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by Jach 5y ago
My favorite quick reference I have printed out is http://clqr.boundp.org/ It's nice to just quickly explore what's available in the base language too. But when I don't want to flip through it, or find the sho
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by Jach 5y ago
If you're interested in FFI, then yeah CFFI is the standard. The other comments addressed speed, I also wanted to point out https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap which is built on top of CFFI and can help get a wrap
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by Jach 5y ago
A yellowed SNES is just a Legend of Zelda edition.
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by Jach 5y ago
Another alternate take: everything since Firebug has been cake icing, what differences there are now on top of that base feature set are minimal.
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Nichimen Mirai Images Thread – 20 Year Anniversary (2019)(united3dartists.com)
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by Jach 5y ago
The copy needs to be updated, #lispgames like everything else of value is on Libera.
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by Jach 5y ago
"Tracked" is a bit much, for good and bad. There are potential benefits to prolific tracking, but there has to be a system of integration to realize them, which is totally lacking. In Shenzhen, if someone steals your wallet, the p
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by Jach 5y ago
Ok.
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by Jach 5y ago
Using the word "ugly" marks the opinion as inherently subjective.
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by Jach 5y ago
They haven't really been a plague for a while, not like they used to be. A lot of forces are behind it, my top three reasons would be 1) because of the Optional type and Optional mapping makes them easy to avoid in chained calls and is
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by Jach 5y ago
That's the thing though, not all legal requests get the same weight or priority. I wouldn't trust a VPN to not roll over for your example cp case, but I think a middle finger equivalent isn't unreasonable for the less severe
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by Jach 5y ago
Between Proton and WSL we're getting closer to a true "write once run anywhere" world where host platform won't matter so much. Devs will be free to develop with whatever tech stack they like most, make a canonical build
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by Jach 5y ago
I don't need to learn them all, I just need to know the ones I expect I need to type in for the foreseeable future. I might even forget them later (as I've forgotten a lot of LaTeX mappings, fortunately there's a cheat sheet)
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by Jach 5y ago
I almost entirely agree, though I think your third point (typing non-ascii characters) could be less severe with one extra lesson in the typing course most kids are forced to take. When I first took French in 7th grade somehow I learned onl
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by Jach 5y ago
I'm curious, do you speak another language? Anyway, I think the history of programming languages indicates that it wouldn't be all that helpful, simply because nothing's really caught on, despite many opportunities. What does
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by Jach 5y ago
I didn't need to click it to know it was bad, but come on... still, there's a nugget of common folk wisdom there I guess, but it's funner to imagine why a discipline would produce studies about such things. A related quote I
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by Jach 5y ago
As always it depends. If you're thinking about preprocessor macros and operator overloading from C++, sure, those can be annoying, it's more to do with C++'s implementation and usage of them than the features themselves. You
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by Jach 5y ago
AWS sorta has something like this already with CloudWatch, but it'd be nice if it was simpler and immediate instead of reactive. I just run a little reserved EC2 instance so my main billing risks are excessive data out or forgetting to
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by Jach 5y ago
It wasn't even really until the modern web that this happened; the browser is called the User Agent because it's acting on behalf of the user, not the website. CSS Zen Garden showed what you could do just by changing CSS. Even tod
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by Jach 5y ago
Yeah I changed my Firefox icon to go away from the POS it became, I'm totally going to blame any Firefox bugs on my icon. This page is ridiculous.
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by Jach 5y ago
Yeah, that's why it's debatable.. Some maintainers do a better job than others, or only with a subset of the libraries they've made. I found your bug (and the go-file-it-in-the-other-project non-response); in Shinmera's
832.
by Jach 5y ago
Ah yes, the last 3-4 generations of programmers that have lived and died out in only 8 years. Behold the most popular editor chosen by 1366 programmers on HN in 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754 is none othe
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by Jach 5y ago
A lot has gone wrong in terms of achieving high adoption, but specifically about something going wrong with rallying around CL, I don't think anything went wrong. No more are Maclisp, Interlisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, Zetalisp, Franz Lisp,
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by Jach 5y ago
Eh, it's debatable. CL has got (github usernames) Shinmera, Fukamachi, ruricolist, edicl, among many others (I have to stop my list somewhere). There are some collectives that work on a handful of projects together too. What would help
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by Jach 5y ago
It takes a bit more than one screenshot for me to think "unmaintained", like one click to the Support page and another click for details on a bullet item takes me to https://franz.com/support/apple_silicon.lht
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by Jach 5y ago
I invite you to read https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf which was submitted for the History of Programming Languages conference in 1993. I don't see how you can say with a straight face that no one rallied
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by Jach 5y ago
With what editor? (Rhetorical question, emacs and vim are dominant there too, providing another data point for "it's not the editor" that's somehow hindering Common Lisp's resurgence.)
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by Jach 5y ago
I feel you on your dismissiveness, I had the same reaction years ago. Even using modern Windows UI (which it does) doesn't improve things that much though. Of the two, I like Allegro's UI a bit more, but it's still dated. I h
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by Jach 5y ago
I wish it could just be blamed on the bootcamp machine, but I've interviewed enough non-junior full time candidates moving from other companies to wonder how they got into those other companies to begin with, based on their performance
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by Jach 5y ago
Precisely because huge gaps exist, asking about OOP leads to disappointment. I don't suggest doing it -- or if you do, first try it out on coworkers (even just knowing what SOLID principles are, never mind any nuance about them), and i

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