nemoniac

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by nemoniac 9y ago
How on earth has Facebook become the arbiter of our collective morality?
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by nemoniac 9y ago
If you can remember your password, better not fly to the UK.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
One of their partners is Elsevier. That sets off a lot of alarm bells.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Can someone recommend a good, safe, privacy-respecting 3rd party phone app for Android, preferably for Cyanogenmod or LineageOS?
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Can someone point to an online resource that teaches debugging?
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by nemoniac 10y ago
It's a readable font but the 1 is too similar to the l for my taste. Iosevka has a 1 with no horizontal line at the bottom.
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Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket (just yet)(fare.livejournal.com)
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Elsevier Obstructs Open Access Publishing in the Netherlands(scienceguide.nl)
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by nemoniac 10y ago
9292 requires access to your contacts before installation. That's a non-starter for me.
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Very cool! Now how do I get Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift? (Joking aside, serious question.)
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by nemoniac 10y ago
It's called a prefix code. It's a fundamental idea in coding theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory
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by nemoniac 10y ago
As an EU citizen, I wonder how this conflicts with EU legislation. As I understand it, if Google holds data in the EU, then EU law says that they may not move the data outside the EU without the data owner's permission. Now the USA in
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by nemoniac 10y ago
> But with Racket you've got high-level, comparable-to-Python abstraction Racket's abstraction is indeed high level but in no way comparable to Python. Racket's homoiconicity and syntactic abstraction put it leagues above
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Microsoft is breaking up with SHA-1 on Valentine's day(social.technet.microsoft.com)
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by nemoniac 10y ago
It's not so much that it's "nicer". It's that it's simpler. In his "Simple Made Easy" talk, Rich Hickey quotes Dijkstra saying "Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability". Here's som
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Here's Dijkstra arguing the case well: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
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by nemoniac 10y ago
That depends what country you're in. In my country there is no capital gains tax.
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Interesting article. While reading it I wrote a version of the code in Racket. YMMV but I think it turns out cleaner, especially towards the end. https://gist.github.com/bon/801fdb6dbced0efdb83a358bb4f6285f
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by nemoniac 10y ago
SLIME is your friend. Stepwise forward and backward macro expansion and contraction. It's a thing of beauty.
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Very disappointing to see such a fluff piece in Nature. One scientist who says "I have a lot more discipline" while another says "“I'm just typing whatever comes into my head". The "ability to incorporate &#x27
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by nemoniac 10y ago
I think you'll find that you can rely on TCO in all of the languages you mention. Certainly Scheme, Racket and most ML languages and their implementations. Common Lisp does not require it but the most popular implementations (CMUCL, SB
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Agreed that explicit is better than implicit but I can't imagine when you might want tail calls to build up stack. And if you do have a use case for it in mind, wouldn't you want to be explicit about that and have TCO be the defau
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by nemoniac 10y ago
There is nothing fraudulent about this. Clickable ads are put there to be clicked on. It's like inverse spam. Spam email is a nuisance because it's cheap to send to many. Well now it's cheap to click on many ads.
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Just curious, are you still programming in your first language then?
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by nemoniac 10y ago
So does Bitcoin not count as passive income?
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by nemoniac 10y ago
Hasn't this matter been addressed years ago? http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf
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by nemoniac 10y ago
I guess you mean "scraping", not "scrapping"
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by nemoniac 10y ago
C-u M-!
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by nemoniac 10y ago
So if you implemented a lisp on the 6502, you could run it on this emulator and then it'd be turtles all the way down? https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502
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by nemoniac 10y ago
"It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in programming: The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions in a programming language, is just another program." -- Abelson & Sussman, SICP.

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