maydup-nem

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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> Testing new changes requires more time than rebooting. no it doesnt > Lisp is not type safe. yes it is
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> genera eh, if it's gui is anything like clim which was based off of it, no thank you big time
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I can see how having distinct keywords may be seen as inconvenient. I think if there were a general container-keyword that wouldn't introduce any cost based on a type declaration, that would be cool, but it's n
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
It has in-sequence, however it uses elt I think. For efficiency reasons, there's a separation. Otherwise how should it work? In any case, you could probably write a macro that does the right thing based on type. > Previous doesn&#x2
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> Also note that LOOP is an S-expression. Well, it's body doesn't look like s-expressions to me, that's the point. And there's 0 reasons why they shouldn't be. But, conversely, there are real benefits to them bei
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
First of all, if you are going to try it out, I recommend using this macro: (defmacro itr (&rest rest) `(iterate:iterate ,@rest)) because it keeps all the clauses on the same indentation level. Now, to the translation: iter
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Is there an alternative to FORMAT?
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Yes, I was a fan of LOOP too, until I found iterate. I mean, we are discussing the two things comparatively here, aren't we? So, how is loop better than iterate? Iterate has nearly the same semanitcs as LOOP. It's basically LOOP o
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> quirky Europeans who have to do everything special so how many quarter inches are the footegg fields these days?
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
purist? no, it's a very practical mindset. if you are into lisp, you should already appreciate the power of parenthesis. i literally have to spend time parsing the barren (longish) loop macros to understand wth is going on and what key
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
good, the less touchy pussies, the better i think arch making a move towards an automated installer was a bad move socio-wise, if you know what i mean
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> Why does it matter where this person was 8 years ago? Not 8 years ago, but for the last 8 years. You know, being unaware of some pretty basic circumstances around an issue and then claiming undeniability is pretty rich of you. > con
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
thanks, that's good to know
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
quora used to ask for login only when you followed a link while already on quora (so opening from google search wouldn't prompt a login). you could just copypaste url and look at the thread. but not anymore, they closed this off since
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
how dare you
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
don't bother. they are downvoting anybody who still has a shred of self-respect.
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
wait, what, it isnt'?
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
how exciting
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Wow, if it is true, I will surely stop playing factorio, because, apparently, some prick on hackernews would think the game's lead dev is not OK, and I am always quick to pigeonhole a person based on his controversial opinion, which I
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> understand hundreds of languages > understand I know this is CEO-talk, but I sometimes wonder if these pricks really think they are inventing AI.
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Oh, look, another org-mode replacement!
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
Makes sense, thank you.
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
I see the github code breakdown is 70% CL and 30% C++. The comment below says the original GOAL compiler was written in CL. Is it the same goal here? What's the C++ part in this project?
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> Git is amazing Let me take a wild guess here, bud, you are definitely an american, amiright? Git is shit, it just happens to be better than the competition coupled with the fact of its huge market share.
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
what's with the downvote, did I just harass a shitcoder?
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> Longest line length! > like a thousand fucking characters can't wait to enjoy this on my 14" screen > pesky 80 column limit that pesky limit is there to protect my sanity against shitcoders (which some are forced to be
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> tables with multiline text in the cells Does mediawiki have calculated tables, tags, executable source blocks though? And, most importantly, just how suitable is it as plaintext, org's killer feature? Cause this doesn't look
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
The author should have mentioned https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html somewhere in the first paragraph, because he's basically building to that. Also, he says that there's no formal spec for OD1,
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
I don't believe in work.
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by maydup-nem 5y ago
> "top layer" can sometimes start to look down on the ones who belong to the layer below, seeing them as less knowledgeable or not producing useful output So? Are you going to blame them for seeing the reality as it truly is?

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