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by bluefox 10y ago
Yes, it's quite sad. https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html
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by bluefox 10y ago
Variety is the spice of life. Even if 5 people answer a question with somewhat the same answer, they will all be slightly different. Sometimes, it takes something worded a little bit differently to click for someone. I would not consider th
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by bluefox 10y ago
Welp, Lisp is not for everyone. If you can't get past the lack of currying, stick with what you've got.
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by bluefox 10y ago
Lisp is not about microsyntax and code golf. If you worry about the number of characters and that is "the real problem" with Common Lisp, Perl or J may be a better choice for you.
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by bluefox 10y ago
CAR and CDR are also good names because they are part of the Lisp tradition. Also due to this tradition, they have a clear meaning in the context of Lisp. If the "new Lisp" keeps conses (and some may argue that if it doesn'
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by bluefox 10y ago
Why do you have to resort to such bullshit in order to promote your favorite language. Please back up your claims.
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by bluefox 10y ago
At the time calloc was invented the class of "safety"-related integer overflow problems wasn't on the map at all. So a case of someone thinking about it at the time would be quite interesting. I specifically asked for "
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by bluefox 10y ago
I agree. It's interesting that two seemingly independent sources make the same unfounded claim about this obscure C function so close in time. Since I replied in the first case, I was sensitive to the second case. Perhaps someone sh
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by bluefox 10y ago
Please give historical evidence that the original intent behind calloc was to allocate heap memory for arrays of objects in a safe way.
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by bluefox 10y ago
> It is clear that the original intent of calloc is to allocate heap memory for arrays of objects in a safe way This again? Just 4 days ago there was an article making up the same nonsense.
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by bluefox 10y ago
That's a nice alternative history fiction. Here's an early implementation: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
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by bluefox 10y ago
You can see how an expression is read this way: (defun how-is-it-read? (string) (write-to-string (read-from-string string) :pretty nil)) ==> HOW-IS-IT-READ? (how-is-it-read? "#'foo&qu
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by bluefox 10y ago
Guy is mad that ad blockers block his ads.
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by bluefox 10y ago
Nowadays it pays well to be a programmer (oh wait, developer; engineer; whatever title helps you rationalize), programming-qua-profession has exploded (it even draws the feminists... why aren't they into carpentary? draws governments,
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by bluefox 10y ago
Yes. Another simple representation if you assume a maximum number of occurrences per letter: (defvar *alphabet* "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") (defconstant capacity-in-bits 3) (defun key (word) (loop with key = 0
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by bluefox 10y ago
If I understand the task correctly, it is to map a word into another word that belongs to the set of words that have the same letter frequency distribution. So a possible solution is to define a representation for a letter frequency distrib
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by bluefox 10y ago
I've been reading the code for T0 (a FORTH->C thingy), and I arrived at the conclusion that C# is a terrible language. The code itself is nice and clean if you assume it, though.
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by bluefox 10y ago
Thank you for this post. I had technical interaction with him in the past, and read many of his technical posts. But I did not know this. I will no longer interact with him.
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by bluefox 10y ago
Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation: http://multicians.org/mepap.html
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by bluefox 10y ago
Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LG-RtcSYUQ
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by bluefox 10y ago
Nations seem to care alot about "cyberattacks". Yet a single well-positioned person has the power to disrupt a mass communication service for 72 hours. Without a single keystroke. Impressive.
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by bluefox 11y ago
This list of names made me think of Ken Silverman. Apparently he's now doing http://www.voxiebox.com/ The latest "game developer celebrity" on my list is Kenta Cho, I guess.
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by bluefox 11y ago
This guy is impatient... They learned this from wikileaks: 10 huge headlines spread across half a year is more effective than 1 huge headline today.
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by bluefox 11y ago
Notice that I didn't talk about the node package manager, but about the author and the company NPM Inc. (and their registry service). It's not that your "build got broken", it's that you had a broken build process.
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by bluefox 11y ago
This is a very good question. I was going to make the argument that the author merely continued what NPM Inc. started, and that if you fault him, you should also fault NPM Inc., but then I noticed that NPM Inc. didn't unpublish his mo
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by bluefox 11y ago
All this is true, and I would add that even if you're being paid well, once things get bad enough to affect your health, you should consider change. There are more cases of "should've left earlier" than "should&#x2
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by bluefox 11y ago
Actually your distance implementation is a good example of needless stuffing of expressions into a single function. Many times you don't care for the (costly) square root, so a distance-squared function can be useful. Multiplying x by
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by bluefox 11y ago
Correct. http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html
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by bluefox 12y ago
Took 10 mins to hack a silly, inefficient version. https://play.golang.org/p/UPlzWR5OCO Gives the same result as https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg03416.h... SHA2
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by bluefox 12y ago
Analysing the "Turn mbox into JSON" section http://paste.lisp.org/display/145050

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