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by nathell 8y ago
Then maybe trim the initial catchphrase, or the word "novel."
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by nathell 8y ago
The lone and level bytes stretch far away.
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by nathell 8y ago
The word "empathy" has a somewhat eerie ring to it, as if it were a magical capability. At least in its most common understanding as "the ability to feel what another person feels". Fun fact: that's impossible. You
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by nathell 8y ago
There are a couple of things that make me sad about this article, and I’m on the run so I’ll only make a few points. One is the implied greed of the reader: „They [thank-you notes] improve the frequency and quality of the gifts you receive.
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by nathell 8y ago
And SQLite. And, on the more hip side, re-frame – Mike Thompson's writing has a personal, witty style.
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by nathell 9y ago
It's fun to look at the ASDF system definition: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0/blob/master/redd... Some Ediware in the dependencies (CL-PPCRE, CL-WHO and Hunchentoot from back when it w
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by nathell 9y ago
OpenSSL has always been nowhere near the level of robustness and bulletproofness that SQLite is at. Just look at how it's tested: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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by nathell 9y ago
Per your own sentence, you've just committed a syntax error.
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by nathell 9y ago
There's a village in Christmas Island, Kiribati, by that name.
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by nathell 9y ago
> In my opinion, the presence of doall, dorun, or even “unchunk” is almost always a sign that something never should have been a lazy sequence in the first place. I’d say it’s a good rule of thumb, but it’s sometimes justified. For examp
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by nathell 9y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9575786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319034
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by nathell 9y ago
(2015)
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by nathell 9y ago
The square brackets in your tr invocation are unnecessary.
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by nathell 9y ago
> I think Alan Kay using the word "homoiconic" for Lisp was a mistake. The syntax of Lisp really is not the same as the internal representation, unlike the Tcl (which I understand actually executes by manipulating strings). Thi
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by nathell 9y ago
It's a she.
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by nathell 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638904
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by nathell 9y ago
I can't help thinking of how the early-ITS approach to security (not only was there none, but looking at other users' work was a deliberate feature) was embraced by its users. I'm way too young to remember, but it rings a bel
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by nathell 9y ago
> The author usually spends months discovering things, and going down blind alleys. At the end, he organizes it all into a story that covers up all the mistakes (and related motivation), and presents the completed idea in clean neat flo
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by nathell 9y ago
Insofar as this is true, the original EMACS was not Emacs, either. Instead, it was a collection of Editor MACroS for TECO.
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by nathell 9y ago
Darcs?
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by nathell 9y ago
Are the results of that research written up somewhere, or is this purely internal?
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by nathell 9y ago
In my app (a search tool for Polish corpora [1]), I'm using ZIP with zero compression (stored files) as a container file format. The upside is that I can easily read the archive contents, and then mmap parts of the file as needed [2].
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by nathell 9y ago
I would pay high margins to legal firms whom I'd forward spam and they'd sue spammers on my behalf (in Poland).
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by nathell 9y ago
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to it. One of these people was Anthony Grimes (Raynes), who had prematurely passed away last year. I take this moment to reflect on his memory.
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by nathell 9y ago
This so needs a ditaa[0] integration. [0]: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
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by nathell 9y ago
I wrote a Clojure library that facilitates writing this sort of scripts in a relatively robust way: https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper
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by nathell 9y ago
F-Droid is my go-to place for no-nonsense Android apps. By no-nonsense, I mean "typically lightweight and not forcing me to create an account merely to use the core functionality." They may not be very pretty or polished, but they
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by nathell 9y ago
Just use ag (the-silver-searcher) or ripgrep in lieu of ack.
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by nathell 9y ago
The proper pronunciation of TeX is /ˈtɛx/, not /ˈtɛk/, ending with a voiceless velar fricative.
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by nathell 9y ago
It still is, as the underlying page allocator for the SLAB/SLUB/SLOB allocators. See http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/mm/page...

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