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by wtbob 11y ago
> These are called "M-x" in emacs parlance. And if you use the GUI version of emacs, you can use alt-x instead of pressing escape then x. It's much easier, but doesn't seem to work in the terminal. That works in all m
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by wtbob 11y ago
Oh, I love LaTeX dearly — but it's not part of HTML, and in this instance UTF-8 handles it perfectly well.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> At its inception Unix doubled down on stupid, first by encouraging data to be stored and migrated in the form of untyped text streams, which require ad-hoc parsing and unparsing logic at the endpoints I tend to agree with you here: it&
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by wtbob 11y ago
> The argument to me is that Go advertises itself as being easy to write that concurrent glue code & then fails to provide basic abstractions around it. What‽ It provides channels, which are a really nice abstraction for concurren
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by wtbob 11y ago
> The point is that this is an unethical business model that I don't want to support. How the heck is it unethical to sell in-game items to make real-world profit? It's simply not .
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by wtbob 11y ago
Don't let the haters get you down. I see nothing wrong with what you've built and are building.
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by wtbob 11y ago
Why did he write '$2\frac{1}{2}$ or $3\frac{1}{2}$' (which presumably uses JavaScript to be rendered), when he could have just written '2½ or 3½'? It'd have taken 8 bytes to store instead of 36 — and that'
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by wtbob 11y ago
When I was in college I found a number of books on the shelves which had uncut pages; I used to just use my student ID to open them up. It'd have been great to have had a paper knife to do the job. Funny how folks forgot so quickly wh
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by wtbob 11y ago
SBCL (free), Allegro ($), probably some folks are still using clisp (which is a pretty cool Lisp, but almost defunct).
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by wtbob 11y ago
The Common Lisp standard is definitely neither pure, nor simple, nor consistent, but it is pragmatic, practical and powerful. Scheme is a fun learning toy, but I wouldn't use it for a production system. As for Clojure? I'd like
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by wtbob 11y ago
I don't really think of Lisp as a functional language: it's really an imperative language with some functional features, and some OO features, and some aspect-oriented features and so forth. The advantage that I see in switching t
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by wtbob 11y ago
I don't think that attendees at Trump rallies really count as right wing, but rather as populist.
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Sounds like the definition of bravery to me: doing the right thing even when it hurts one.
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by wtbob 11y ago
What a fascinating idea. Looks pretty cool — if I ever get back into vanilla Minecraft I'll give it a shot (I've been 100% modpacks for a few years now). Any plans to support some of the more popular modpacks? I can imagine that
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Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language(fare.tunes.org)
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by wtbob 11y ago
I really þink ðat we ought to use þ and ð in modern English, but oddly enough no-one agrees wiþ me:-)
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Phil Rogaway has a similar reputation, and went as far as to put a no-military-use patent on OCB. Had he not done that, it might be more useful. When it expires, maybe we'll see it put to good use.
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by wtbob 11y ago
I don't think it's so much about not wanting to give djb his due as wanting to point out that literally the rest of the industry is shamefully bad.
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> There are already some quite advanced compilers that treat JavaScript itself as just a web assembly language, you don't technically have to wait for WebAssembly. Yeah, there's even a Common Lisp which compiles to JavaScript …
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by wtbob 11y ago
> ye ole Lines of Code paradigm Little-known fact: the *y in old signs is actually a 'þ', which is an Old English letter named 'thorn' and pronounced like modern 'th.' Thus, the old books & signs were r
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by wtbob 11y ago
> A module doesn’t solve that kind of type confusion, though. Static typing does. That's the root of all the problems, though, isn't it? JavaScript is just a terrible language. Actually, that's not really fair. It's
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by wtbob 11y ago
Well, it's a Request for Comments; I think that yours is a pretty good comment to submit.
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by wtbob 11y ago
Honestly, were it not for a web browser I really wouldn't need a GUI at all: everything else I do is a terminal and emacs (sure, both are running in X, but I don't really use their GUI features for much). I remember when I was a k
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by wtbob 11y ago
The problem here is that there is a single petname space (pet namespace? pet name space?) administered by one organisation but used by everyone. With a different system, the author could have a key $foo, and call his package ($foo kik), and
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News. I respectfully disagree that my response was in any way a 'religious flamewar,' or an invitation to one, but I won't say any more out of respect for the Mr. Grove'
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> Would you feel the same way about someone who is currently doing .Net but has experience with other technologies in the past, and still learns and uses non-MS technology outside of their current job? No, certainly not. But I've r
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> I think we're starting to see the need for 'laborer' programmers. There's a lot of relatively unskilled glue/laborious coding that needs to be done. I have a computer for that! Seriously, that's one of th
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IBM used this kinda of contractor quite a lot in the 2000s and a bit later; I don't know if it does anymore.
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Well, I personally would have a lot of caution inviting in someone who is familiar with .Net, out of concern that he would be a Trojan horse. He would be more familiar with proprietary than free software, and hence when confronted with the
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by wtbob 11y ago
That's an interesting idea. I'd support an ad blocker which took a certain set amount of money per month and divvied it up amongst the sites whose ads it blocked. Heck, I'd probably throw $50/month into it.

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