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by dpkendal 13y ago
It may not be wrong, but it still looks wrong, or antiquated at the very least. Reading a book that still uses extra space after a full stop feels like reading something from the time when it was fashionable to put a space before an exc
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by dpkendal 14y ago
A comparison of Linux and FreeBSD is a legitimate, interesting question, but I don't think this is the place to raise that issue. The open-source community is strengthened by its diversity. Linux may be more popular, but that's no reason to
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Why was BritRuby cancelled?(davidkendal.net)
6 points by dpkendal 14y ago|1 comments
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by dpkendal 14y ago
http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mo...
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by dpkendal 14y ago
This sort of thing is not new. I think the first one was qmail: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html followed shortly by djbdns: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html (which was awarded in 2009: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.d
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by dpkendal 14y ago
The Underground Railroad. Prohibition. Hush-A-Phone. The Communications Decency Act. Crypto export regulations. Breaking DRM.
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by dpkendal 14y ago
Except that Common Lisp is a kludge, a relic, and a sad victim of 30-year–old compromises. It's also practically abandonware, with no new specification since 1994's ANSI Common Lisp. (Itself mainly clarifications to CLtL2.) Modern Lisps — o
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by dpkendal 14y ago
I would never say that to anyone. It's never true.
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by dpkendal 14y ago
The tricky aspect here is that most people believe that taste, and the 'quality' of artistic work, is mostly a subjective matter, but when they make criticism of art they treat their views as objective truth. Thus when you criticise a frien
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by dpkendal 14y ago
It's shocking how close this dilemma is to the one facing the protagonist in Richard Stallman's essay, "The Right to Read." ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ) In fact, though its depiction of the future is still far-fetche
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by dpkendal 14y ago
Indeed. Distributing source code does not mean that people can or will fork your project. You have to explicitly grant permission to distribute the software freely, and in particular to distribute modified copies, for that to happen. http:
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by dpkendal 14y ago
> Eb with 3 flats, for instance, is slightly (though not statistically significantly) more common than F with only 1 flat. Ask any singer: F is the hardest key to sing in. Most people who have to sing in F unaccompanied will inevitably
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by dpkendal 14y ago
I'm in almost the exact same position, except that I didn't know I had v6 access until I happened to think of the IPv6 launch sometime last week, wondered if I was online with it yet, and tried it by enabling it on the AirPort base station.
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by dpkendal 14y ago
It's used extensively in djb's packages like qmail and ucspi-tcp. In the latter, it's used to maintain a database of blacklisted IPs which are blocked from connecting to a TCP server, among other things. http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
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by dpkendal 14y ago
Actually macros are not first-class in Arc (though they are stored in the same namespace as everything else, unlike in Scheme). You can't return one from a function, for instance. They were a feature of early implementations (they're mentio
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by dpkendal 14y ago
Isn't this usually called a toll road?
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Show HN: A quick-and-dirty Safari extension for DuckDuckGo support(dl.dropbox.com)
1 points by dpkendal 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpkendal 14y ago
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences." http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
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Show HN: An iMessage Scheme REPL. scheme [at] irepl.im(irepl.im)
23 points by dpkendal 15y ago|10 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Sandwich Video make some of the most well-known, though far from all of them. http://sandwichvideo.com/
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by dpkendal 15y ago
It seems this argument is based on a misunderstanding of Paul Graham's essay. > that the biggest opportunities for revolution often sound like the craziest ideas at first. Graham points out the flawed reasoning in investors’ so often sh
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Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont service(kottke.org)
19 points by dpkendal 15y ago|13 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Far more user-friendly is Dan Benjamin's Enkoder. http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/ It requires that JavaScript be enabled for users, but blocks a large number of spam bots.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
See also http://developers.whatwg.org/ , which does the same job but a: is better designed and b: is published by the WHATWG, so also includes bleeding-edge features not yet incorporated into the W3C specification.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Macro-expansion is sometimes considered part of compilation, sometimes a separate stage between parsing and compilation. I've never seen it referred to in Lisp as a part of parsing, though I guess it might be possible to do that with C's te
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by dpkendal 15y ago
These are all issues of compilation, not reading. Reading Lisp code into cons-pairs, symbols, numbers, etc. is not that hard at all: you can do it in about 100 lines of code. Lisp can be trivially parsed by a recursive-descent parser. "'Rec
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I disagree with this article's perspective, but I understand what the author intended to say and to a certain extent I like how the idea is presented. Yes, Lisp's power comes from the embodiment of code and data together in one manner, and
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Orbital routes (such as the proposed circular roads) don't work well in practice because slight delays tend to propagate easily and quickly all the way around the circle, with no recovery time at either end of the route (because there is no
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by dpkendal 15y ago
For more detail, try Spolsky's three-part series on management methodology. It starts with Command & Control then goes to another, Econ 101, which he discredits similarly, followed by Identity, which he says actually works. Start here:
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Start writing programs in it.

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