nicklaf

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by nicklaf 7y ago
(First, this article is not about individual attention span: it's about an increase in volume of content and the consequently dwindling amount of time the collective public has to dwell on a given piece of published content.) Anywa
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by nicklaf 7y ago
> In addition, knowing human nature and our propensity for conspiracy theories, there will be people in the future who think all those signs were put there to dissuade people from finding a massive buried treasure. After all, the phrasin
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by nicklaf 8y ago
If I can't google programming-related search terms and get back a publicly facing page for that tweet, then I'd consider the site as dead as G+ for research purposes. We need to stop useful community content from getting black hol
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I would be inclined to read past the headlines if I received it as plain text, via email. I might even pay for it if that's all it was, and contained absolutely no ads or even links. That said, I don't know that I'd actually
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by nicklaf 8y ago
They've also completely borked up Usenet (Google Groups), including the choice to simply put big padlock on whatever zombie Usenet groups are being used for spam, making it impossible to, e.g., read the messages posted to alt.rock-n-ro
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I wonder if you might like "Burgled-Batteries" [0], which gives you access to Python objects from Common Lisp. I have not tried it myself, and it does not yet support CLOS integration, but it looks pretty interesting. [0] https:&
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Too late to edit, but I confess that TFA refutes what I wrote! We’ve also made usability improvements pretty much across the board, including making the left and right panels resizable [...]
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Because: window managers! http://i.imgur.com/4K0pa6m.jpg That said...I must confess that irssi uses a non-trivial amount of margin space as well!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I don't want to knock the hard work the Riot developers have put into their application, but I just don't understand: why does 'modern' web design seem to require wasting so much white space? Looking at the screenshot on
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Indeed: https://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html ( Objects Have Not Failed , Guy Steele 2002) That said, I somewhat cringe to think that it's mostly Java-style OOP that Steele is talking about here. May
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by nicklaf 8y ago
9p: What The Whole World Wants!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I almost forgot to mention: Matt Might has an excellent blog post about what all of these "advanced" programming languages offer: http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Welcome to Lisp: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html :-)
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Caveat emptor: Standard ML is not widely used in industry and does not have a large library ecosystem, so if you do recommend it to clients, make sure it's clear that they'd want to follow up with something like Scala or Ocaml, wh
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Not GP, but: I recommend Standard ML. I can't see a better way to do this than to power through Dan Grossman's three course sequence, which goes back to the drawing board and teaches Standard ML [0] to introduce modern programming
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by nicklaf 8y ago
As others have mentioned, "text" is rarely unstructured in practice: it's just that the "structure" is ad-hoc, relying on things like whitespace, newlines, various punctuation, etc. I mean, there's a reason why
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Correction: xv6 runs on QEMU, not vx32 (although Russ Cox co-authored both xv6 and vx32).
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Slightly more recent: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System , which includes some of the Berkeley additions to the kernel, such as TCP/IP and sockets. And then there's xv6 [1], a small Unix running on vx32
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Death is a construction to make sense of our physical reality. That's certainly true from an evolutionary point of view.
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Edit: I was almost certainly barking up the wrong tree here: calcium levels have nothing to do with how much your joints pop. :-) Hmm, well that part about calcium is quite interesting, at least in my case. I say this because right around
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by nicklaf 8y ago
That's a very interesting theory. I had assumed that the immune-system hadn't been implicated in my case (all the immune-system bloodwork came back normal), but now you have me wondering just a bit, so thanks for sharing.
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by nicklaf 8y ago
It really just seems like everything is much more connected than we'd like to think I think you're right. So much so that my doctor actually suggested prescribing SSRIs for the IBS, even in a patient (such as myself) having no
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I am in fact rather interested! A few years back, I went through a lot of physical therapy for a shoulder injury, and within a month or two, I had a year and a half long bout of IBS and leg cramps. Ultimately I controlled the condition (som
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I'd be curious to know if anyone can anecdotally confirm a slightly different, but similar connection to IBS: chronic pain. I have read that IBS is implicated in fibromyalgia, including shoulder pain, but I am interested in the reverse
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Ah, I see. I think what you said was clear now that I understand!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Wait a minute, think about what you are talking about here for a second! :-)
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Possibly! I don't know enough about economics to say one way or another.
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Or are you suggesting we ban working? Well, with a sufficiently progressive tax, you might choose to stop volunteering your time for what will be diminishing returns in income.
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Manuals complement books and tutorials. Say I'd like to review sockets: I'd probably first pull up Beej's Guide to Network Programming [1], and then switch over to (say) 'man 2 listen' when I want to dive in and s
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by nicklaf 8y ago
On the other hand, perhaps it provides an opportunity for people to learn what the terms actually mean. (It took a Canadian to help me realize just how confused we Americans are on this topic.)

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