arb

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by arb 14y ago
> You're at a party talking to a member of the attractive sex. For some, there can be more than one attractive sex.
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by arb 15y ago
And Ubuntu LTS.
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by arb 15y ago
Local hackerspace draws an eclectic crowd. Hardly like-minded in most ways, but always interesting. ( http://tangleball.org.nz ) Networking through it also often leads to people from neighbouring groups, including artists, academics, entrep
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by arb 16y ago
That sounds useful, but I'm unfamiliar with iTunes and its store, and would rather not register with them or use their software. Is there some easier way to do it?
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by arb 17y ago
Web version: http://clojure.org/cheatsheet
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by arb 17y ago
It's unnecessarily ugly. There's a lot of unnecessary state, where refs are initialized to nil, then only updated to a fixed value. There's side effects in transactions (mostly around the Timer). Not one function is defined with parameter
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by arb 17y ago
I've added a note at the top disambiguating the term too. Thanks for the feedback. :-)
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by arb 17y ago
The nomenclature goes something like this. The common noun "lisp" refers to the family of languages; the proper noun "Lisp" refers to Common Lisp; and "LISP" refers to obsolete lisp dialects from long before Lisp's time. Generally, lisps a
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by arb 17y ago
There are at least five links on the first page of results searching Google for "common lisp download": http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html http://clisp.cons.org/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcl/ http://www.franz.com/downloads
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by arb 17y ago
Perhaps it's the function shorthand syntax that resembles Perl. This is closer to your macro's surface syntax: (Σ (fn [i] (* (p i) (log (p i)))) x) The tradeoff with your macro version is that when you want to leverage Σ as a firs
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by arb 17y ago
You can. For instance, SBCL introduced support for it around version 0.8 or so (years ago).
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by arb 18y ago
It looks like standard behaviour defined by event cancelation and default actions in the W3C DOM2 Events spec. Whether this is cross-browser or not isn't obvious. Suppressing default actions with event.preventDefault() seems to work in Fi