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by jpr 16y ago
"I am not stupid, I know the law." Those two things are not mutually exclusive, obviously.
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by jpr 16y ago
It's funny that Lisp's "syntax" draws so much attention when it is pretty much the simplest and most unambiguous syntax possible, and that messes like C++, Python and Perl don't seem to bother anyone enough to propose alternatives.
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by jpr 16y ago
It's likely much simpler than that. Stop eating and subsidizing cheap carbohydrates - acquire health.
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by jpr 16y ago
Are there shapes that are non-geometric?
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by jpr 16y ago
Something about using one set of credentials for a bunch of unrelated sites rubs me the wrong way. I think it has something to do with what commenter Kevdog said: > Here's where the driver license analogy breaks down: I have physical co
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by jpr 16y ago
Setting up SBCL+Emacs+SLIME is really easy if you use Ubuntu or some other distro that contains packages for them. All you need to do in current Ubuntu is $ sudo apt-get install sbcl emacs slime && echo "(require 'slime)" &#62
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by jpr 16y ago
> LET* indicates bad code, something I never understood Neither did I, until I encountered something along the lines of: (let* ((foo ...) (foo ...) (foo ...) (foo ...) (foo ...)
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by jpr 16y ago
I haven't had my second cup of morning coffee yet, so I'm having trouble imagining how one would bootstrap that kind of thing.
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by jpr 16y ago
"Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its
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by jpr 16y ago
"What", exactly. If Go really deleted the object pointed to by x when you set x to nil, it would be seriously flawed (though I wouldn't actually be surprised if this was the case, it certainly is flawed in many other ways).
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by jpr 16y ago
Yep. I still haven't read one article from Go aficionados that hasn't made me bang my head against a wall repeatedly.
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by jpr 16y ago
It seems that Rails is doing something horribly wrong. There should be no reason to use code-generating or evaluate strings in a dynamic language.
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by jpr 16y ago
I have to admit that I'm not an expert on reader macros, so I can't say for sure. Your example seems to map some already used characters, so it wouldn't be a pure extension of the reader. I guess you could make a readtable that recognizes t
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by jpr 16y ago
One thing that bothers me about Python's whitespace, is that it is not possible automatically indent Python code that has lost its indentation for some reason or another. You have to go back and read the original source to restore the mean
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by jpr 16y ago
"too many parenthesis" is simply a flag that someone is speaking only about his initial emotional response, not out of actual use experience or measurement. When you actually count parenthesis in equivalent programs in C (or C-like syntax)
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by jpr 16y ago
Except you can, just use reader macros.
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by jpr 16y ago
If not pressing libel charges makes you suspicious, doesn't not pressing sexual assault charges make you suspicious too? If I were the guy and not guilty, I wouldn't really be all too interested in pressing charges, mostly because I'm too l
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by jpr 16y ago
Otherwise a good idea, but setting the cap in terms of cash can introduce an incentive to buy the cheapest possible beer so that you can buy more of it. I would suggest capping the total volume of alcohol instead.
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by jpr 16y ago
Treadmills suck of course, if you are on treadmill, you could more easily and cheaply just go outside to walk/jog/run and get some fresh air while you're at it. But I disagree on "lifting weights". I suppose that most people don't see it as
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by jpr 16y ago
Two hours is kinda long if you aren't used to it. I would try to build it up from half an hour or so upwards. Though I don't believe in any (continuous) exercise that is supposed to take more than an hour or so.
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by jpr 16y ago
I would like to know why the designer thinks this is better than a normal bike that is properly outfitted for commuting purposes.
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by jpr 16y ago
I still don't see why the variable names can't be interned somehow by the parser. This would mean that a global variable would be just a pointer in to the table, and "lookup" would be just dereferencing that pointer. AFAICT, this is how sym
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by jpr 16y ago
> Calling a function like "chr", which is looked up dynamically Shouldn't that be just one or two pointer-dereferences? Or is Python putting globals in hash-table and looking them up each and every time?
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by jpr 16y ago
FYI, in EU (or at least in Finland), euros are rounded to the nearest five cents and stores don't even accept the 1 and 2 cent coins, even though they exist.
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by jpr 16y ago
So what's your advice for the time being? Keep on shoving cheeseburgers to our pieholes?
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by jpr 16y ago
Here's a wood compiler: http://bitbucket.org/cheery/z_woodc/overview
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by jpr 16y ago
As a person who knows what a wm is and just tried out Unity, I can confirm this on my part.
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by jpr 16y ago
That's funny, I don't consider twiddling bits of some gizmo programming.
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by jpr 16y ago
Yet another one brainwashed by the breakfast mafia.
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by jpr 16y ago
Great, more ammo for the helmet-nazis.

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