vnorilo

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by vnorilo 8y ago
This. I find Lisp optimal for the small band of coder heroes scenario. They must align on cs philosophy, and taste. Grow the team, or have divergent approaches: the efficacy of Lisp quickly disappears and problems appear.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I've observed some behavior from older male teachers toward young female students that seemed inappropriate and clearly unpleasant to the recipient from a sideline (male) pov. My belief is that these guys somehow convince themselves th
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by vnorilo 8y ago
One thing that puzzles me is that many people who complain about parenthesis are perfectly willing to deal with strange and inconvenient delimiter characters, such as semicolons and commas.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Nationalism does not directly lead into those things. My understanding is that's primarily about national sovereignity. Nativism is about discrimination of people based on origin or ethnicity. Obviously there are overlaps in the suppor
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Homoiconicity is the googlable term. The first Lisp book that blew my mind is SICP, nowadays free: https://sicp.me/sicp.pdf I think you need a big picture to appreciate the depth of homoiconicism and meta-circularity. It&#x
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I should clarify that I'm from Finland, which gained independence from Russia in a clearly nationalist context. Not to belittle the troubling consequent alignment with Germany in WW2 which we tend to try to explain with "we didn&#
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by vnorilo 8y ago
While I am firmly in the open borders camp, I'm willing to consider nationalist arguments. I can see why people see value in national sovereignity or cultural preservation. I agree there's a very thin line separating it from racis
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I think well written posts in this category (I thought OP is an example) explain philosophical differences in an enlightening way, rather than evangelize or advocate that everyone else should also move.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
The Economist considers itself center-right, and is classically liberal (free trade, individual liberty). Breitbart caters to nativist sensibility, and while there might be a thoughtful, reasonable standard-bearer for nationalism, I haven&#
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by vnorilo 8y ago
A bugfix is not done when the bug disappears. It is done when you understand why it occurred and why it no longer does.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Right. In C, correctness is by convention, not enforced. C++ allows "userland" enforcement via RAII. There are, however, pieces of compiler magic partially outside the type system (const, &, &&) - you can't specif
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by vnorilo 8y ago
This was a well-crafted benchmark, but what I found especially interesting and insightful was the "apples to oranges" part: C and Rust encourage distinct approaches, different data structures. I feel it is actually more interestin
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Ok, so digital scarcity is engineered, not real, because scarcity makes our economic system work. However, I don't think anyone has come up with a viable post-scarcity model. In some cases like mobile apps and steam sales, big discount
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by vnorilo 8y ago
You would want a persistent data structure, such as persistent HAMT (as in clojure, scala and others) for associative map or a tree of subvectors for an appendable ordered list. These allow most of the structure to be shared between typica
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I thought so too, especially while they were being put into those costumes. Who would have thought that Photoshop would contribute (a tiny bit) to reduce animal suffering? :)
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by vnorilo 8y ago
how would using a specific vcs improve the code quality?
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by vnorilo 8y ago
LLVM is remarkable; the domain is both difficult and critical. Still, the code is consistent enough that I can often guess how things work based on what I think would be reasonable!
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by vnorilo 8y ago
While I don't consider myself a wiz, I'm fairly proficient at both (was responsible for stuff like lfs and submodule reorganization on git in my previous job). I'm honestly surprised that someone adept at one would struggle w
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Like many others in this thread, I've got ddg as the default search engine and sometimes fall back to google (maybe once a week.) I think google is "smarter", specifically sometimes about the context of the query. However, I
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by vnorilo 8y ago
A similar strategy on a smaller scale could be gradual typing, for example Typescript. For me personally, clojure + spec seems very inviting.