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by vii 17y ago
James Clark Maxwell came up with an ingenious (if perhaps impractical) workaround to colourblindness. If you cannot distinguish between red and green (common case), then use glasses with one green tinted lens and one red tinted lens. By obs
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Review of Let over Lambda by Doug Hoyte(john.freml.in)
24 points by vii 17y ago|3 comments
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by vii 17y ago
Seems to me this discussion is missing one of the main points of the original post: a massive plug for an unfairly under-appreciated book: > "Let Over Lambda" > (which is really quite scary to read - I can't say that I unders
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by vii 17y ago
I've been feeling quite despondent about the general language/framework fanboyism on Hacker News. This comment is a breath of fresh air. Thank you. I've worked on heavily used programs in several languages (including Lisp) and frankly in my
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by vii 17y ago
shinh is being incredibly sporting about the whole thing, so it's good to go.
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by vii 17y ago
This completely misses the point. The reason JGit cannot compete with Git is not that it is using an extra cycle or two to make function calls. The problem is that Java cripples you in the sort of data-representations you can use -- no mmap
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by vii 17y ago
We all like free stuff, but there is no demonstration that the company was actually harmed by saving the money on free drinks. Did having the early engineers move on have a significant negative impact? Apparently not, or it would have been
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by vii 17y ago
This site is actually really easy to get started with and willing to let you study without bothering you. Regarding the approach (type in a translation for the requested term), I am a bit sceptical. It seems to require that there is one uni
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by vii 17y ago
fork is really handy when you actually want multiple copies of your program (sharing only initial state) -- it can be used like creating a working thread, but you don't have to worry about sharing (subsequent) state. This means you can expl
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by vii 17y ago
It's true that SBCL doesn't make the binary delivery process easy. However, both Allegro CL and Lispworks put a lot of effort into it and succeed quite well. For example, Allegro CL will automatically copy all loaded shared libraries that a
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by vii 17y ago
Clearly these things are quite different. For example, w - x * y + z is w - (x * y) + z There is no way to write this as someFunc(w, someFunc2(x, someFunc3(y, z)) where the someFuncs are one of *,+,-,/ -- you would have to use someFunc(w,so
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by vii 17y ago
Thanks for the comments guys, if anybody's interested in trying it I've an explanation here: http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-using