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by delish 8y ago
Other people are using words like "arrogance", "fanboyism", but there's a fun, short, free book on the question, "Under what circumstances are you justified in choosing to avoid epistemic modesty and assert tha
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by delish 8y ago
The parent's example accounts for this. Gratis, you use Facebook; they sell your information. That's why people, before they hear about Facebook's revenue model, ask, "What's the catch?"
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by delish 8y ago
I agree with everything you said. The argument is tedious and fruitless. My point is an empirical one: Programmers of a Certain Age were more likely to use "Lisp" than programmers of other ages.
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by delish 8y ago
As someone who programs in Clojure--and therefore has no justification for weighing in--I _believe_ that it's a cultural or generational difference. That is, for certain programmers (working in the 1980s? 1990s?) "Lisp" (capi
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by delish 8y ago
nyt.com counts, in my opinion. Here's an entertaining history: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-times...
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by delish 8y ago
I am a pretty consumerist person. If I had a choice between working-little-and-having-little, and working-a-lot-and-having-a-lot, I'd choose the latter. I didn't choose the above attitude consciously per se, but thinking about it
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by delish 8y ago
I also use and enjoy BazQux. It's fast and supports vi-like keybindings.
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by delish 8y ago
The MacBook[0] had the super thin keys in 2015. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(12-inch)
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by delish 8y ago
And Olin Shivers with another! http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/rank-polymorphism...
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by delish 8y ago
> ;;=> returns x if x is nil, else 5 Should this be: > ;;=> returns x if x is not nil, else 5
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by delish 8y ago
I enjoyed this article, and I like the author surveys several ways to handle `nil` before giving his preferred. I'm curious: Do any of you use the Cats library? Do you like it?
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by delish 9y ago
> Those Enron-esque cross-cut shredders don’t cut it anymore with open source machine learning that can easily reassemble those documents. That's interesting! When I googled for this, I found a few papers, but nothing like a git rep
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by delish 9y ago
Can I ask why you don't [seem to] use a VPN? The reason I ask is, I'm under the impression that a VPN definitively mitigates this kind of attack. I'd have to change my habits if it turns out a VPN is not a one-stop-shop solut
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by delish 9y ago
I have a 6S+. I noticed a performance gain going from 11.2.1 to 11.2.2. Before: 2384. After: 2541.
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by delish 9y ago
“Quickest” in auto-journalism typically refers to acceleration. So 0-60. “Fastest” typically refers to top speed. So e.g. 250mph.
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by delish 9y ago
I've wanted a proportional font for coding for a long time! I sympathize with Rob Pike: https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/567476552187641856 I much prefer reading proportional fonts. This new font solves a
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by delish 9y ago
I know so little about Smalltalk and its way of software development. A year ago, I read about VisualAge, and asked this question on the lisp subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/4saada/curio
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by delish 9y ago
I googled "machrone's law" and found this: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp Fun article from 2004! Article subheading: > Get used to the idea of a terabyte-plus server in your home.
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by delish 9y ago
When Kay says (paraphrasing) 65% of your errors are overhead, he's talking about the difference between say baseball's batting averages and golf. A batting average of .333 (you hit one ball for every three throws) is considered ve
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by delish 9y ago
I'd like to know this, too. I am guessing it's because, if RAM errors increase linearly with the number of computers, then RAM errors will be a greater and greater proportion of total errors. This assumes other kinds of errors don
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by delish 10y ago
There's a big group of hackers who refer to Common Lisp as "Lisp" or "lisp." I believe Doug Hoyte is doing that. Richard Gabriel and Peter Norvig do it too. They might say, "Clojure is a lisp," but when re
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by delish 10y ago
I've read that on CC's website. Can you point me to some examples where US'ians (of which I am one) declared something public domain, and some country acted against someone who used the US'ians work?
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by delish 10y ago
I'm curious about their reasoning for choosing Creative Commons Zero over the public domain. I'm fond of the public domain; I've released some of my software[0] into the public domain. Cynically, I think it's more fashio
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by delish 10y ago
>Maybe try not using drugs as a crutch? . . . Be your own man, not some chemically altered monster. Many forums have a rule: "do not diagnose[0] fellow forum members." You're not directly diagnosing kdelano, but if a malad
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by delish 10y ago
> it focuses the mind to remember that this was a child porn case IIRC Do you have a link? If you're referring to Lavabit's shutdown, according to this source [1], they were looking for Snowden. I've never heard Snowden as
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by delish 10y ago
Another famous intellectual on humility toward Nature, Goethe: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of apprec
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by delish 10y ago
Can one write apps for this? I see its operating system is "Codex, a custom Linux-based OS optimized for low-latency e-paper." Edit: I see on their FAQ this question-and-answer: DO YOU PROVIDE THE REMARKABLE WITH A SDK FOR CUSTOM
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by delish 10y ago
i use amethyst, an xmonad-inspired wm with pretty good focus-follows-mouse. i tried kwm, and couldn't get the keybindings to register, nor get FFM to work. xmonad is better than all of them for what it's worth.
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by delish 10y ago
I'm curious to see what others think about your comment, notyourwork. To me (maybe only me!) it looks like you're putting a pithy stamp on what the GP said. Going a little farther, it looks to me like you're taking credit for
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by delish 10y ago
I never thought of that. Where did he say that?

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