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by cema 16y ago
The reverse is also true (deadlines have no respect for Muses).
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by cema 16y ago
Writing Emacs, be it in C or whatever, is hardly a reason to not call Gosling an expert in Emacs, quite the contrary! But you might argue his approach to Emacs is not idiomatic or not consistent with the community and so on, if there is evi
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by cema 16y ago
No etiquette. There are rules but even they are nit universally followed.
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by cema 16y ago
I too use Emacs mostly as a standalone but turn the chrome off. But the chrome is useful for a beginner.
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by cema 16y ago
Lisp, Fortran, Cobol have all been used and working, in one form or another, for more than 50 years. Algol, on the other hand, has evolved into a great family of languages. Not unlike Latin, if I might say so.
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by cema 16y ago
I think it's more than a hack. List comprehension is a way to look at list manipulations which comes from the functional paradigm of programming. It is interesting and instructional to see how it can be expressed in a heavily imperative lan
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by cema 16y ago
FYI, you have listed several books twice (SICP, Intro to Algorithms).
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by cema 16y ago
I wish I could remember where I heard this. This is similar to a story from the Talmud. When two travelers come across a treasure lying on the road. The Talmud actually says, claim the whole, and be satisfied with the half. (Or some
699.
by cema 16y ago
Do you expect people to "look into it further" with everything they think cannot be true? I would not.
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by cema 16y ago
Well, the DNF header is funny. The rest, not so much. But let's not fool ourselves, wait until the end of the day.
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by cema 16y ago
And smart. This is an important ingredient.
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by cema 16y ago
Or perhaps of a challenge your boss encountered. May be a wrong kind of challenge, depending on the boss.
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Eight years in jail for ex-Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov(telegraph.co.uk)
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by cema 16y ago
Well I guess in a fast paced environment you are pushed and in a balanced environment you pace yourself. We are adults not cogs.
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by cema 16y ago
It may be a flaw, but it appears not to be a flaw in ''education'' but elsewhere.
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by cema 16y ago
Word is easier to use, but some of the document processors built on top of TeX/LaTeX (like Lyx) alleviate a lot of the LaTeX pain. And you still can go down to LaTeX if you need to fine-tune the output.
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by cema 16y ago
Donated.
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by cema 16y ago
Which one is he?
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by cema 16y ago
I dare you. Boston sucks! (Cambridge rules.)
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by cema 16y ago
Did you flag it?
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by cema 16y ago
But why? It may not be ahead of the curve but it is cool, all right.
712.
by cema 16y ago
All of that. But also 6x grumpier, it seems.
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by cema 16y ago
What, another example of lavishly founded government service? I would understand the value of something like this in a poor or enterprise-unfriendly country. But in the US? If it has been funded with taxpayers' money, I say it's a waste.
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by cema 16y ago
No, those were "nonaligned". Third World used to describe what's left if you remove the developed capitalist countries and the European socialist countries.
715.
by cema 16y ago
Oh no, wtf is professional terminology, cannot remove.
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by cema 16y ago
Ratfor, if my memory serves me well, was a set of macros which sort of turned Fortran into a simplified C. Better read the Pascal book, the language (Pascal) would be easier to follow.
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by cema 16y ago
What about good old LaTeX?
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by cema 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234717
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by cema 16y ago
The text I was replying to.
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by cema 16y ago
It's called having balls. Having balls for brains, maybe. Instead of working on making the US border experience more efficient and human-oriented, they just make it harder for a selected group of people. An easy way out, I say.

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