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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, that's how I do it sometimes with other peoples code. But with my own code I much prefer using structs. Makes it much clearer to read and there is little implicit structure like with an ordered list. So my preferred way would
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by adwf 11y ago
Sometimes Lisp can get annoying though. I've used libraries where a function might return 5-6 values and I only need the first and last. I need to bind all of them and then (declare (ignore...)) the useless bits otherwise I get compi
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by adwf 11y ago
I'm wary of it, but looking forward to it at the same time. I'm hoping for something like the XCom revival, but... On the other hand, I recently started playing MOO2 again and it's just as fantastic as ever. Brilliantly bal
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by adwf 11y ago
Only the AMD ones. The Nvidia binary is actually pretty good and updated frequently. Although if you're a Free/OSS zealot, you might not want to use the closed drivers. But if your alternative is the equally closed drivers on Wi
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by adwf 11y ago
I tend to think of ABP a bit like the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK. They essentially enforce a minimum standard upon advertisers, whilst collecting administrative fees in exchange. Long-term this is actually better for advertisin
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by adwf 11y ago
The Ku Pteleopsis Hylodendron Humming sounded like C D F D D to me. Very deep, possibly octave below left-most C on a piano, but for those saying it's just noise I'd say there's some signal there. The Bal Gilbertiodendron De
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by adwf 11y ago
Yep, although I only use Common Lisp, this is still readable to me. A couple of things could be improved for me; I almost never use abbreviated variable names unless it's for simple iteration. Also things like this being repeated on 8
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by adwf 11y ago
How much of programming is actually typing code though? I think that less than 5% of my time is actually typing, the rest is thinking. So if you go with mob programming and have one guy doing 50% typing whilst the other guys are thinking.
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by adwf 11y ago
That might be fine for the mental addiction side of it, but is absolutely not for the physical side. It's why addiction is such a serious problem. People seriously cannot just will themselves clean.
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by adwf 11y ago
> If we want to solve this problem, we need to provide shelter along with drug rehab services & require weekly clean drug tests as a requirement to keep the shelter. Yes and no. The question is, are people becoming homeless because
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by adwf 11y ago
Germany post-WW2, took in a ton of Turkish migrants to prop up the economy. Britain post-WW2, took in a ton of Indian/Pakistani migrants. For that matter, some people say that Germany currently is trying the exact same with Syrian refu
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by adwf 11y ago
> What you describe is just the data syntax for s-expressions. Not the syntax of the programming language Lisp. Exactly. The data syntax if what most people worry about. The names of the verbs (funcs/methods/etc.) may change f
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by adwf 11y ago
Yes, but I thought his point was more that whilst Lisp has a very easy, simple and regular syntax, ie. (func arg1 arg2 (func arg3)) and so on, it's less simple and regular when you get to the loop macro (loop arg keyword arg keyword...
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, but when you see the outrage that Merkel displayed over finding out her phone had been tapped by the NSA; do you seriously believe that the BND haven't tried the exact same thing on Obama or Cameron when they're in Germany?
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by adwf 11y ago
I wouldn't recommend using infix libraries if you really want to get into Common Lisp though. They're a bit of a crutch for people coming from other languages, but that's it. Pretty much the whole language is based on Polish
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by adwf 11y ago
A lot of people abandon loop for precisely that reason (it's un-lispy) and use Iterate. https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/ Even the ITA/Google style guide says to avoid loop if possible: https:&#x
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by adwf 11y ago
My point was that no-one knows what the French and German governments are upto in secret, because it is still secret. It hasn't been leaked. The only reason the US and the UK are getting so much press is because their programs have.
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, it's really easy to criticise the US and UK at the moment, because they're the only ones that have had their documents leaked. If anyone thinks that France, Germany and others aren't doing the exact same stuff, then the
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by adwf 11y ago
I think they're really talking about scientific stereotypes. It's this kind of thinking that starts to give rise to so-called scientific explanations of why certain races are "inferior". The average man concept lets you
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by adwf 11y ago
You could also read this is as 7 ways to lose an election ;)
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, half my friends from university graduated straight out of their Physics degree and went straight into finance. Didn't even bother with the Masters or PhD.
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by adwf 11y ago
Aboslutely. I'll admit to not having read the actual study, but saying that 33% of pilots improved is fairly meaningless. You could also say that 67% of pilots didn't improve. It might even be the case that those 67% that didn&
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by adwf 11y ago
Classic inner-platform anti-pattern? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
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by adwf 11y ago
Yes, a lot of the math/science articles are terribly written. Somewhere in a drawer I have a dusty old Physics degree, but even on subjects I understand very well, the Wikipedia article is frequently badly written and hard to comprehe
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by adwf 11y ago
And then we're back to the bad old colonial days which the west gets so criticised for...
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by adwf 11y ago
Partly because it's difficult to make them work well on console, but mostly it's just down to numbers. The article mentions that Civ has sold over 30 million copies over the 25yr life of the franchise, whereas some thing like Call
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by adwf 11y ago
Simple, if he'd acted on it during his first term, there probably wouldn't have been a second term to do anything in...
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by adwf 11y ago
You see no evil, yet. I don't want to know what happens when the latest wannabe dictator comes along and nationalises all the Chinese infrastructure...
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah the bang commands are the biggest thing I miss. Such an easy powerful feature. On the other hand I love how much fish does for me. I really take a huge amount for granted and noticably miss it when I have to use a different shell.
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by adwf 11y ago
Oddly enough I still use index cards for writing down my todo lists. I have a box separated into Today/Tomorrow/Sometime/Done, then write down ideas and tasks as they come to me. Pick a few from the box and do them each day

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