aaronem

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1411.
by aaronem 13y ago
Of course I've noticed. One need not be an open-source hacker to have shipped a product, nor, perhaps, need one have shipped a product in order to be worthwhile as a teacher of programmers. One does, however, need to have done somethi
1412.
by aaronem 13y ago
> The author may be a great programmer Really? He reads like a motivational speaker. What's he shipped? Where's his repo?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Bug report for you, on the "Save to home page" version at least (I haven't tried the App Store version): When you click a link from one of the app's inbuilt views to the story page or the Hacker News comment thread, you
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by aaronem 13y ago
From chapter 4: > So if we had to read the above decrement, omitting the spaces (which only a real purist would pronounce), we’d say: “luslus dec sigfas cen dec bartis a tis pat sigbar soq dec soq ketcab pat wutgal tis pel zero a per tis
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by aaronem 13y ago
From its documentation, it looks more like an attempt to expose the kind of REPL/runtime integration Emacs offers, through an interface which won't scare people off the way Emacs tends to do.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> Block's theory of evictionism is basically that a mother's right to remove a fetus is stronger than the fetus' right to be in the womb, yet the mother is not permitted to kill the fetus straight off exactly I adore liber
1417.
by aaronem 13y ago
Mitnick published an autobiography.
1418.
by aaronem 13y ago
Symbol's function definition is void: 'Lisp'
1419.
by aaronem 13y ago
> However, if I called out "Hey Gary!" down the hall, would he respond? Would his driver's license still read Bob? Yes and no, respectively. Perhaps a heavily contrived example might help: Consider a system in which there
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by aaronem 13y ago
What you're missing is that, in Smalltalk, the representation on which you're acting is indistinguishable from the object; in your example, when you change the name member, Bob from Accounting's name does suddenly change to
1421.
by aaronem 13y ago
It exists. That's better than the alternative, and if this seems like damning with faint praise, it's because there really isn't anything else good to say on the subject -- the debugging facilities available in any Lisp envir
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by aaronem 13y ago
There's barely any such thing as a debugger, and no such thing as an object graph, and even modifying a function in place is far more complicated than real tools would make it -- but nonetheless, in the sort of browser-based Javascript
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd like to see their source for that! "[He] sleep[s] with the fishes" is the canonical form of the idiom, whose presence in the common vernacular originates with its use in Puzo's "The Godfather"; in my entire
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by aaronem 13y ago
For browsers not offering anything comparable to Safari's reader mode, and also for sites whose markup it fails to recognize, I find invaluable the Squarefree "zap" bookmarklet[1], which forces black-on-white and also removes
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by aaronem 13y ago
His treatment of his list's first fallacy offers a marvelous example of its third.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I get the impression the publishing industry is lagging the music industry by at least a couple of decades on this. The latter's pretty much conceded defeat in the DRM wars, while the former's opened a whole new front, apparently
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by aaronem 13y ago
Excuse my imprecision; I should've said "how many new mass-market paperbacks does $50 get you these days?" Most of what you find in a used book store isn't available in ebook format at any price, at least in my experienc
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd be interested to know how library ebook lending actually works. Are the original files hosted by the library, or does the library instead pass some sort of time-limited token to the reader which the publisher redeems for a copy of
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by aaronem 13y ago
You can read ebooks on even a quite low-end smartphone; all you really need is a display large enough to present readable text. There are lots of cheap Android phones out there; you can get them subsidized on a cell contract and not pay any
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'm not sure how, in his formulation, words are anything other than "hollow icons", all stroke and no fill. The author also seems not to have thought out his argument completely; in one breath, he speaks of parsing words as s
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by aaronem 13y ago
And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Oh, my room lights lit up 4ms too late because an interrupt &c., &c." No one is even suggesting that Node is a suitable substrate on which to build, for example, a flight control system, and reduction to absurdity does no
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by aaronem 13y ago
What on God's green earth gave you the idea that PHP has either closures or first-class functions? PHP, in its current version, has a Closure class whose name is an outright lie, and which, along with some really nasty syntactic sugar,
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by aaronem 13y ago
As a Javascript guy with some Lisp experience, I wouldn't say Javascript is particularly Lispy, but I would absolutely say that Javascript is closer to being Lispy than pretty much any other language in which I've ever worked. Mos
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by aaronem 13y ago
I don't want to burst your bubble, but there are bosses out there who a) will read and criticize your diffs and commit comments, and b) will not be anywhere near as capable as you. These circumstances combine to produce a situation whe
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd like to hear some more on this topic as well; I've got a few freelance clients whom I inherited from the (literally) flaming hulk of the company where I used to work, and I need the money, but the work they need done is so del