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by ruricolist 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I knew about that at one point, but then forgot -- possibly more than once. Perhaps a public shaming will help me remember this time.
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by ruricolist 9y ago
Regarding the syntax for URLs: I for one think Markdown is better here. I have seven megabytes of notes in Org mode and I still regularly mess up the order of the URL and the text.
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by ruricolist 9y ago
Since you have to uninstall and reinstall WSL to upgrade it, it makes more sense to store your files on the Windows file system and symlink them into your home directory.
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by ruricolist 9y ago
I've been using vcxsrv.
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by ruricolist 9y ago
I do have a source, and I finally tracked it down: https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7research/7calag...
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by ruricolist 9y ago
The problem with piece work (in an agricultural context, at least) is that is reveals a wide discrepancy in productivity between workers. The most productive workers are usually about 8x as productive as the average. Employers balk at the p
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by ruricolist 9y ago
Could you implement arbitrary return with cl-block and cl-return-from?
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by ruricolist 9y ago
I don't think the author was talking about the general case of continuations -- he was talking about the general case of unwind-protect in the presence of continuations -- what Schemers nowadays call dynamic-wind.
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by ruricolist 9y ago
Doesn't Perl 6 have macros? If you have macros, you can do it both elegantly and efficiently by expanding Horner's rule at compile time. You can still use reduce; just have it return the form unevaluated. In fact, because the coef
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Most (maybe all) of these papers are available in HTML at the Jsoftware site: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Alternatively, you could just use Shen, which actually uses Prolog to implement its type system.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Gasbichler's implementation of hygiene (in "Fully parameterized, first-class modules with hygienic macros") actually uses De Bruijn indexes.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
You could use an if variant with keywords, like if* ( http://franz.com/~jkf/ifstar.txt ): (if* (== foo 3) then (foo 4) (return))
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Medieval Arabic scribes would turn the paper on its side and write from top to bottom to avoid exactly this problem. It's why Arabic numerals are sideways compared to European "Arabic" numerals.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Stephen Wolfram's post about Ada Lovelace: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-o... Is actually surprisingly substantive, and addresses (among other things) the correspondence between L
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by ruricolist 10y ago
That's fascinating. You've essentially kept the social infrastructure of Quicklisp (quicklisp-projects, repos exposed to Quicklisp) but replaced the technical infrastructure.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use instead of Quicklisp?
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Note that the Common Lisp example could be abbreviated to: (- 9999999999999999.0l0 9999999999999998.0l0) However, this will only work (either way) in Lisps where long floats are arbitrary precision, like CLISP. In most Lisps (e.g. SBCL, CCL
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by ruricolist 10y ago
Swift wasn't unsocial; he was a politician. This article manages to entirely omit his political career, which, as feats of omission go, is pretty impressive.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
For those not familiar with 18th century literature, a little context might be in order. The Spectator that Franklin made a model of is no relation of the modern magazine. This Spectator was an "essay series", a peculiarly 18th ce
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by ruricolist 10y ago
It's more probable that the original was a goat: "Upon killing a kid, a farmer simply takes its milk-filled stomach, ties it off in a tight knot or sews it shut, perhaps covers it in mesh to keep the flies off, then hangs it from
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by ruricolist 10y ago
I'm reminded of Urquhart's "Trissotetras": http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A95751.0001.001?rgn=main;vi...
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by ruricolist 10y ago
I think the nastiest thing to parse in RSS feeds these days is code highlighting. To a surprising degree, people who should know better use blogging software that chops up code into tables, divs, and spans, and styles them with CSS that is
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by ruricolist 10y ago
I've gotten the impression in the past that ISLISP was largely based on pre-existing work by Queinnec, but I don't have any proof.
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by ruricolist 10y ago
It's not all culture, but US culture, that is designed for people under 40. (Actually, for people under 30, but it usually takes until 40 to notice it.)
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by ruricolist 10y ago
The stuff about Cortot is bizarre -- he belonged to a completely different era, when technical perfection was simply not the goal.
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by ruricolist 11y ago
You might want to look at Zile: https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
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by ruricolist 11y ago
A more direct comparison for Emacs would be `adjust-parens`: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/adjust-parens.html
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by ruricolist 11y ago
If you can't say "mercurial Spaniard" to your friends, get new friends.
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by ruricolist 11y ago
On the subject of SNOBOL descendants still in use, there is also Snowball, designed and used exclusively for writing stemming algorithms: http://snowball.tartarus.org/

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