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by flavio81 9y ago
I must say that this is a well-written article, regardless of the opinion, resumed (TL;DR) here: - Requesting money to Wikipedia viewers is done so often it gets as annoying as an advertisement-packed Wikipedia would potentially be. - If yo
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by flavio81 9y ago
When I see these exercises, I think it would be more fun to just play the drums to boost my brain. Here's an article collating studies on rhythm playing and brain effects: https://www.google.com.pe/amp/s/m.mic
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is just fantastic, because it gives us laptop owners a way to prevent "planned obsolescence". I'm very sure many of us HN readers would like not only to repair our computer ourselves {which can already be done with regul
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by flavio81 9y ago
I love trackballs, so I applaud this decision. Although, comfortable trackballs are the big ones.
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by flavio81 9y ago
I think the part regarding scoping was well written, and there was a good suggestion on not nesting if...then...else constructs needlessly.
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is awesome. I used Bokeh last year to produce some typical plots (curves) and it was so, so easy to use; a total pleasure to use.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Yes, but my reply is to a person who advocates BASIC as closer to assembly language. In this context, "BASIC" ought to be understood as Ye Olde Line-Number, Unstructured programming, BASIC, not the well featured, structured progra
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by flavio81 9y ago
In this thread, some people are complaining of moderators downvoting (lowering the rank) of some submissions over others; and at least one person says "let the readers decide". I think that if I wanted a forum/news site where
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by flavio81 9y ago
... everything looks like a nail!
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Why should i learn a new language for that? You make it sound like it was difficult to learn. Underneath, C++, Java, Pascal, C#, Javascript and Python, have many similarities and jumping from one of those languages to another in the l
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by flavio81 9y ago
> The funny thing about BASIC is that it's MUCH closer to assembler (and, by extension, the logic of the CPU) than any other language. I agree that flow control with GOTOs, GOSUB and CALL is the closest to assembler, as well as lin
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by flavio81 9y ago
Scheme is pretty alive and kicking, see "Racket".
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by flavio81 9y ago
> I agree, but over the decades LISP developed significant complications, such as object oriented features How can this be a complication? On Common Lisp, you can just choose not to use object oriented features (the CLOS system). There
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by flavio81 9y ago
" As Caveman bases on Clack/Lack, you can choose which server to run on -- Hunchentoot, mod_lisp or FastCGI " https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman/blob/master/README.mark... Take a look at
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by flavio81 9y ago
> You can get far with inlining. You can also use libraries specifically built with this in mind. This implementation of parametric types for Common Lisp looks nice: https://github.com/cosmos72/cl-parametric-types
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Some may say that Rails is a poor example of a DSL. While that may be, it raises the question: are there better examples out there? You are understanding DSL as "ok, let's import this library that defines a DSL". In the
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by flavio81 9y ago
May the warm light of Lisp enlightenment shine on you -- CL blew my mind!!
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by flavio81 9y ago
After reading shiro's comment below and a the comments made by Tamas (the article author), i think i understand in more depth the essence of the problem, and there's a pointed criticism made by the author: Due to performance consi
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is an excellent reply and I think it goes to the crux of the problem you were facing. Perhaps, then, Julia makes sense in those cases. Or, it's time for an enhanced Common Lisp implementation targeted specifically for scientific c
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Are there any languages where the different implementations "play well with each other"? Yes: Common Lisp, Java, C and C++, to give four examples. Javascript as well. All these languages have formal standards, which helps a
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by flavio81 9y ago
>but I kept getting stuck because it seems like half the time it assumes prior programming knowledge Yes, to be honest, C is not good as a "first" programming language. If i can give you a suggestion, it would be: Start learn
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by flavio81 9y ago
>"The standard does not guarantee that this gives you an array of double-float: it may (if the implementation provides them), otherwise you get an array of element type T." Well, many Common Lisp implementations, which includ
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by flavio81 9y ago
When i was about 13 or 14 years old, i read Brian Kerninghan & Dennis Ritchie's "The C Programming Language". This book (by the language creators) is a classic and does an excellent job of explaining the C language. I lea
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by flavio81 9y ago
> will be working to fracture the community-- The CL community knows one uses the implementation one needs. Lispers are using ECL whenever they need to embed with C code, ABCL to interact with JVM, CCL when they're with macs, this
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by flavio81 9y ago
Note: I generally applaud Julia, it was designed taking many good choices. However, I really don't understand how the author complains that CL doesn't "have" certain features that in fact are available by choosing a su
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by flavio81 9y ago
Which standard clustefuck? Common Lisp is an ANSI Standard and code usually compiles and run straight away from one implementations from another without any change.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Are you interested in a web server for Common Lisp? We have had these for years, for example Hunchentoot. This is a standalone web server, doesn't need to be connected to any other server. No need for Apache. Take a look at the "l
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Soviet cities were notorious for not having useful maps available. This article expands on this topic. Surprising! http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-m...
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by flavio81 9y ago
Excellent use case. > Without Julia, I would have had to find some other way to compile queries into machine code at run-time Note that you could also do it in Common Lisp. But I agree, Julia is very powerful, perhaps one of the most po
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by flavio81 9y ago
You will want to switch as soon as you have to confront the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)

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