fisher-lebo

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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   Thank you. Your work is impressive and it is good to see someone putting forth a technical explanation like that. Much appreciated.
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   I get the gist of how Minecraft is constructed: just a bunch of blocks with algorithms which hide certain blocks when they aren't in the player's view. Are there any articles about how an engine like this is built? It is an extr
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   Macros have nothing to do with being functional, but macros are one of the major advantages of Clojure, and ideally there would be similar functionality in a language based on it (though not necessary).
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   I've toyed with this idea a bit (compiling a more familiar language down to Clojure). This project in particular gives some of the benefits of Clojure (JVM, expressive language, immutability), but I don't see any easy way to add n
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   There's a lot of religious imagery in the text with discussion about fractal cosmology, mysticism, Lisp's natural connection with the human mind, etc. It seems as though the author is trying to sell a religious experience to his r
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   All of this stuff is subjective. I've coded Python for some time, and I've done an entire project in Clojure. Because I've done more Python working, reading Django's source is much easier for me than most Clojure code (e
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   Why did social bookmarking die? I say this in the sense that obviously Pinboard shows it is still around, but the hype and velocity that was in the space a few years back is gone. Hacker News, Reddit, and bookmarks in your browser don'
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   Trying to map a superset of a different language to the Erlang VM would likely be much more difficult than the current approach.
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   by fisher-lebo 12y ago

   I've considered Elixir as something worth picking up next, but my question is, why would I chose it over Clojure when Clojure gives me similar functionality (macros, some concurrency), but much deeper library options?