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by ratzkewatzke 7mo ago
There's a very good exercise on Codecrafters ( https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/shell/overview ) to walk you through writing your own shell. I found it enlightening, as well as a good way to learn a new lang
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by ratzkewatzke 8mo ago
There are several good suggestions in this thread already, but I think Nora Sandler's newish book ( https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Compiler-Programming-Language... ) is approachable and fun if you want a less academic ap
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by ratzkewatzke 3y ago
Back in 2009, before the acquisition, a developer ITA software presented at the SBCL workshop (audio here: http://www.sbcl.org/sbcl10/materials/cracauer-talk.ogg ), talking about the company's use of SBCL. The
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by ratzkewatzke 4y ago
I'm an Emacs partisan, but the VSCode support for Common Lisp has come along way. Interested parties might look at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rheller.... .
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by ratzkewatzke 4y ago
Without rat-holing on "should," here's something I had to do the other day: I am providing language-level APIs for a complex web service, one in Python and one in Common Lisp. The service has dozens of operations, all of whic
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by ratzkewatzke 4y ago
I write Lisp for a living (in a couple of different forms), and I've never seen this. You do occasionally get problems where the state drifts a bit and you end up with order dependencies in files, but everybody I know works on source c
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by ratzkewatzke 4y ago
I'm not going to gainsay your experience, but it doesn't match mine. Much of what you do in graduate school is to discover where the accessible areas of research are--where do we have a foothold, and are making progress, and what
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by ratzkewatzke 5y ago
I think that the explanation about credit scores probably applies here; much as people with good credit scores had better options than ISAs, people with some cash to put up do as well.
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by ratzkewatzke 5y ago
This is widely attributed to Sidney Morgenbesser ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser ).
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by ratzkewatzke 5y ago
I'm a fan of functional analysis, but even in my (very competitive) undergraduate curriculum, it wasn't required for a bachelor's in mathematics. I think Susan's guide covers most of what the undergraduate programs I&#x2
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by ratzkewatzke 9y ago
Clojure was built in 2007, so it's clear there have been some changes.
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by ratzkewatzke 12y ago
The Supreme Court was careful not to rule on that; they ruled only that it was a search, not that it was constitutionally unreasonable. There is good coverage of this decision by Orin Kerr at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ne
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by ratzkewatzke 14y ago
So multiply it by your download speed. Let me know when you get to $22k.
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by ratzkewatzke 14y ago
First, the reason the "peak hourly retrieval rate" of "1 gigabyte per hour" is there in the article is to answer this question. At a relative allowance of 5.12 GB/day and 1 GB/hour transfer rate, that gives you a "peak hourly retrieval" of
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by ratzkewatzke 14y ago
They're not using tape storage. The ZDNet story confirms this: http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-launches-glacier-cloud-storage-h... . There are any number of reasons why deletes would be discouraged. One is packing: if your objects are "tarred"
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by ratzkewatzke 15y ago
This article is a mess, and people need to stop voting it up. For example, it contains this perplexing passage: "Let’s say we have the string “hello world”, and let’s assume that its hash is hash(‘hello world’) = 12345. So if hash(‘he’)