vzcx

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by vzcx 9y ago
Thank you, and thank you to the grandparent. It's quite fantastic to be schooled by old-time lispers (only 6 years of lisp here).
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by vzcx 9y ago
Only in implementation internals? I'm fairly certain I've encountered it in other unexported package symbols in library code, things like struct constructors where you want a "smarter" "make-my-struct" function
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by vzcx 9y ago
Sure, sure. But while it's definitely not in the standard, I do see it all over, and it's something I picked up from reading a lot of other people's lisp. SBCL internals, for example. You might not like the convention and cho
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by vzcx 9y ago
Heh. If you see [1], they define a function called "user-email" (spelled correctly). The lisp convention here would be to define the accessor as something like "%user-email." While the code isn't too bad, these litt
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by vzcx 9y ago
My understanding is that shielded transactions were made opt-in due to time and resource needs in computing their zero-knowledge proofs. Hopefully they can improve this and do away with unshielded transactions altogether in the future.
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by vzcx 9y ago
It's fine if you want to defend monero's technology, but attacking the researchers credibility because of their association with a competing project? That's some weak sauce in my opinion. One side is actually doing the work a
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by vzcx 9y ago
Yes, it is fragile (less than five minutes, man!) but hardly unreadable to the macro-accustomed eye. A "real" implementation would do more processing of the forms in the list read by read-delimited-list and perform appropriate che
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by vzcx 9y ago
Why do you need the meta-capabilities of lisp? Well, language designers are human and can't predict all the features that you might find useful. Take, for example, list comprehensions. I added some basic ones to common lisp in a couple
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by vzcx 9y ago
The CL condition system separates the signaling of a condition (of which errors are a subtype), the handling of a condition, and the definition of recovery strategies (restarts). Instead of unwinding the stack when a condition is signaled,
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by vzcx 9y ago
I might even prefer 5 average lisp programmers to 50 code monkeys.
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by vzcx 9y ago
How well do you know lisp?
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by vzcx 9y ago
That depends heavily on what your day to day problems are. If you work in a complex or rapidly evolving domain, I cannot think of a better choice than Lisp. If you are doing a lot of text processing or writing CRUD apps, then you will proba
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by vzcx 9y ago
I was paging through some old symbolics lisp machine code the other day and while I found some subtle differences in style, it was not so different from modern CL code. I think the differences that are to be found are less about the way one
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by vzcx 9y ago
You can get good work done in Java (where good means providing value for your company), but sticking to any one language or paradigm means that you will miss out on the lessons from others. Lisp is not a pure functional language, by the way
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by vzcx 9y ago
Um... The Chinese like opiates, too. The majority of heroin produced in the golden triangle region finds its way into China. Why all of the moralizing about the "evils" of opiate addiction? Addiction is complicated, and while subs
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by vzcx 9y ago
I suppose it's possible, but holding all else equal? I don't immediately see why dollar demand would increase in the event of a tether collapse. Dollar prices will adjust as BTC->Dollar and Dollar->BTC flows change. Dually t
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by vzcx 9y ago
It would rise as priced in tether, with tether depreciating against the dollar. You will see larger spreads between tether exchanges and dollar exchanges, which already regularly grow into the hundreds. If people were holding tether because
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by vzcx 9y ago
HN might be interested in this statistical analysis of Tether's influence on the cryptocurrency markets: http://www.tetherreport.com/
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by vzcx 9y ago
Their "preference" for "blockchain" is borne out of political necessity. I say this not to trivialize it, but to explain. Banks are massive, massive institutions, and it is hard enough to coordinate people and resources
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by vzcx 9y ago
Guys? Wasn't sama supposed to be running the optimal capital allocation AI? Who neutered him with this egalitarian warm fuzzy friendly module? You've set interplanetary commerce back a decade.
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by vzcx 9y ago
I don't think this is quite right. Currency is not equity. It does not confer ownership rights, nor command any dividends. It's really more like company scrip that can be used in the company store, that is, the portion of the econ
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by vzcx 9y ago
Indeed, and I would frame this story as more the construction and operation of the Concorde was more ahead of it's time than it's grounding a step backwards. The way I see it: there is simply not enough wealth accumulated to keep
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by vzcx 9y ago
Close, but the emergent superintelligence is no less than capital itself, "[invading] from the future [in order to] assemble itself entirely from the enemy’s resources." Creating bitcoins is merely a subgoal, developed as a means
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by vzcx 9y ago
And rightly so: the DX7 presets were abominably tacky. Only in the hands of a capable programmer can it go to places unreachable by contemporaneous machines. Eno is the most obvious name that comes to mind... do you know any others that plu
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by vzcx 9y ago
Ah, but what is a "full life?" Might someone believe that they need something more rare in order to attain it? Isn't "post-scarcity" just taking the limit as supply reaches infinity, and thus just another term for &
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by vzcx 9y ago
Once we can do the same for uranium, platinum, N-(4-Methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline, polyisoprene, hydrogen fuel cells, lithium ion batteries, silicon wafers, liquid oxygen, nitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine... we'll be at a post-scarci
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by vzcx 9y ago
This strikes me as extremely confused. Chinese society is thousands of years old and has survived dynasty after dynasty, revolution after revolution. Perhaps their personal exit from politics is more earnest accumulated wisdom than blisteri
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by vzcx 9y ago
> Yes, I buy things. I'm a shareholder in Apple, I have options against Walmart and I don't touch Amazon - so I do have some input into Apple, and conditionally I have some input into Walmart (if I'm holding stock during a
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by vzcx 9y ago
How much longer does its head have to be held under before it's dead? Do you actually believe that all people have an equal stake in the future of the country? To me it is blatantly obvious that a party animal of an adolescent, say, do
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by vzcx 9y ago
Why? You probably buy some things from Walmart/Apple/Amazon, right? Do you get to elect board members? Hire and fire the CEOs? No, you don't, and I would wager that any corporation operating that way would be run into the gro

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