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by danking00 15y ago
I saw parsec-coffee-script a while back and really wanted to help, but I was quite busy. I'd love to see hygenic macros in coffee-script... Unfortunately, it looks like parsec hasn't been committed to since February. Anyone know what the st
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by danking00 15y ago
Ruby has a penchant for giving you more than enough rope to hang yourself on, and "Ruby keyword arguments" are no different. I've seen them used in the wild. It's horrendous. The code I had to update was poorly written, but the functions wi
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by danking00 15y ago
To be clear, the parent post is referring to the invention of LISP. As a side note, for those who don't know, JavaScript shares a number of features with LISP/Scheme. JSON has the trappings of the very LISPy idea of "Data = Code". It doesn'
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by danking00 15y ago
Does one ask more questions if and only if they know less than those who ask more questions? Maybe young folks are more inquisitive individuals.
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by danking00 15y ago
I know three very bright, young graduates who have decided to enter the Financial industry (i.e. Algorithmic Trading). One has a Bachelor's in Physics & CS, another a Bachelor's in Physics & Math, and the other is finishing a PhD in
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by danking00 15y ago
I'm not comfortable with the connotation that "regime" brings, but I had the same thought as you. This technology and equipment will find itself in the hands of Americans if the US government tries to shutdown the Internet Mubarak-style. Ho
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by danking00 15y ago
If I understand his metaphor and current law correctly: this law changes nothing about income tax. Regardless of this law, Mr. Amazon-Affiliate pays income tax to the State of Illinois on his Amazon affiliate income. I believe the poignant
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by danking00 15y ago
I'm kind of curious who has the selection bias here, me and my social group or the people responding to this thread. I've been using Ubuntu since 2008 and before that some hodgepodge of Gentoo and Fedora since '06. Since going to Ubuntu, I
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by danking00 15y ago
I want to really emphasize what the parent post says. I'm currently an undergraduate and I am having an exceptional experience. Two summers ago, I worked with a professor one-on-one to build a compiler for a subset of Scheme. From last sum
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by danking00 16y ago
I love meeting new people. Smiling is like saying "Hey there! I'm So and So, how are you? Tell me about yourself!"
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by danking00 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand the value of this. > The IDE must be accessed via a standard browser and > should be installable (ie. your own startup should be > able put it on a dedicated server). SSH is available on every reasonabl
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by danking00 16y ago
Personally, I'd rather toss Lisp entirely and go with Scheme, but something definitely needs to be done about elisp. There's a small group of undergrads here at NU hacking on Edwin, a Scheme based Emacs clone originally developed at MIT.
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by danking00 16y ago
DARPA recently assigned a grant to Olin Shivers, along with members of Northeastern University's and University of Utah's faculty, to "seek to develop bug-free, secure technology using brand-new programming languages that enable programmers