ludwig

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by ludwig 17y ago
I also recommend this one: http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html
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by ludwig 17y ago
I definitely take advantage of the Emacs daemon, and use emacsclient extensively. However Viper just doesn't cut it for me, since I rely on a lot of vim plugins (as Locke1689 pointed out) for extra functionality. It's not just the keybindin
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by ludwig 17y ago
Vim and Emacs (yes, I'm schizophrenic).
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by ludwig 17y ago
On that note, even insults are better when delivered using words with positive connotations.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Ok, Joel. We get it :-)
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by ludwig 17y ago
I forget where I read this quote, but here it is paraphrased: "Whereas in Physics people stand on the shoulders of giants, in Computer Science people stand on each other's toes."
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by ludwig 17y ago
This. Learning to use modern C++ techniques (RAII, shared_ptr, boost, ...) was especially eye-opening for me.
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by ludwig 17y ago
That's awesome! Now I know what I'll be buying for Xmas :D
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by ludwig 17y ago
Don't forget darcs. I find it useful since they distribute statically linked executables. Installation then becomes a matter of just dropping darcs into a bin directory.
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by ludwig 17y ago
The drawings are almost too cute. More concepts should be explained in this manner!
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by ludwig 17y ago
Fox shenanigans.
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by ludwig 17y ago
I only use that button when I copy/paste a URL using the mouse.
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by ludwig 17y ago
I can't wait until we can grow meat and other organs in "standalone-mode". There wouldn't be any need for slaughter when we reach that level of technology.
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by ludwig 17y ago
That's good to hear. On the author's website, he says the new edition bears the new name "Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp". Looks like it hasn't been translated to English yet, unfortunately. Either way, the older edition looks l
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by ludwig 17y ago
Nice. I have most of those books, save for a few. All I have to do now is read them completely :) How good is "Lisp in Small Pieces"? I might get that one next.
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by ludwig 17y ago
There are two plugins which have helped me enormously when dealing with large projects: bufexplorer and nerdtree. Check them out, seriously.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Well, it's worth a shot. I remember signing up early so if I get any invites, I'll also share. Here's my email just in case: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=010kmQWkKGsgy5SBuVEvHsqg==...
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by ludwig 17y ago
For an overview of PageRank, you should check out http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/pagerank.html
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by ludwig 17y ago
I see where you're getting at, but I think it's more of an issue of keeping your digital identity intact rather than fragmented over multiple accounts. I can authenticate at a single place, and that server can vouch for me on other sites ("
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by ludwig 17y ago
As a user, I typically love encountering sites that are OpenID enabled (stackoverflow, gitorious, ...) since then I can use my livejournal account to login. This way I don't have to manage yet another username/random-password pair.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Very nice. Pre-ordered!
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by ludwig 17y ago
You can also use http://thewe.net/tex/ to type out equations on gmail (as well as in the gmail chat).
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by ludwig 17y ago
Why is the section "What's New in Python 3" the last section?
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by ludwig 17y ago
Only because every time it gets stuck, it "asks" a human.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Woah, you weren't exaggerating.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Oh sweet! Now we just need emacs to render the ascii art when displaying it in a code comment, similar to what the AUCTeX latex-mode does for equations.
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by ludwig 17y ago
It must be nice living in a world with marshmallow rocks.
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by ludwig 17y ago
They probably used the distance-from-lip-edge-to-ear metric.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Indeed. I also liked the link to the Audion story that was in one of the comments. That was quite a sobering read.
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by ludwig 17y ago
Re: Re: @newsycombinator No, if it's interesting enough (which is most of the time), I'll actually visit the site again. But you're right, I do wish it linked to HN first instead of sending me directly to the article.

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