shiro

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1. 121.▲
   by shiro 13y ago

   I use Common Lisp and Scheme at work, and have written and maintained several systems heavily relied on class redefinition and run-time code loading. They're great. OTOH, I feel Common Lisp's concurrent process handling is rathe
2. 122.▲
   by shiro 13y ago

   You summarize very well exactly what I felt from the article. I sometimes feel the metaphor goes the other way, that is, when I seriously read a literature (in my case, it's often a play) I feel like I'm "decoding" it.
3. 123.▲
   by shiro 13y ago

   Returning from a function is calling the caller's continuation. If functions take multiple parameters, why not continuations? Semantically I think it's a lot cleaner to make every function 1-in 1-out. Multiple parameters are jus
4. 124.▲
   by shiro 13y ago

   While I was reading OP's article, I remembered a blog post by an actor. The blog was gone, but basically what he said was that even those who were lucky to act for full-time in Hollywood, 95% of their work is mundane stuff. Basic tra
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   by shiro 13y ago

   I have a simple mechanism like this in the comment fields of a few of my sites. And it shoots down 99.9% of mechanical spams. Yet, although my sites are not that popular, I have a few tens of spam attempts per day, and once in a while the
6. 126.▲
   by shiro 15y ago

   "Sometimes I have to pause when I lose my train of thought." In speaking, pause can carry meaning. A lot of it. It doesn't need to be a calculated pause; the fact that you're lost there can tell "what you really are" to the audience, if y
7. 127.▲
   by shiro 16y ago

   His view seems aligned to the mainstream way of storytelling form of art, which has long history of development (Alistotle said the plot structure was the essential.) But even in storytelling, there are other forms; e.g. Brechtian epic th
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   by shiro 16y ago

   I guess for the major part of the time they were more like a guild. Building temples requires very special skills; they say they aim at 1000 year duration, even though those temples are made of woods, instead of stones. It requires many y
9. 129.▲
   by shiro 16y ago

   Yeah, I was just bitten the sort order one a few days ago; the key was 12octet-long unsigned integer, I combined 64bit comparison + 32bit comparison, and gotten the endian mixed up. I used the same compare function to generate the sorted ta
10. 130.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Thanks. Looks like a good alternative to Aeron.
11. 131.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Wow this is certainly different. Tempting...
12. 132.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Been using an Aeron for 12 years. Now I have a rip in the seat mesh, and one arm fallen off because of the snapped bolt. I could order parts to fix it, but I'm thinking it might be a good time to try out something new. Does somebody have
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    by shiro 17y ago

    Feigning angry is one of basic but effective way to control other people (including yourself). It's so fundamental that most people do not realize they're pretending. Well, in a sense, they are angry, but it's because they subconsciousl
14. 134.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Awesome. You might want to note so somewhere in the site? I guess I'm not the only one who wants to make the comment.
15. 135.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Haha, it's clever. Did you limit the list of compressable characters by frequency? Since there seem more of them; U+3370-33DF range (from which you took 'ms', 'ns', 'cc' etc) also has 'da', 'bar', 'in', 'log', 'mil', 'mol', 'ha', 'gal' et
16. 136.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Thanks, it makes sense. I just wanted to check if there's any connotations not on dictionaries.
17. 137.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    I'm not an English native speaker and asking from pure curiosity: What's funny about the name? Does it have some connotations?
18. 138.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Let's forget Erlang. We've agreed that conflating [Integer] and string is bad. I can't find the reasoning to back up your claim in your posts; if I miss it, could you point it? I think I explained a few points that a language does not n
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    by shiro 17y ago

    The question is, having that many string types are inherent for string handling? Or are they more of residue of historical artifacts? Some data, represented in lists, may have extra constraints. If elements have meaning in its order rela
20. 140.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Hm. I'm assuming internal string representation is canonicalized and independent from specific external encodings (or implementation hides it). I'm not sure what you mean by "target string type".
21. 141.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Oh, I thought you were arguing with my proposition: Distinct string type is for performance and not for ease of programming. I agree that conflating [Char] and [Integer] is not good. That's a different story.
22. 142.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Having dynamic typing makes the discussion complicated, so let's assume we have a cheap way to know the type of a given object. In one world, you get an object of type [Char] ---means a list of characters--- and you can apply all sorts of l
23. 143.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    That is a sort of tangent problem you have to deal with whichever you have distinct string type or list-of-character strings. You may canonicalize, or you delegate stuff to intermediate library.
24. 144.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    I think the main (and almost the only) reason to have distinct string type is performance, not for the ease of programming. Many string operations are useful as a general list operations as well, including regular expression matcher. (Note
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    by shiro 17y ago

    This article becomes interesting if you realize that (1) it was written in 1991 and (2) was written by a distinguished computer scientist. I think it amusing to see how smart people were thinking back then. I built a system with OODB back
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    by shiro 17y ago

    I too noticed the similarity to the console game development. Usually console game developers have to go through lengthy approval process of the platform provider. Still developers accept that (although grudgingly), since once approved an
27. 147.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Thanks for the info. I didn't know.
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    by shiro 17y ago

    In Japan MRI is covered by public insurance. You only need to pay around $60-$80.
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    by shiro 17y ago

    My memory is fading so I'm not sure Mirai brought SubD first... did it? I was in Final Fantasy 7 project where we used Nichimen almost exclusively for real-time models, which was 1995-1997. Then I went into Final Fantasy the Movie projec
30. 150.▲
    by shiro 17y ago

    Thanks for the pointers. Encouraging.