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541.
by astine 12y ago
Just use `font-lock-unfontify-region' https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ot...
542.
by astine 12y ago
I suppose. If you don't know what a for loop does you can't really be expected to use one. But you shouldn't have to understand how a for loop is implemented in order to use it correctly is really my point. Macros can be used
543.
by astine 12y ago
If macros are used properly, they should make the code easier to read, not harder. If you can't figure out what it does from it's signature and docstring (maybe with a reference to some documentation for more complex or abstract t
544.
by astine 12y ago
That's the neat thing about Lisp-style macros. You have to sacrifice a little bit of the syntactical sugar that you are used to in most languages, but in return you have the ability to add almost any possible construct to the language
545.
by astine 12y ago
I'll stipulate that you might want to be very conservative about doing this with a production system. No kidding. I knew at least one guy who hosed a product launch by doing that. You even have to restart your development instance fr
546.
by astine 12y ago
TIL that that is possible. Just googled it apparently requires custom class-loader. Thanks for this.
547.
by astine 12y ago
To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it... I do not think that the GP was using 'love' in that sense. You can 'geek out' about news and information about something without actually being much i
548.
by astine 12y ago
That last feature is certainly one of my favorite parts about Clojure. It's one of my favorite parts about Lisps in general actually, but Clojure has a very good handle on it. Having to compile a program before seeing if the changes yo
549.
by astine 12y ago
How about this one: .some-css-rule { padding-left:50px; padding-right:50px; margin-left:50px; margin-right:50px; } I run into examples like this a lot and have yet to find an elegant way to deal with it. Honestly, I'd like to
550.
by astine 12y ago
You're first example wont work. What you want is :s/50/60/<CR> @: And that still won't handle .some-css-rule { margin:50px; padding-left:50px; padding-right:50px; } The second example will w
551.
by astine 12y ago
Trivial counter-example: .some-css-rule { padding-left:50px; padding-right:50px; margin:50px; } Pretend you want to avoid changing the margin.
552.
by astine 13y ago
I had the same problem when I learned CL. On the flip-side, I really like Emacs now so I'm glad I learned it.
553.
by astine 13y ago
I think that part of the problem is that more 'powerful' languages often more concept heavy than more 'pragmatic' languages and that makes them harder to learn for a lot of programmers. Take Clojure for example. A lot of
554.
by astine 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
555.
by astine 13y ago
Probably avoiding a backlash from partisans of the that db complaining about the bad press and from partisans of other NoSQL dbs complaining that the points in the article don't apply to them.
556.
by astine 13y ago
Learning Erlang has been on my todo list for years now. I know Java because I was exposed to it in school and had to use if for work. I know Perl because I've had to use it for work. I know C because I've had to know it for projec
557.
by astine 13y ago
I don't know if Russia is responsible for anything that's happened so far. This fight is largely between ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. If this escalates too far, Russia will intervene and probably on beh
558.
by astine 13y ago
Because we are software writers and we are looking for problems to which our skills are a solution. The barber might just need another paper calendar, but then where does that leave me, the software developer? It leaves me still in need of
559.
by astine 13y ago
Gate's first mistake wasn't castling, but taking Carlsen's pawn without having a sufficient a sufficient buildup for the exchange. He lost the center of the board as a result. That's just my two cents as I haven't p
560.
by astine 13y ago
Leaflet dropping is actually fairly standard practice and has been so for decades. The US invasion of Iraq did the same thing: http://www.psywar.org/apdsearch.php
561.
by astine 13y ago
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scie...
562.
by astine 13y ago
Awesome! Great work!
563.
by astine 13y ago
When people say that inflation is not being properly measured, what they're likely referring to is the fact that some policy makers use the CPI Less Food and Energy which means that some of the biggest expenses for the majority of peop
564.
by astine 13y ago
That quote is apparently the opinion of one of the NSA staffers that worked with him. Apparently he was more talented than most of the other employees and contractors.
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A Wall Street Bank Initiated Coverage On Bitcoin and Identified a Fair Value(businessinsider.com)
2 points by astine 13y ago|0 comments
566.
by astine 13y ago
If it were possible to translate every concept or expression, transparently from any language into any other, there wouldn't be any real reason to have more than one language. Or, in other words, if the only differences between langua
567.
by astine 13y ago
SEEKING WORK, Washington DC, Remote or Local. Full stack engineer, who knows Clojure Ruby, Java, PostgresSQL (and other RDMSs), Per. Github: https://github.com/astine Website: http://theatticlight.net/ Cont
568.
by astine 13y ago
This is just a rather superficial interview with Mr. Eco. He does touch on the medieval belief in a spherical world but they don't go into detail about such things. Interesting, but brief and not what the title promised.
569.
by astine 13y ago
You have to be careful with this though. Benford's law only holds for certain types of data, such as growing populations. It has to do with the nature of the decimal system.
570.
by astine 13y ago
Google is not a monopoly. It has numerous competitors and only really remains in the lead because it is perceived to be the highest in quality.

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