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by yarrel 10y ago
A beginner to what? If they've never used a computer before, what are they comparing it to? If they're a Windows user wouldn't they have to make some adjustments to use macOS or iOS? If they're a Unity user they will jus
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by yarrel 10y ago
If it takes "five seconds" to fix the presentation (but not the implementation) of SystemD's log files then there's no reason why people who do not understand SystemD's deficiencies shouldn't be able to spend t
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by yarrel 10y ago
States compete with other states.
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by yarrel 10y ago
In addition to the other problems described, Clojure just breaks the value of Lisp's syntax. Common Lisp does have its irregularities but code littered with Java imports and square brackets might as well just use C formatting and be do
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by yarrel 10y ago
I like Go and Guile. I love Common Lisp. It's an expressive language with a powerful development environment in the form of the REPL plus Slime. I love using Lisp for exploratory programming, as it's so simple to write something t
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by yarrel 10y ago
I'd replace the first few steps with "Install Roswell" - https://github.com/roswell/roswell Roswell will install a Lisp and QuickLisp for you, and give you a single point of entry to install libraries, c
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by yarrel 10y ago
It is, but it's what they want.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Real Names do not solve this, though. From the WELL through YouTube to Twitter, people will be mean under their irl identities. And there are real social costs to removing anonymity, which disproportionately fall on precisely the kind of pe
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by yarrel 10y ago
Proof of Stake.
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by yarrel 10y ago
One of the many reasons "Angel" didn't work. At all.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Is Facebook your neighbor? Are you sure? How long do you spend talking to your neighbor each day?
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by yarrel 10y ago
Allow new monopolies to emerge?
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by yarrel 10y ago
The argument (which I agree with, although it can be a pain to adopt at first): http://wiki.c2.com/?AlwaysUseBracesOnIfThen
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by yarrel 10y ago
You are confusing being unable to pay with desire. They are very different things.
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by yarrel 10y ago
No.
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by yarrel 10y ago
NT is basically OpenVMS. So it's about a decade more advanced than UNIX. Put like that, moving to UNIX would be a regression, but not a huge one. The Linux kernel is of about the same vintage as NT, though. And it's had a lot mo
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by yarrel 10y ago
"creeepy"
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by yarrel 10y ago
Go not having exceptions is a definite plus for the language. Adding them would be a change for the worse, not an improvement.
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by yarrel 10y ago
You are not only pointing that out. You are defending it in an emotive way. Just sayin'. ;-)
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by yarrel 10y ago
Robot union API would be a great project for a future YC application. ;-)
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by yarrel 10y ago
Why was the mention of Microsoft removed from the title?
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by yarrel 10y ago
Wittgenstein is interesting in the history of philosophy as the guy who ruined it twice. Had he lived longer there's no doubt he would have done it again.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Ugh.
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by yarrel 10y ago
> 'Well, if you don't need x or y, then its fine!' This used to be the argument against the Mac in the 90s. > We should be demanding better evangelism to get big name products on the platforms. We should be demanding th
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by yarrel 10y ago
Yes. The switch between different pairs if you're not using just parentheses is a real cognitive load.
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by yarrel 10y ago
A 30 year old tape may simply coat your playback head with iron oxide, snap, jam, or have lost its label as the glue has failed.
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by yarrel 10y ago
I love MiniDiscs. DAT is where it's at, though.
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by yarrel 10y ago
CD-ROMs such as "Living Books" had this degree of interaction twenty years ago. Not in 3D, though, which I agree is better.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Flipping pages is faster for fuzzy search and navigation. I love searchable text though. And a hardcopy book has a built in full-screen productivity mode...
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by yarrel 10y ago
And Monads are like pizza.

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