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by bluefox 6y ago
GitHub have the gall talking about accessibility while flinging their octotentacles, dragging users screaming down to the firey pits of JavaScript hell.
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by bluefox 6y ago
I was thinking about ClojureCLR. While my argument could be applied to ClojureScript, I did not think it was fair because ClojureScript calls itself a (proper) subset of Clojure, which is fine and no one expects it to run actual Clojure pr
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by bluefox 6y ago
I believe you, and apologize for the hyperbole. I also think Rich Hickey is intelligent and wish him and his project the best.
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by bluefox 6y ago
If true, that is a point for Clojure. It keeps the inexperienced on a distinct path where some day, when they're battle-worn and wise and had enough of it, they may find it was a road to Lisp after all.
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by bluefox 6y ago
I think the Clojure people tend to produce unreadable mess, which tells me the design of their language is down in the gutter. Common Lisp is a language with a lot of warts, sure, but typical Common Lisp code is way, way, way more tasteful
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by bluefox 6y ago
Massive problem? That's news to me. But what do I know, I've only been writing Lisp for more than a decade. On the other hand, the Clojure kids seem to reinvent programming badly while maligning other Lisps (see blog post), so may
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by bluefox 6y ago
Is it free software?
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by bluefox 6y ago
Software that's popular enough has a nonnegligible chance of jumping the shark. When this patchset is merged, it is git's time.
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by bluefox 6y ago
The tragic thing is that GitHub was usable that way from the start, and for some reason seemingly adopted a policy of deterioration.
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by bluefox 6y ago
No, I will not enable JavaScript. There's no need to respond with snark. You're telling me I can stop using GitHub: I know that already. I am bringing this issue here to have a chance at avoiding that. Re-hosting my repositories
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Ask HN: What do you think about GitHub's Gradual Degredation?
3 points by bluefox 6y ago|4 comments
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by bluefox 6y ago
It feels like the main feature of this project is incompatibility with HTTP. The protocol is new and primitive, it's easy to write tools around it, write texts about it, etc. A small community forms, and you're part of it. You
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by bluefox 6y ago
It's the nickname of the guy who wrote a famous tool called ProcDump in the late 90s. It was very useful for unpacking executables. http://protools.narod.ru/unpackers.htm
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by bluefox 6y ago
Tell me about it. I read the headline and I thought "Sysinternals? G-RoM!" ... found out that this is a "new" tool from 2009.
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by bluefox 6y ago
The way it looks now, a self-hosted gogs with a nojs patch may be the way forward. The application-specific part (gogs.js) is <2kloc and it's already rendering stuff on the server. I'm giving it a few weeks before I've h
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by bluefox 6y ago
I've been using GitHub since 2008. My default browser has JavaScript disabled for various reasons. It was not long after Microsoft acquired GitHub that the UI changed for the worse, but it was minor and still very functional. Now, i
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by bluefox 6y ago
Here you go https://plaster.tymoon.eu/view/678
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by bluefox 6y ago
Please reconsider your assumptions. PG has written two Lisp books in the nineties, one of them containing a Prolog interpreter. In fact, many Lisp programs utilize some form of logic programming. With regards to "strong static typin
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by bluefox 7y ago
Perhaps a first step is to simulate a population where several variations of the virus exist, and where people set out to get infected by those who are believed to host a "safe" variation. What is the likelihood that interaction
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by bluefox 7y ago
Hello Shimon, nice to see your post here, all the best to you and your team from an ex-colleague. Would you mind sharing an example of a custom rule?
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by bluefox 7y ago
I guess the programming language related ones are a good start. In my experience they have a high signal-to-noise ratio. Otherwise, it depends on your interests... you can always start your own, making sure it's good... There is&#x2
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by bluefox 7y ago
IRC is one of the few Internet venues I still frequent. Been using it since 1998. Some years ago an important (but small, private) channel moved from EFnet to Freenode, so that is the network I now use. Seeing Freenode IRCops looking to
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by bluefox 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_question Also, the excuse might be the same in the two questions: brute force may be less demanding than particular calculation.
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by bluefox 7y ago
I agree with you, but this thread is full of people thinking it's a good idea because they or their colleagues are prone to that kind of silliness. For people who write C or C++ every day it's stupid compiler second-guessing, and
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by bluefox 7y ago
You look up. A single ray of light has made its way to the earth. Some day, you hope, the sky will be clear again.
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by bluefox 7y ago
Tourism-wise, US has been dead to me since 9-11, so I don't mind posting this comment.
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by bluefox 7y ago
Prior to sponsors, you developed that project for the fun of it. It was useful to some, so you gave this sponsorship thing a try. It was a success, maybe not a great success, but still. Now that you have sponsors, you feel somewhat oblig
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by bluefox 8y ago
Consider for example CL:WITH-SLOTS, or CL-WHO:WITH-HTML-OUTPUT... such macros establish context, and are not really about delaying evaluation. On Lisp has a section about uses of macros, which is not exhaustive, but shows there's more
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by bluefox 8y ago
Note that you may also have a Lisp form like #1=(programmable . #1#), which represents not a tree but a graph. With lispm's remarks in mind, you can see that it's not abstract, not syntax, and not a tree.
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by bluefox 8y ago
More like a very primitive Toy Lisp interpreter.

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