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by gcv 11y ago
I think Ron was referring to the development process, rather than the finished program. The way Lisp languages and environments handle REPL-based interactive development is significantly more powerful and flexible than e.g., Rubython or eve
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by gcv 11y ago
Ulysses is definitely doable, but it marks a point when high-brow literature stopped being something every reasonable, intelligent, and educated person enjoys reading. It's a chore (less so than FW, of course), and of questionable valu
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by gcv 11y ago
This happens over and over again. Oh no, the Sea Wolf works, but is too expensive at $2B/boat! Let's scrap the working program, use "lessons learned" to build a cheaper attack submarine. Years of delays and cost overruns
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by gcv 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913183
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by gcv 11y ago
In classical Latin texts, I remember running into a lot of sentences which start with "itaque" (which means "so"). The habit hardly started recently.
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by gcv 12y ago
I consider the zsh scripts a proof-of-concept more than production code. It should be a relatively simple matter to rewrite the gpgd scripts in a portable manner, provided gpg and tar are available. I'm sure Windows has some kind of se
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by gcv 12y ago
When the brouhaha about TrueCrypt started, I wrote a zsh wrapper for "mounting" GPG-encrypted tarballs as directories: https://gist.github.com/gcv/b7d72023a851f2edf951 It works well as a TrueCrypt replacement
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by gcv 12y ago
TrueCrypt has portable volume images. It's nice to make a container on Mac OS and give it to a Windows user and know it will mount as a filesystem or drive.
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by gcv 12y ago
I miss Erik. comp.lang.lisp was the last newsgroup I followed when USENET went into its tailspin, and I gave up on it when he left. He was an incredible teacher for those who listened.
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by gcv 12y ago
Quite a few English and Russian Cyrillic letters unify just fine. E and A unify, and have identical lowercase forms, e and a. They don't really have different meanings, no more so than the letters E and A in English and French. T is mo
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by gcv 12y ago
At least the author heard of Haskell!
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by gcv 12y ago
Sennbeiser HD600 or HD650 (very similar sound), AKG K7XX, Hifiman HE400. All open. Many other nice open headphones on the market, but those are best bang per buck. For closed, most are not good except the Beyerdynamic DT770 (and the far pri
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by gcv 12y ago
Think of this code as taking a built-in data structure and repeatedly refining it by transforming it into a different data structure. With only a little more practice, you'll find reading (and writing!) code like this becomes second na
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by gcv 12y ago
Could you please post some links with explanations about incompatibilities? I still use GPG 1.4.18; I'm willing to upgrade if necessary, but am I also supposed to re-encrypt everything?!
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by gcv 12y ago
TFA says the GnuPG code is pretty rough. Has anyone (with crypto knowledge) looked at it? Confirmations and denials welcome.
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by gcv 12y ago
I donated last year, and just donated again. Really happy to see that this post on HN has traction, and delighted to watch the counter go up. GPG and other security projects need a way better tech PR push.
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by gcv 12y ago
Will there be a score to go with the results, or just a ranking? It would be nice to know why someone is a winner. It would also be cool to know the tech stacks involved, especially to those of us making evaluation decisions right now. :)
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by gcv 12y ago
Rust's error handling looks like the Maybe monad. That seems pretty reasonable in Haskell. I'm a little surprised by the criticism in the article — is the author saying there isn't enough syntactic sugar?
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by gcv 12y ago
Any modern Lisp gets you there. The three leading dialects, namely Common Lisp, Racket, and Clojure, are all excellent. Each makes different trade-offs in what it offers. As a former Java programmer, you will probably like Clojure's ne
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by gcv 12y ago
Reading this thread, it becomes obvious that we have all picked up one bad habit: OCD.
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by gcv 12y ago
I use persp-mode ( https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el ), it solves nearly all my problems managing different projects, shells, code buffers, note-taking, dired, and just about everything else. The only slight wart is
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by gcv 12y ago
Looks like both these invocations use the screen the Emacs frame is on.
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by gcv 12y ago
Use either https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el or https://github.com/pashinin/workgroups2 .
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by gcv 12y ago
I agree, some Emacs commands use windows unintuitively and destructively. Dired and various searching modes (grep, ack, ag) are major offenders. You should (1) mitigate the problem with winner-mode so you can easily recover your window conf
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by gcv 12y ago
How does this handle multiple displays?
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by gcv 12y ago
> But if Ron's angry at you, it's because you did something wrong. An example of Ron Conway being angry at someone (video at the bottom of the article): http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/09/eruption-o
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by gcv 12y ago
> SF is dirty because the people prefer low taxes to real government services. No. Coastal California is populated by Democratic voters, people who generally prefer high taxes and more (albeit of questionable quality) government services
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by gcv 12y ago
> You pay taxes that are not much higher than in the US and actually get things in return This is amazing. (Let's disregard the two countries' differences in population sizes, demographics, debt, and military budgets.) A self-e
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by gcv 12y ago
Indeed. One wonders why none of the people credited at the bottom pointed out the problems brought up in this thread. Or perhaps they did.
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by gcv 12y ago
Eshell works, but it does not use term.el, and so has terminal compatibility problems with many utilities (the progress indication of curl or homebrew, for example). I have found it much more practical to stick with zsh, but use ansi-term o

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