eudox

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by eudox 11y ago
>semantic and syntactic purity, simplicity, and consistency Who wants simplicity? People learning the language, so they have less to learn and a lower cognitive overhead when starting out. People teaching the language, so they have less
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by eudox 11y ago
Have you written about this somewhere? I've love to read more about it.
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by eudox 11y ago
This isn't really the case. Some libraries are all macros, some libraries have no macros, but most have a few macros that quickly fall into general patterns: some macros for setting up and tearing down context safely (with-thing macros
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by eudox 11y ago
Maxima and pgloader http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://pgloader.io/
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by eudox 11y ago
It gets worse, >90 percent of government revenues are from oil; 70 percent of working Saudis are employed by the government I don't think they've worked out the problem of stable succession either, given that every change in Ki
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by eudox 11y ago
The difference between cmacro is it builds on C syntax (and allows for syntax extensions, by having a very flexible parser), while this is more like the "defmacro for C" system described here[0] and here[1], because it uses a Lisp
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by eudox 11y ago
I thought the fictional/thought-experiment setting was a very good device for this kind of article.
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by eudox 11y ago
You can query the argument list using function-lambda-expression[0], or by code injection[1]. If you mean structure within the docstrings, there's no official standard, but markup languages for that exist, see Codex[2]. [0]: http:&#
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by eudox 11y ago
As someone who writes CL for fun, I think all "let's get the core language (any language) API right this time" efforts are ultimately doomed to perdition and entropy. I'd rather have an API that's not quite perfec
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by eudox 11y ago
I think the parent is talking about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
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by eudox 11y ago
Now I'm curious about the html op="item" bit.
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by eudox 11y ago
We have no way to independently verify the authenticity of the leaks, the key "evidence" is a dead-end, so are the edits to the posts, as the authors admit in the Wired article.
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by eudox 11y ago
So the guy, out of narcissism or whatever, made some imprudent edits to old blogposts. Taking advantage of that to publish an unsubstantiated article that potentially puts someone's life at risk is, for lack of a stronger word, wrong.
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by eudox 11y ago
Not the parent, but, >What, precisely, did gwern do? Publicly accused someone of being Satoshi Nakamoto, which is quote serious, and predictably would have negative consequences. It's especially bad if you do it with unreliable evid
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by eudox 11y ago
>ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy. ITER will be the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods of time. Why is it legal for government projects to lie so brazenly? Or, at the very least, make these
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by eudox 11y ago
Eh, clarity of code is more important, in my opinion. If you run out of stack, get a better computer.
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by eudox 11y ago
Why?
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Sklearn-deap: use evolutionary algorithms instead of gridsearch in scikit-learn(github.com)
4 points by eudox 11y ago|0 comments
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Building a SEO Tool with Machine Learning(blog.monkeylearn.com)
2 points by eudox 11y ago|1 comments
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by eudox 11y ago
Postmodern is very good, it just slipped my mind as I haven't used it except as a reference when implementing my own ORM. But since Postmodern is Postgres-only, and is a very stable, maintained library (and I doubt the author has plans
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by eudox 11y ago
I think about three years went by between the first time I opened the Emacs tutorial and when I started using Emacs seriously. So, sure, the barrier to entry doesn't look so high once you're past it, but insurmountable before. Spe
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by eudox 11y ago
By popular demand, I've just updated it to regular unleaded scrolling. Might change back if I find some kind of jQuery library for portable parallax scrolling.
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by eudox 11y ago
I should have expanded on the 'not strictly true' bit: for a while I wrote code on Sublime Text and used the REPL from SLIME, with the windows side by side, as SublimeREPL was pretty terrible. And I was fairly productive, too. Eve
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by eudox 11y ago
When writing things like this you have to tread a line between "I am somehow an expert on Everything, trust me" and "here's 200 different libraries, and sixty pages of reviews and benchmarks, it's your choice in the
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by eudox 11y ago
>is that what you mean by 'faster'? Yes.
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by eudox 11y ago
>Why would you even change your server if a new one came out? Woo is many times faster than Hunchentoot. And projects can die. >a person needs to understand the problem a tool solves before using the tool; otherwise you're traini
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by eudox 11y ago
Because in the real world of web development applications are hardly ever written directly on top of the server. They are written on a framework, that sits on top of an HTTP server abstraction (like Clack), that has pluggable servers. That
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by eudox 11y ago
You can't build a web application on Hunchentoot -- a basic HTTP server -- and call it modern. Take a look at Clack for the actual modern approach: http://clacklisp.org/ Or one of the frameworks built on it: http:&#x2
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Building a Docker Image with Templating and Initialization Support(blog.tryolabs.com)
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by eudox 11y ago
>I think you are grossly under estimating the challenge of living under the ocean. There have been a number of underwater habitats built (both for science and nominally living quarters) so there are reports you can read on the experience

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