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by rauhl 7y ago
Even for California that seems a bit … steep (pun intended). Sure, there’s a relatively high minimum wage. And maybe one has to get planning approval. And maybe an engineer’s sign-off. And possibly get some sort of union labour force to
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Using Advent of Code 2019 to Rediscover Common Lisp(danielkvasnicka.tumblr.com)
2 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
> Do you know what Kitboga and the like do to get themselves targeted by scammers? From my experience: have a phone number. The real reason that I decommissioned my old landline was that it had become unusable: calls at all hours of the
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What must be done to head off the coronavirus threat(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments
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Web of Documents (2019)(blog.danieljanus.pl)
164 points by rauhl 7y ago|91 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
I’ll have to take a look at CUE; it might be worth using. But I have to ask: isn’t there something simpler which can handle taking a declarative specification and adding imperative behaviour to it? I’m writing — as anyone who knows me migh
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by rauhl 7y ago
> I don't know why you are downvoted. I don’t agree with the downvoters at all, but I think it’s fairly obvious why he’s being downvoted: either folks think he’s wrong that such a thing is possible, or folks think he’s right but do
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by rauhl 7y ago
The S-expressions are misused too — Steve Yegge’s example, not mine. My version would have no use of QUOTE at all.
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by rauhl 7y ago
What do you mean by names here? S-expressions have symbols, which serve the exact same purpose as what I think you might mean: an interned string value which can be cheaply used more than once.
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by rauhl 7y ago
> The author also doesn’t suggest what should be used instead to encode structured data, or perhaps more importantly what should have been used to encode graph like things such as map/lists/objects in the 2000’s. That’s easy: S
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Web of Documents (2019)(blog.danieljanus.pl)
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by rauhl 7y ago
> On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. On
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by rauhl 7y ago
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937448 His follow-up article https://medium.com/free-code-camp/follow-up-to-rest-is-the-n... is not quite as bombastic and somewhat more
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by rauhl 7y ago
I think it’s punitive. Felonies are (or should be) truly serious crimes, the worst of the worst — if a crime doesn’t warrant permanently branding someone as outside the norms of civil society, then it shouldn’t be a felony. There should
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by rauhl 7y ago
I think that it’s possible in many states, but very difficult. That seems fair. Personally, I think that it should be possible but difficult for felons to earn back the right to vote. Not as difficult as earning back the right to bear arm
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by rauhl 7y ago
One of my hobby projects awaiting some free time is an OS. I figure that since Forth is so easy to implement that I can just build a simple Forth implementation for a CPU, then write a Lisp implementation in that Forth — then if I ever wan
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by rauhl 7y ago
Agreed that websockets would be overkill and probably less reliable, but why not Server-Sent Events[0]? They are quite simple and should get the job done. For unidirectional information I find that they’re a pretty decent technology, an
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Writing a natural language date and time parser(lisper.in)
1 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
The tokens used on such a counting-board are called jettons. I’ll second your recommendation, and add my own next step: moving on to using a slide rule. Seriously, seeing how real numbers move on a slide rule really helped give me a feeli
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Note-Taking Strategy 2019(cpbotha.net)
3 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments
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The coming death of just about every rock legend(theweek.com)
1 points by rauhl 7y ago|1 comments
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Introducing literate dotfiles (2018)(writepermission.com)
2 points by rauhl 7y ago|1 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
Oh definitely — that is a must ! But it doesn’t do you any good if e.g. you want to turn read symbols into shell commands. You can play some games with :invert, but at the end of the day it’s a hack. I don’t blame them for upcasing back
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by rauhl 7y ago
> CLOS is often lauded as one of the best object systems. To see it as one of the complaints feels odd. CLOS is awesome, better than the rest. But there are some weird seems between types and classes. And in places CLOS doesn’t go far
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by rauhl 7y ago
I absolutely love developing in Common Lisp, and I agree with you. Some suggestions: - Get rid of upcasing; 21st-century languages should be case-sensitive and case-preserving. Allegro’s modern mode is the Right Thing™ here IMHO. - Fix thi
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by rauhl 7y ago
I would suggest that you look into Common Lisp (no surprise to anyone who knows me …). Why? Well, it’s solid . I spent some years as a professional Python programmer, and it was annoying how things which were easy to do in Lisp were diff
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by rauhl 7y ago
I agree with you, but I wonder what his answer to stuff like GUIs would be. There’s a tremendous amount of complexity and domain knowledge in stuff like drawing fonts, and in cryptography, and so forth — and very very few of us have the ti
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The Mutable Web(simulacrum.party)
79 points by rauhl 7y ago|26 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
> ‘It shows you, even in very hard times, to keep walking, to keep going,’ [Stĳn] said. ‘I have never had to do that before.’ I recently read Dinner of Herbs and Going to the Wars, two books by a fellow who was a British commando in the
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Centennial of the First Transcontinental Motor Convoy(nationalreview.com)
2 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments

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