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by mahmud 11y ago
Love it how opium growing regions are exactly the same ones on the ancient silk road.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Isn't CoffeeScript the " Macro -assembler" of JavaScript? i.e. a simple 1:1 syntax mapping, without no differentiating semantics of its own. Or am I wrong?
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by mahmud 11y ago
Paul Graham wrote a seminal Common Lisp book specially for this. On Lisp www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
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by mahmud 11y ago
It's a Lisp dialect it seems :-)
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by mahmud 11y ago
So friken beautiful! Ahhh.
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by mahmud 11y ago
To be frank, it's more like 1084. There is no sophisticated surveillance apparatus, because they Hay'a (as it's known) is forbidden from spying on Muslims. " In addition, the power of the mutawwa'in is limited by th
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by mahmud 11y ago
Saudi Arabia has just been chosen to head the United Nation panel on Human Rights. Disgrace abounds.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Employers require you to hand them your passport, and you get it back at the end of your work contract. Not unusual for employers to owe labor several months worth of salary, and then deny knowing them, so workers get deported. A process kn
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by mahmud 11y ago
It's a reflection of American individuality, which sort of turns into selfishness and isolationist at some point. Everyone must have their own front/back yard. Everyone must own a car, which in turn is housed in its own garage, wh
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by mahmud 11y ago
Ok.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is trying to turn Vegas into just that. Wish him luck! http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/350-mill...
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by mahmud 11y ago
It is the usual American word for housemate/flatmate. It's just that, usually, those with the most interesting "roommate" stories are typically university students (current, or former.) Outside of university, hardly an
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by mahmud 11y ago
I have read in a few places that use of profanity signals affinity, and even used by some sales people to quickly build rapport with their leads. Same thing might be at play, subordinates trying to be chummy with their superiors.
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by mahmud 11y ago
> AWS to AWS APIs without a helmet (daringfireball.net) I just ..
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by mahmud 11y ago
Heck, even use HaMLet to bootstrap it. Hamlet is a portable SML implementation written in SML. http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/hamlet/ (Not unlike SICL, which is a portable Common Lisp for R&D https:/&#
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by mahmud 11y ago
OT: "Why do we always refer to female public figures by their first name, and male ones by their last?" I heard/read that question somewhere, and it stuck with me, can't stop seeing it. And this is a fine example of that
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by mahmud 11y ago
Ouch, this sounds terrible. What if two functions/classes/top-level-constructs have the same name (and signature)? Now you have a conflict and your project won't build anymore. Use version control, develop new features in bra
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by mahmud 11y ago
You could do that in Common Lisp for about 3 decades now. I remember doing this 10 years ago, from the REPL no less. https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/manual/html_node/defcst...
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by mahmud 11y ago
Off-topic: I really thought this was about DR-DOS, Novell's version of DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
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by mahmud 11y ago
Maybe they had a private communication with AM, and only released it after the negotiations broke down?
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by mahmud 11y ago
You login with your Facebook credentials.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Today's CS graduates are much better educated than people in those days. Early programmers wasted much of their energy fighting the platform, reverse engineering undocumented features, and haggling vendors for better access. Today, y
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by mahmud 11y ago
I did that for 4 years. Beware! Being the only tech at an "agency" will quickly atrophy your core engineering skills, if you're not careful. You will get _good_ at delivering working solutions quickly, but these will tend t
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by mahmud 11y ago
Anyone know how incremental-computation related to partial-evaluation or staged-computation? I haven’t dug into the IC papers yet, but from my understanding. Partial-Evaluation is specialization of function over arguments. Say f(x,y,z) =&gt
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by mahmud 11y ago
Lisp is more like the Velvet Underground than the Pixies ;-)
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by mahmud 11y ago
And still no EBCDIC! :-/ /s
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by mahmud 11y ago
Glad you clarified and said Minix 3 ; I remember the 90s version had its own userland, and its own C compiler (also written AST), I know this because I hacked on them extensively. Probably the first time I have seen extensive source code,
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by mahmud 11y ago
Focus, dedication, specialization, experience, and superior choice of technology.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Please don't! IntelliJ is both perfect, and very affordable. Google will only ruin it by neglecting for a few years, before shuttering it down. JetBrains, stick to what you do best.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Another one off to the eternal jam session. RIP.

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