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by S4M 11y ago
I honestly think the defaults were made bad on purpose to force people to learn how to configure it.
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by S4M 11y ago
She did also miss Live Coding[0] - or maybe she didn't interview the founder. After reading that thread, it's hard to believe that YC has a magic filter of bad people, which is basically what PG claims when he mentions the "S
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by S4M 11y ago
One thing I wonder: does let take types? Something like: (let ((x :string "hello")) (fmt.Println (+ x "owickstrom"))) (Although in that case the type can probably be infered...)
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by S4M 11y ago
I am sure Kashmir is a great idea - in fact, I was wondering why there couldn't be a typed lisp compiling to C, but please put more coding example!
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by S4M 11y ago
I don't know about call tree generation, but with some tweaking Emacs should do all the rest, have you tried it? (I don't code in C++ myself).
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by S4M 11y ago
One thing that people forgot to mention is that Paul Graham was a Lisp expert before he started Viaweb - he had already written _On_Lisp_ which is still considered as one of the references to learn Common Lisp - and probably Robert Morris w
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by S4M 11y ago
I don't think any secret service could prevent any isolated individual to make at home, say, Molotov cocktails, and throw them by car in a crowd.
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by S4M 11y ago
Good point, I haven't really thought the Python example through. I can't find a quick fix now, so I leave it as an illustrative code (even that failing code is an inferior version of the macro, so...).
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by S4M 11y ago
> Many languages have eval() where data can be treated as code. I will just address this point, which IMHO is orthogonal to your question about the benefits of functional programming. Let me give you a simple example of macro: a macro pr
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by S4M 11y ago
How about building it, then inviting only people who you trust not to put nudity or bad things in general, and thenm if it takes off, making the website accepting only users who have been invited by current members?
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by S4M 11y ago
Yeah, I meant funding, sorry for the spelling. Precisely, I meant that I am afraid Ramanujan's ideas would seem so crazy that nobody would fund his research.
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by S4M 11y ago
Whenever I think of Ramanujan I wonder if he would get founding at this time. I personally doubt someone so much ahead of his time would.
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by S4M 11y ago
I stumbled upon Artist Mode, but wondered what it could be useful for. Guess I have (some kind of) an answer now...
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by S4M 11y ago
I find interesting that this article, that got 541 points (at the time I am writing this) is out of the front page already. Makes me wonder if there is the hand of people (VCs) not wanting programmers to aim for lifestyle business behind
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by S4M 11y ago
Named tuples are fine, but what do they have over using classes or dictionaries?
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by S4M 11y ago
> Recently I had someone tell me that if you're still writing apps that serve HTML, you're "doing it wrong" because everything should be an AJAX backend with JavaScript. Is that the way apps are going? Certainly. But
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by S4M 11y ago
I personally would have left the room after the comment on the Linux laptop.
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by S4M 11y ago
> I never see any Asian techies in europe There you have one, and in the same city as you! At my previous workplace (in Barcelona) there was a Taiwanese programmer, and before that in London I met many Asian (mostly Chinese) programmers.
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by S4M 11y ago
Probably scraping websites like Hacker News or Github on a daily basis and see what new things are surfacing. For example, what are the projects on Github that are getting new followers faster, or what words appear often on the front page o
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by S4M 11y ago
Try to post your articles to a place where they would be relevant. If your blog is about programming or startup, people from HN might be interested in it and upvote it. Then, once the search engines know about your blog, you can try to do s
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by S4M 11y ago
The link you submitted seems to work for mobile only, for some reason I couldn't open it from my computer, so I give the non mobile version below [0]. Apart from that, I did compare a few of the original answers from Bill Murray and wi
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by S4M 11y ago
Actually, I would use that technique of mentioning a cutting edge or rarely used feature of a language, not to discretely test the interviewer as he does, but to show off my knowledge and redirect the conversation on something I will be fam
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by S4M 11y ago
> I usually sneak in a couple of technical questions for the interviewer and he blew those questions That's interesting, how do you ask technical questions to interviewers without being too direct? I am genuinely curious about it.
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by S4M 11y ago
It looks like a really nice tool to get teenagers or kids started in programming.
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by S4M 11y ago
I had once a recruiter calling me on my workplace 's number. He had sent me an email couple of hours before, that I hadn't noticed (it was during work hour), and for some reason he got super carried away about some opportunity an
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by S4M 11y ago
Well, if you keep working on shitty tasks (because you assign them to yourself) and keep being interrupted, only for your product to depend on the hazards of the market, you will get burned at some point if what you ship fails for reasons t
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by S4M 11y ago
As early investors of AirBNB and Dropbox, YC is fairly well known across in the financial circles and they don't have any problem getting outside investments. In fact, I believe they have so much money coming in that they can afford al
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by S4M 11y ago
There's also emacs server.
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by S4M 11y ago
> Just to toss another name into the ring, I'd say that Fortran is pretty suitable for numeric calculations of all sorts. > I like R as a higher level language (or I guess tools like SPSS or preferably PSPP for even higher level
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by S4M 11y ago
Reading this article, I was wondering about the logistical costs of this torture (on top of the fees paid to Mitchell and Jessen). Wouldn't it have been more efficient to arrest the suspected men and try to have an honest conversation

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