spacemanaki

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by spacemanaki 14y ago
What does "large" in this case mean? Are we talking about factory farm style CAFO? What I've read, which may admittedly be outdated, is that these kinds of farms are where the majority of meat, dairy and eggs comes from (in the US).
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
I just pasted this quote elsewhere in this thread but I'm going to paste it here again because it's so bold-faced. The videos may seem troubling to someone unfamiliar with farming, said Kelli Ludlum, the group’s director of Congressio
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
At least one of the practices mentioned, de-beaking [0], is nowhere near out of the ordinary at factory hatcheries. One of the quoted lobbyists even makes the point that some of the behavior recorded is the norm, not the exception: The
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Agree with lloeki to some extent, but with a different game in mind: the Walking Dead. All of the action sequences are done with QTEs, but they are sprinkled through the game and are pretty varied in style. I think in the context of an othe
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Previously... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997952
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
No it's not. There are a bunch of language implementations that compile to C, with semantics nothing like C++. Just as there are a bunch of language implementations that compile to JS but have semantics that differ from JS or whatever "JS++
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Aren't all the ivy league schools (and most if not all prestigious universities) non-profits? I assume they have a bit more to their mission than just investing in alumns who will generate returns in the form of endowments.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
This is what I have at the top of my ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) (when (not package-archive-co
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Eclipse is very goofy about this, and it's something I loathed about using it (having recently switched to IntelliJ, which is better but not by an order of magnitude). In my experience, it will sometimes indent according to your settings, s
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
This is something I think Martin Odersky did really well in this class... he spent a decent amount of time discussing tradeoffs between FP and OOP and how one might arrive at choosing the different features of Scala, even going so far as to
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
I'll politely offer some dissenting opinion regarding Scala for the Impatient. I found that it really doesn't live up to its name if you have done any FP before, ever, even in Scheme or Lisp, because Horstmann treats functional programming
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Will Posthaven's importer retain the source of Markdown-based posts? The little bit of blogging I did using Posterous was almost all in Markdown, and when I found out that it wasn't possible to pull the original Markdown using the Posterous
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
It's been proposed a few times, and some people have gone pretty far with it, http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html It's never really caught on though, I would guess due to inertia. Most Lisp programmers just get used th
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Oops you're right, thanks.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
In case you don't know about this and you want to scratch your itch... you can experience almost the same class this blogger did, in all its glory, for free. Video lectures with the same professors and authors of the famous book. http://mi
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
> Sorry, by "gets" I meant gets(3) from C... Ah ok, that makes much more sense. I can't really speak to what is clear or not for a first-year Clojure dev. When I first learned Clojure, I had already dabbled in Lisps and Schemes for a wh
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
> That seems less like "avoid eval" and more like "avoid gets". Assuming that by `gets` you mean Ruby's `gets`, this is not quite right. `read` (and `read-string`) are not just generic IO functions. They are parsers for Clojure code. Th
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
> Because any language feature that is objectively good with no downside or trade-off has already been implemented in some popular language somewhere. This almost implies that there is no opportunity for anything new in programming lang
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Some languages do support Unicode for things like arrows and other mathematical symbols: http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=ReferenceMa... Languages which support this (including Agda, I believe) usually support some fallbac
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
> There are instructions within the game, and without in the form > of wikis and forums, but I wanted to begin at the most basic > level, if only to come at the game from a recently trendy (if > controversial) des
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
If it's too easy, dig deeper.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
You're right, that's really strange though. It looks crappy on my phone, the font size is too small there, but it's too large on the desktop.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
I thought you were just nitpicking, but then I tried to change the font size on TFA and was unable to. Cmd-minus and Cmd-plus in Chrome on OSX does nothing to the body text, just changes the size of the logos and social buttons. What's up w
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Not a font-nerd but I'll bite. Is the 'N' in MADISON and SECOND upside down? (but correct in http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryjones/4046758633/ )
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
I don't buy your example from chapter 3 of SICP. You could just as easily serialize Python code and eval it. That would be bad practice in Python and it would be in Lisp. The power of "code is/as data" means that Lisp macros can manipulate
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
My argument was just that it has nothing to do with significant whitespace, which is what you were complaining about. Python could be changed to have non-significant whitespace but retain its crippled lambda.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
> There are some problems with the whitespace in Python. > I wrote some code with lots of nameless functions as input parameters (think JavaScript style or Ruby blocks), which of course was an ugly pain to port to Python with no mul
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
But it was an article about the merits of one programming language, in which the author made erroneous and ignorant remarks about another programming language, and other ignorant remarks about programming language features (mild ones like a
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
It doesn't, and I wasn't arguing that... I was suggesting that if one were to prefer reading and writing code without highlighting, one might be more inclined to design a language such that capitalization carries some semantic weight. I'm j
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Well his personal taste likely informed the design decision to use capitalization to confer some semantics for a variable.

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