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by nanny 10y ago
And personally I usually throw in "fascist" for good measure.
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by nanny 11y ago
>I will often use code generation since you only need to run that once and templating bloats the compile time for ever. Don't you need to compile the generated code?
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by nanny 11y ago
Racket is a lisp (more precisely it's a descendent of Scheme). LISP in all caps generally refers to McCarthy's original description and the first few implementations.
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by nanny 11y ago
>I used text-to-columns to very nicely parse pipe-delimited files. Sure, but you still can't edit it and save it without losing data. I use Excel nearly every day as well, and I get more and more frustrated the more I use it. My cow
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by nanny 11y ago
That doesn't help you edit the file, though. It only helps you convert it to an Excel file. You still can't save as anything other than comma-separated without changing the language settings.
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by nanny 11y ago
I use Excel nearly every day at work. How am I not the user? My company has needs too, one of which is correctly editing spreadsheets and delimited files. Excel is insufficient for this.
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by nanny 11y ago
Are you serious? Excel is complete and utter trash. Check out some "quirks" from the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Quirks . Some of the worst ones: * Microsoft Excel will not op
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by nanny 11y ago
I'd like to be able to search "lisp" and get both Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. I tried that and was surprised when nothing showed up.
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by nanny 11y ago
>OK, but that was never on the table, though. What I described isn't even possible to manifest, and even if you back it down to what is at least sort of possible, you don't have the resources to manifest it before you simply ru
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by nanny 11y ago
That used to be a problem, but I don't think it is any more. Linux "just works" on both my laptop (including sound, multitouch touchpad, wifi, and graphics, also when I'm not using it, I only ever put it to sleep by clos
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by nanny 11y ago
I use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-mode/nagcaaho... There are others like it if you don't like this formatting.
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by nanny 11y ago
>An electric guitar is a slab of wood, some pickups, some controls, some outputs, some strings, a neck, some frets, a head, some tuning pegs, and a couple of pegs for the strap. I think that's his point. The things you listed are th
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by nanny 11y ago
>the weak typing argument is a little... weak. I think you contradict this in the rest of your comment: >Javascript is poorly designed because there are these rules you need to learn and because there are some language features that y
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by nanny 11y ago
>Now people complain that it's a weakly typed language replacing strongly-typed languages they prefer Firstly, that's a strawman. I prefer strongly-typed dynamic languages and I still think JavaScript sucks. Secondly, I think y
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by nanny 11y ago
>No one is afraid of the ecological cost of crypto currencies ? I am. But this is a drop in the bucket compared to financial sectors that deal with "real" money. Really, isn't nearly all modern money "virtual"? N
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by nanny 11y ago
>Hmm what sites are those ...pirated content streaming sites or bit torrent sites? TPB is mild, to say the least, when compared to nearly any non-minor news website.
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by nanny 11y ago
Nope, it's awful. I use this chrome extension called "reader mode": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-mode/nagcaaho...
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by nanny 11y ago
It was also twice as fast as Perl in benchmarks at one point or another.
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by nanny 11y ago
> It seems by default it's less strict than paredi Yes, but there is a strict mode you can turn on. Personally, I use the default with a couple binds that make it a bit more strict, which actually make it very pleasant to use, such
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by nanny 11y ago
>That's a lot of paragraphs. Got a tl;dr on how it improves on Paredit? The readme is not "a lot" in the slightest, the first paragraph of is a perfect summary. I'm sorry for being rude, but if you can't even bot
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by nanny 11y ago
>To this day I have not found a tool that works as well as Paredit for editing and navigating s-expressions. https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens Basically paredit on steroids.
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by nanny 11y ago
You're not thinking about the user. Star is the symbol for bookmark in many, many places, including all major browsers (except Safari). Is there a list of my Facebook likes for later access? I don't know, I've never even thou
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by nanny 11y ago
>Your model isn't modeling Vitamin C consumption, right? It's modeling scurvy. I don't see it that way, I see it modeling Vitamin C consumption. To me, your assertion that it's modeling scurvy instead feel contrived i
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by nanny 11y ago
Hi, I applied for one of Planet's open positions a few weeks ago, and I've been trying to get in contact with someone. The phone number for the SF office goes straight to voicemail. What's the best way to contact the appropri
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by nanny 11y ago
I think those type of questions are bit beyond the scope of this report.
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by nanny 11y ago
You forgot Graham, the man who wrote the website (in Lisp!) that this article is posted on.
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by nanny 11y ago
> there is no FFI to C What? Nim's homepage has the phrase "C FFI is easy in Nim.." along with some example code.
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by nanny 11y ago
People can and do use libclang for AST info in the same manner that you're talking about: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode
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by nanny 11y ago
Note: this happened almost a month ago now. See these threads for the discussion on the new head maintainer: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-09/msg01... https://lists.gnu.o
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by nanny 11y ago
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"

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