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by delish 7y ago
When I first saw this comment it was downvoted. wisnesky is one of the main contributors in the applied category theory world, and one of the reviewers for Conexus's FRP. IMO it's reasonable to advertise for that on a post about S
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by delish 7y ago
> Such hyperbole can only be found in the lisp world. Paul Graham may agree with you! Graham found a guy on slashdot with the same funny notion: > "I have heard more than one LISP advocate state such subjective comments as, &quo
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by delish 7y ago
> A really interesting evolution of lisp is Shen. The license is terrible BSD 3-clause: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/LI... Of course that's not the end of the story,
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by delish 7y ago
Thanks--maybe I'm misquoting Steve Jobs. He meant that you-the-end-user weren't supposed to open it up. If they were repaired, he wanted them repaired by professionals. Unfortunately I don't have the quote in front of me. And
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by delish 7y ago
I don't disagree with anything in that article, but Jony Ive's legacy is not merely the iPhone, the Watch, and the most recent MacBook Pros. It's also the iMac, the PowerMac G5, the Wall Street PowerBook, the unibody MacBook
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by delish 7y ago
I’m sure you’re right. And I guess I’m saying something obvious when I say they haven’t thought this through. So they’re going to get every bank, every e-commerce website, every server and every client to upgrade their SSL packages? That’s
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by delish 7y ago
The article mentions "tech companies." But isn't SSL end to end encrypted? And doesn't nearly every business that makes transactions online use SSL?
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by delish 7y ago
I have a high opinion of GNU APL though I've never used it, from the discussion of GNU APL 1.7's release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904688
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by delish 7y ago
Interesting! Do you have a link? A cursory search yields nothing for that, but I found this: Squeak Makes a Good Python Debugger[0] https://www.timfelgentreff.de/public/uni/NiephausPX2017.pdf
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by delish 7y ago
To be clear, the more unusual case is the author knowing none of the languages he evaluated. In that case I think the case for Java (and even Haskell) is very strong.
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by delish 7y ago
Sometimes I see articles with tables and decision trees regarding language choice. I find it funny, because if I was doing any old thing, I'd use $typical_lang, and if I was writing a script, I'd use bash-and-not-python-because-I-
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by delish 7y ago
One of the standard seemingly-counterintuitive examples of uses of advertising is car ads. Very few people see TV ads for a Mercedes and walk into a dealership and buy one. So why does Mercedes-Benz run TV ads? The standard explanation is,
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by delish 7y ago
Yes, people call it the "Unix philosophy" not the "Linux philosophy." And the Plan 9 folks (nee Unix folks) also thought everything in Unix should be a file and not everything was. [edited for clarity]
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by delish 7y ago
Yeah--I thought/think it's a feature, so you know how far you've read, but when I saw it I thought, "_Wow_ that's a strong design statement that I doubt I'll ever get used to."
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by delish 7y ago
While we're speculating: If the algorithm predicted, "Then CIA extraodinary-rendition'd $particular_person_of_interest_to_people_with_top_secret_clearance to a black site" you'd hope to get a judge who's techni
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by delish 8y ago
I'm glad this is the top-rated comment--it teaches me that there are people who are totally different from me! I'm a remote worker who is sharply annoyed by "Hi" [send] "QQ" [send] [wait 30 seconds] "[ques
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by delish 8y ago
I live in Pittsburgh, and was surprised to hear that sign was illegal. Having googled around, I see a bunch of local papers talking about it, but nobody's saying the sign was illegal, just ugly and using inefficient lighting. https:&#
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by delish 8y ago
There is probably a long tail of bad outcomes that could arise from admitting illegal activity on the web. But I don't think it stands up to the kind of cause-and-effect that'd be like: IF you say on a forum, "I broke this la
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by delish 8y ago
The GP may have been saying, "What happened [recently] to all the women [that they're not around any more]?"
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by delish 8y ago
Great pictures! As a remote developer for SaaS company, and as someone who does both commercialized-work and commercialized-play on his laptop, I now see that I enjoy looking at people contributing to research by working on computers, back
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by delish 8y ago
> What problem does this solve that existing reputation systems don't? To turn its slogan into an analogy: the New Yorker is high quality closed source software. If you disagree with the New Yorker, you can't file a bug report.
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by delish 8y ago
That list is probably inspired by Chuck Moore's article "1% the Code" https://web.archive.org/web/20060104084410/http://www.colorf... Relevant excerpt: >colorForth does it differently.
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by delish 8y ago
Very interesting to hear Knuth augmented Pascal significantly to suit himself. Can I ask where you found that? I'd love to read more.
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by delish 8y ago
As with everything, there's an emacs extension for it : ). ;;; youwill.el --- generate meaningless marketing hype http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/emacs-lisp/src/youw... I got: have you ever
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by delish 8y ago
Could you be more specific? I was inclined to respond, "Intel, too. And keyboard and monitor manufacturers. And throw in John Von Neumann!"
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by delish 8y ago
This is about the use of procedural generation in commercial N64 games like F-Zero X, not (as I was thinking) something like "Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter" + N64. Disclaimer: I stopped watching after the fir
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by delish 8y ago
An excerpt from a job posting by Hal Abelson: > Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
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by delish 8y ago
And: > Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to use it; sometimes one
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by delish 8y ago
> This is a tongue in cheek but also piece of shit MIT propaganda piece mostly written by the clowns who created the abortions that were Multics and LISPMs. Sure--the people who wrote systems with opposing philosophies to the "unix
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by delish 8y ago
Idiocracy would count if it were released in the 20th century. It was released in 2006.

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