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by rauhl 7y ago
> - CL is too big (compared to Racket and Clojure) The old criticisms of Lisp being too big were compared to Scheme & C, and it is definitely much larger than those two are: why, it defines modules & hash tables and has objects
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by rauhl 7y ago
> Common Lisp still has some activity, mainly coming from SBCL, but is a bit stagnant. It has a fantastic literature and many mature implementations. There are a number of improvements I’d like to see to the core language, but in gener
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by rauhl 7y ago
libcruller is available, is close enough to be clearly related and far enough away not to look like a typo. Also … mmm, tasty crullers.
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by rauhl 7y ago
I think that the condition system is one of the better parts of Lisp, and miss it in every language where the libraries I use unwind the stack to provide me an error. It’s true that it’s not used too much in small programs, because small
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Implementing a resumable exception system in Go(rauhl.com)
26 points by rauhl 7y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
Esp. relevant now given the concern around Medium …
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Always Own Your Platform(alwaysownyourplatform.com)
463 points by rauhl 7y ago|211 comments
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by rauhl 7y ago
> > During Semantic's interpretation passes, invalid code (unbound variables, type errors, infinite recursion) is recognized and handled based on the pass's calling context. … And given Go's lack of exceptions, such a f
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by rauhl 7y ago
> What company have more convenient integration of both own proprietary services and 3rd-party one? Most others. Google’s services work on Linux, macOS & Windows (and, I assume, the browser-based stuff works on the BSDs, too). Even
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by rauhl 7y ago
> It should be obvious that the difference between the user friendliness of a program that shows you a real time window of the text you are editing with immediate feedback and a command line interface based editor designed for slow telet
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by rauhl 7y ago
I suspect that the difference in quality & simplicity between OpenBSD & Linux is less a matter of license than historical accident. Given two identical projects with identical contributor profiles, differing only in license, I don’
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by rauhl 7y ago
Well, frankly, I don’t really want a revocation list, and I don’t really want signed extensions in the first place. It’s my browser, and it’s not Mozilla’s business to decide what I install on my browser. And I most definitely don’t want m
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by rauhl 7y ago
> Good modernist and brutalist homes sell quickly and at a significant premium over prevailing market rates. Is that because they are good, or because they serve to signal class status?
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by rauhl 7y ago
> The best contrast to "modernism" would be the episode directly preceding it, namely Art Nouveau or Jugendstil. Wasn’t Art Deco in between? As an aside, I honestly don’t know why anyone tried to ‘improve’ art away from Art Nou
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by rauhl 7y ago
Clearly, downstream distributors need to create a patch which causes their distributes Firefox builds to only check certificates on add-on installation (and to check revocations too, sure): it should never be possible for a browser to fail
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by rauhl 8y ago
> “I never worry about where they are selling more or less because we are too busy making it,” Tran said. “I know that I cannot make enough of my product to meet the demand, so let them have it and work together for the consumer.” What a
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San Francisco’s slow-motion suicide(nationalreview.com)
6 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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Always own your platform(alwaysownyourplatform.com)
7 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google. You’re assuming that Google’s desire here is to protect the user. I don’t think that’s the case: I think that the
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by rauhl 8y ago
> We have seen some auditors who say, 'Look, this is an ambiguous case, but if you come up with X dollars, then we can see the change of domicile.' That sounds more like gangsterism than the proper functioning of the State. Peo
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The Emacs Package Developer's Handbook (2017)(alphapapa.github.io)
156 points by rauhl 8y ago|25 comments
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading(technologyreview.com)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
Yeah, that would be bad — hence my proviso ‘so long as it’s clear what [the post-signature modifications] are.’ If modifications aren’t clearly called out, then that’s a (bad) bug in the viewer.
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Cool. So it seems like PDF signatures are broken by design, not just implementation. If you can just append unsigned content to a signed PDF, you are toast. I don’t know that I’d say that. Seems like it'd be useful behaviour to be
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Exercising Software Freedom in Firefox(jordi.inversethought.com)
1 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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Normalisation of [engineering] deviance(foone.wordpress.com)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
Previously posted, but got very few comments. I really think that it’s worth reading (as is most of Steve Yegge’s work). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18529896 - 0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and the Quest to Kill eBay(medium.com)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|1 comments
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by rauhl 8y ago
> the alternative is substantially worse There’re other alternatives than Windows. I’ve been using Linux near-exclusively on my personal machines for almost two decades now, and I’m quite happy with it. Then there are the BSDs.
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The ineffectiveness of lonely icons(mattwilcox.net)
2 points by rauhl 8y ago|0 comments

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