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841.
by astine 15y ago
Hmm. This seems like an odd comparison to me as Coffeescript and ClojureScript really have two different target audiences. Coffeescript seem to be more targeted towards people interested in writing JavaScript application with a more clean s
842.
by astine 15y ago
Would you prefer to fly with greedy corporate pigs or incompetent screw-ups? The OP clearly prefers the pigs (as would I, actually.)
843.
by astine 15y ago
I was wondering what it was in Manassas. We don't get earthquakes often around here. They evacuated the building in which I work.
844.
by astine 15y ago
Your second example throws an error for me. (SBCL) The first doesn't (it appears flet doesn't trigger the error in this situation) but the package system still mitigates the damage in practice. I've written a lot of macros and haven't yet a
845.
by astine 15y ago
There are two problems with your example. First is that Common Lisp is a lisp-2 so the '*' function won't actually be rebound at all. Secondarily, and more importantly, every unhygienic lisp I've used has had a broader namespacing system wh
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by astine 15y ago
A story entitled: "Why you don't steel from a Texan" would generally entail the thief getting shot. Shooting a thief doesn't make one a Texan, but it is the kind of thing a Texan would do. (Gross generalization for illustrative purposes onl
847.
by astine 15y ago
I'm not going to say that there isn't an overlap, because I suspect there is, but you'll have to explain (for example) which so many forms of identity politics, which by definition oriented around tribal loyalty, considered left-wing causes
848.
by astine 15y ago
The terms 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' are throwbacks to the French revolution where pro-revolutionary elements of the National Assembly sat on the left side and anti-revolutionary elements sat to the right. The terms have lost most of thei
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by astine 15y ago
I think he's referring to your spelling. ('Tu' vis. 'To')
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by astine 15y ago
I disagree. Before stating an unpopular opinion, it is sometimes helpful to make it clear that you understand that the opinion is unpopular and that you (probably) have a reason for bringing it up. Doing so tells people that maybe you have
851.
by astine 15y ago
Had you used mutt instead of Gmail, you would have simply used: SHIFT-zSHIFT-z. When you want to compose mail in one of these programs, it opens your specified text editor and uses the whatever text you enter as the contents of your message
852.
by astine 15y ago
Even better than a tutorial, have the shell pass any unrecognized commands to apropos or a help program. This would make things much more discoverable.
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by astine 15y ago
"For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why the near side of the Moon - the one visible from Earth - is flat and cratered while the rarely-seen far side is heavily cratered and has mountain ranges higher than 3,000m." Is it
854.
by astine 15y ago
Article dated to: "Saturday, August 1, 2009"
855.
by astine 15y ago
The author mentioned this: "IBM had decided to use the slash for command flags, eliminating Unix as a precedent, and the period was used between filename and filename extension, making it impossible to follow DEC's example."
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by astine 15y ago
And Quakers, as well as some historical sect that no longer exist, as well as a number of non-christian eastern religions. But I think that the grandparent's point is fair: most religious and non-religious worldviews allow at least for viol
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by astine 15y ago
"I want to get it how it was committed--because how it was done matters to me, as a developer and as a person." Or as a micro-managing boss. I don't need someone staring over my shoulder as I work or after I work. My mistakes aren't your bu
858.
by astine 15y ago
RMS may not be directly responsible for this mishap, but it is his project so he is ultimately responsible for it. He's clearly taking responsibility so good on him I guess.
859.
by astine 15y ago
If he's really from Shetland he wouldn't sound British. He might sound Swedish though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetlandic
860.
by astine 15y ago
Taiwan makes the same claim on China. No one takes them seriously either (not since the Nixon administration anyway.) It's the same with the Koreas.
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by astine 15y ago
Nevertheless, it is economically and administratively distinct. Debt controlled by Hong Kong is controlled by a substantially different set of people than debt controlled by China proper.
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by astine 15y ago
The Republic of China is an entirely separate country from the People's Republic of China. Hong Kong, likewise, is economically and administratively separate from the rest of China.
863.
by astine 15y ago
If you use any Posix environment asside from Linux, you'll find Vi installed by default but not Vim. This includes the BSDs, Solaris, and AIX in my experience. So vanilla Vi still gets use.
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by astine 15y ago
"Grandparent absolutely intends his insult, in proximity to his argument, to undermine his disputant's credibility." I don't think that that is clear at all. In fact, his derision reads more like a thesis statement to me: "X is a curmudgeon
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by astine 15y ago
From the article: "To put that in context - it will stand more than double the height of the Empire State building in New York City"
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by astine 15y ago
"I don't mean to judge; I just genuinely wonder how these things are viewed by common Americans." This is part of the reason why Libertarianism is such a popular thing in America. So much regulation is introduced ostensibly to protect the c
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by astine 15y ago
The article doesn't specify what distinguishes this from a regular liveCD Linux distro. My guess is that the DoD has hardened the included kernel (possibly included SELinux) and curated the included packages for security, but article doesn'
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by astine 15y ago
Better than Silverlight.
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by astine 15y ago
Parenscript isn't quite the same thing.
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by astine 15y ago
"Note: Most of these suggestions only work for standalone applications rather than applets." Whoa! That made me double-take. Applets have been an effectively abandoned technology (by the browser makers, not necessarily Sun,) for what, almos

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