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by agentgt 9y ago
Yes I agree on the Smalltalk point. I think Squeak was at one point the very future of REPL-like development and hence why I think the article doesn't really go into how REPLs could be better and how they aren't really that much b
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by agentgt 9y ago
Yes I think you make an excellent point but more so because the output of the REPL session is much better than a typical REPL session of just plain text. Sort of in a round about way but in my original comment my hope was to elicit the disc
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by agentgt 9y ago
> REPLs are not ephemeral on Common Lisp environments. You'll have to patiently elaborate more for me. Do you mean because the editors keep track of it and that you are working with immutable/idempotent stuff? Otherwise IMO it
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by agentgt 9y ago
I assume you are the author? I think you make valid case/points but I have some kind counter points if you don't mind > 1. Having too many unit tests makes your codebase harder to evolve. You ideally want to have as few tests
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by agentgt 9y ago
> The thing to realise is that, at least is my experience, REPL based development doesn't mean your are actually typing code into the REPL. > Instead, you develop code in a file, but constantly evaluate code as you go along.
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by agentgt 9y ago
With fast compiling languages a unit test is not for off from being a REPL. In Java I use JUnit as a REPL. Actually I prefer unit tests over a REPL the same reason I prefer bash scripts over one liners or SQL scripts instead of typing into
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by agentgt 9y ago
I briefly glanced at the code and was expecting a game like clock to emulate the time dilation that the dream within a dream caused. I can't remember in the movie what was the deepest dream possible but you could pick a large base tick
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by agentgt 9y ago
It wasn't chattr. It was this problem with SELinux: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21636460/318174 restorecon -R -v /root/.ssh I was confused because I have used chattr with ssh files before j
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by agentgt 9y ago
This reminds me of the time (albeit my memory is hazy) of an issue of having to set `chattr -i` on .ssh files because even though I had the right chmod permissions SSH still would not read it. It was quite painful to figure out and I can&#x
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by agentgt 9y ago
A pet peeve I have is when writers particularly journalists use the word algorithm when they really mean heuristic. I understand the word is slightly nebulous particularly in the context of real programs. See an algorithm both in comp sci a
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Not sure what point you're trying to make — I live in Boston and the map seems generally accurate. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes shorter — that's why we use averages. Yes the map is correct! I'm saying what most p
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by agentgt 9y ago
My overall argument wasn't that Boston is so special (albeit clearly it is as this article shows at the top). Its that the high congestion cities are far more compact and there are more things to do in less mileage (ignoring nature act
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Lol @ the assumption that most of these cities don't have "4 seasons". I didn't say that. But for sure Boston has much more dramatic seasonal change than many of the cities on the list. > Also lol @ the assumptio
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Elyxel was designed and built with performance in mind. Styles and any additional flourishes were kept to a minimum. My choice of Elixir & Phoenix was driven by this consideration as well. Most of the pages are well under 100 kilo
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by agentgt 9y ago
LA has absolutely the worse traffic. I have no doubt you can see many things with no traffic in LA in 5 hours or less. Every time I have been there it's been horrendous that it makes Boston traffic look like a joke. With New England it
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by agentgt 9y ago
New England looks pretty bad in this article but I beg to differ albeit I am biased. I live around Boston and while I agree I will say that Boston like the rest of New England is extremely seasonal and even then it's week by week and b
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by agentgt 9y ago
I believe it was circa 2001. My whole life I have had terrible penmanship but most teachers still had the ability to read my writing. There were a couple of other problems that exacerbated the situation. I believe you had to use their penci
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by agentgt 9y ago
The problem is downvotes mean different things to different people. IMO a point based system for comments particularly one with downvoting is a sort of an aggressive one that may steer certain folks away when really good community shouldn&#
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by agentgt 9y ago
You might be asking how one fails the state testing (then gets put in remedial class) but gets accepted to college (particularly a CA state one). Let me tell you a funny yet embarrassing story. I went to GaTech and I failed the English Rege
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by agentgt 9y ago
Well that is sort of like saying Emacs is written in Elisp. Its true a good portion of the editors are written in their own scripting language (js for atom, and elisp for emacs, and beanshell for jedit) but I believe the critical components
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by agentgt 9y ago
Of course I know they load up a web browser but you would think that is something what Java people would do (in terms of over engineering and over use frameworks and fair game as I'm a Java developer). I'm basing this on the origi
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm actually sort of impressed how well JEdit performed. Other than micro its one of the only not written in a C/C++ language (the critical components... I realize emacs, code, atom, sublime all have their extension languages).
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by agentgt 9y ago
Not really... IMO whats far more hilarious is to see an editor written in Java handily beat the newer editors like Atom, Code, etc.
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by agentgt 9y ago
Oh man I forgot about JED! It was my first editor. At the time Emacs was often too slow on my computer (circa 1995 maybe even as early as 93). That editor was awesome and it had a cool library I think called Slang which had its own sort of
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by agentgt 9y ago
What pains me is before reading this article I was slightly biased because of previous articles. Actually it doesn't pain me... it really pisses me off that so many journalist are fooling people... particularly me. When I read the bloo
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Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences(bloomberg.com)
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by agentgt 9y ago
You could have provided a link to the memory management section or even mentioned it was ref counting. Otherwise your comment is ... it kills me to say this but pretty useless.
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm not that much of Go fan but I'm surprised its not on the top 20 list even if it is mainly startups hiring.
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by agentgt 9y ago
I think (but I'm hardly certain) if the cost of fast shipping is reduced and provided for all companies we might start to see some downfall of Amazon. More and more I'm buying directly from companies websites. Its often cheaper,
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by agentgt 9y ago
As well as the unoriginal blatant gatorade logo ripoff. Do you really want to add HFCS to your project.

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