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by bluefox 8y ago
According to David Kahn's The Codebreakers , the Kama Sutra lists secret writing as one of the 64 arts that women should know and practice.
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by bluefox 8y ago
Use of compile-time type checking to make changing interfaces easier is a great trick. A great trick may mislead many to see it as the only one in the book. Then you get dumbfounded looks and a troublesome question arises: how can these l
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by bluefox 8y ago
From a recent github blog post: "Millions of developers trust us with their data—and protecting their privacy is a top priority for us." Now these millions of developers will face a dilemma.
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by bluefox 8y ago
You've elided some cases, which I'm guessing don't fit Python's assert so well. And what are foo/bar/zot/pi in your translation? Python has "is"/"not"/"in" which r
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by bluefox 8y ago
I think you missed /my/ point. What happens when you "remove the cruft" (parentheses) from the following: (defun example () (ascertain that (+ 1 1) is 2) (ascertain that (+ 1 1) is not zero) (asc
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by bluefox 8y ago
> "Take a Lisp program, indent it properly, and delete the opening parens at the start of lines and their matching close parens, and you end up with something that looks rather like a Python program." Sure, if you write Python
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by bluefox 8y ago
"If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel of wine, you get sewage." -- Schopenhauer Unencrypted server name indication is sewage.
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by bluefox 9y ago
You could instead write abstractions for generating forms, e.g.: (pbox "login/register" (form (text "username:" :name "user") (pass "password:" :name "pass")
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by bluefox 9y ago
Maybe it's "enough" for Guido...
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by bluefox 9y ago
Point is: Lispers obviously don't care about what you care about. That is why they don't fix it: it's not broken for them.
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by bluefox 9y ago
I read: whyknow thing like word"and"sentence to write and plural and capitalization comma dot semicolon space question mark need write spaces between them wordamabobs why don't fix notation???
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by bluefox 9y ago
I also remember JauMing Tseng's XPACK...
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by bluefox 9y ago
So this was reported half a year ago and only now after publication Intel releases updates?
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by bluefox 9y ago
What are you engineering? Mozilla's relationship with other developers?
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by bluefox 9y ago
It doesn't improve the situation at all, which is that Mozilla has the capability to silently install addons in a default setting.
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by bluefox 9y ago
> DeQuincey wrote a later book called “Miseries of Opium” in which he went on at length about how opium completely destroyed his life. But nobody bought that one. Do you have a link to a bibliography where this book appears?
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by bluefox 9y ago
The author mentions trouble with portability and reliance on standard guarantees, and then goes on to talk about Julia, a single-implementation language that is "rapidly evolving" with breaking changes and no standard to speak of?
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by bluefox 9y ago
A bit of a stretch to call this a "Lisp OS" yet. If you look at the project's history, you can see that it was written in nasm, and at some point the author "slapped some parens around" and took steps to make it in
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by bluefox 9y ago
I will always cherish reading The Design and Evolution of C++, even if I stopped caring about C++ a decade ago or so.
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by bluefox 9y ago
If you need a function that returns integers in some range [0..n) equiprobably, just write that. Why conflate a bunch of concepts and have weird limitations? Oh, and by the way, fuck HN for deleting comments.
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by bluefox 9y ago
Indeed... as soon as I saw this, I skimmed the (smug towards Lispers!) MDL primer [0] and wrote a few (broken) esrap rules to parse some MDL into Lisp. For example yours gives: DEMUDDLE> (parse 'expr *lispm-expr*) (DEFINE
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by bluefox 9y ago
I too do not understand how parents can be allowed to force someone into existence without prior approval from said someone. Their parentland (motherland or fatherland, though I suppose there may be other categories nowadays) should surely
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by bluefox 9y ago
TheDraw was OK, but ACiDDraw was awesome...
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by bluefox 9y ago
You can still play (a clone of) it online... http://www.lotgd.net/
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by bluefox 10y ago
I mean the HN submission.
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by bluefox 10y ago
I'll just note that this entry was posted 8 times by different accounts. Someone wants you to adopt an opinion.
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by bluefox 10y ago
I'll just note that this entry was posted twice, by two different accounts, with the same title, even though it does not appear anywhere in the site. PR effort for or against.
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by bluefox 10y ago
Nice, I wrote code for MU as well. What about BlooP and friends?
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by bluefox 10y ago
Next time, begin with this question: "Are we playing \"Decadence\"?"
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by bluefox 10y ago
Come now, Facebook is more than that. For example, it also helps governments spy on their own citizens as well as other governments.

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