Sirenos

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by Sirenos 12y ago
I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.
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by Sirenos 13y ago
I don't know about you, but Lisp's uniform syntax makes it really to just dive in and explore the concepts of computation. The only problem I see is that the number of implementations in the Lisp family can be daunting to some peo
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by Sirenos 13y ago
Or... you could just avoid Paypal? But good god you gave me quite the chuckle. Thanks for making my shitty day a little better.
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by Sirenos 13y ago
Is depression really that much more prevalent among programmers than those of other professions? I am quite curious about this given how often you find depression-themed posts on this site. If there have been any studies on this, links woul
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by Sirenos 13y ago
I don't think that's what the OP meant at all. The claim was more along the lines of "Focusing on programming as an end in itself usually leads to an unhealthy disregard for the problem space." The key word here being &q
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by Sirenos 13y ago
I don't see the point. Do lawyers need to know such things to perform well in their careers? Specialization is prevalent for a reason - it has given us modern civilization and all the fancy technology that comes with it - but there is
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by Sirenos 13y ago
That doesn't qualify as simple in my book though. Javascript has fewer concepts that programmers need to keep in their heads, but they are horribly inconsistent and quirky. Python, on the other hand, is consistently designed so that th
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by Sirenos 13y ago
sigh Functional languages are all about keeping side effects under control so that you can tell what will and what will not change the state of the system. Think of it as incorporating awareness of program state into the type-system of th
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by Sirenos 13y ago
> ... in other ways it necessitates more manual checking (or slower debugging). There's no catastrophe, just design differences. See, there's the problem. Glossing over issues by explaining them away as "design differences
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by Sirenos 13y ago
Mir isn't yet ready for prime time. I wonder if they're planning an LTS launch for it. Won't be too good if that happens.
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by Sirenos 13y ago
How is it so? I mean the last paper placed (on top) is the first to be fed to the machine, right? Fits the definition of stack as far as I can see.
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by Sirenos 13y ago
Note the overloaded use of "courage". It isn't so much the lack of responsibilities as it is overcoming the inner voices that judge your every action much more than any outsider does. But that's just what I think he mean