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by irahul 14y ago
> No need to sync back upstream. The canon doesn't need my changes but I need the canon changes. If I change the core, I will have to selectively merge whenever updates happen. It's great that core is small and can directly be changed,
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by irahul 14y ago
>> It's not vim. That alone will be a selling point for a vast majority. > I didn't realize a vast majority were nincompoops. I am a long time vim user. Where do I get in line for obtaining my free-with-vim pretentiousness and d
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by irahul 14y ago
> The code base is actually small and mostly written in Lua, so that it is actually possible to change the editor to your liking. When I say extensibility, that's not what I mean. Code is available and it's small and mostly written in L
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> without knowing Emacs how could you claim that. Where did I say I don't know emacs? I don't know what is emacs's mail support implemented in doesn't mean I don't know emacs. > Actually Emacs comes with smtp written in elisp[1] I s
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by irahul 14y ago
> What does this do that Vim doesn't? It's not vim. That alone will be a selling point for a vast majority.
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by irahul 14y ago
> I don't think even most Vim fans would claim vim is "as extensible" as Emacs Vim fan reporting. Apart from async(which Vim can't do), Vim is as extensible as Emacs in letter and spirit. Considering that you are vowing vim allegiance,
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by irahul 14y ago
* Flask fan here. Flask is not a "micro" microframework per se. It provides a thin facade over werkzeug - which is anything but lightweight or micro.* Another Flask fan here. If Armin says Flask is micro, and other frameworks which aren't c
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by irahul 14y ago
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/KMdpv4MwI4M/A... An April fool's joke.
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by irahul 14y ago
> To show a little Ruby coding style. The convention in Ruby is to favour lots of concise little routines over big-ass ones. Writing small, concise components(classes, methods, functions, modules...) is a generally a good practice in an
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by irahul 14y ago
> Being snob about the interview question is not going to help things. Isn't "because you need the job" snob? The interviewer could have very well said "We start with simple problems, and then we expand on it. So let's start with this f
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by irahul 14y ago
> Also why are some people on HN talking about edge cases to FizzBuzz ? There are no edge cases that I know of unless you talk about the number zero - which isn't part of the question. I don't know about you, but I sure see it as an edg
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edit: In order to avoid overwriting output, the solution should read... if !multiple_of_3(i) && !multiple_of_5(i) output << i No. Though output << i.to_s will produce the same result, his code is correct. An
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by irahul 14y ago
This has been discussed to death. Apparently you have to deal with it and it's not going to be fixed. However, if anyone is curious about why it's happening, this is what the arc code is doing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098863 I
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by irahul 14y ago
> I've wondered at times if PG isn't deliberately leaving this problem Since you know about the implementation(I haven't looked closely), won't it need a complete overhaul to take closures out of equation? Or implement some sort of clos
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by irahul 14y ago
Must we discuss the same thing that was discussed in the thread I posted the link to? Nothing new has happened since the last thread.
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by irahul 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756 > why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things. It's straight forward, but not when you are using closures a
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by irahul 14y ago
There is also that part of real world which needs programmers who are good at finding and implementing algorithms. Calling someone "best programmer in the world" because he won some coding competitions is dishonest, but pretending that he i
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by irahul 14y ago
What does other players do better than vlc?
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by irahul 14y ago
My point is writing a blog post saying python is neither call-by-value nor call-by-reference is made up shit and does nothing for someone who doesn't already understand it. Someone who doesn't already understand it will have to work through
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by irahul 14y ago
Why do you need to go through Toto? Installing a simple comod with a hand hold bidet http://handspray.com.au/images/retro-hand-spray-bidet/retro-... (or attached depending on your preference) can be done by a run of the mill contractor. I
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by irahul 14y ago
> The main problem with Mono is that not the full .NET API is supported by it. http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility I don't see how any of the non-implemented features are going to be blockers for a game engine.
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by irahul 14y ago
> they will probably have some serious misconceptions about what happens when you pass an object to a function. p = Person() The thing on the left is object reference, the thing on the right is object. When you do some_func(p)
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by irahul 14y ago
That is more or less correct. It isn't exactly what happens, but the mental model is correct.
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by irahul 14y ago
You might want to add /s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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by irahul 14y ago
> Yes; reading the book cover-to-cover in ten days sounds like a fantastic way to waste ten days learning nothing. Depends on the book and who is reading it. The OP is pursuing PhD and has computing background http://news.ycombinator.c
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by irahul 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you are not there 50% of the time, unfortunately I don't see how you will fit in with everybody else. I am not there 100% of the time and I fit just fine. > Nobody likes calling and discussing things over phone/chat/email what
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by irahul 14y ago
> Unfortunately if you are working from home, you might be building mountains. But no one is seeing you do it, what that generally means is unless you announce explicitly what you are doing people think you are doing nothing. I don't an
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by irahul 14y ago
>> I use lists and strings and arrays with no concern about how many elements they contain or where the memory comes from. > You should worry. If you don't want your server or your app to run slow, you should worry about these t
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by irahul 14y ago
> Auto-completion is an editor feature, and support for auto-completion in text-mode editors is not a problem, Which mighty text-mode editor would that be where auto completion is not a problem? I use Vim and Emacs on a regular basis an

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