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by Hexstream 16y ago
I'm so fucking tired of "opt-out" bullshit. So-called "opt-out" must DIE DIE DIE!
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by Hexstream 16y ago
>>> Like all digitally encoded information, it has unavoidably the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations —i.e. changes of a single bit— can have the most drastic consequences. >> Error correctin
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by Hexstream 16y ago
However, a concise, expressive, very high-level domain-specific language can make it impossible to express many idioms that would break the semantics of the domain. As an analogy (I hesitate to use one because of the article), you could hav
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Hi HN, I noticed that the wikipedia page for Dvorak has been significantly expanded since the last time I read it. I now feel it's pretty comprehensive and makes a compelling case so I thought I'd submit it. Personally I've been using Dvora
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The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Hexstream 16y ago|1 comments
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I'm a bit surprised whenever someone says that Excel is functional programming. It's more accurately described as dataflow programming. To illustrate, Common Lisp directly supports functional programming but not dataflow programming (though
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by Hexstream 16y ago
You know, I consider setting up filters in gmail to be a form a very high-level programming (DSL), and it's so easy that nonprogrammers can use them.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
DSLs in general can do more than dumb skinning... bad example.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
1. The values of :after methods are ignored. 2. You're calling person-age from within the method so you enter infinite recursion. What you were looking for is: (defmethod person-age :around ((someone person)) (let* ((age (call-next-
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"Still, it comes off as hypocritical that a director of the App Store sells apps that some might call inappropriate, said Ben Kahle, developer of Me So Holy, a satiric religious app that Apple rejected in mid-2009 for containing “objection
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by Hexstream 16y ago
The immovable brick wall of change ? That doesn't sound right...
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Well, I consider that they're "almost white" in relation to the piss-yellow I used to have. But the difference is dramatic nonetheless.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I used to have really yellow teeth because I brushed my teeth really rarely (thank goodness I never smoked). I've had some periods where I brushed them more often but I'd quickly fall back into hopelessness. Then I hung a small calendar in
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Uh. You just paste back and save again, no?
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by Hexstream 16y ago
There actually isn't a lot of prerequisite knowledge before you can learn Rete, just general knowledge of graphs I think. I did spend a lot of time trying to understand how it all works with pen and paper, reading the original Rete descript
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by Hexstream 16y ago
This. The keyword is: S-U-S-T-A-I-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
A noprocrast of 3 days works great for me!
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I can't pick one so I'll say: Learning Common Lisp; Making my own (unreleased) web framework from scratch; Learning the Rete algorithm (very fast matching of many patterns against many data items). It's the most elaborate algorithm I can im
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"Most of the Haskell/Lisp developers I know just use Vi or Notepad." Uhh, what? In Lisp's case, most people use emacs and coding Lisp in Notepad is mostly IMPOSSIBLE because trying to balance parentheses and navigate and indent s-expression
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by Hexstream 16y ago
Gee, seems like Scientology's got some competition, there.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
1.0 is a magic number for versions. A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"I always sound like I know exactly what I'm talking about, and often I don't, so don't hesitate to tell me I'm wrong;" Ah, gosh . Now I need to retroactively reconsider all your posts that I took at face value. Well done :/
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by Hexstream 16y ago
"I wonder what goes through a customer's head as he/she scrolls through pages of free versions to buy a $0.99 flashlight." " It's infinitely more expensive! It must be infinitely better!!! "
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by Hexstream 16y ago
I remapped my CTRL, ALT and Left Shift keys so I can easily press them with my thumbs in any combination (I use a TypeMatrix). No more alternating nonsense. Pressing modifiers is instantaneous and requires no thought.
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The mystery of sex transmutation (sex drive --> creativity)(sacred-texts.com)
2 points by Hexstream 16y ago|1 comments
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by Hexstream 16y ago
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm
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by Hexstream 16y ago
That's an article from May 01, 2000. That's 10 years ago. The situation of Lisp in that timeframe has improved by leaps and bounds. Much better documentation, many more libraries, less community fragmentation (SBCL has become the clearly-be
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by Hexstream 16y ago
It's back up.
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by Hexstream 16y ago
You get raped by default unless you "opt-out". It's become a tradition. Because after all, where's the wrongdoing if you can opt-out, eh? Sometimes I hate the world.

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