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by flavio81 9y ago
> Since we have the source code to the WordPress plug-in, we can modify it to save out 10,000 CAPTCHA images along with the expected answer for each image. This is the key to doing this in the easiest way possible. The training set is c
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by flavio81 9y ago
> ye olde php (and laravel) guy, where would one even start Both PHP and JavaScript started as ill-conceived and/or rushed-up projects that due to (different) circumstances became hugely popular, and thus, the warts and faults star
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by flavio81 9y ago
Daniel, please post more to HN.
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by flavio81 9y ago
"Artistic rendition of a qubit" belongs to the MoMA or the Louvre.
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is one of the funniest, quaintest posts i've ever seen. Great explanation! I feel like a happy moron that has learned something new!
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Can someone give me a concise explanation why a language this influential and talked about is not used for regular programming ? Back in the late 70s and early 80s, to use it you required a system with very big memory and fast process
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Algol 68 did not have a simple grammar. Algol-60 did, and that's the basis for comparison when somebody qualifies a language as "Algol-like". Some languages that have extremely close syntax to Algol are Pascal and Go. A
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by flavio81 9y ago
Another Smalltalk article from the same author ("Richard Kenneth Eng"). He has at least three articles where he considers Smalltalk the best language ever, while simultaneously bashing Common Lisp (& other languages), with cla
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by flavio81 9y ago
Yesterday the page worked just fine, today all pages give me "Application Error", any news on if they are addressing this?
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by flavio81 9y ago
It includes detailed pages for Common Lisp, Julia, Racket, most ML languages and Haskell. I'm satisfied. Very comprehensive language list.
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Wonderful, well played sir!
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C macros are extremely necessary for winning IOCCC contests. Essential, really.
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by flavio81 9y ago
> One of their lecturers insisted that the second return in "return; return;" That guy has a great career ahead in comedy!
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by flavio81 9y ago
The young Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded, because of being unbearable to his team, not to mention internally sabotaging the Lisa team (and contribuing to the failure of the Apple III by very stupid frivolous decisions.) Se
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by flavio81 9y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. It seems Perl has everything!
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by flavio81 9y ago
Npm (javascript's NPM) has over 500,000 libraries right now. Do this makes JS a better language than Clojure, or a better choice? No way. And everytime some javascript fan would go against Clj/ClojureScript use citing "Clojur
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by flavio81 9y ago
I think ClojureScript is very nice and I often recommend it to any Javascripter. I sincerely thank Hickey for liberating us from Java and plain Javascript. I think that if Clojure was pitched more as substitutes of Javaxx and less as &quo
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by flavio81 9y ago
See this subthread and answers by LispM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207616
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by flavio81 9y ago
> readily available and with a few lines of code 1. Declare the classes you want to work under transactional memory as transactional... by wrapping them in such a way: (transactional (defclass ...)) 2. Whenever you need to do a
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by flavio81 9y ago
More disillusionment than condescending. I jumped on learning Clojure waiting for big, nice surprises, new stuff, or an enlightening moment, but there wasn't any. I do, however, find it easy to learn and that's a good thing. On th
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by flavio81 9y ago
"Do the right thing", in this context, goes beyond just the presence or absence of typechecking. But regarding type checking, Lisp (at least Common Lisp) is strongly typed. Really, very strongly typed (for example it will compla
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Then you will never be employed, because that describes virtually every software project at a for-profit company. I have had 8 years doing software dev (at a for-profit company) most of them as software development director in command
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by flavio81 9y ago
Yep! This video was awesome, and entertaining as well, Mr. Tarballs-are-good/Symbol1cs/Stylewarning ("stylewarning" as a twitter ID made me ROFL). In particular, the comparison between calligraphy and Lisp programming wa
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is a really good video. Here is a simple timeline of what it is all about, so people can jump to what they would find interesting: 23:43 "It really is incredible that we can go close to one order of magnitude" (to C) 26:00 Li
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Many were newbies in the language, and some were newbies to programming. I wouldn't join this project, no matter what the language is. Imagine it's a popular languae. Javascript or C code, for example. There are no true name
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> What's the most popular Lisp in use today? At least if based in 2016 GitHub popularity: http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang.... #1 Emacs Lisp #2 Common Lisp #3 Scheme #
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by flavio81 9y ago
I am not saying that Hickey is "wrong". Clojure simply differs too much from the Lisp languages. For example take into account the "atom" keyword and its meaning in Lisp versus Clojure. And also the way lists are used in
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> Do you like Python? Python is basically simplified Lisp. Common Lisp is Python I am very experienced and proficient with Python. Common Lisp goes way, way beyond what Python brings to the table. Take CLOS for example and compare it wi
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by flavio81 9y ago
> The problem for me is that I've learned to avoid macros in other languages. Macros in other languages are significntly unlike Lisp macros. You should take a look at the Practical Common Lisp book (available for free online) to
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by flavio81 9y ago
32:50 "Despite the odds, i've used Lisp at no less than 7 companies, 5 in which the Lisp ended up in the product that was actually delivered to the customer."

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