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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
Please leave a hint here or at /r/lisp when this second printing becomes available. Thanks. My personal preference would be to not include IDE-specific info into the printed book at all (other than maybe mention Emacs+SLIME as a de facto st
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They count an all time low for Visual Basic at position 7, yet they have VisualBasic.NET at position 45, less popular than Logo, JavaFX and APL. When its not VB.NET at position 7, which Basic can they possibly mean? VBA? They can't possibly
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> Why do they insist on justifying stealing? They do not "justify stealing", they do not consider copying of publicly available information amongst each other (sharing with thy neighbour) as stealing. (FYI, not even current _laws_ consi
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> there's no reason to take it all with you Theres no reason to force people to "donate" without bothering to talk to them or their families even once about it. The only reason is to trick them into donating by not telling them they'll
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
The problem is, Skype is (as of my knowledge) really the only available, actively developed, cross-platform client offering both audio and video connections, let alone being free software. If you abandon Skype, you either have to abandon vi
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> Some people can't be accessed without Facebook. That means that the people who cant be accessed without facebook had to voluntarily cut themselves off from email-only people first. And while doing that, they had no concerns that they
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> Those of you who prefer some kind of GUI, look into Xemacs. It can be set up to respond to your mouse-clicks. I don't want to nitpick here, but the tedious distinction between the "graphically challenged" GNU Emacs and the "some kind
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I see this as a sort of a trademark issue, even though both probably dont have a Go trademark. The guy may have been the first to "take" the name, but what he did not do is to be successful enough with it to earn a de facto trademark. Basic
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
Ihaka himself seems to be eyeing with Common Lisp as the next best statistical environment: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-2...
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I would like an option to completely hide downvoted comments and the subthreads below them, slashdot-like, not merely grey them out. As HN becomes more and more popular, the number of downvoted bullshit one-liner postings and accompanying o
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Then you also need to tape the questions and answers and assemble a video FAQ accompanying the lectures. Or let other people support the lectures and answer upcomming questions. I think that its a collosal waste of time and ressources to ma
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I have never quite understood why language developers never thought providing their platforms a little bit more like Linux developers do with distributions, i.e. besides providing libraries only, also provide package managers, dependency re
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Provided HN was meant to be a non-discriminatory democracy, but it to my knowledge was not. Any news site not systematically filtering content to suit a specific, targeted demographic will sooner or later inevitably converge against Digg (o
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It was kinda used by OpenCL, to actually "reserve" something takes a lot more work. And even then I would suppose that the abbrev CL was reserved by Common Lisp during the last 25 years.
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Homo sapiens is pretty cool too, but I wonder how many walking talking apes we really need... Random mutation + diversity + natural selection isnt yielding working, practical results only for biological organisms. You sound like we should s
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> I use X in a manner which its creators want me to use it. I still did not understand this kind of often repeated argument, after years and years of reading it. Why _exactly_ should I freely, without any legal and consensual contract,