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by Xurinos 16y ago
This is a fair concern. I have not seen this in practice, though, and it might be a matter of the part of the world where I drive vs where other people drive. But let's cut to the chase with how the system works: You are not supposed to b
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Clojure records are named classes that implement IPersistentMap so they're a drop-in replacement for "normal" maps, that also implement an additional interface so the compiler can generate java field lookups to access items without the cos
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> The innovation is that they are on the same level as lists. I have heard this point when comparing to Scheme (Racket). I did not understand how it applied to CL. I never found an issue dealing with the different datatypes (other tha
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> What wrong with that? If you mean, "What is wrong with anonymous classes?", I have no answer. I do not mind the idea, so long as I can maintain the integrity of my data's interfaces. If you mean, "What is wrong with implementing anon
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I am not a CL expert, but I was able to whip this up in short time (and I sacrificed a little readability for brevity): (defun set-hash-values (hash pairs) (when pairs (setf (gethash (car pairs) hash) (cadr pairs))
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This is a good list to progress towards: http://vmathew.in/lisp-repl.html
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Also, I rarely see listed Devel::REPL. Excellent, excellent tool. Run re.pl with perl -d, and you have half the useful REPLness of CL.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Ph.D sounds good on paper but can suggest "too much time spent in academia", "not enough practical experience", "thinks awfully highly of himself, but can he make us money or do anything real?", and "is his focus even related to the job?".
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by Xurinos 16y ago
That was good information. Thank you. My takeaway for this is this -- If the utility methods are not generic functions, it is fairly trivial to write a generic function that wraps around the utility method and then play with additional typ
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> this kind of code is quite common due to the design of almost every Lisp Scheme != Lisp (maybe a "lisp") I was trying to figure out what you mean from a Common Lisp perspective. Are you referring to the author's example? All of C
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Mad at Google? No. Should I be? Can I stop using it? Well, I use https://ixquick.com for search. I like Google Maps, but there are other alternatives, and I can always grab maps I care about from the gas station, so it is more a novel
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> This is typical Lisper fare. I see you associated an identity with him and then attempted to apply it in a narrow, derogatory manner, but in my exploration of Lisp and its community, I have not encountered some of his arguments before
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> I'm sure a lot has changed since then Unfortunately no. I have had your experience on two other laptops (each in the $1000 range). In one case, it was a Gateway with wireless and video card issues in linux. In the other case, it wa
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This post is actually wrong on many accounts. For example, you'll find that M-Z followed by C-s is followed by immediate disappointment. It also does not save the macro or even do what the vim macro does (going to the beginning of the nex
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Only one macro?
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Good catch! So true. I forgot about this point, a concept I do not see a lot of in emacs: vim has a number of similar functions that differ purely by where the cursor ends up. The f vs t is one such distinction. Another is navigation of
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Mark example: mm - the cursor position is now known as mark "m" `m - return us to the cursor position named "m"
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Two helpful mods to your macro: (1) After the f(, you probably want h to move the cursor left onto the space before the (. (2) Instead of d$, just use D. Alternative for both those comments: Replace d$ with Dx More than one way to do it any
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by Xurinos 16y ago
As a regular vim user who explored the emacs world for a while, I have somewhat mixed advice. emacs is worth learning. It highlights certain features, almost all of which you can pretty much get in vim -- it is just a different focus. One
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by Xurinos 16y ago
To be fair, the iPhone readers can also change the font size, the background and foreground colors, and so forth. We experimented. The real killer feature should have been the ease on the eyes of the eInk for long-term reading.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
It could also be that with fewer features, we expect the manufacturer worked really hard to do those features well.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I guess I am in the minority. I found that the eInk displays of these readers made for a poorer reading experience than reading straight off my iPhone with the help of Stanza. (1) I can read with the lights off. (2) The default font is not
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I don't know... we really made use of the PC speaker before sound cards were the norm. Remember the nice PC speaker sounds of the combat in the original Battle Chess? The only question is how much raw sound data you are allowed to store i
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Does anybody else announce outages with twitter and other public communications servers offsite? At darkmists.org, we learned a while back that we could not trust even our ISP to keep us accessible to the world. The iPhone allowed me to a
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by Xurinos 16y ago
No? My EE classes were about logic gates, flip-flops, and other abstractions. Logic gate chips are abstractions on some complex stuff that you do NOT have to worry about in CS (the real stuff -- resistance, etc). EE, as served to CS folks,
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Does this ring true for most of the readers here, or is it just the author's self-reflection? I had something similar to that mindset into my early 20s and then grew out of it (which coincided with a professional life after college, with w
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I ran across this article while browsing today, and I thought the story behind it was quite good (and the article a bit motivational). I have always held the belief that you should question "conventional wisdom" and strive for the Beyond.
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Breaking Your "Four Minute Mile"(thepracticeofleadership.net)
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Ooo, we're on the same page now, and I agree with you. :)
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by Xurinos 16y ago
We may have to disagree, then. Here is our common ground from my first post: "Your footprint on the world is a culmination of your actions, so in a sense, your actions mark you in the perceptions of others." But clinging to what you think

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