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by wtbob 10y ago
Common Lisp compilers may implement static typing. The default type is T, though — but with declarations, a compiler can enforce anything the programmer declares or it infers.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Lisp, though, does have types.
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Pity about the licensing. And, I'm told, the RAM requirements.
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by wtbob 10y ago
And also the Germans surrendered 8 May, while the Japanese surrendered 14 August. Over the course of that quarter it had become more and more apparent that WWII wasn't going to end soon (it didn't, in fact, end until 15 March 199
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by wtbob 10y ago
I thought it was interesting that according to their numbers the U.S. has fewer homicides than Germany (which is worse than Syria?!). That's quite surprising.
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by wtbob 10y ago
sigh It was morning, and I hadn't yet had my coffee:-)
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Each plugin is still a static binary that is self contained, but you can load capabilities into the server in runtime. In my Go code, I've just used subprocesses for that. Stdin & stdout, plus a simple serialisation format, an
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by wtbob 10y ago
I do wish you'd put the XML example next to Lisp, just for laughs: <plus>1<times>2 3</times><plus> Great article, though!
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's because MBTI is about as scientific as astrology. Frankly, when I studied psychology in college ( real psychology, not e.g. some Scientology 'psychologists are evil space aliens' claptrap), I came to the conclusion t
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Why is it a given that teachers "must" have low salaries? I explained why: at least an order of magnitude more people are capable of meeting the minimal requirements to be teachers than are capable of meeting the minimal requ
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by wtbob 10y ago
I use that one all the time in crawl & nethack!
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by wtbob 10y ago
Honestly, they shouldn't re-prompt IMHO — they should only do that on a reload — rather, they should just display the page as it was, which is what I expect when I hit back.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, that's completely and totally awesome — frankly, Cristoferides's algorithm is even cooler than Euler's. I wish I had it at hand last time I was in Europe. I wonder what other algorithms could make my life better, if on
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by wtbob 10y ago
> For instance, HN just performed a full page load for me to make this comment, and will do another one after I click "reply", and then I'll have to find my place again. That's why I comment in a new tab. But yes, I s
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by wtbob 10y ago
I played with the idea of implementing a little Forth for the PRU, but wasted a weekend looking for fast multiply and divide algorithms (IIRC, it can only do addition, subtraction & left/right-shift). It's a neat little platf
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by wtbob 10y ago
Three out of those four are Indo-European, and indeed the similarity between mother, madre & mata is no coincidence.
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by wtbob 10y ago
That'd be a bit ironic, ICANN funding a project to verify assigned names and numbers because decades ago folks decided they couldn't trust ICANN to do its job.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The pay discrepancy between teachers and programmers in San Francisco is really bad. I'd say, 'reflects the distribution of skills and positions available' rather than 'is really bad.' There is at least an ord
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't get what he doesn't understand: when the user goes back, the browser is supposed to show the document he saw when he left, as it was when he left it (so long as that view hasn't expired out of the browser's cache
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by wtbob 10y ago
FWIW, I use Firefox on Android, and I'm extremely happy with it.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'd argue strenuously against Ubuntu: it's basically Debian without the good parts. The choice is to follow RHEL because that's what the mothership forces you into, Ubuntu because that's what the cool kids are into, or D
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by wtbob 10y ago
> My family is Chinese-American … A Japanese waitress stood by, smiling, her pen poised over her notepad. It was obvious I was a foreigner from the way I was dressed and from my company; but still, I felt some wild instinct flare up insi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> There were a lot of regulations, and they had to go several rounds with the city during their build-out. But they got through it. So far as you know. The problem is that it's entirely possible that there's some little-known
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by wtbob 10y ago
The problem is that those complaints may be baseless but disproving them is not costless. And, of course, it's perfectly possible for the laws to be wrong.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> These people are insane. No, not really. An earnings call for an enterprise that large is worth many human lives (at the standard rate of about $2 million, which is itself derived from both people's own insurance choices as well
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Islamic extremism has been around for decades. Over a millennium, actually.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'll second the recommendation of prelude. It does one thing I hate (guru-mode, but it documents how to disable it), and it is flakey about a very few things, but in the main it is golden . I've been using spacemacs at work, and
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by wtbob 10y ago
> That's awesome. That's emacs. Seriously, emacs is pure distilled awesome. I honestly don't know why anyone uses anything else, or writes code for anything else.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yes, it's easier, but it's completely and totally insecure. Security is not terribly hard, but it is completely and totally unforgiving. If you slip up on security, you will suffer, or others will suffer because of you. Don&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
If you're accessing computers you care about from a computer you don't control, you don't really care about them. It's already game over: sufficiently-advanced software could easily permit you to log in, then execute an

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