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by jpr 16y ago
NoScript is a symptom, not a cure. I haven't yet figured out a good name for the disease though.
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by jpr 16y ago
"The term “freeware” has no clear accepted definition, but it is commonly used for packages which permit redistribution but not modification (and their source code is not available). These packages are not free software ..." I think FSF wou
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by jpr 16y ago
> I have yet to see a language reference as good as the PHP documents. Here you go: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index...
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by jpr 16y ago
> Attempts to help a user too much may interfere with the user’s ability to form a good mental model of the problem. I think this is a problem with much of the software I dislike. I have no idea what it is trying to do and why because t
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by jpr 16y ago
I don't get it. Isn't one of the major purposes of using higher level languages to avoid writing in C?
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by jpr 16y ago
If this is "real pain", I wonder what some of the weirder stuff of C++ would be, "surreal pain"?
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by jpr 16y ago
Sadly, everything he says is true. I wish someone would slaughter Python or Ruby the way yosefk and others have done for C++.
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by jpr 16y ago
> postscript would be an absolutely terrible choice: the barrier to entry is simply too high. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by jpr 16y ago
Not much information, but everything seems to indicate it would be more of a game than a simulator. I hope that it has as good add-on capabilities as the previous versions.
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by jpr 16y ago
I'd appreciate it more that it wouldn't answer it at all. Giving stupid answers to stupid questions is even stupider than asking the stupid question in the first place.
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by jpr 16y ago
To me, it seems that the purpose of a most compilers for statically typed languages is to either generate a lot of type information (*ML, Haskell etc.), or require lot's of redundant typing (the keyboard kind) (Java etc.), only to throw it
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by jpr 16y ago
Coming from Finland, this was my first reaction too.
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by jpr 16y ago
In Common Lisp you can embed arbitrary data structures in to your code because the reader can build them at read-time, and it can also evaluate arbitrary code at read time (you can turn this feature off for safety). So "embedding a graph" m
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by jpr 16y ago
I think the oo-like call chain is nicer when you don't have any arguments and stuff doesn't nest. The difference of static vs. instance methods also makes it slighly more complicated to comprehend. I think overall the simplicity of Lisp-sty
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Why the Desktop Gets No Respect, and Should(pcmag.com)
10 points by jpr 16y ago|5 comments
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by jpr 16y ago
Sounds pretty much like Go, which I personally don't find all that fascinating, in the same sense that I don't find C fascinating. I really wish that in the near-ish future some group of people, be it a company, research group or just a bun
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by jpr 16y ago
By the way, what is the idiomatic way to do this in Python? (let ((x 1)) (defun less () (incf x)) (defun more () (decf x)))
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by jpr 16y ago
Not allowing what? Rebinding of variables? That's what IORefs, MVars etc. are for.
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by jpr 16y ago
Modern VB is certainly good for that. But calling it BASIC is like calling Common Lisp LISP.
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by jpr 16y ago
Only if the TOS isn't unethical, immoral or lying.
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by jpr 16y ago
tl;dr, he just wants a language that somehow magically has all the features of C++ while somehow magically not sucking at the same time. Also, regarding the first 2: fuck you too, author.
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by jpr 16y ago
Uh-oh, if 3/4 of people can't conversate, couldn't it just be that people aren't meant to do that?
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by jpr 16y ago
Did you even watch the video?
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by jpr 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, since current compilers already warn if you write that code.
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by jpr 16y ago
A lot of people seem to be horrified that you can cast constness away. Maybe they have more traumatic experiences than I do, but I believe that if something is possible to do (modifiying an object that is declared const), it should be possi
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by jpr 16y ago
Programming in C++ made me realize how naive C is, in both good and bad.
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by jpr 16y ago
I have been thinking about user interfaces a lot in the back of my mind. I think that most applications could be made much more usable if the user actually had an idea about what kind of data the application is actually handling, where it's
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by jpr 16y ago
Good job on redefining the meaning of equality.
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by jpr 16y ago
I hope you never misstype your password on OpenBSD.
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by jpr 16y ago
Learning new stuff is cool. Relearning same old stuff in different clothing because someone decided to do something differently is not cool.

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