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by draven 13y ago
CL-USER> (defun f (x) (declare (fixnum x) (optimize speed (safety 0) (debug 0))) (the fixnum (* x x))) CL-USER> (disassemble #'f) ; disassembly for F ; Size: 19 bytes
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by draven 13y ago
Two environments I play with offer this. One is the slime package for Emacs (I use it with either ClozureCL or SBCL.) Commercial CL IDEs have the same features. The other one is Pharo. In both case, it's a dynamic language, with an ima
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by draven 13y ago
Emacs keybindings, extensibility (that would include configurability.) I'm an Emacs user. I don't have a very long init.el but appreciate being able to deactivate stuff I don't use, especially things like scrollbars, toolbars
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by draven 13y ago
Another thing worth a try: export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 Worked for me last time I checked (Arch, xmonad 0.11-7, openjdk 7.u45_2.4.3-1, intellij-idea-community-edition 13-1)
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by draven 13y ago
Reminds me of this: http://barefootfts.com/blog/memento-mori which is a bit more visual.
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by draven 13y ago
Same here, I just use a map in my tank bag, and check the directions on google maps beforehand (that includes looking at some potentially problematic intersections on street view, which is incredibely helpful.) Also here in France the signs
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by draven 13y ago
Or Wankel engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
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by draven 13y ago
Only 50%... Some language syntax are too similar (eg scheme and racket) so you need to know the libraries as well.
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by draven 13y ago
Other great examples are the bodybuilders of the 50s like Steve Reeves, when aesthetic standards were a bit different (broad shoulders / thin waist, eg. look for the 'vacuum pose'.)
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by draven 13y ago
The wheel came after the button (ie there were 3 button mouses first and the middle button morphed into a button/scroll wheel hybrid later, there was nothing strictly scrolling related to the middle button before.)
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by draven 13y ago
... and you have a BOFH-style excuse in case something goes wrong!
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Red Pitaya: Open instruments for everyone(kickstarter.com)
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by draven 13y ago
In Firefox, typing /downl[return] will open a link titled "download" on the current page Using ' (Quick Find within link-text only) instead of / (Quick Find ) is even faster/easier.
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by draven 13y ago
There's already other versions of RapGenius for Rock/Poetry/News, so why not a CodeGenius. Having this kind of commenting mechanism on Github would be fantastic.
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by draven 13y ago
The original title is "Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’", the edited one is a tad more sensationalist.
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by draven 13y ago
I guess he means the import directly from github and other online code repos are not signed or checked in any manner. Still imports from online code repositories are supposed to be a convenience to get started faster and should be replaced
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by draven 13y ago
They allow loading code (drivers mostly) at runtime, something that's impossible with a "traditional" monolithic kernel.
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by draven 13y ago
Same here, my very first cover letters were hand written, but only because it was "how it's supposed to be". I don't know if tech companies ever cared about it. I used to be stressed because my handwriting looks like 16th century cursive an
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by draven 14y ago
There are (relatively) lots of recumbent bikes around here, and it's a wonder those guys do not get crushed under a bus more often. When cars are stuck at a crossing they tend to slalom around them, and they're impossible to see since they
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by draven 14y ago
It looks like the project has some kind of web thingie: http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoHome
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by draven 14y ago
Could it be that varied diets could prevent us (our intestinal bacteria) from getting too good at digesting a specific diet then?
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by draven 14y ago
I read something similar recently (though the blog post itself is from 2008): http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/06/human-gut... The whole gut bacteria thing is quite fascinating. It evolves depending on our diet. The intesti
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by draven 14y ago
In CL read-eval defaults to true: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/v_rd_e...
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by draven 14y ago
The homepage is really usable and (IMHO) looks rather nice in Firefox w/ noscript. Which was kind of surprising because a lot of websites don't degrade well with JS disabled.
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by draven 14y ago
tl;dr: know the stdlib and the ecosystem well.
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by draven 14y ago
Useful for heavy computation on smallish datasets, but not for moderate computation on big datasets. Here at work the datasets are several gigabytes so this would not be a solution. After reading the blog post this looks like an enhanced IP
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by draven 14y ago
> Like a Lisp it simply executes what you write without any validation beyond syntax checking But then in Common Lisp when something goes wrong you drop into the debugger and can look at your code's state. In python/ruby my program just
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by draven 14y ago
The subtitle of the blog is: "News and updates for Quicklisp, the Common Lisp library manager." so that's not too bad. Anyway thanks to Xach for quicklisp, it made experimenting with CL libs much easier!
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by draven 14y ago
Isn't https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luriel the same guy? He was fairly active in all recent discussions about Go. What happened to him?
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by draven 14y ago
I chose (Free)BSD over Linux back in the day (~1999) also for reasons related to X. The Linux distributions I tried came with an X server that didn't support my graphics card (a Voodoo 3 3000!). FreeBSD got the latest X server in the ports

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