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by ohyes 16y ago
When did I imply otherwise? I had no idea that I had such ability to be so offensive in things that I neither typed, said, or spake. Apparently differing opinions are meant to be beaten out through karmic justice. It also seems that you agr
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by ohyes 16y ago
As someone who programs common lisp daily, I kind of hate scheme. (As an aside, I've had the enlightenment thing a couple of times, also, and it hasn't caused me to quit my job and write viaweb. (It did make me a better lover, however; YMMV
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by ohyes 16y ago
I had the same reaction, simply because if you entered the challenge and actually produced a better spell checker, you would probably have a few people other than Microsoft willing to pay a bit more than $10,000. Now if it were a million or
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by ohyes 16y ago
I feel that we spend too much time worrying about the syntax of programming languages. I don't find switching between typing in erlang/lisp/java/ruby code any more difficult. All I do is switch IDEs (or plugins) and I'm at about the same le
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by ohyes 16y ago
I just add !google when DDG it doesn't return what I want. thinking about it i also do !wikipedia and !java, !lisp. !amazon is also pretty awesome. I use it more like a command line to search specific things from my browser bar than a gener
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by ohyes 16y ago
I mean, the obvious answer is CLOS, but a lot of people don't think that CLOS is an object system. (To mean that it is very much different from smalltalk/ruby/java paradigm of single inheritance, encapsulation, and message passing).
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by ohyes 16y ago
Neither? I didn't quickly skim it, but I didn't understand all of the proofs either. It is a couple thousand pages, so there is a large grey area between perfect understanding and having skimmed. 'Modern' books on logic or set theory are no
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by ohyes 16y ago
yes, i was a philosophy major
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by ohyes 16y ago
"At this point, you started out trying to improve your code-hygiene a little bit, and all you’ve done is spend the whole day creating a monstrosity that is almost impossible to understand." At which point, your code is not reusable. I feel
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by ohyes 16y ago
Is it weird that I think Principia Mathematica should be on this list? I feel that as a programmer my job is to very carefully axiomatize a little chunk of the world. also, while I remember, Google cache (link was not workign when I came al
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by ohyes 16y ago
1.) It is called a social contract. You have given up some of your own sovereignty to the government so that it can maintain order. By entering into this contract, you are ensured your civil rights. Social contracts are implicit. This is mu
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by ohyes 16y ago
Good for you giving away a significant portion of income. Firstly, "I know I'd prefer to see money allocated by smart people like Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg than by politicians who need to keep constituents happy and win votes." I feel like
883.
by ohyes 16y ago
Should have been 'we know that he committed in the eyes of the government.' Sorry for being cryptic.
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by ohyes 16y ago
I don't think mass declassification of government documents is a good idea, but... The government is going after Wikileaks in a similar way that they would go against a terrorist organization (cutting off funding and detaining them without
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by ohyes 16y ago
I would be interested in seeing a comparison between a reasonable amount of caffeine and a 15 minute nap. For years now (High School, College, now work + grad school) a power nap followed by continued work has been a mainstay in my fight ag
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by ohyes 16y ago
I put a warm, damp washcloth over my eyes twice a day. It helps with the bags under my eyes as well. (The reason it works is that the heat increases the viscosity of the tears).
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by ohyes 16y ago
Mayhap 'beseech', m'lord.
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by ohyes 16y ago
I get around this by implementing the abstract version of my code first; I then implement the abstractions that I used in the abstract version of my code. So I'm not even worried about running code until I have a general idea of what I want
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by ohyes 16y ago
Your math doesn't seem to work. For that to be true, more than a quarter would have to be in the bottom 25th percentile. (In fact, it still points to lisp being better than average). Anyway, The bottom 25th percentile of the competition is
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by ohyes 16y ago
1.) People (who use them) will happily tell you that each of those are the 'best' choices in their respective fields. People say 'C is best for systems programming', that I worded it more weakly is irrelevant. 2.) Lisp has been in use in AI
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by ohyes 16y ago
It seems that any positive inclination towards lisp is cargo cultism. Gabor Melis is a seriously smart guy, and probably would have kicked ass in any language. That said, I'm going to pull out that phrase next time someone says 'Java/C# is
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by ohyes 16y ago
Seriously? He's an idiot for saying this, but... "...nerds, with no social life who dropped out of Harvard or Stanford" Is probably the actual important part. For example, I'm white and male. By these criterion, I would not be selected, bec
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by ohyes 16y ago
>But it's not "natural". I can guarantee you that Lisp showed to a novice isn't "natural". How do you define a language as "natural"? I can't say I find any language to be 'natural', there are just some that I know the rules to more i
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by ohyes 16y ago
Bad advice can't mess up your life. Taking action on bad advice can mess up your life, but the advice itself can't do anything. I can't think of any examples of situations where I took particularly bad advice, but if I did, it is totally on
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by ohyes 16y ago
The parens are a cue so that the editor indents my code properly. How do you propose to make emacs auto-indent sweet expressions? It seems that I would have to manually do that as indentation would convey meaning. Whitespace is a notorious
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by ohyes 16y ago
I am by no means a theoretician and I 'get' lisp. I do maintenance and extension on a code base that stretches back to the late 80s. It is a product that runs on windows, has a large user base, and is still gaining customers (though in a d
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by ohyes 16y ago
IANAL, but... It isn't illegal for your dad to buy you beer if you are under 21. It is illegal for him to buy your friends beer. It isn't illegal to buy beer if you are under 21. It is illegal to sell beer to someone under 21. It is illegal
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by ohyes 16y ago
It isn't a useful heuristic at all. The vast majority of people can't program. If you take a random person from the population I'm going to assume that they cannot program. If we are talking about 'from the population of programmers' I'd wa
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by ohyes 16y ago
WTF? You are extremely recklessly wrong and should be ashamed of it... We actually spend about 70 billion on education. If you look at this department of education's website, you can find a .pdf or excel sheet of the actual budget. It is he
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by ohyes 16y ago
Gig: Hackin' Lisp. Qualifications: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hume, Sartre and others... Honestly, they hired me as a technical writer and it turns out I write code, that writes code, that writes code, really well. What the fuck I'm going to

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