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Notes on Fexl Meta-Parsing(fexl.com)
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by fexl 15y ago
Or this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14475741 (twitter tag #riotcleanup)
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by fexl 15y ago
Diceware works well: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html I find it surprisingly easy to remember even a ten word passphrase, which has about 130 bits of entropy. Such a long phrase is overkill for a web site, but is good for en
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by fexl 15y ago
Right, well put ... and to the bystander's credit, he was asking the question rhetorically. But you're right: basically your own death throes become "resistance". And to answer my own question: I'd like to think I'd step forward as a wit
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by fexl 15y ago
Thanks, I should read that classic myself!
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The guy's screaming "Dad! Dad! Dad!" ... that breaks my heart. One bystander wisely asks "How do you resist when they're on top of your back?" and then wonders why they don't just put the cuffs on him and be done with it. That's a common
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by fexl 15y ago
Hey, just because police behave badly, that's no reason to start insulting pigs!
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by fexl 15y ago
"Respect mah authori-tah!"
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by fexl 15y ago
With respect to investing it means "Stop losing money." One big mistake is to risk too much of your capital on any one position. To avoid that, you might check out the Kelley criterion for optimal bet sizing: https://secure.wikimedia.or
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by fexl 15y ago
Also, I'm currently working on a new version of Fexl which doesn't use reference counts. It doesn't use mark-and-sweep GC either. I'm using a "lazy copy" approach which I'm fairly certain will work, and work well. We'll see.
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Fexl version a9 released, with self-configuring build script(fexl.com)
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Fexl version a8 released(fexl.com)
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by fexl 15y ago
Now that you mention -prune, I only recently figured out how to use it to exclude a specific path from a search, but my understanding is that of a trained dog.
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by fexl 15y ago
I concur. I've been working on http://fexl.com for some time, and when all is said and done, for my embedded scripting applications I prefer to use simple line- and token-oriented languages, where everything looks like this: word wor
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by fexl 15y ago
Hey aren't they talking about raising the cap on Social Security and Medicare taxes too?
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by fexl 15y ago
Oh! You just blew my mind. You meant "They [the US GOVT] can simply not renew their contact [with ICANN]." For some fool reason I had that backwards. Interesting scenario, but then my questions would be (1) who would the U.S government u
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by fexl 15y ago
I was referring to his question: "So should it be legal?" He answered: "Of course, they can do what they want." Therefore I conclude that the author does not advocate that government employees use force to stop this new TLD business.
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by fexl 15y ago
Ah but now you're bringing up so many more profound issues, such as centralized versus decentralized DNS, what a decentralized DNS even means, whether there should be a DNS, the SSL certificate authority man-in-the-middle fiasco, etc. In th
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by fexl 15y ago
This article was more nuanced than I first thought. I figured it would be yet another screed against "too much choice", as if the fifteen brands of mustard in the grocery store throws shoppers into a fetal position, sobbing. Thankfully, th
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by fexl 15y ago
Back when I was a kid in the '60s, lots of people suffered from lemonade poisoning at the hands of these unregulated peddlers. It's better that these young girls are now doing dangerous manual labor.
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by fexl 15y ago
You know, even when I did use OOP, I avoided inheritance altogether and stuck with containment instead. The semantics seemed clearer to me, and I later read some essays from excellent programmers who shared my sentiments. Nice trick with
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by fexl 15y ago
Thanks for asking. Yeah, I actually do. Certainly when I'm programming in C, I use plain old routines, 'cause that's all I got. But recently I even "de-objectified" a body of Perl code I wrote (a standalone server called "loom" https://l
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by fexl 15y ago
Thanks for posting that ... I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who eschews OOP and sticks to plain old routines. I've been programming for over 30 years, and I went through an OOP phase, but I got over it.
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by fexl 15y ago
It's a stretch to say that you shouldn't use them in a real application. Combinators in general can be useful for implementing functional programming languages, and those languages can be useful for applications. That may sound like bick
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by fexl 15y ago
Fexl http://fexl.com is essentially nothing more than a thin layer of lambda calculus on top of C, implemented using combinators.
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by fexl 15y ago
I use them in the Fexl language http://fexl.com . Although the Fexl language itself has syntax for recursive definitions, it translates everything to combinators internally, so there are no "symbol tables" or "environments" at run time.
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by fexl 15y ago
And if she says "Men are no good", he can reply "Hey, somebody's gotta do the math!" ;)
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by fexl 15y ago
Amazing to read something so close to home. I too was going 3 or 4 times per week at the height. For me it's been longer than 18 months, and this reminds me that it's high time I get back out there.
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by fexl 15y ago
Interesting, thanks -- I'll watch for that. Until now I haven't paid much attention to it since I'm not responsible for that part of the configuration.
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by fexl 15y ago
I've seen good results with the "pound" front-end: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ I haven't done extensive benchmarking on it, but very knowledgeable people vouch for it.

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