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by postfuturist 14y ago
This is just a light lisp-like syntactic layer, as the docs say "LispyScript is not a dialect of Lisp. There is no list processing in LispyScript ." It's just enough to allow nice macros, which adds quite a bit, IMO. There's no CONS, etc. I
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by postfuturist 14y ago
According to the docs, (array 1 2 3) and (object "foo" 3 "bar" 4) works, too.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
I'd guess some type of BSP tree. I agree, it looks fun to work on, see how massive of a simulation you could run in real time.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
I was tested and was deficient, now I take it every day and my levels are normal. Two buddies of mine got tested later and were also deficient, dangerously low even. We live in Portland, Oregon, so sunlight exposure is generally low, but I'
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by postfuturist 14y ago
It looks to me like the supplement is D3 and the one you get from UV exposure is D3, so no, spending time outdoors doesn't give you any better Vitamin D than the supplement. Of course, exercise has other benefits.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Vim users should go here: http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com if they haven't before, that's where I found darkburn, a darker variant of zenburn that I've been happy with for a couple years.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Ingredients for success: Solve a common set of problems (browser incompatibilities, ugly API) with a simple, concise interface that maps well to the domain ($(CSS_selector).action(params)) and release under a liberal open source license (MI
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by postfuturist 14y ago
The things he said about the Clojure community are in contradiction with the data from the 2012 State of Clojure survey here: http://cemerick.com/2012/08/06/results-of-the-2012-state-of-... . Steve claims that Clojure folks come from the
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by postfuturist 14y ago
The Internet Archive is the most important project on the internet today, preserving culture. I've already gained so much from it myself. They work hard to make sure that the artifacts of our culture are not lost. They are totally winning,
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Love the stylus. I remember being able to enter text onto my iPaq about 10 years ago much faster than I can on my phone or tablet today. This brings tablets a step closer to being devices of creation as much as consumption. Call me a nerd,
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Not only that, but Pygame only runs on CPython, which is about 10X slower than the JavaScript engines in FF or Chrome.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
More inane babbling by svbtle bloggers. How is this hacker news worthy?
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Sounds like a migraine: look under "Aura" : http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/migraine-headache/DS00120/D...
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Lazy Sequences in Common Lisp(blog.thezerobit.com)
4 points by postfuturist 14y ago|0 comments
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by postfuturist 14y ago
No sweat, thanks for the gist, I'll add it the repo. I'm impressed, actually, if it brings the runtime under a second, because only a couple languages managed that. The act of finding the correct strictness hints seems a bit like black magi
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Why did you accuse me of being disingenuous? I used an Array (life-array.hs), if Haskell implements Arrays as a linked list... well, that's a problem.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
This is my first Haskell code, so I read several sources, and posted my code to some online sources asking for help. That's what I came up with. I tried a bunch of strictness hints, I found one that cut the time in half. Lots of trial and e
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by postfuturist 14y ago
pull request? I'm no Haskell expert (which apparently you need to be to get decent performance.)
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by postfuturist 14y ago
I did a benchmark. Naive Haskell implementation took 28 seconds, heavily optimized / hinted Haskell version took 11 seconds. Naive C implementation took 0.3 seconds. https://github.com/deliciousrobots/sml_life
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by postfuturist 14y ago
The article is a bit of a rant, but it resonates deeply with me. The single-level of nesting is obnoxious. The spotify app allows a flat list of playlists--just the one level of nesting. Now that I've got a couple hundred albums in there, i
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by postfuturist 14y ago
This makes Apple look rather pathetic. Can't they just spend the energy to improve the product? The correct response to competition is to be better, not appeal to the law to stifle competition. I think the term here is "patent weasel".
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by postfuturist 14y ago
There are plenty of app stores besides Google's. In fact, anyone can setup an Android app store, or sell their own apps through the web using any payment processor they want. You can even have a "send me cash in envelope, and I'll send you
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by postfuturist 14y ago
> Google needs to get its act together with the Play Store How is this Google's fault? I would guess that the pirated copies are all side-loaded from somewhere other than the Google Play Store. Software piracy happens. DRM solutions can
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by postfuturist 14y ago
It's nothing to do with process threads. http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloj...
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by postfuturist 14y ago
What's wrong with calling them compilers? Compilation does not imply an assembly language target.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Fixed that, thanks.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
It is also about using plain linked lists as immutable ordered sequences, sets, or maps.
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Immutable Persistent Data Structures in Common Lisp(blog.thezerobit.com)
48 points by postfuturist 14y ago|11 comments
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Tests are important, as are dedicated QA engineers.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
It is a protected class under NYC law: http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html/aunderthelaw.html

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