eadmund

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by eadmund 9y ago
Once upon a time it was common to write non-consing Lisp code precisely in order to get predictable behaviour; I think that it worked pretty well. Non-consing code won't have GC pauses; it won't have weird runtime crashes; and it
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by eadmund 9y ago
I think it's pretty terrible that Blogspot requires JavaScript in order to display text. There's already a really great way to display text on the web: HTML. It just makes no sense to me to change that. It's much like how t
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by eadmund 9y ago
At some point people are going to have to admit that granting execute access to remote agents in order to read content is insanely insecure.
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Developer tip to save your eyes: larger fonts(medium.com)
2 points by eadmund 9y ago|2 comments
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How icons are ruining interfaces(axesslab.com)
4 points by eadmund 9y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 9y ago
I don't think that argument really holds up. After all, athletes already push the limits of safe exercise in order to win; all competitive athletes are forced to exercise the maximum amount allowed, and exercise is not purely positi
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by eadmund 9y ago
My first step on a non-GNU system back when I had to use those was to install the GNU utilities and add them to the beginning of my PATH. I suppose if I had to support them primarily I'd have gone the portability route, but fortunat
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by eadmund 9y ago
> I think people should be paying more attention to the core concept of React Native, which is having a view layer that is completely native and a bridge that connects to a javascript engine. That is indeed pretty awesome, but wouldn&#x2
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by eadmund 9y ago
> And how do I get the same type out that I put in? You can only get out the same type you put in. Presumably in your code you know that collection of Foo objects contains Foos, so you can just do: if foo, ok = collection.get().
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by eadmund 9y ago
I was an avid Python user for roughly a decade, and I switched to Go. IME, writing it feels a lot like writing Python, but I feel much more confident that the code I write will run the way I expect.
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by eadmund 9y ago
Surely you could have used interfaces for this case, no?
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by eadmund 9y ago
The combination of Adobe Source Code Pro & emacs works well for me.
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by eadmund 9y ago
Without JavaScript, the article is a blank page, containing merely 'SEARCH' and '10:18 AM ET'. What's it say?
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by eadmund 9y ago
I miss Flash; it was nice to be able to browse the web normally, with Flash disabled, and then to enable it only for a single function on a single page. It was relatively rare, and it didn't destroy the web. With JavaScript, I basical
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Introduction to machine learning with Common Lisp(gorkovchanin.wordpress.com)
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by eadmund 9y ago
> the serendipitous accumulation of knowledge that comes from having proximity to the information you're looking for Back in college I used to use the card catalogue (or the computer, if I had to — but the card catalogue was better
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by eadmund 9y ago
> So, basically, we're going to run all your code at ring0 From the article: 'However, if the hypervisor can set up the VM before it is booted and provide paravirtualized interfaces to the hardware, we don’t need access to ring