Kessler83

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by Kessler83 5y ago
I love Common Lisp. But I don't think you can look at a list of features and decide if it's a good choice to use or if those features are now "covered" by more recent languages. Not all REPLs (for example) are born equal
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by Kessler83 5y ago
The linked document isn't representative of books on Lisp or Emacs---it reads like a half-finished idea for a sketch of a pitch for a book. Since it is more than 10 years old, the project likely got abandoned at a very early stage. Wri
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by Kessler83 5y ago
"in droves" isn't exactly a neutral expression, either. Says something about how they see workers.
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by Kessler83 5y ago
For any laptop, I want at least full hd 15 inch screen, the very best keyboard (centered, without numpad) and a trackpoint. If it comes without dedicated graphics, that's a bonus. This means a thinkpad, afaik. So unless I wanna spend a
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Oh, come on, did you mean to be polemic or not? :) I think it's a hard sell to claim that the article was actually directed at a small, perhaps barely existent, group of Unix users who seem to be either afraid of the mouse (!) or proud
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by Kessler83 5y ago
What part of "I'm not saying you can't get pains from a keyboard" is unclear, would you say? As you seem to have missed it, the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist using the mouse. He is calling Unix use
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Hahaha, like you are some sort of brave free-thinker for using the mouse! There are tons of reasons for preferring the keyboard, one of which is to alleviate the hand and shoulder pains resulting from pointing and clicking with a mouse for
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by Kessler83 5y ago
First of all, there are plenty of different data structures in Common Lisp. I don't know any Lisp resource that will tell you or encourage you to use lists for everything. For example, I think all the major Common Lisp books encourage
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Actually, there is no need to make guesses about whether cdaddr is bad, unreadable, introduces hard to handle bugs or what the limits of list structure complexity should be. It isn't some new idea or brief historic oddity that you can
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by Kessler83 5y ago
This isn't a very good article. First of all, this has to be the most rehashed curiosa topic about Lisp, ever. Secondly, "keeping in touch with tradition" isn't a shallow thing you do for fun---it is both about identity
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Great article! I like the approach to focus on things that ship per default and take no time to learn! Also didn't know about undo in region!
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by Kessler83 5y ago
I just wanted to say: Great article! It made me wanna try out Guix!
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Don't mean to come off like a zealot. To me, it sounds like the user accessed a show/hide-function in the graphical interface while using the mouse, and then didn't know how to bring it back (Control-Right Click or menu-bar-m
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by Kessler83 5y ago
You should probably tell Emacs users about it---they may not have noticed.
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Vim is a fantastic editor---no argument there! But you can always revert a configuration choice you made without restarting Emacs. Either use the built in configuration interface, or evaluate a form with the change. For example, if you set
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Well, I guess we have different experiences then. That kind of thing hasn't happened to me in 25 years. Not once. The OS could matter, I guess. I didn't even think about that. I used Debian Stable and have been since the last cent
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by Kessler83 5y ago
No, the definition of fragile is that if you use something in a wrong way, it breaks. But Emacs doesn't break. It obeys and keeps running. With your reasoning, all software that gives you a choice, anything that can be configured, all
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Well, to each their own. I never have to restart Emacs. The only time I restart SLIME is when I do something I shouldn't, like redefine a struct or something. I'm sure I could avoid restarting SLIME, too---I just never bothered to
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by Kessler83 5y ago
I mean rock solid as in being able to edit buffers with very different contents of half a million characters, every day for decades without crashing. I wouldn't call what you describe fragile. It sounds more like a typical learning exp
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by Kessler83 5y ago
I find it doesn't really matter what I'm interested in (computer-wise)---Emacs has me covered. It saves a huge amount of time to not have to relearn a new IDE each time I need to switch programming language. There is always more a
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Because that also gives you all the problems of having a Windows machine at the bottom (so to speak): bloat, intrusive updates, bugs, viruses etc. And the IT-department will constantly be on your ass with some new configuration and program
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by Kessler83 5y ago
To see the REPL and debugger advantages of Common Lisp over other Lisps, Python, Haskell etc., you really should try for yourself in SLIME or SLY (a SLIME fork) imo. But anyway, let's say I made an error somewhere and the program halts
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by Kessler83 5y ago
I've used GNU/Linux in large, Windows/Mac dependent companies for 25 years. You need to convince the IT-department, and you need to survive the first week learning how to connect to whatever system is in place, but after that
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Wow, tell me how you really feel :). It's not a "supposed reputation" though. Nature is listed as a world-leading journal (class 2) by the internationally widely acknowledged research register "Norwegian Register".
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Nature is a world leading journal with a very rigorous review process. They publish less than a tenth of the (proper) submissions they get. So the science here is likely to have high quality. As for the Guardian article, there are some pret
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by Kessler83 5y ago
A vast majority on book typography agrees on 66 characters per line in one-column layouts and 45 characters per line in multi-column layouts as being the optimal numbers for reading. The text-block should also be placed assymetrically on th
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Absolutely---also, Emacs, Vim and GNU/Linux aren't hard to use. You just have to accept that they're not like Windows and follow the instructions on the screen. The documentation is generally very well written and exists fr
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by Kessler83 5y ago
I'm sure Micro is great, but I doubt it's anywhere even near Vim or Emacs, in any respect. Because it's not "all about keybindings," and claiming that either of those editors is stuck in a local optimum is simply co
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Emacs is like Earth. You can't claim to "learn it" or "master it," but it's still the best place to live. Some other editor is more popular now, and in five years, something else will be more popular than that.
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by Kessler83 5y ago
Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :). The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide etc. is because you fail to counter them properly. And as it is apparently unthi

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