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Have rogue orcas been attacking boats in The Atlantic?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sea6ear 6y ago|1 comments
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by sea6ear 6y ago
At one point before Spacemacs was a thing, I had my 'stupid Emacs trick' - I had set up keybindings to invoke Vim as an external editor for Emacs. It took an open buffer and opened ansi-term and executed Vim on the file from the o
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Functional Programming in PowerShell(medium.com)
2 points by sea6ear 6y ago|0 comments
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by sea6ear 6y ago
Thanks for that response. Your explanation makes a lot of things clear that I hadn't fully parsed out from what I've been reading recently.
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by sea6ear 6y ago
Yes, I believe that's correct. SUBRs arguments are evaluated before they are passed to the SUBR - this is effectively just normal a function familiar from other languages. I thinnk an FSUBR (or FEXPR) essentially gets the entire argume
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by sea6ear 6y ago
I've been on a bit of a lisp kick recently. Coming across the description of fexprs in earlier (pre Common Lisp and Scheme) Lisp dialects was interesting to me since it I'm familiar with uplevel and upvar in Tcl, and appears that
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On Fexprs and Defmacro(brinckerhoff.org)
42 points by sea6ear 6y ago|10 comments
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The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees(bbc.com)
2 points by sea6ear 6y ago|0 comments
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Groundbreaking blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms appear(jpost.com)
1 points by sea6ear 6y ago|0 comments
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The reason germs spread in the winter(bbc.com)
3 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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Wasp-76b: The exotic inferno planet where it 'rains iron'(bbc.com)
2 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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Japan's ancient way to save the planet(bbc.com)
1 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy(bbc.com)
2 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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by sea6ear 7y ago
Tcl/Tk was my first love in programming. I've spent years wishing that i could find other environments as easy and capable as Tcl. The only other GUI development environment I've come across that I've found to be similar
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Antarctica melting: Climate change and the journey to the 'doomsday glacier'(bbc.com)
10 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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Timelapse of building a log cabin by hand (2018)(mashable.com)
1 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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Rise of the 'Bleakquel'(theguardian.com)
2 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)(masteringemacs.org)
145 points by sea6ear 7y ago|37 comments
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Robot Odyssey (1984)(robotodyssey.online)
64 points by sea6ear 7y ago|8 comments
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Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished(bbc.com)
3 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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Can humans tell pâté from dog food? (2009)(theguardian.com)
3 points by sea6ear 7y ago|3 comments
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What “Worse Is Better vs. the Right Thing” Is About(yosefk.com)
1 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments
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by sea6ear 7y ago
This article seems like a good story of bug hunting and resolution. I found it when I was looking at the website from another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20828296
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A Tale of Two Markers (2019)(viorel.me)
1 points by sea6ear 7y ago|1 comments
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by sea6ear 7y ago
The book Turtle Geometry [1] by Harold Abelson of SICP fame is a pretty cool exploration of mathematics all the way up to non-euclidean geometry using turtle graphics. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-A
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by sea6ear 7y ago
I really liked the Go standard library (or at least from around 1.4-ish, it might have gotten more complicated now). I liked that it was actually possible to read it and understand what was going on. In a similar vein, P. J. Plauger's
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by sea6ear 7y ago
I also like the C source for Tcl/Tk which I think also follows similar engineering/style standards.
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Gophercises – Coding exercises for budding gophers(gophercises.com)
38 points by sea6ear 7y ago|4 comments
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by sea6ear 7y ago
He is the author of the book The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
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How to Get a Free Yacht(instructables.com)
3 points by sea6ear 7y ago|0 comments

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