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by sedachv 9y ago
> Like - it's 2018 and people are still using 'cdr' and 'cons' as terminology and happily expecting other people to learn those words Ok, so what do you think are better names for those operators and why would th
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Parentheses are so much more frequently typed than square brackets in almost every context that you are better off following the Lisp Machine keyboard layout and swapping them on your keyboard even if you do not program in Lisp: https:&#x2
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> There are people who with a straight face claim configuration management is unnecessary if you have a single shell script, aka Dockerfile. Apparently it is not only unnecessary, it is an anti-pattern: https://www.socallinuxe
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by sedachv 9y ago
There is a lot of misleading marketing hype, misunderstanding, and plain misinformation about how containers/Docker make updates, and in particular security updates, easier, when the opposite is the reality. A lot of people buy into th
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For example, if you want to use SSHFS to access files on a machine that is only reachable via a gateway, you would have to change your SSH configuration with the details of the gateway, or set up port forwarding: https://undeadly
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I have a theory that the current generation growing up with their young artists only working through streaming platforms are going to have a tough time in 20 years reliving songs they loved of their youth because the streaming platform
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by sedachv 9y ago
> GLOBAL is the tool I use nowdays, and updating the tags database or looking up symbols is something that should be getting heavy lifting in an external process. What do you use for GLOBAL? ggtags.el works like you describe (calls star
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I think you need to readjust your lens. Do you regularly buy suits, and have you bought one recently? You post is the kind of unfounded delusions people have about suits (easy to spot when someone mentions the "need" for bowt
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I really don't know why Germans do this to themselves. Yes, wearing a well-fitting, tailored suit made out of fabric with a good hand appropriate to the weather is a horrible (horribly comfortable) experience to subject yourself t
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> Snap advertisers are mostly lifestyle brands that want to engage with their users in a new way. Do you have any sources to back up this claim?
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> This approach is much more powerful than the Unix style of mounting. It occurred to me I should provide a qualifier here. Single-tree Unix pathnames have one very powerful property that qualified schemes from the 1980s lack: self-simil
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by sedachv 9y ago
The idea of extending file-related system calls to remote pathnames was present in a few systems in the 1980s: ITS, Lisp Machines, VMS, probably a bunch of others I am not aware of. You can see the vestiges of this in Common Lisp pathnames.
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by sedachv 9y ago
InterSystems switched to advertising Caché as an "object" database sometime in the 2000s (at least that is when I first saw their ads, maybe it started earlier). I assumed it was something like ObjectStore. Definitely felt deceive
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by sedachv 9y ago
More like a "how-to and why for 99% of Docker use cases" tutorial I can point people to next time I hear the words "we need to use Docker."
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by sedachv 9y ago
Interesting! Do you have any recommended books or tutorials on this approach?
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It is much more regional as well. Nantucket reds might be acceptable casual attire in places on the East coast; here in California they come off as the clown pants that they really are.
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by sedachv 9y ago
> until you eventually hire a sadist/devops guy. I try to drop in and follow the devops scene from time to time; after all, a lot of my work ends up getting handled by this stuff, and sometimes you need to fix things yourself. From
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by sedachv 9y ago
The Internet does enable easier local business discovery. Where are all the new small businesses though? The latest Census data is from 2015 and shows the number of new small businesses created is at a level not seen since the mid-1970s: h
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by sedachv 9y ago
The hunk feature of magit is great; you can easily stage/unstage not only at the hunk granularity but also arbitrary lines using the selection. Being able to easily do that was something I really missed when I moved from darcs to git.
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by sedachv 9y ago
Any pathname in eshell can be a TRAMP pathname on a remote machine. So you just cd to a remote directory and eshell will run commands on the remote machine. You can redirect remote command output to a local file, local command output to a
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by sedachv 9y ago
It could happen: https://github.com/dcantrell/pycoreutils https://github.com/davidfischer/pycoreutils http://u-root.tk/ does that for Go.
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> the defaults are crap As someone who has recently joined the 1k LOC Emacs configuration file club, I have to disagree. The default settings are a well thought out starting point that needs minimal tweaking to get to exactly where you w
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What you are describing has been around since the late 1980s, IEEE POSIX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
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As someone who now seems to send patches for gratuitous and unnecessary Bashisms in purported #!/bin/sh scripts in Free Software on a regular basis, you had me in agreement about compatibility right up to the Bash part.
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> Programmers make a lot more money now than they did 20 years ago. Not because of unions (which are extremely rare for programmers), but because of productivity improvements. A single programmer can accomplish vastly more now than was p
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> And i moved away from Windows to get away from that crap. This is the dilemma of The Linux Desktop (pick Ubuntu, GNOME, systemd, or all of them). Things like internationalization, plug and play, network configuration, are all important
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> You're clearly upset that I didn't praise Common Lisp, but things like that don't lead to useful discussion. > How is that is relevant to my comment? No, I am upset that you are posting misinformed comments about Comm
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> If it werent for browsing the internet (eww in emacs is nice though) and gaming, I don't think I'd even need a desktop environment. I switched to EXWM[1]; Firefox looks and acts like an Emacs buffer. [1] https://gi
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I recommend RAM Mounts. Their hardware is extremely durable (hundreds of miles of offroad motorcycling with zero issues), the parts are modular and interchangeable (they offer mounts for everything from bicycles to airplanes), and they have
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by sedachv 9y ago
> You have the Common Lisp approach, where you work in a complicated sublanguage like this example from PCL: I don't think you actually understand anything about the example code you posted. There is no special "complicated sub

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