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by apotheon 17y ago
I agree. I also believe that the "Stallman or nothing" suggested by so many of his fans is a false dichotomy. You don't need to be rabidly communistic about software to oppose the "imprisoning" influence of corporate software vendors, afte
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by apotheon 17y ago
"Good enough" is the enemy of "perfect". What do you think would happen to FreeBSD if GCC vanished tomorrow? Hint: It would probably suddenly finish incorporating some other, more freely licensed, compiler into its base system.
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Five characteristics of secure online services(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
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Ask HN: What are the best ad services for low traffic sites?
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by apotheon 17y ago
Why I Haven't Fallen In Love With The Nexus One: no physical keyboard
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by apotheon 17y ago
Precisely.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Too bad. The tax code needs to be nuked and paved.
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's not strictly true. Any court can decide that a law is not enforceable within its jurisdiction -- but a higher court can overturn that decision. The Supreme Court comes into it because at that point there's no higher court that can
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by apotheon 17y ago
I'd say engineering quality is tangential to success -- not strictly orthogonal. Still, it's close enough to orthogonal that it takes a heck of a lot of attention to notice the difference.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Well also Lisp macros are more comprehensive. Ruby can only make DSLs that look mostly like Ruby. In Lisp, you can literally drop in a new parser if you really want to. Much better. I haven't worked much (almost at all) with macros.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Well . . . nothing worth mentioning in the last few months, but I have some stuff in the queue. Does that count?
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by apotheon 17y ago
[BitBucket]( http://bitbucket.org/ ) That's my favorite at present.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't know if the library situation is good in Common Lisp. It's just enough worse in Scheme that it's kind of ridiculous to consider actually using it for other than academic purposes.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Lambdas are for "one-liners", functions are for more-liners. The problem, though, is that this is entirely a Python conceit. It is in no way, shape, or form any kind of programming truism. In fact, taking a more principles-oriented
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by apotheon 17y ago
> You are much better off in terms of entertainment (through learning interesting stuff) with e.g. PLT Scheme or perhaps Arc. . . . but if you want to actually use a LISP for practical programming, and you start out with any Scheme, you
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by apotheon 17y ago
> I don't have any practical experience with Ruby, but it looks like a mishmash of Smalltalk and Perl to me Those are, I think, probably the two most influential sources of inspiration for how the language is put together, in terms of t
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by apotheon 17y ago
What if you start a conversation without any mention of Python at all?
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by apotheon 17y ago
> PHP developers hate us, Java developers hate us, Ruby developers hate us, and Python developers hate us. Wait. Ruby? What? Did you have a bad experience with some Rails people and decide that Ruby developers hate Perl? As someone w
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by apotheon 17y ago
I thought including PHP in that litany of crimes was a little weird, too. I mean . . . PHP actually deserves it.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Does 'Rube' have a negative connotation attached to it? Yes, it does. Rubyists are typically called Rubyists or Ruby hackers if one does not wish to insult them. Calling a Rubyist ia "Rube" would be like calling a Pythonista a "Pyke
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by apotheon 17y ago
I love Ruby. I don't really like Python as much (Python and I have irreconcilable philosophical and code-formatting differences). I was not offended. I was, however, saddened by the fact that almost every single time I've seen a Pythonist
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by apotheon 17y ago
I've seen one Pythonista troll the ruby-talk mailing list. I have no idea whether any Rubyists troll Python's main community venue -- but if there are any, I'm pretty sure they're probably Rails people, which really have their own, separat
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by apotheon 17y ago
> People. Python hackers are much, much nicer folks to hang around with. I don't like to start a war here so I'll refrain from going further with this point. Besides, I feel like Zed Shaw said it all. I don't buy this point. I think yo
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by apotheon 17y ago
> It allows for the creation of real Domain Specific Languages and the real extension of lisp for a given problem domain. I think the problem was that until now you weren't giving any examples that explained how Common Lisp macros were
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Chart: Language Foo as seen by fans of Language Bar [pic](i.imgur.com)
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Documentation Documentation(sob.apotheon.org)
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by apotheon 17y ago
Okay, now . . . tell me how this provides any benefit over Mercurial's options.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Yeah, I wrote one of these compose key intros a while back, too: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 . . . and it's not just for Linux.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I wish the patent office had taken that to heart and stopped issuing patents.
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by apotheon 17y ago
tl;dr version: Write code to solve the core problem. Don't write code for the rest unless it's really needed .

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