chaitanya

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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   Thanks, it was really useful for me too.
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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   I have never known anyone who's been unsuccessful at being a vegetarian (and about half my friends and family are vegetarian). Edit: the only time I have known someone switch to a non-veg diet (after becoming an adult) is when they started
3. 123.▲
   by chaitanya 16y ago

   > because she's a vegetarian. There's a difference between a vegan and a vegetarian: a vegetarian doesn't consume meat, but does consume diary products and eggs (egg-but-not-meat eaters like me are sometimes also known as eggetarians).
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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   Nice. Today I learnt about the file position designator :)
5. 125.▲
   by chaitanya 16y ago

   > (string-downcase (string thing)) should be written (string-downcase thing) I learnt this trick only after working on CL for a couple of years!
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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   For those who didn't know already, cl-who ( http://weitz.de/cl-who/ ) is a well known sexp-to-html converter. This one works a little differently from cl-who (uses functions instead of macros), but the input is similar.
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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   That's a good point -- I hadn't thought about this.
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   by chaitanya 16y ago

   > How many new servers are going to be needed now that https is used for everything and requests can't be cached? Wrong. You don't need to use https for everything -- you can specify a domain and a path in the cookie. For things like im
9. 129.▲
   by chaitanya 16y ago

   > I haven't used much CLOS, since ITA avoids it. Interesting. Is it for performance reasons?
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    by chaitanya 16y ago

    The two horizontal lines and the whitespace in the middle signify the tricolours of the Indian flag. http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show...
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    by chaitanya 16y ago

    :-) Thanks for the tip on parse-date. That's one more thing on my list of to-dos; I really have to find some time for Lisp hacking again :-|
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    by chaitanya 16y ago

    Good to see this post I had written a couple of years back turn up on HN :-) Any feedback, suggestions, etc. to improve this tutorial are welcome.
13. 133.▲
    by chaitanya 18y ago

    Hi mahmud, Thanks for the tip. Chronicity is now asdf-installable. I hadn't worked with asdf-install in such a long time, that I didn't even think about making Chronicity asdf-installable. But it was nice to find out that it actually can be