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by baldfat 5y ago
How to Design Programs is maybe my all time favorite programming book. BUT it is incredibly dense and you can't go to it for your first book. Realms of Racket is a good one though.
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by baldfat 5y ago
I don't think HN News uses Arc anymore. Also Arc is just a language written with racket. Racket is a language for making languages.
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by baldfat 5y ago
"Batteries Included" means it is super easy to turn it into an executable. This was why I switched from Python for my personal projects.
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by baldfat 5y ago
Python with one computer = Pure Joy Python shared to two or more computers utterly devastating. I left python a long time ago when I couldn't get my code to easily repeat on three of my computers at three locations for work. I also tri
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by baldfat 5y ago
We were still in a HUGE recession when Regan took over and had a period of inflation and mortgages had an interest rate of 12% and higher. This was more a reflection on how badly things went under Carter and not about Mondale. Mondale shoul
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by baldfat 5y ago
You made a mistake and think the present party system was the same back than. Nixon actually presented a Health Care Plan Nixon's Words “Without adequate health care, no one can make full use of his or her talents and opportunities. It
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by baldfat 6y ago
Well LISP does both things. One language to create a personalized language for your issue.
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by baldfat 6y ago
LISP and functional programming through Lisp style program (I prefer Racket) with multi-threading could be the way of the future, but instead we keep getting stuck in general programming languages that are great second best languages at bes
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by baldfat 6y ago
I don't like working with DATA TABLES UNLESS it is a HUGE data frames. Then if it is huge I'll go towards sparks. I normally am working with under a million objects which with today's computers is not that big. Edit I meant t
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by baldfat 6y ago
I loved the idea of Julia but R and specifically the tiddyverse https://www.tidyverse.org/ Just makes everything else seem not as elegant to my humble eyes.
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by baldfat 6y ago
HEY, Two Towers and the double time line was UGH but LotR and Foundations Trilogy are the only books I read every decade of my life since my teens.
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by baldfat 6y ago
I adopted three kids from the same biological mother. Two of them are making more then me at Amazon and for the Department of Defense. Sadly my younger son passed from Bone Cancer. They were drug impacted, but its weird how research goes in
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by baldfat 6y ago
MuseScore 4.0 I hope will help my workflow. I usually am working with just a keyboard, bass and I handle the rythmn seperately. To do my melody I find Muse Score to be way slower at producing MIDI. I actually use ABC Notation in VIM. I can
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by baldfat 6y ago
Well they never were for a seamless purpose. We would mesh Ventrilo and IRC into a real awesome tool but I think we were the intended audience. There weren't millions of us there were tens of thousands of us. It wasn't till there
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by baldfat 6y ago
Well since we KILLED the Great Lakes in the early 20th Century
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by baldfat 6y ago
One of the most intelligent programmers who has been in the game since the early 80s posted the he is refusing to ever vote again till he knows his vote isn't stolen. They WON in 2016 House Senate and Presidential and claimed MILLIONS
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by baldfat 6y ago
One of the most intelligent programmers who has been in the game since the early 80s posted the he is refusing to ever vote again till he knows his vote isn't stolen.
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by baldfat 6y ago
People who make up their truths that can't be disproven already have all that they need. a missing laptop.
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by baldfat 6y ago
I just love Lisp and you pretty much have a fun small language you can fit in my small brain with Racket. The biggest issue is the libraries. Everyone writes their own specific libraries for their problems, because its easy and fun. I could
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by baldfat 6y ago
Python is AMAZING and Awesome TILL You want to spread what you are doing to more then one computer. Though I have to say I love domain specific languages and personal enjoy Racket as my most fun language to use. It is sad that this has got
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by baldfat 6y ago
Zebra Clams are changing the Great Lakes. Pretty much changing the whole ecosystem.
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by baldfat 6y ago
How does VM Mac on a Mac as a developer make one unique?
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by baldfat 6y ago
New ones pop up to replace the ruined ones. I love Reddit and still find it very useful.
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by baldfat 6y ago
I always see these hallucinogenic articles and think wow why is everyone advertising for hallucinogenic usage. I don't drink, not a single drug besides caffeine and never smoked but there is an appeal to use hallucinogenic for health r
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by baldfat 6y ago
Also this WSL was life changing for me. Also I perfered to use the OpenSUSE version. It is just awesome.
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by baldfat 6y ago
Why does Apple get the Professional OS nod when EVERY update is a break in your workflow Majorly. Heck every Mac is always on a different update because they are scared to even update in Mac only cooperate networks like mine. It has always
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by baldfat 6y ago
People view LSD as a non-addiction drug because it only works bi-weekly is the argument. Drugs legal and illegal might be a ticket item BUT the health issues are still the same, even if they are "non-addictive."
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by baldfat 6y ago
I warned everyone The Fight Club Rule needed to be in effect. There is no Youtube-dl
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by baldfat 6y ago
His cancer was the least deadly of the cancers and with treatment he would have lived much longer. My mom had stage one pancreatic cancer 4 years ago and she is still alive today and cancer free for over four years. So it is possible.
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by baldfat 6y ago
My niece has aggressive MS and Ocrevus didn't help. CRSPR is the true dream. No more MS.

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