marvy

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1. 631.▲
   by marvy 12y ago

   If your only goal is to read the code, then they could probably do it, after working out a few minor issues. The question is, how do you enter new code? With braces, which vanish as you type, or with whitespace, which means the braces exi
2. 632.▲
   by marvy 12y ago

   Indeed. Just like this: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Serial-Port-Pit-Bull.aspx
3. 633.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   Yes, you mentioned them. But what surprised me is that you never suggested using them, instead of implementing your own. I understand that sometimes implementing your own is the way to go, but surely sometimes it makes sense to just use L
4. 634.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   This is somewhat off-topic, but if the author is still reading these comments: in the chapter on bytecode, it seems that an obvious alternative was overlooked. Don't implement your own little language. Take one that's already th
5. 635.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   read carefully: Turing-INcomplete
6. 636.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   That part was moronic. The rest was good.
7. 637.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   In principle, yes. In practice, backwards compatibility makes this hard.
8. 638.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   Hey, if we're gonna go quoting that book, I believe there was something about throwing the first stone.
9. 639.▲
   by marvy 13y ago

   I agree that things often seem obvious in retrospect, even if they were not obvious before. But that's ok. The point of patents is not to protect things that are obvious in hindsight. The point is to protect things that are not obvi
10. 640.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    It most definitely does not.
11. 641.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    I think so. Or something like that. Might be better to use "write" instead of "print", to avoid character encoding issues.
12. 642.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    neat!
13. 643.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    I think you know what he meant. But just in case: the steam engine allowed people to harness energy that would have been impractical or even impossible to harness without it.
14. 644.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    I don't know Clojure, but I do know Python, and I'd like to say that unpacking is more flexible than you may realize. For example, you can do this: a,(b,c),d = [1,[2,3],4]
15. 645.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    Thank you! I'd never seen this one!
16. 646.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    Sure, why not?
17. 647.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    Whenever someone brings up the "trusting trust" thingy, I feel compelled to point out the antidote: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
18. 648.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    yay, a fellow Beamer user!
19. 649.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    I have one comment to make. I don't mean it as advice (I don't give good advice), but as a potentially (ir)relevant semi-obvious but perhaps overlooked fact. You meet lots of people in school. You may be right the degree may be
20. 650.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    The math phd one is constant time :)
21. 651.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    I think it would improve usability to accept only spacebar to scroll, that way if you see a result you like on the first page, you can just enter its number without scrolling through the rest.
22. 652.▲
    by marvy 13y ago

    Er, is the url right?