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by rntz 17y ago
Moral != 1?
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by rntz 17y ago
Ah, good point. I'm personally used to zsh, which doesn't have that particular misfeature.
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by rntz 17y ago
I've looked on the Clojure website, and I can't seem to find documentation on Clojure's default syntax for pre- and post-conditions. Can anyone point me to it?
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by rntz 17y ago
Alternatively, you could just write a shell function: cp() { pv < $1 > $2; } (Or name the function something else if you want regular cp still available.)
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by rntz 17y ago
I think he's trying to make the point that influential idealogues, more often than not, are intellectuals. I'd like to note that, even if they are correlated, this does not in itself show that there is a causative relationship between int
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by rntz 17y ago
The overall point the post you replied to was trying to make, it seems to me, was that it's not about what bad things you can or can't do in a language, it's about whether the language encourages or facilitates bad habits. You can muck ab
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by rntz 17y ago
Point Y is in fact, not true. unsafePerformIO is not part of Haskell, the language. It is an additional feature provided by GHC. (Similarly, the typeof keyword and statement-exprs are not part of C, but extensions provided by GCC.) Interest
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by rntz 17y ago
"... the blogger greatly overestimates his or her skills in other areas." The author never claims to be great at everything; merely to be good at many things. Your point is not ridiculous, but it is mostly irrelevant. To be fair, I don't th
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by rntz 17y ago
This isn't why Lisp is awesome. This is why Lisp was awesome, back 50 years ago. Every single one of these features has since been adopted by mainstream scripting languages. What still sets Lisp apart is its metalinguistic capability - ma
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by rntz 17y ago
That's fairly redundant. char *p; while (p = strchr(tmpfn, ' ')) *p = '_';
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by rntz 17y ago
IMO, the inability to read facial expressions etc. from mere text does a good deal of ground-leveling between the real-world socially adept and socially awkward, which is at least an interesting, if ambiguously desirable, feature of online
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Reason as memetic immune disorder(lesswrong.com)
33 points by rntz 17y ago|13 comments
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by rntz 17y ago
There are several licenses which attempt to imitate or facilitate public domain status already, most notably Creative Common's CC0 ( http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 ) and the WTFPL ( http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ ).
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by rntz 17y ago
> Unlike most of us here, _why never profited directly on his online celebrity status. Most of us are online celebrities?
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by rntz 17y ago
If your site were static or PHP-based, nearlyfreespeech.net offers a really good deal: you pay only and precisely for what you use in terms of bandwidth and storage. Unfortunately the only way to use Python or other languages on it is via C
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by rntz 17y ago
According to Paul Graham ( http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html ): The most meaningful test of the length of a program is not lines or characters but the size of the codetree-- the tree you'd need to represent the source. The
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by rntz 17y ago
Then he should pick better titles for his blog posts.
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by rntz 17y ago
The optimality of move-to-front (under what precise meaning of "optimality" I couldn't tell you) for organizing a list is a fairly well-known result in computer science. Knuth mentions it in TAOCP, vol 3. It's a wonder it took this long for
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by rntz 17y ago
I find the inclusion of Escher's Knot a bit... whimsical.
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by rntz 17y ago
Nice app. However, it assumes certain things about the size of the font displayed, without which it displays incorrectly. And guess what? In my case, it assumes wrong. Bad web design.
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by rntz 17y ago
As an ADHD-affected person myself, the above resonates strongly with me as a description of its symptoms, and indeed of my thoughts regarding ADHD itself. I have been on ADHD medication (first Ritalin, then Concerta; both use methylphenidat
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by rntz 17y ago
from `man grep`: -A NUM, --after-context=NUM Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines. Places a line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of matches.
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by rntz 17y ago
Coming from Haskell, this seems a lot like taking the entire state of the world, sans I/O, and just bundling it into a monad (or MonadPlus, etc). Powerful, but a bit of a blunt instrument compared to using a finer-grained technique. The bac