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by pivo 17y ago
I really don't see any difference there. You can write bad code in any language. If you have the organizational discipline to code the way you've described in Python, why wouldn't that restraint carry over into other languages? Why are macr
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by pivo 17y ago
As far as setting up emacs to work with clojure, Bill Clementson's blog has some good information: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/081205.html
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by pivo 17y ago
Emacs isn't the only source of RSI in the world. It just so happens that none of the emacs users in my office suffer from RSI, and several of the Eclipse users do. I think it makes more sense to try to fix the problems the way Bill has than
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by pivo 18y ago
Innocuous News
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by pivo 18y ago
I found Elephant really nice to use with Lisp. It can use a SQL db as a data store, but uses it just for key/value mappings, so you can't use normal SQL commands as you might expect. I found the code to be very concise. http://common-lisp.
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by pivo 18y ago
easy to use != dumb
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by pivo 18y ago
If only it were somehow possible to just download the current eclipse release from eclipse.org.
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by pivo 18y ago
I'm actually am much more productive in cooler environments, and I really enjoy fall and winter here in Boston. Heat drains my energy and makes me lazy. My 2100 sq. ft. condo in Boston costs about $40/month to heat in the winter, but $350/m
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by pivo 18y ago
I agree, except I found that the netbooks I've looked at were too small for me to use even for travel. Either the keyboards were too cramped or the trackpad was too small, or both.
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by pivo 18y ago
My wife works for Medtronic, I'll see if she can bring one home for the weekend :)
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by pivo 18y ago
That's a strange statement. Lists and arrays are different data structures for different purposes. It's like saying that people prefer btrees to structures. Lisp has arrays as well, so if people want to use them they can.
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by pivo 18y ago
I'm planning to go
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by pivo 18y ago
Yes, but it looks like Clojure's do is not the same thing. Lisp's do is for iteration, while Clojure's do seems to be the same as progn in Lisp.
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by pivo 18y ago
Screen's better than detach because, for one, you can create multiple terminals in a single screen session, like a tabbed GUI terminal, and then detach and re-attach to them all at once. I use a .screenrc that provides a textural "toolbar"
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by pivo 18y ago
I spent about 30 minutes reading the the Emacs Tutorial when I first starting using the editor.
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by pivo 18y ago
Um.. most of Emacs' features are discoverable: M-x describe-bindings - List of all keybindings for the current mode M-x describe-mode - Information about the current major mode M-x apropos - Search for info on subject Emacs is the self
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by pivo 18y ago
Is anyone else tired of seeing the term "czar" used to describe someone who's job is in no way like that of an actual czar? This sounds as ridiculous as "revenue emperor" to me.
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by pivo 18y ago
On my way into work this morning I noticed that the tide was about two feet higher than normal high tide in the channel near Rowes Wharf in Boston. Some navigation lights on piers were even underwater. I was wondering what the heck was goin
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by pivo 18y ago
I didn't switch from Linux to the Mac but I did buy a mac(book pro 17") because I got sick of my Linux laptop not being able to connect to encrypted wifi and having suspend/restore break randomly. I do about 70% development on Linux and the
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by pivo 18y ago
True, we obviously didn't get rid of the post office or its legal monopoly but we did get rid of its practical monopoly with companies like FedEx, UPS, etc. and of course with email.
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by pivo 18y ago
The government ensures that everyone gets postal and land-line telephone service if they want it. Considering how TCP/IP packets are used, are they really much different from those other services? In this case it's not about picking a winne
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by pivo 18y ago
Yeah, how could they have predicted this? It's not like we had a major internet bubble burst just a few years ago that could have provided any reasonably awake person a little perspecitive on the value of options, or anything like that.
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by pivo 18y ago
Have you tried Terminal.app recently? It used to be awful, but current versions (Leopard) are great for me. I stopped using xterm completely and haven't had any issues.
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by pivo 18y ago
No tabs, 2 space indent.
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by pivo 18y ago
I just used flot a few days ago and was really impressed. Especially with how it does time series so easily. You just hand it a bunch of dates, which may include irregular intervals or gaps, and it figures out a reasonable representation fo
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by pivo 18y ago
Except that with multi-threading you give up the OS-provided process level memory management and are back to having to track down all those memory leaks which at least Mozilla never can seem to fix satisfactorily. Even though Chrome seems p
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by pivo 18y ago
Some of these objections seem dated. For example, accessor method overhead is optimized away now, and has been for a while. I'm not a big fan of Java, but I do use it for work. For the kind of applications we write (large, long-running, tho
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by pivo 18y ago
Could you describe how records are broken in Erlang?
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by pivo 18y ago
Grassy Knol?
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by pivo 18y ago
Did you try the tutorial? Load it with Ctrl-h t It would help to be more specific about what you'd like to learn about emacs.

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