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Show HN: Clsh – a simple way to compose and execute *nix programs from CL(github.com)
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by madmax96 8y ago
A general critique: it's not just about AI. Computation, in general, is capable of solving many problems that afflict the world - disease, hunger, resource allocation, etc. Some of these problems have "conventional" computa
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We agree that ad-hoc RPC mechanisms are inappropriate. REST is not a RPC mechanism - people wrongly “using it” as one does not change what REST is, simply because there is a wealth of academic and industrial knowledge that uses REST in a sp
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by madmax96 8y ago
The web, as it is consumed by humans, generally adheres to the RESTful constraints quite well. RESTful architecture (e.g. the architecture that lets you use one client to consume literally billions of applications and provides the mechanism
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That's certainly true. But one doesn't require the axiom "only physical objects exist" to do physics, and that principal is not universally accepted among physicists. This paper -- although I'm an outsider to physic
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by madmax96 8y ago
>I do not make any metaphysical claims about space, time nor numbers, >but notice that the mathematics used in practice is always finite >...I argue that the so-called real numbers are not really real. >More p
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REST is not intended to be a RPC protocol. Comparing it to one isn't appropriate. The point of REST is to totally and generally describe the semantics of a networked application's state transitions and is protocol-agnostic. GRPC e
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>those ones seem to be easy. There is no number seven. That's a very definitive answer for a complex question. It is not immediately clear at all that there is no number 7. There are a few accounts for how numbers could exist. Let
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by madmax96 8y ago
Sometimes things are lost over text -- my comment was meant to be more whimsical than it actually read. Just the old http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html joke. My actual (light) advice is merely that we're
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Useless use of cat candidate.
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That doesn't address my concerns, actually. Mozilla is doing two things: 1. Bundling DNS with the browser (e.g. ignoring system DNS) 2. Using DNS over HTTPS Mozilla could still do (1) and then use DNSCrypt + DNSSEC internally. Then, it
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by madmax96 8y ago
Totally agree re: implementation details. And, like you said, this is a bad idea. Is there something wrong with efforts like DNSCrypt + DNSSec? That's supposed to provide authentication and encryption to DNS without sending everything
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As a fan of both franchises, I totally agree with your take on Star Trek. But Star Wars isn't meant to be enjoyed the same way. The issue is that "science fiction" is such a broad genre, and it unfortunately encompasses both
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by madmax96 8y ago
I was reading the Lisp code and thinking "why wouldn't this evaluate to (S)?" And, of course, it does. The invocation of the lisp program should be: (generate 'sentence)
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by madmax96 8y ago
>the vast majority of programmers have made it clear that they DO NOT want to READ code in S-expression format I don't think this is true. I don't know of many people (who actually use Lisp -- meaning they took the time to read
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by madmax96 8y ago
>for the vast majority of programmers, Lisp syntax is not easy I suggest that learning Lisp's syntax is easier than learning C-like syntax. There is learning involved, however, and that undoubtedly keeps people from lisp. But s-expr
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by madmax96 8y ago
1: I really don't see how CL or Clojure are any more complicated than, say, Rust or C++. If anything, CL and Clojure are simpler, just different. 3: Most useful libraries are portable between different CL implementations. The choice is
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by madmax96 8y ago
Did anyone else have trouble getting PicoLisp to compile on MacOS? I was eventually able to get it to work, but I had to tweak some source.
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by madmax96 9y ago
I've experienced this myself in a number of different environments. But I'm still not satisfied with the results with the more flexible tooling, usually. I think it's because they commonly lack scaffolding that I want a majo
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by madmax96 9y ago
This has been my experience with Rust. When I try to learn a new language, I typically want to: (a) read a lot of code people have written in that language and (b) implement algorithms that I understand well, while keeping in an idiomatic s
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by madmax96 9y ago
Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation do not need to contend with a fundamental right to effect change.
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The meta-narrative of this thread: people have outsourced their thinking to massive media companies who have a rational self-interest to capture their audience's attention in order to increase revenue. People assume that these media co
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by madmax96 9y ago
Honest question: If this behavior disturbs us so much, why does anyone continue using Facebook?
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Do you have problems with Docker for Mac?
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You can't derive CT with CT. Though that has nothing to do with your point, just suggesting that we aren't there yet.
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Because "customer acquisition" means that a business offers something of value, reaches out to entities that might be interested in obtaining that value, and enters into an agreement to supply that value for another value. That pr
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I don't think it's wise to compare software development with other creative production. Software can provide a quantitative value through functionality to its users. Copyleft software often makes sense because it becomes possibl
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R6RS Monads(github.com)
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Here's the secret of REST: it's all about the information and definitely not verbs. The author begins by confusing HTTP with REST. I understand that HTTP is probably the most common protocol for implementing RESTful architectu
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What do you mean by a "proper type system"? In SBCL, if you set the optimization (SAFETY 3) then the system can catch many type errors in advance. Finally, homoiconicity simply means that the text of a program generally resembles

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