nemoniac

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   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Use tramp from your local emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
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   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Can't wait for Stripe to be available in more countries without having to have a US bank account to set it up.
3. 633.▲
   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Put "Apple" or "iOS 9" or something in the title.
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   by nemoniac 11y ago

   I've only given this article a cursory scan but what on earth is the value of the Venn diagrams in Figure 2 and Figure 13? Especially the latter. Do the authors even understand the purpose of Venn diagrams?
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   by nemoniac 11y ago

   "Today, Fortran 95 provides all desirable object-orientated and structured programming features" ...for some values of "desirable"
6. 636.▲
   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Congratulations to Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina for being the only countries to send gender-balanced teams of three boys and three girls.
7. 637.▲
   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Could you elaborate on this point?
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   by nemoniac 11y ago

   Whatever about Mathematics, this is certainly true of Computing. Well understood ideas are continually being reinvented, frequently badly. New programming languages and frameworks spring up like mushrooms and everyone wants to jump on boar
9. 639.▲
   by nemoniac 11y ago

   I must confess I'm conflicted about this. While it's encouraging that Lisp is being used to build a web framework, this is not a Lispy approach. It's more like Python written in Lisp. In particular the use of Python decorator
10. 640.▲
    by nemoniac 11y ago

    Lucerne is a city in Switzerland. It exists for about 1200 years longer than Lucene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucerne
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    You might not be aware of it but it is indeed a common usage in both Dutch and Flemish, especially in the diminutive. Phemist's tongue-in-cheek remark drew attention to it to suggest that the name might not be well chosen for those par
12. 642.▲
    by nemoniac 11y ago

    For those who might be wondering, it's a Dutch word for 'ejaculate'.
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    Well there's this one... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    I just tried it out. I take it all back. It's absolutely awesome. I regularly read news in half a dozen languages and this is what I've been waiting for for years now. Awesome!
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" Srsly?
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    First learning tip: .h files are not the place for definitions.
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    by nemoniac 11y ago

    Nope, not Lenovo nor any other company. In this day and age, I don't see how any (profit-based) company would provide a clean and trustworthy install.
18. 648.▲
    by nemoniac 11y ago

    I've had a bunch of Lenovo Thinkpads. Each time, the first thing I do is wipe it and install Linux.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    Nice article but are you sure you want to end the article with a "Contact me" link?
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    See also John Tromp's "interpreter for the simplest language possible" https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    Huh? That was the first thing about it that caught my interest!
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    d3 has about 10 times as many github stars as its nearest neighbour. No competition.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    Note that I recommended the book "ANSI Common Lisp" for an advanced (non Lisp) programmer, not "On Lisp". That aside, I agree with your description of On Lisp.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    > Due to git's distributed nature, there should be very few people who are not able to work on their code. Oh the irony! Actually I bet many developers are sitting on their hands when they can't access github. I don't want
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    An overview of the current status of the "replacements" would be welcome. Every so often I go looking for one but end up crawling back to make.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    I develop & test algorithms on a server. Saves on laptop battery life when I can't plug in.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    I find emacs with tramp unrivalled. Set up once then just open & save remote files by name from your local emacs. Switch to sudo as required. No need for dotfiles or tools on the remote.
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    PCL is a good book but too wordy for my taste. Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp will get an advanced programmer up to an advanced level more quickly and efficiently. http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    Henry G. Baker made the point well, already in 1992. "The appearance of iterators [..] appears to be inversely related to the power of the language's intrinsic control structures." http://home.pipeline.com/~hb
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    by nemoniac 12y ago

    The author might not have intended it but what he's describing is emacs, not chording keyboards.