jlg23

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by jlg23 10y ago
[deliberately responding out of order] > Your argument here sounds like it would be against having syntax highlighting No, but syntax highlighting is just something that helps parsing a single page. I'm talking about "show docu
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> Perhaps this seems a bit lazy, but I think of reading code as similar to reading books or articles: not everything is worth the same level of investment. The point of reading code is to understand it. How to read code efficiently dep
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> Besides being a subpar language that ignored the last 30 years of research at least Can beef that up with some arguments? The creators of Go are not ignorant, they just decided consciously to create a language easy enough for recent gr
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> Calling this a backdoor is an extreme measure. How else would you call the possibility to sidestep access controls by setting a specific string as identifier? > I wasn't able to see any working example, nor any responsible disc
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previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078124
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> Does anyone here use any lisp for Web Development? I do. > What's the modern lisp (CL or otherwise) stack? There is no fixed stack, though people want to make you believe there is. I use cl-who for html generation, my own lib f
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> How is a large 15" laptop with a discrete GPU a successor to the MacBook Air? The article is talking about the 13": I’ve moved from a MacBook Air 13" to a MacBook Pro 13".
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> It sometimes feels like the security community is a bucket of crabs where any time something starts getting traction The criticism of signal's closed ecosystem is not new, this is just another write-up of what has been criticized
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TL;DR: Fix Windows 10 Privacy can be used via a GUI or the commandline. Right now it implements about 130 rules, which keep Windows 10 in check, regarding data protection. And: OneDrive Cloud users or users of others of the above
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Fix Windows 10 Privacy(modzero.github.io)
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I'm not sure whether you are trolling so this is my last attempt at having a meaningful conversation with you: > Your chances of being maimed in that cardboard box even in a minor city crash are high, it literally is a deathtrap. I
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I'm not sure whether the eco in econonsense refers to economy or ecology but in both possible meanings I would like to hear your math behind the "nonsense". * gravity costs less than a fuel pump and it rarely breaks so does n
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Most important: It could be fixed by any semi-capable amateur with a stone, garter and some swearing. Because it was so lightweight, my father could once bring a replacement door in public transport without breaking a sweat. And because it
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by jlg23 10y ago
> EDIT: And while I'm at it, are his/er packages what one usually uses in common lisp for web development? No - but there are no packages one "usually uses in common lisp for web development". There are choices for ev
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SQL is not an implementation but a specification and thus cannot be compared to Excel, a very specific implementation of non-monotonic dataflow programming. Regarding your "stockholm syndrome" comment above: Someone in his car hea
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"price tag of around $8,000 after subsidies" Unfortunately no word how much the subsidies are.
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You bypass most of the usual supply chain by buying from local farmers directly. See http://www.localharvest.org/csa/ for an in-depth explanation of the concept.
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> Is your German government any more able to restore your lost decades than my government is able to restore lost life? You get 25E per day[1] of unjust imprisonment. And it's not 25E you actually get, some amount is subtracted for
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> So how the hell did this guy think that "RAM cache" is commonly understood to include a cache stored on a hard disk? Maybe because he really did? To paraphrase you: How the hell did we arrive in 2016 where almost everyone bel
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> Having folks who are untrained in law draft a constitution and then passing it sounds... well about as dumb as [...] Does it? Laws, or more general, contracts are made between people. If the wording of those laws/contracts require
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Yes and no. Yes, we should all make our sites/apps accessible. No, some sites/apps are great exactly because they offer a better visual representation that allows faster parsing of the information presented to the vast majority wi
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> I'm looking at you JIRA, GitLab, Chrome Dev Tools, etc. I'm not sure that using tools that try to provide a good visual experience is the right approach. Have you tried writing scrapers that provide an optimized textual repre
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Stay curious. If you know only one framework, read its source and understand every bit of it (or which parts you can ignore and why).
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Thanks for the compliment. I'm usually hired for that attitude (and my ability to hide it except for the few meetings where it really counts) ;)
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> So, yes, they all belong to the same proto-language family, but constantly referring to them as a unique family is doing a disservice to each of them. This is like saying that referring to dialects of English as "dialects" is
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> Are there (m)any advantages to doing this? [trigger warning: cynicism distilled from 15+ years of bitter tears] More fun and better job security for the current maintainer. The former because one hacks away in the preferred language, t
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http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sparse_coding
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I'm so sorry, but I am from Berlin - we talk frankly and don't care about people who are offended by that (btw, the best way to tell a tourist from a Berliner is to watch reactions to our talking). PS: If you read MS as "Mick
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> I can't be bothered to deal with this crap any more. As someone who has used windows from 1995 to 1999 and, on my secondary workstation, OSX since 2015: MS is just catching up on what Crapple has been doing for a very long time an
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> Yes it's possible to have no credit card at all on file for your itunes account [-] though they go out of their way for you to not realize that Funnily I tried to give apple some money through the app store but made the mistake of

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