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by jpe90 5y ago
Before I learned lisp, I remember seeing this sentiment expressed a lot and thinking people were underselling the difficulty and overselling the usefulness of "programming your text editor" as opposed to just configuring it via st
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by jpe90 5y ago
I recall reading historical threads and being surprised at animosity towards FPComplete and some of the efforts they were making to standardize changes to make Haskell more commercially viable. At the time I thought being upset by that was
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by jpe90 5y ago
I remember wondering why "return" is in the Monad class when you can just use "pure" from Applicative, and why (<>) and "mapped" both exist, so it's cool to read the historical explanations here. The
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by jpe90 5y ago
Well, for my project I am using CLOS in CL where I used hash tables in Clojure. But yeah, if I went for hash tables, it would be getfs and setfs to mutate the table, or I saw there are immutable operations for hash tables in CL as well. It
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by jpe90 5y ago
Some examples of things that make Clojure click quickly are being able to use seq operations on all core data structures instead of learning how to work with list, vectors, hash tables, and sets separately, documentation being great with to
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by jpe90 5y ago
That was specifically referring to the availability of code examples for the core library on clojuredocs.org (I know hyperspec has some code examples as well, but they haven't been as comprehensive imo) and the ability to seamlessly ju
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by jpe90 5y ago
I've been building a personal project in both Clojure and Common Lisp to make a DSL for scraping web data, transforming it, and outputting it to a few backend formats. I would say it's been significantly harder to achieve the same
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by jpe90 5y ago
> This is strange and not really normal. "VR fuzzy" gave me 28,100,000 results just now on google, so.. maybe not that strange or abnormal.
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by jpe90 5y ago
Culturally, I think choosing to embrace being overweight rather than perceive it as a problem to solve by eating food higher in quality and lower in quantity is a large contributor. People who develop unhealthy food habits and are unwilling
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by jpe90 5y ago
This is very clever satire of the sad state of internet discourse, well done.
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by jpe90 5y ago
> It seems like the news is trying to prescribe a reality, instead of describing it. Thanks for putting that into words. It perfectly describes the uncanny feeling that I often feel while reading both left-leaning and right-leaning Ameri
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by jpe90 5y ago
Hello! I saved a URL to a great article you wrote about web development in common lisp, but the domain appears to be offline. Any chance you have a new site? Sorry for the off topic reply, I don't think this site has DMs..
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by jpe90 5y ago
It's not surprising if you understand how HEPA filters work, the particulate sizes that they're effective for, and the particulate sizes of viruses. Most people are not familiar with one or more of those things, so these stories a
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by jpe90 5y ago
I ultimately went with unmanaged dotfiles as well, it seemed like the most sane option. I host all mine on github so on NixOS machines I would just clone the repo and symlink to it as needed like I do on regular FHS systems.
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by jpe90 5y ago
> It’s not perfectly immutable, but I’m here to do work, not to perfect ideals. I can understand why some wouldn’t like this, it’s definitely not ideal. I think it’s not too bad though, at least for my workflow. This was my train of thou
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by jpe90 5y ago
I develop with emacs using my keyboard exclusively and I'm 100% convinced there is no appreciable benefit for doing so, it's pure personal preference. I remember seeing John Carmack express that didn't feel it was worth it to
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by jpe90 5y ago
> Eventually you'll come across a particular use case where opening a full blown IDE doesn't feel worth the effort, so you'll open vim. Imho there are strictly better options than vim for this nowadays for people who are n
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by jpe90 5y ago
I can see the utility of using Nix for managing dependencies of software you're developing, because that can be horrific to deal with and Nix makes it fairly elegant to do, depending on what ecosystems it's being used with. Using
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by jpe90 5y ago
> the same way government fiat in general makes problems worse, not better. To be clear, you're saying that U.S. antitrust legislation left us worse off, historically?
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by jpe90 5y ago
Is a fresh install not an option for the system you're describing? I'm not suggesting that it's a sane thing to have to do, but after a couple of hours of resesrching the problem with no leads it seems like the best choice.
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by jpe90 5y ago
I'm on neovim nightly and recently turned off treesitter. The highlighting is nice but it consistently was giving me segfaults while autocompleting, adds substantially to my startup time, and renders the editor completely unresponsive
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by jpe90 5y ago
I'm really impressed with this so far! It's very fast and looks great. The lexer I was able to find within 30 seconds of opening it for the first time highlights Haskell code better than Sublime- I'm not seeing weird syntax e
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by jpe90 5y ago
This has been my experience as well. Coc.nvim was far smoother sailing.
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by jpe90 5y ago
I didn't have issues with compe until I started using snippets, at which point I needed to manually modify the lua code that they provide for you (to own and maintain yourself) for tab completion. I had to spend a fair amount of time g
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by jpe90 5y ago
In my experience, the built in LSP is a mixed bag. Getting language servers configured is a breeze, diagnostics and go-to definition work just fine. But trying to get autocomplete and snippets to work is an exercise in frustration. There&#x
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by jpe90 5y ago
What do experienced nix-ers tend to do when they need to use software that's not up to date or available in nixpkgs? Are you guys knowledgeable enough to package everything yourselves, or do you just use buildFHSUserEnv until someone e
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by jpe90 5y ago
Does all of the documentation for sublime text 3 also apply to 4? Is 4 compatible with plugins for 3? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I haven't used sublime text in forever. Hoping to try it out on a flutter project.
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by jpe90 5y ago
When I get stuck on projects that are very meaningful to me, I chip away at the pieces I don't want to do and allow myself to take as long as I need to complete them. When I get stuck on projects that are not so meaningful to me, I red
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by jpe90 6y ago
This is orders of magnitude more useful than the official docs.
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by jpe90 6y ago
So for the happy path, are you declaring the entire development toolchain on a project by project basis? Any chance you have some recommended resources that show the way you're using it? I was hoping to use it for Haskell but I'd

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