that you are trying to make yourself.
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by Foober223 6y ago
No, that's actually the point of the post. That programmers, developers, or what have you are all clumped together. When in reality there are many distinct kinds of programmers with different skills, just like in the world of physical
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes and no. Being a computer programmer covers a wide range of skills and roles. It's like construction. There's a huge range. Some people cut and nail up dry wall. They do their work without having to invent things, using skills
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by Foober223 6y ago
What if a biological male is assigned female gender at birth? Would they be transgender, or just female?
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by Foober223 6y ago
They got that from lisp.
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by Foober223 6y ago
They got that from lisp. But in lisp it's more than just a syntax trick that only works for a few predefined cases.
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by Foober223 6y ago
You could view law as software for people. Laws are first class technology/software just as much as prolog software system.
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by Foober223 6y ago
There may be a cost reducing technique (technology) in the way education is conducted. But it's optimizing something that's not the bottleneck. My take. I think the main reason for increasing costs is loans. Loans that cannot be e
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by Foober223 6y ago
> But I'm also highly skeptical Using steroids to stop inflammation in the lungs is as old as steroids. This is not a special discovery. It's being spun as "news" since anything related to Covid-19 sells news.
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by Foober223 6y ago
Yes you are naive. This is the exact line of thinking Europeans had before WW1 broke out.
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by Foober223 6y ago
ditto. Ubuntu Mono Bold is very compact horizontally, while not looking squished. Makes understand code with long variable names a bit easier.
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by Foober223 6y ago
Just want to add. The return to "normal" is when a majority of the world population is infected. Not when the virus is starved of hosts. Host starving has never been successfully achieved against corona's, even in the ancien
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by Foober223 6y ago
> until Covid19 is completely out of the population. My understanding is Covid19 is similar to the common cold coronas. It will stay in the population for the next several thousand years.

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