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by ihodes 16y ago
>> Compared to Haskell, Lisp is a big hack. We're being trolled, right? No substantive material here, just the assertion that building a minimal Lisp is worthless. If you really want to…what? Provide value? Do something worthwhile
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by ihodes 16y ago
This cost me a couple hours of work this morning, and put me in a generally bad mood. I need to wake up and be alert (driving 12 hours in inclement weather) at 5 tomorrow, and sleeping in a few hours messes that up royally. These are the ki
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by ihodes 16y ago
I think link-bait attention grabbing titles are part of the decline of journalism. Rather, I think they're a symptom of the disease. The disease is the desire to profit from attention instead of value. The symptoms are inflammatory bullshit
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Laser Projector via Audio Hardware(youtube.com)
4 points by ihodes 16y ago|1 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
In the comments the author noted that he'd "never met a Lisp that [he] liked". Maybe that's why he doesn't see the value in learning something from writing a basic Lisp yourself.
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Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields(neuroquantology.com)
61 points by ihodes 16y ago|29 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
Thanks for that! It sounds like zsh is worth whatever small troubles it could cause. I think that settles it. I'll be spending some time switching to zsh next time I have the chance.
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by ihodes 16y ago
This is pretty convincing for me—I've been holding off on switching from bash for years now. The single thing keeping me back is that bash is the shell to use, and some scripts you need to setup xxx thing are written for bash, and tryin
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by ihodes 16y ago
Those are good points. I appreciate your responses—I definitely don't want to be seen as putting your program down, and I'm genuinely curious about what I was asking. I suppose the increased risk is small, and probably nothing to worry abou
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by ihodes 16y ago
Right, but you're connected to a "known" host you need to keep secure as well. So you have two machines to worry about, right? I also am not one to keep more sshds running than I need to—but I guess the chances of this being exploited are s
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by ihodes 16y ago
I'd think that the abuse of a backdoor into your computer is more likely than your laptop being stolen. Would anyone else be uncomfortable installing this on your machine, or am I a little paranoid? Regardless, I think it's a neat idea. I'm
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by ihodes 16y ago
It's sure disheartening to see the majority of comments here say something to the effect of "20 mil is nothing—Google has so much more to give." Well they sure as hell do, but we wouldn't be saying anything if they'd donated nothing. I don'
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by ihodes 16y ago
I'm absolutely with you here; this isn't surprising (or really interesting, either). Just a reminder, from the HN Guidelines (in the footer of this page): "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you." Though I agreed with
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SWANK Server for Chicken Scheme(github.com)
5 points by ihodes 16y ago|0 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
Note, for those following along, that Mac users can use dtruss (which is a shell script that makes DTrace easier to use and more like strace). What a neat article! Makes me want to explore some other commands and write something similar u
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by ihodes 16y ago
Harry pretty much answered this for me: also, the downsides of Steam (them being in control, the DRM, the possibility of losing the account without much chance recourse) are balanced by the plusses that Harry enumerated, as well as the smal
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by ihodes 16y ago
That's a +$20 delta for me, at least.
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Consumer Quantum RNG(idquantique.com)
5 points by ihodes 16y ago|2 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
You sure? http://cl.ly/3a5v
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by ihodes 16y ago
I know at least a few people who had bots written in/were prepared to write bots in Clojure. They didn't end up adding support for it, however. I still can't wait for the next contest—wouldn't Pentarow be cool? Or Pente? Anyway, cheers to W
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by ihodes 16y ago
Also, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hacker+news+search
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by ihodes 16y ago
That's what I was getting at with this quick stab at a weighing scheme: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854195
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Lisk — Lisp and Haskell(chrisdone.com)
99 points by ihodes 16y ago|28 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
A simple Google search brings up a multitude of papers and book on the subject of the practical applications of complexity theory, so I'll spare you a list. Wikipedia also has some nice example. RTFM, but I mean it in the nicest way. But, f
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by ihodes 16y ago
Though I'm no complexity theorist, I can assure you than complexity theory is one of the biggest math/CS fields that has everyday, practical impact on "practical computing." If you use any sort of non-trivial algorithms handling a non-trivi
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by ihodes 16y ago
Again, it's safer to separate my actual life from my philosophy: why get off the track? Death is inevitable, and not inherently worse than life. Hume's a tricky bastard, and with enough Nietzsche to back him up, depressingly formidable. So
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by ihodes 16y ago
Actually, scarier yet is whatever conclusions you seem to arrive at (or, more likely, those which you seem to asymptotically approach) will be baseless and unimportant on an absolute scale: you have to measure the worth of what you create a
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by ihodes 16y ago
Au contraire! Check out my post on the front page of HN just a couple days ago (before this was written) ;) The exact same reference, but relating to Clojure. http://copperthoughts.com/p/clojure-io-p1/ That's not to say I don't appreciate
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by ihodes 16y ago
EDIT: The original statement was to the effect of "if a company thinks it's safe => it fails". Gosh, that's a sweeping statement. It's a nice little sound-bite, but do you actually believe it? The real problem with your statement is tha
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by ihodes 16y ago
You get the feeling, going through Ben Gurion, that these are professionals working the security line. They're efficient, polite but terse, and thorough. They definitely do behavioral profiling, but racial profiling they do not: Arabs and A

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