kiiski

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by kiiski 10y ago
Adding to this, in a real situation those variables are probably not going to be nice single letter variables. With longer names the Lisp syntax with unambiguous structure/order of precedence becomes much nicer. (if (or (and foobar
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by kiiski 10y ago
Your example is also misleading. The `a` and `expr` are written as variables in the left example, but as function calls in the Lisp version. More correctly it would be either if (a && !b) { expr } => (if (and a (not b)) expr)
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by kiiski 10y ago
The CLHS[1] they mentioned has been available online for ages. What they're talking about is making a more modern site. Generating a PDF from the spec wouldn't get them any closer to that goal. [1]: http://www.lispworks
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by kiiski 10y ago
That would be student benefits[1] rather than basic income. At least here in Finland (and other Nordics) we already do that. Basic income is supposed to be given unconditionally to everyone. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by kiiski 10y ago
India+China+Central Africa may be less affected than the rest of the world, but I doubt there are only 41M obese people there. The map shows that in China there are 8.2%/7.4% obese men/women (or maybe the other way around; I have
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by kiiski 10y ago
"$750 billion in treasury securities and other assets" according to the article.
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by kiiski 10y ago
You're thinking it the wrong way around. The default is that a person always owns the result of his work. Employees sign an agreement to give that result to their employer in exhange for a wage. If there is no agreement, the person who
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by kiiski 11y ago
> then easily move everything around by folding it and cutting and pasting. You could also use `org-cut-subtree` or `org-copy-subtree` for that. And of course `org-refile` (C-c C-w) is very useful, although you'll probably want to c
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by kiiski 11y ago
Is the word "medieval" commonly used to refer to some African time period? My understanding is that the term refers specifically to the Middle Ages, which is a time period in European history, so it wouldn't make any sense to
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by kiiski 11y ago
I'm not sure exactly what the Ctrl-P does, but that sounds a lot like ido for Emacs.
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by kiiski 11y ago
Personally I like doing text-only work (such as programming) in a TTY with Emacs. I'd like to have a machine with no X at all, but unfortunately there aren't many good framebuffer-friendly graphical tools (fbi is good for viewing
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by kiiski 11y ago
In Finland we have a similiar project[0] under construction. The intention is to store spent nuclear fuel there from 2020-2120 and then seal the facility. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_rep
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by kiiski 11y ago
There's a map[0] on wikipedia with the GDP per capita for different regions in EU (data from 2007). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_GDP_per_capita_in_...
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by kiiski 11y ago
Looking at the MooseFS source files, I don't think they can. The license header of the files says: /* ... * MooseFS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General
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by kiiski 11y ago
Seems to not work with the /html/ version[0]. It just gives a box with "HASH(0x5dfa858)" (for all the examples). [0]: https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=emacs%20cheatsheet
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by kiiski 11y ago
Interestingly DuckDuckGo gives you a box with the Emacs command when you search for "C-x n" (although the quick reference they link to doesn't even include that command). Of course, if you want to know what a shortcut does in
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by kiiski 11y ago
Personally I just always start emacs with `emacsclient -c -a=`. If no emacs daemon is running, it starts a new one and connects to it.
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by kiiski 11y ago
You have a really strange way of deciding who won a war. Most people would consider those "vague political goals" the whole point of going to war, and the people killed undesirable casualties. But if USA really did go to war just
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by kiiski 11y ago
I would add that setting up some captures[1] helps a lot. That way you can easily add notes or tasks while working on other things. [1]: http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html
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by kiiski 11y ago
A quote from the link: > The treaty with Portugal comes after India accepted its two main conditions that the extradited person would not face either a death sentence or life imprisonment beyond 25 years.
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by kiiski 11y ago
You're the guy from the Lizard Squad thing last year, right? Did this case happen before other investigations you've been involved in? If not, was your background used as "evidence" that the bitcoins might have been ille
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by kiiski 11y ago
Was Norway participating in those sanctions? I thought the oil sanctions were just by USA and EU.
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by kiiski 11y ago
I guess ignoring single linebreaks prevents people from wrapping lines manually (happens surprisingly often on some forums), resulting in an annoying reading experience.
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by kiiski 11y ago
I was born in -91, and the first time I had access to a computer that I could actually install things on (not school/library) was at the age of 15, and no internet access at home until about 2 years later. I live in Finland, but I imag
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by kiiski 11y ago
You could just read the case study right under that quote on the linked page (the one titled "Case Study Impact in action: Ran’s story").
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by kiiski 11y ago
He's American, right? Why would he demand that other nations do something before his own?
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by kiiski 11y ago
The project is building a 35 meter long model of a bridge designed by Da Vinci in 1502 using pykrete (ice mixed with 2 % cellulose fibers). It is to be finished by mid February. They have two webcams that show the construction site (current
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Da Vinci's Bridge in Ice(bridgeinice.structuralice.com)
22 points by kiiski 11y ago|1 comments
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by kiiski 11y ago
I'd say that knives can be either inheritable or usable, but not both. Like all tools they will be worn pretty quickly if used actively.
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by kiiski 11y ago
If by that reference to Python you mean you want significant whitespace, I think that would make it unnecessarily difficult to work with different scopes. fn something() { foobar(); { bar(); foo();

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