tac-tics

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by tac-tics 18y ago
> The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. Eh? Every expert I've heard lately is fearful we're headed towards a repeat of the great depression. The one d
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by tac-tics 18y ago
I do like the square brackets. They don't require holding down shift. And when you're writing the next killer app, and in the process, end up setting the world record for the longest string of subsequent ')' characters... that saves you a t
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by tac-tics 19y ago
The good XKCDs deserve karma. Many of them are rather dull comics, but today's is pretty golden.
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by tac-tics 19y ago
A local lisp implementation in my community saved an entire boatful of drowning puppies! Lisp is awesome!
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by tac-tics 19y ago
What the fuck is with you people? 60 responses and most of theme seem to be arguing about Steve's content instead of his average blog length. After all, it's Yegge we're talking about folks! =-P
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by tac-tics 19y ago
A girl on the Internet? http://xkcd.com/322/
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by tac-tics 19y ago
The answer is simple: http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/270915355_c8b9ae48e6.jpg Edumacation Learn me a book
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by tac-tics 19y ago
I just want to point out an issue with a small point Paul brings up, and that issue is how Karma works on YC versus Reddit. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but there is a tradeoff. On Reddit, you can be rude, and people can d
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by tac-tics 19y ago
Delicious Cake. I must eat it.
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by tac-tics 19y ago
The best way to learn Haskell is a combination of #haskell on irc.freenode.net and the Haskell wikibook (incomplete and often flaky, but up until the beginning of the Advanced section, a very nice introduction to the language)
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by tac-tics 19y ago
A scheme isn't a scheme without continuations. It's a shame they're such a pain in the ass to implement in platforms w/o gotos or TCO.
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by tac-tics 19y ago
This guy's "rants" are aptly named. He vents his frustration the way I'm sure most of us do after a bad day at work: incoherently and unconvincingly. I've long wondered whether or not to put in the effort to learn Rails. I would be more tha
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by tac-tics 19y ago
A very good point. At the end of the day, Java 1.5 is still 98% as good as the latest release. And a language without closures (while certainly frustrating if you've been pampered) doesn't break a language.
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by tac-tics 19y ago
I visited #lisp only a handful of times, but the one time I tried asking a question, I received a flamebath along with my answer. If newcomers step on your toes, channel regulars should have the maturity to deal with it respectfully. I'm no
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by tac-tics 19y ago
I agree. Math is extremely subtle. And despite its nature as the most exacting and rigorous of sciences, the notation used in mathematics is anything but. Each author uses their own conventions. Abuse of notation runs rampant. Sometimes th