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by amouat 16y ago
Because I didn't want to start a religious debate about Emacs, which seems to have happened anyway ;) Actually, I don't see why I have to defend this. I've used Emacs before, I don't really want to again. Isn't that good enough? I'm happy f
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Lisp IDEs (where for art thou?)(adrianmouat.com)
45 points by amouat 16y ago|57 comments
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by amouat 16y ago
True. I'll update above regarding n. However, it's certainly different to the other examples and I would expect fib(2) to be 1 + 0 not 1 + 1. It's a very minor point though - I think I'll stop now ;)
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by amouat 16y ago
I think it's still wrong by that definition. I think it is just saying fib(1) is the first number, not fib(0). fib(2) should never be 2. EDIT: Actually, I think you're right: it's just an index thing (do we start at 1 or 0) - I was confusin
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by amouat 16y ago
It's definitely wrong - just ran it in python to check in case I was missing something!
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by amouat 16y ago
I did - with 2: fib(2) = fib(2-1) + fib(2-2) fib(2) = fib(1) + fib(0) fib(2) = 1 + 1 (rather than 1 + 0) No?
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by amouat 16y ago
Shouldn't: def fib(n): if n < 2: return 1 else : return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) Be: ... if n < 2: return n ... ? Or am I being stupid? EDIT: changed x to n.
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by amouat 16y ago
It's just more keypresses mainly, but also you are unnecessarily changing focus to the browser. If you have your Vim session set to "Always on Top" or to one side, you never have to leave the editor to see your changes. (On a side note, I w
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by amouat 16y ago
You've linked to the sourceforge project page, a better link is probably the web page at: http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/ Or http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html if you were highlighting the latest release.
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by amouat 17y ago
The funny thing is that this reads like sarcasm to me as well. I think it's just your very abrupt style. "It took a day and a half" implies it should have happened quicker and it's not your fault. Please don't take this personally!
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A Software Developer Feels the Pain of Premiere Pro(adrianmouat.com)
1 points by amouat 17y ago|0 comments
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by amouat 17y ago
We used the tracker in GForge AS. We used it on two sub-projects, one with 2 developers and a manager and one with around 8 members of varying technical expertise. The problem I have is how do you your tracker data out at the end of the pro
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by amouat 17y ago
Yes, I somehow doubt Jagger expected to personally foot the bill.
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by amouat 17y ago
A bit of digging ( http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1138009,1138221 ) suggests it was originally meant for "Through the past, darkly", which was a hits album (released in 1969). Warhol never recieved the materials in time and ended up do
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Cloud for Academia?(gridipedia.eu)
4 points by amouat 17y ago|0 comments
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by amouat 17y ago
I guess the ping pong balls are just squeezed in, then re-inflated using boiling water (which will cause the air inside to expand).
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by amouat 17y ago
They seem to get finding the median slightly wrong: "Note that finding the median of an array is a special case of this where k = n/2." I'm pretty sure it should be k = (n+1) / 2. (If there are 5 numbers, you want the 3rd one, if there are
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Package Managers – Linux’s Killer Feature?(adrianmouat.com)
7 points by amouat 17y ago|2 comments
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by amouat 17y ago
Yes, good point. Blogs are more analogous to editorials than news stories, and editorials are usually clear in political bias. To be honest, I wish I'd spent a little longer on the post; I think I lost the thread slightly. I certainly think
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by amouat 17y ago
Which is referenced in the F&L; they were both writers for Rolling Stone. F&L is certainly considered a reference, at least by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...
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Hunter S. Thompson and the Death of Objectivity(adrianmouat.com)
16 points by amouat 17y ago|7 comments
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by amouat 17y ago
Good suggestion, but I think I'll go with one of the other solutions for a few reasons: - I'd rather keep things completely static if I can - It ties my site to Apache a bit - I may as well take advantage of some of the other features Jekyl
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by amouat 17y ago
That's what prompted me to ask the question. Have you used it? What do you think? Going on what I've seen so far, I think Jeykll might be the best choice.
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by amouat 17y ago
I'd love to, but that's a bit much work. And I'd go mental when I wanted to urgently make a small change to the website but was forced to spend hours fixing some stupid bug. I do use Wordpress at the minute, and pasting text from Vim tends
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by amouat 17y ago
That looks pretty good, I'll probably give it a shot. My only concern is that it seems oriented more towards blogs; do you think I'll have any problems using it for a small open-source project website?
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by amouat 17y ago
This prompted me to ask what lightweight CMS's everyone recommends: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700031
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Ask HN: Lightweight Programmer's CMS?
25 points by amouat 17y ago|30 comments
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by amouat 18y ago
I'm not too convinced at the minute. The problem is that everyone here (hacker news) is having their own little converstation about this and it's the same for reddit etc. When you stick all this into one list, you are losing context. What i
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by amouat 18y ago
The article is nowhere near as controversial as the title makes it sound. You released what you called "half-baked" ideas, so it's no wonder it didn't quite work. Clearly there is a "too early": taking release early and often to its logical
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by amouat 18y ago
At $8 a pop? I expect they're complete drivel.

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