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by wtbob 10y ago
> Do you prefer to write HTML documents as S-expressions? Actually, yes. I use CL-WHO[1] a lot, in which one can write: (:html (:head (:title "Foo bar") (:link :rel "stylesheet" :href="baz
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by wtbob 10y ago
> S-expressions are good if you work with Lisp like languages, but I don't think they're very readable if you're not into Lisp. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12198581; I think it demo
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Disagree. JSON became popular because it was extremely easy to implement (both for marshaling and consuming), and because it was extremely lightweight. A canonical S-expression parser is strictly easier to implement, given that S-expre
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by wtbob 10y ago
> A few changes would make XML closer to ideal: eliminate attributes and eliminate the name in closing tags (<tagname>value</>), which makes child elements much less verbose, and reduces the need for attributes. Then ju
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I think it's bad reputation comes from anyone not using an enterprise language because the support just isn't there. On the contrary, I think that XML's bad reputation comes from the fact that it is <adverbial-particl
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by wtbob 10y ago
Hey, that's the EU way — note how the EU Constitution was rejected in referenda, then accepted as the Treaty of Lisbon. If the people don't agree, elect a new people!
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you cripple your browser some websites will break. A browser which doesn't implement JavaScript is not crippled; it is 100% functional. A web page which requires JavaScript is crippled, because JavaScript is not required in or
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Actually I think NNTP solved a bunch of problems that we didn't even know we had at the time, including scaling and funding. Yeah, but think of the social scaling issues. You simply can't have every single person interested
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's surprising, given Milk's support for Jim Jones and his People's Temple[1,2], whose followers murdered a U.S. congressman and committed mass suicide. [1] http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=16566 [2] ht
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Zoning has had a good 100 years: enough already(bloomberg.com)
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's weird, I thought apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade was upgrading my system. I must have been imagining it.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I can confirm. I recently set up a private mattermost server. Because the host I'm running it on didn't have the UTF-8 locale on by default (I think), Postgres defaulted to Latin-1, and mattermost ran fine, right up until someon
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by wtbob 10y ago
> they're just going to … He ; William Stein is a he, not a they.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Yes, WPAD (web proxy auto discover) is for locating a piece of javascript code specified by Proxy auto-config [1], which consists of a single javascript function that is given the url & the host, and returns a proxy to use. So DHCP
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by wtbob 10y ago
> This is true of Windows, any web app that you use, and more and more of any hardware that you buy (Nest, Tesla, etc.). But not, notably, of Linux.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Not everyone is a fluent English reader. I.e. & e.g. aren't English, but rather Latin. Any educated person in the Western world should understand them, no?
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by wtbob 10y ago
Botulism isn't a problem as long as the incipient yoghurt is exposed to oxygen and contains plenty of other micro-organisms: c. botulinum is anærobic and easily out-competed by lactobacillus. There are spores of c. botulinum everywhere
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Double click the title bar then. That's hardly discoverable though.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Maybe that's just the Grauniad codifying their well-known propensity for typographical error, though.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Writing 'eg' instead of 'e.g.' or 'ie' instead of 'i.e.' is just dumb, though. So is confusing the two.
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by wtbob 10y ago
So you mean GUI tabs I guess? How would one even begin to display hundreds of tabs on a screen? I hate that Firefox doesn't make it as easy to switch tabs as emacs makes it easy to switch buffers.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I tried Emacs/Spacemacs and for example, there's no decent tabbed interface. I mean a real tabbed interface, at least as good as Vim's. It's been ages since I was a vi user, and I never used tabs. I took a look at
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by wtbob 10y ago
> To those familiar with Emacs development - is there a tendency to modernise the UI and generally make it an easier out-of-box experience? The UI feels pretty modern to me; it's when I use every other app that I feel crippled. Tha
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by wtbob 10y ago
Thanks! I've posted that as well — honestly, I believe that both of these are tremendously important accounts. We who have ears to hear, let us hear!
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The importance of software design review(philip.greenspun.com)
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Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid (2009)(blogs.harvard.edu)
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's why I like ASDF3: it manages dependency graphs with a superlative macro language not of its own design.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Sounds a little like CLIM, e.g. https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I do think it is also important to note that science isn't morally or politically neutral. Yes, it is: all it can say is what it thinks is true about the physical world. To take the nuclear-weapons issue: science can say that if
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's exactly the way to do it. Returning the HTTP status code in the body of the message is just wrong.

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