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by Xurinos 15y ago
I like your proposal, especially if it could be expanded a bit: macro do_in_reverse($value, @code) ...
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I am a Lisp newbie. Here is, effectively, the Lisp equivalent, along with the typical Lisp style guidelines: (defconstant +logging-enabled+ t) (defmacro log-message (message) (when +logging-enabled+ `(err-say ,message))
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I apologize to everyone else for the metaspam, but I thought gks needed a reason to avoid problems in the future. I just wanted to let you know that I just downvoted you as well, and while I cannot explain why others downvoted you, I can e
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by Xurinos 15y ago
By chance, can you point me to a proof of that usability point? All I have is anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but I have long wondered.
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by Xurinos 15y ago
People that never take a risk rarely end up in great places in life. You took a risk, it hasn't worked out so far. But, you didn't know what was going to happen before you did it. An idiotic decision is one that you know is bad when you ma
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I am reminded of this old programming-with-voice gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Your browser -- and my browser -- did not autodetect the character encoding correctly. Switch to Unicode (UTF-8), and it should look fine. I used Firefox.
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by Xurinos 15y ago
As a Christian... I wish everyone would agree not to call it "fundamentalism". There is nothing fundamental about the views of this subset of Christians. The term is pure marketing, wild enough for good TV and, thus, wild enough to acquir
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by Xurinos 15y ago
The alternative and more flexible approach is to use a software package with the Data Mapper pattern. It differs in that one is no longer tightly coupled to the actual database tables. Instead, you can create whatever views of the data ma
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by Xurinos 15y ago
As someone who conjured this exact thing up in another language after reading SICP, I have to suggest that the first two commenters here missed the point: this is a very basic but powerful structure that implements a lazy stream and is near
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I wonder if this is one reason why World of Warcraft does all transfers of real money through your account on the website instead of offering an in-game store. On the other hand, I have played other MMOs, online FPSes, and so forth that ha
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by Xurinos 15y ago
This is really cool, and it sounds like a great thing to try for important projects. I just wanted to get more detail on something. People who report bugs usually care more about feeling respected than getting every possible dollar from y
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Is this the hypothetical situation of someone doing an interactive rebase on public/published branches and making changes midway through? My current understanding is that, although it is possible, the community avoids doing that (policy: p
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Speaking as a regular git user, I assure you that a hash change would be noticeable. Rebase would look for a common hash between your history and the remote history you just fetched and rebase your commits on top of it. When there is a mi
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I agree; I like the idea of Selenium for web GUIs. I remember wanting to write my own similar tester for Win32 GUIs a while back, but I ultimately did not see enough value in it. For the same reason, I do not use Selenium: you have to com
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I do not have a solid stance, but I am inconsistent on writing tests. I like to differentiate between the notions of hand-testing code and automated-testing code. I firmly believe code written should be verified somehow. I have not total
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Mathematics is the tool with which we pierce the veil that our minds place over reality. It's not just another illusion we have conjured to make sense of our perceptions, to organize them?
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I would have appreciated a NSFW warning.
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I noticed this, too, about recruiting agencies. Funny thing was when they were looking for 10 years of experience in C# before it was 6 years old. I have heard a small legitimate argument for strong familiarity with specific tools: althoug
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by Xurinos 15y ago
As for cons... It seems to me that cons is a rather obsolete construct, referring to a long obsolesced hardware feature. I can't get too unhappy about someone trying to make it more immediately useful in a modern context. Actually, it nea
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I match what the other does to me. That said, I am a little annoyed with the concepts of greeting and signature within an email. Thanks to the "From:" and "To:" headers, this is redundant data. A lot of people write emails as if they wer
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by Xurinos 15y ago
This should read "Humans! Learn two write" Was this intended to be ironic? :)
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I prefer - over _ over smashingwordstogether. There are the benefits of readability and not needing to intermittently press the shift key. Also, you might prefer bind 'tab:menu-complete' or to assign that to a different key. Th
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by Xurinos 15y ago
The name should be short. A long name will be tedious to type, so don’t call you version control program my-awesome-version-control-program. Call it something short, such as avc (Awesome Version Control). $ my-aw<TAB> # yay
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by Xurinos 15y ago
The original post mentioned C and career use as well. I have no problem with using awk and so forth for quick one-offs, but that was not the issue. I suppose the real question is "practical for what?". You exaggerate the complexity. ;)
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I am no Lisp expert by a longshot, but when I want regular expressions, I use this library: http://www.cliki.net/CL-PPCRE (available for easy install via quicklisp) Since I like to pick on Perl... This library's logic is, as it happens
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by Xurinos 15y ago
This is an example of an anecdotal piece of evidence, and without a close examination of the "idiosyncrasies" and your definition of "practical", it is difficult to have a discussion. I recognize, though, that people have different opinion
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by Xurinos 15y ago
The word you were looking for was "popular", not "practical". Our industry is largely internally rife with fads, marketing, and anecdotal discussion, rather than objective analysis and scientific measurement. And then, this statement is ju
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I like to maintain a clean namespace, which means that generally, instead of recording data on DOM objects, I wrap it in closures. For those circumstances where I absolutely cannot do that (and it is rare), I try to be as local as I can an
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by Xurinos 15y ago
I went through your links to understand the SEO issue, and I am having a hard time finding more than one technical reason to make URLs friendlier. The only thing that stood out to me was along the lines of including searchable keywords in

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