kahrkunne

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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Well you know, that opposition did commit actual crimes on multiple occasions, and that free press did conspire against him... Being the opposition doesn't make you exempt from justice, and being the press doesn't mean you can
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I don't think you can describe the democratic election of a president who wants smaller, not bigger government as "fascism". It suggests a pretty poor understanding of the fact that fascism is pretty narrowly defined, and not
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Thought of the day: what does the fact that this is being downvoted but the parent is not say about our culture?
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
For this specific example it's alright, but when Google starts responding to public pressure by tweaking the algorithm to get rid of specific results, it's not that big a step going from something like this to something more quest
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Even though I am convinced that the holocaust did happen, I'm not sure that Google should be tweaking their algorithms until they show the results Google wants you to see...
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
What kind of group would choose to sit as close as possible in a plane?
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Do you think getting an MBA would be a fun, enriching experience? This is the more important question, imho. Life is not all about your career.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
(car nil) -> nil doesn't seem obvious to me. It implies that (equal nil (cons nil nil)) i.e. (equal nil '(nil)). Now I'm not a very experienced lisp programmer, but I don't see why those two would be equivalent. FWIW,
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I'm not condescending towards web developers - see also my other comments here. I tried explicitly to make it clear that I wasn't, yet I kind of feel like people are taking the liberty to read things in my comment that just aren&#
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
You misunderstood me. Of course there's plenty of good web developers. It's just that, in my opinion, the average programming language is less elegant than Lisp, and the average programmer is less passionate than the average Lispe
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I consider scheme the nicest but the only thing I'd write in it are exercises for a CS textbook. I like CL, but I wouldn't configure my text editor in it. Elisp gets undue hate.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
You're putting words in my mouth. I never said PHP was bad - it's reasonably good for common use cases on the web. I'm just saying that if hypothetically lisp became super popular, it would inevitably change to fit the work f
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Lisp gets nothing but loving praise from most people who've really looked into it. To me, it's a really good indicator of someone's quality as a programmer - someone who treats programming as just a job will probably never ru
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I'd encourage anyone to read up on Pythagoras. He was a really weird guy who held some inane beliefs and superstitions. Also a cult leader.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
>How much pressure is that? From my experience of having been a kid, none. It was always exciting to think about being an adult, and it's not like your answer meant anything - I'm not on track to be becoming an astronaut after
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Not all functional languages are purely functional. (Common) Lisp can be described as a functional language, but it can do loops like those just fine. A lot of imperative languages don't even have map or reduce; some don't even ha
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Reading Linus talk about game development had me confused for a bit there. In my mind Linus is the kernel guy.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I'm not a chess player and I lose 9/10 games I play on lichess, yet I still occasionally go there when I don't feel like playing mahjong, partly because the website is so pleasant to use.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
False memories are very interesting (and a bit scary) stuff! For example, I distinctly remember eating moose meat at a restaurant with my grandparents, even though that never happened. I wish there was a way to find out how much of what I r
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
I'll make sure not to eat the air around this tree
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
What a thing to downvote someone over though, posting something useful but with a minor mistake like this (not saying you downvoted him of course)
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Sorry, minced my words there. Of course there's no such thing as an illegal refugee.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Tl;dr the author transported illegal refugees to Sweden, despite suspecting it to be illegal; is somehow upset for being sued
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
- double the cost of already expensive medical care
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
In Livy's defense, he doesn't seem to actually believe in these fairy tales, often packing them in constructs like "it is said" or offering two explanations for things, one the more popular myth and one a more plausible
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Ah yes, the good old philosophy of communism. Great thinkers have been espousing some variation of it since Plato. You'd think that after thousands of years these "great thinkers" would learn that nothing good will come from
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Well, you know, they do choose to sell those land rights that cheap...
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
My fear is that people would get stuck in such a program for life - they wouldn't have much opportunity to learn skills that could help them find a different job
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Sorry, your post was quite a ways down from the parent so I didn't realize you were summarizing. My fault.
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by kahrkunne 10y ago
Explain to me how playful cleverness, open access to computers and being measured by skill over appearance is misogynist. Unless of course you think women aren't clever or skillful...

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