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by pkd 10y ago
One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.
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by pkd 10y ago
Continuing with the topic of editor setups - I highly recommend CIDER if you are already comfortable with Emacs. I say already comfortable because it is a bad idea to learn both Clojure and Emacs at the same time, especially so if you have
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by pkd 10y ago
Indeed. Alse Afghanistan before Taliban[1] Very appropriate that the US had a huge hand to play in dislodging the normalcy of life in both of these places. [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-
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C Is Not Turing Complete(barrucadu.co.uk)
2 points by pkd 10y ago|1 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
Thank you. I wish to someday walk into an interview and pull out Clojure as my language of choice and write every bit of code they ask me to as a pure function - and then look into the interviewer's eyes and try to decipher if they had
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by pkd 10y ago
No, we couldn't have had GuileEmacs for a long time since the compatibility layer with Elisp wasn't complete - that meant that not all Existing Emacs packages could be used as is with a GuileEmacs. This release specifically addres
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by pkd 10y ago
For me this is the most exciting part: Complete Emacs-compatible Elisp implementation Thanks to the work of Robin Templeton, Guile's Elisp implementation is now fully Emacs-compatible, implementing all of Elisp's fea
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by pkd 10y ago
I agree that compile to binary languages are better for distribution, and has always been a pain point with interpreted languages like Ruby. Ruby actually does this better with its ecosystem (RubyGems, Bundler) than a lot of other mainstrea
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by pkd 10y ago
I personally don't find anything flag worthy in this. Can the mods please unflag this?
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by pkd 10y ago
I think the main value of this project is hidden under the "internals" link of the site. It discusses the construction of the language. Although it is incomplete as of now - hopefully the pages get filled up. https://ma
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by pkd 10y ago
I have never used a fountain pen with a glued together nib and feed. The ones on the top of the page aren't glued together, they are the screw on type. These are generally found in hand-tuned pens (like the Edison Noveau) or premium pe
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by pkd 10y ago
Re 1. Almost all fountain pens are "hacker friendly". I have a couple of pens which are much more expensive than Noodler's and I have completely dismantled and then reassembled them multiple times while cleaning. Unless you a
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by pkd 10y ago
Silicon Valley, I suppose.
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by pkd 10y ago
GlobalFoundries was spin off from the AMD fabrication units so I don't think they got an immediate advantage with them. Regardless of that AMD is a much smaller company than Intel (~9k employees vs ~100k employees) so it is quite a rem
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In Support of Free Speech(medium.com)
2 points by pkd 10y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
Yes, there is a bigger factor. Western economies are stronger than India's. The average pay is higher and the standard of living is higher (this also means that the cost of living is higher but that gets compensated by the fact that th
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by pkd 10y ago
I am not saying he was not indirectly responsible for the riots, but he has been cleared from those charges.
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by pkd 10y ago
Indians want to immigrate because of the much higher pay and savings in the western economies compared to the pay for the same job locally. I am sure a lot of people are motivated by the much more modern western culture as well but I can as
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by pkd 10y ago
That's not how elections work in India anymore. We've not had ballots to fill for almost 20 years now.
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by pkd 10y ago
The problem is that it is hard to pull off in a bigger population like India's. Social stigma doesn't work if all your friends are doing it too. My perspective is that the problem runs way deeper than this and any kind of social w
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80sfy – Listen to synthwave with 80s gifs(80sfy.com)
1 points by pkd 10y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
I am sure this is a good thing, but I can't help but feel that YC is overcompensating for the fact that one of their partners played a pivotal role in Trump's victory and they did nothing to oppose it. But then again, maybe I am j
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by pkd 10y ago
That is not my assumption at all. It is about casting a wider net. In an ideal world, the talent a company needs is available instantly and locally. But the world isn't ideal. Sometimes the talent is available instantly but not locally
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by pkd 10y ago
Thing is that the whole of US isn't Silicon Valley or Seattle. Startups in upcoming hubs like Portland and Boulder will suffer(sic) because the salary requirements are too high for them to satisfy given the living costs. It basically m
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by pkd 10y ago
This one is extremely popular in the interviewing circles thanks to CTCI.
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by pkd 10y ago
You can also type % followed by the query in the search bar to only search within open tabs.
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by pkd 10y ago
It's interesting that you mention privacy because I filed a bug report[1] just yesterday that is a potential privacy issue. Basically Firefox no longer allows you to deny websites access to camera individually. This means that while on
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The Vulkan Graphics API – What It Means for Linux(youtube.com)
4 points by pkd 10y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
Yes, made by Paul Graham. Called Arc. http://arclanguage.org/
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by pkd 10y ago
> It gives me a shared 'clean' Ruby installation of the right version, plus a project-specific copy of all the gems the project depends on You can also accomplish the same using gemsets which are provided by rvm.

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