davexunit

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by davexunit 13y ago
The author mentions SICP, but apparently fails to remember the numerous instances where the SICP authors use closures to hide implementation details. I remain unconvinced that exposing implementation details for the sake of testability is a
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by davexunit 13y ago
I don't have high hopes. 1) He's not working in the open, he just says "I will free it, honest." Maybe he'll go through with it, but as of now he's distributing proprietary software. 2) He says that some of the
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by davexunit 13y ago
LightTable is proprietary software. Please use Emacs instead.
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by davexunit 13y ago
I'm just going to go ahead and say that if someone wants to stick with Emacs for all of their editing to learn the traditional Emacs key bindings and not use evil-mode.
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by davexunit 13y ago
I love Emacs. I'm much happier now that I live in Emacs. I work on a Ruby on Rails application at work and I use Emacs not only to write code but to run tests, use the rails console, use the MySQL console, bundle update, use git, etc.
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by davexunit 13y ago
Matz gave this presentation at LibrePlanet 2012 in Boston. This talk was the reaason that I decided to give Emacs a shot after being a Vim user for a couple of years. I have used Emacs every day since. I talked briefly with Matz afterward
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by davexunit 13y ago
>Does uncompiled JS count as open source or not? No, it doesn't. The license indicates if it meets the requirements to be Free Software and/or Open Source Software. Was there a license header in the JS files?
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by davexunit 13y ago
Ditch Facebook and join Diaspora. It's a great project that Rails/Javascript devs can contribute to. http://diasporaproject.org/
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by davexunit 13y ago
It's presented as a joke, but his real opinion is in there. George Carlin didn't vote in presidential elections.
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by davexunit 13y ago
Why so many proprietary, web-based RSS readers? There are plenty of free readers so it's silly to get locked-in to yet another web-based RSS reader that will shut down some day.
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by davexunit 13y ago
Guile is a very capable Scheme implementation that was made to be the official GNU extension language. It features a very nice C API and FFI. Racket and Guile have different design goals. Guile fits Emacs' edit-the-editor-while-you-edit par
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by davexunit 13y ago
If the Guile-Emacs project is successful, GNU Guile will be the VM in which Elisp and Scheme code is run. This means that Emacs will finally gain such features as an FFI.
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by davexunit 13y ago
This article incorrectly refers to Linux as an operating system.
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by davexunit 13y ago
Because software freedom is important?
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by davexunit 13y ago
Will they only be blocking Microsoft, or will they shut off federation completely? I have an account on the FSF's XMPP server and I can talk to people on gtalk. If they are shutting off federation completely, then they are just making a wal
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by davexunit 14y ago
Where is the source code?
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by davexunit 14y ago
I find the lisp easier to read.
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by davexunit 14y ago
I loved Mysterious Song. It's a solid game. Whatever happened to DarkDread? He just disappeared.
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by davexunit 14y ago
I loved that game. It's a great game with a sad story behind it. I believe the author died of cancer shortly after finishing it.
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by davexunit 14y ago
Here's a handy article about Scheme implementations written by the Guile co-maintainer. Look for the heading "The Scheme for SICP". http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide... tl;dr - he recommends the SICP mode for Ra
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by davexunit 14y ago
>for loops are too difficult for-each? http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d... or how about a named let? (let loop ((i 0)) (if (< i 10) (display "hello\n") (loop (1+ i)))) or how
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by davexunit 14y ago
I can't answer your actual question, but it is recommended to extend rather than embed. See: http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/andy-wingo-guile.pd...