emiljbs

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by emiljbs 13y ago
I agree. Good dynamic languages (Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Factor) has a lot going for them but static typing is also really nice. A mix between the two (preferably something that starts out as a dynamic lang and slowly moves towards being st
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Yeah, we emulate the Gamecube (which was more powerful) much more efficiently.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
When I was 13 my social sciences teacher got my class to draw the world map with the intent to do it again two years later with the theory that our drawings would have become more specified as we learnt more about the world. Unfortunately,
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Or you know, since it's a distro, just get a Valve/Steam PPA.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Oh alright, thank you :)!
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So HN just changed it's theme or what?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Who cares? The design still sucks, that's what matters.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
I'll probably buy a Jolla. I'm just so tired of the mainstream phone manufacturers like Sony and Samsung, it just feels like they don't care about me as a user. I've had way too many annoying problems with my Galaxy S2 b
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by emiljbs 13y ago
If they go to the military and act as if it is CoD then the only one that will die are themselves. It is an interesting question though, however cheeky my replies may be.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
I think a better analogy would be someone accidently telling deaf kids that "saying <ethnic slur here> is awesome" while giving them candy. The deaf kids doesn't pick up on that and the person probably doesn't real
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>Second, I don't think we should ban Call of Duty. I think we should shame the executives responsible out of the industry and set the developers right or not work with them. However my opinion would be different if the games were le
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>Why are kids consuming CoD? Because it's a lot of fun and guns are cool. What lasting impression would CoD make on a 12-year old kid's mind anyway?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
You know "it's just a game" does have a lot of mileage left in it if you had to write an article on edge-online.com about the issue. I can promise you that none of those teenagers that play CoD ever even thought about that o
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by emiljbs 13y ago
You know, people say that Common Lisp "is the same as it was" but I dunno. Even if the spec is the same a lot of new libraries are coming out that're changing the playing field, like LiL (Lisp interface Library) or STMX (Soft
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Common Lisp do have optional typing though, and hygienic macros is a controversial subject. Dialect scoping is cool though
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Sony said that they sell at a loss of $60
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>“Hey,” he asked, “What happened to that piece of code? It was for zip codes, it was only supposed to pre-pend one or two zeros when importing zip codes from CSV files. Anything with fewer than three digits is supposed to be an invalid c
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Isn't that just a subset of Common Lisp? It doesn't support runtime compilation, right?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>It just does what it's supposed to It doesn't work for me on Ubuntu for some reason, anyone got a similar experience?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>Burn out is just a rationalization for giving up early. No. Fuck that noise. Has the author ever seen someone who's burnt out? It is not a pretty sight, it is though the person is but an empty shell of what he once was (I know this
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Check out the lyrics of Death Grips.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
On this note, this doesn't seem to be more powerful than CL:s optional typing, am I wrong?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Have you ever thought about getting a hobby or two outside of programming? Hobbies are good, they let you learn more about the world and lets you see things through new perspectives. If you do have hobbies outside of programming, why wouldn
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by emiljbs 13y ago
At KTH in Sweden GNU/Linux (Ubuntu) is dominant.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Or Paradox.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Functions and other values are stored in separate namespaces so when you want to call a function that is stored in a "regular" variable you must write (funcall (function variable) arg1 arg2 ... argn) Or shorthand (funcall #'v
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>That's a little too blatantly useless to be interesting though. But note how ugly CL's multiple namespaces make liftmaybe and its uses. Oh yeah, incredibly ugly \s OP, you may be interested in checking out LiL, the Lisp interf
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by emiljbs 13y ago
Except that the new iteration is pretty much making random changes.
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by emiljbs 13y ago
>The last of the unimportant reasons is that we had never written a serious project in common lisp and wanted to get better at it. How was your experience with coding in CL?
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by emiljbs 13y ago
" But whatever happened happened, and this is the real-world CL we have." Some of my links were there to point out that it's not really, we do have extensible sequences in SBCL for example. Thanks for making such a long reply

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