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For CL, the quasi-standard is emacs and slime, probably followed by the vim-equivalent.
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In CL one uses gensym to introduce a macro-local symbol, or, for multiple symbols, with-gensyms as provided by the Alexandria library. No need for unhygienic macros at all.
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There are lots of users with advanced IT skills but still no programming experience, they now have one more tool to choose from....
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I work for a non-profit, make about a fifth of what I could make on the free market, live in a developing country and still agree with him.
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Yes, when I lived there, about a decade ago, curry had just again been voted for as favourite homemade dish. Though, if you did your research, you could find really good, authentic, British cuisine (eg: St. John's). OTOH, how much of a
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That's something that should be spelt out in the article. Also, if one has the resources to proofread all articles, how much more expensive would it have been to have humans write such trivial texts? The data is there, writing an artic
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An issue that was opened 16h ago, now on HN? If I was in the maintainer's position I'd not respond now just so I don't create a precedent. This looks like bullying.
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Bluntly، if I was the author, I'd scream "hell, no!". Transcribing the scripts is straight forward, if you cannot do that, chances are high I'd like to be payed to debug your problem. ImageMagick is a beast. Mighty but d
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Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.
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Awesome, thanks a million. Working for a privacy-concious NGO, this (not the screenshot part) is a nice starting point for sw-evaluation.
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> self hosted global presence. Could you elaborate what that is supposed to mean?
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One does not need to time travel to 1999 to accommodate text browsers, current HTML works just fine. OTOH I don't worry too much, accessibility-enforcing laws will provide plenty of job opportunities for future developers... So yeah, g
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How about: Google should let allow users to blacklist sites in the search results. But I definitely don't want to live in a society in which someone else who just happens to be vocal enough can even start a debate that company X should
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Shell scripts are usually interoreted by the interpreter defined in the shebang and /bin/sh is a posix sh.
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> The default FreeBSD shell is tcsh. I was prepared to not have bash, but tcsh is quite alien in its syntax compared to regular POSIX sh. All FreeBSD scripts I encountered use posix shell. > does have a dependency on perl to get th
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Which Europe are you talking about? 20k gets you a halfway decent Dacia at best...
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> The U.S. has stated that they're committed to defending the dollar as the world's reserve currency. What happens when they can't... What happens if they already ain't? The narrative of the us$ being the reserve curr
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Yes, when they are mere displays, no problem. The scam I talked about only works when adding up larger number of items (like a table of 4 at a restaurant) but there it is pervasive. With honest traders I never had a problem, neither in Afri
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> I've personally witnessed scammers using people's trust in calculators being correct to cheat them. Whenever people shove a calculator into my face, I expect a scam. One of the oldest, used a lot in restaurants: 50+0 (showing
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In my experience: Monkey patching when in maintenance mode. "Yes, for historical reasons we have to pipe every incoming mail to this collection of awk, perl, ruby, python and brainfuck scripts."[1] [1] Unless you work for German T
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Let's just talk in Quechua then, evidentiality is engraved in their grammar!( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages )
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> The most basic kind of truths are facts. Except for that for a lot of "facts", according to Rousseau, we already have 4 truths: what you say, what I say, what we agree upon and what really happened. So, while the pursuit of t
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Yes, if you are modding the battery controller itself or if it (the controller) is so fragile that it blows up the battery on request (i.e.: on "wrong" input). In the first case: uhm, yes, you knew the risk? In the second case: Su
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I always thought that using new, charred barrels was a requirement specific to Bourbon, not to "American Whiskeys" in general.
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Lenovo claims it has the usyal MIL certications, see Features under: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/Thi...
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If I remember correctly it grew out of frustration with glibc size which turned into research into how to make a libc as small as possible. No DJB involved. > Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging
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Without regard to the actual topic there is a gem of wisdom that applies to a lot of hackers in "projects from hell": if you want to change something big way, do it in incremental steps, do what is within reach (in reach for the m
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> How many of these posts do we need a day? Who is "we"? > They have long ceased to be "news" or interesting. To you, apparently. > The only real variation here is that it isn't citylab. Indeed. That's
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TL;DR: A user is as frustrated with the Apple experience in 2019 as s/he was in 2000 with Linux. Then that user goes on to rant about some things that frustrate him/her, completely ignoring that one is FOSS and by no means a hardw
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I am working 40h/week as a software developer for a non-profit... Whether I spend 6h/day thinking hard about problems[1] at my desk or on the sofa or while walking a dog makes no difference w.r.t. but a lot for health and general

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