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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Can't speak for the others, but here's Sofia's situation(at least from my experience): - don't know about schools, but kindergardens are a privilege you'll be fighting for - it's fairly safe, obviously exercise
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
If I break US law over the internet against a US company/person, even though I do no business in the US, have never been there, and don't plan to be there, guess how long before I'm dragged making license plates with words li
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
From The 10 crack commandments: "Never get high on your own supply"
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
I had a flip phone with no internet in HS, I played minesweeper on it about half a day everyday at school. It was the only way I had of staying awake during some of my classes. I literally fell asleep during class if I didn't have s
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
Considering torrenting is the preferred method to view online content at least here in Bulgaria, and I assume in most of the rest of the non-western world, I would advise against underestimating the technical abilities of most internet user
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
> That's a nice pipe dream. But without force, it'll become irrelevant. Transnational authority is extremely terrifying and western Europe has an extremely horrible and tragic track record when allowed to decide the fate of ot
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
Because the EU should absolutely not become a superstate like the US, it should remain firmly an economic and political union and the less force it is capable of exerting, the better. That means no army and no police force? How Democratic c
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
> EU needs a "federal" police force to investigate such things. As an Eastern European EU citizen...fuuuuck no.
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
Common Lisp, for it's maturity, stability(decades old code still runs on modern implementation) and remarkably good design considering it's a language designed by a committee. Almost all of it's problems or dusty corners that
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
Both Django and Rails will be around for many years being useful and making businesses a lot of money. Not to mention I've seen quite a few legacy code bases that would be pretty expensive to replace so there will be maintenance work f
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
With the possible exception of WWI, all of my examples are within living memory.
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
Just two? The world wars are conveniently numbered with I and II. Bonus: The cold war and the iron curtain.
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by pavelludiq 9y ago
There is no such thing as conditional free speech.
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
Depends on your problem, experience level, and the context of your overall architecture, team or a million other factors. Apply thought liberally :)
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
Common Lisp isn't a language particularly focused on FP, in fact, since pretty much everything is mutable, eager and dynamic, you might consider it downright awful at that. CL has more in common with Smalltalk than with Haskell or ML I
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
In common lisp 'nil is of type 'null which is a subtype of 'list, which is a union of the types 'null and 'cons so it wouldn't be an error. Other lisps might chose to do it differently.
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
All of those could have been and a lot of them are libraries in the CL ecosystem though(with varying degrees of quality unfortunately). I feel the reason clojure is a separate language at all is because it would be pretty hard to get a lot
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
True about the kernel, but I've recompiled many of my tools(for example linux repos sometimes provide outdated versions of packages and I need something newer). I often dig in source if I find bugs, or under-documented areas, sometimes
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
When I build my last pc ~3 years ago I spend a while picking out components and after it was assembled(an hour of work essentially) I only open it up maybe once or twice a year to clean the dust filters and any dust that maybe made it'
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
My list of essentials for a pro computer at this point would be: * Robustness * Upgradeability * longevity * reasonable performance Having the latest and greatest isn't essential, since I've had my current pair of thinkpad and cus
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
It highly depends on the laptop you're talking about specifically. Some will just work, others will steal your soul with frustration. I've had very few issues on my thinkpad x240 with Kubuntu. It's an older model, but back wh
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
More like: (howp (write (interpreter :of :lisp :in :python))))
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
Emacs isn't trying to be special by having it's own keybindings, it's just that it's the same age as Apple the company(1976). Most editors back then were line editors, meaning you would give it a command to change a line
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
I kept my last non-smart phone for at least 7 years. If it ain't broke...
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
It's NOT OK to lock down smartphones, TV devices, consoles, cars, etc.
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
That's a very complicated question. Common Lisp has many implementations, with different strengths and weaknesses. For example SBCL and CCL are good general purpose implementations. They're fairly performant, especially SBCL, prop
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
I did python professional y for a few years and I missed lisp every day. There is much work to be done, but lisp has improved tremendously in the last decade.
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by pavelludiq 10y ago
I plan on covering par, but mostly the name came from an attempt to explain the current state of lisp libraries, the "stack".
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Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps(fullstacklisp.com)
338 points by pavelludiq 10y ago|100 comments
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by pavelludiq 11y ago
If we're going to be super pedantic, the Common Lisp spec actually defines code as: "code n. 1. Trad. any representation of actions to be performed, whether conceptual or as an actual object, such as forms, lambda expressions, obj

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