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by ywei3410 6y ago
I'm not the original poster, but judging from the answer it looks as though they'd already have an Emacs session open and can execute it without any extra startup-time; in which case the answer is yes, because there's no star
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When it’s hard to do something in Nix, it’s really hard. Let’s say you download a random binary which isn’t part of the Nix distribution — it is unlikely that you can run the binary; you may need to run ldd or nm to check the headers
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Have you tried Lispy [1] and it's derivatives (Lispyville if you're a vim user)? It single-handedly changed how I felt about Lisp editing. [1] https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
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Leaving aside the fact whether a blacksmith represents a specialist trade; in my post I specifically alluded to a /more/ specialist blacksmith which /only/ made spoons as an illustration of extreme specialization, I beli
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No; I don’t agree with that at all — the idea of extreme specialization for greater prosperity is from the foundations of Capitalism. /The Wealth Of Nations/ was only published in 1776. The Industrial revolution certainly introduc
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Thank you — it’s good to know that. Rust is not my first-choice language; which means that I tend to use it when I need something non-trivial and low-level. The problem, of course, is that it colours the experience, so I’m always curious to
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by ywei3410 6y ago
The parent comment insinuated that it was used more than 1% of the time; which also mirrored my (brief) time using Rust. I spent long periods of time as a beginner trying to get a good program structure past the borrow-checker only to disca
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by ywei3410 6y ago
Correction: You _have_ to specialize in the fields that you are good at; not what you want to be good at because you can't compete in the other fields. A couple of million years without advancing is hyperbole to the extreme; specializa
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I'm curious at how prevalent this opinion is among Rust developers; it seems to me that it would defeat the point of using Rust at all and go with a strongly-typed GC language.
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Racket is a fantastic language! If I may ask, what are you looking for? In your previous comment you alluded to live-reloading and graphics; both of which are possible but a little clunky at the moment.
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That's really interesting - I enjoyed the section on transfer learning. Are there any screenshots of Phanon without having to sign-up to the Utah website? Do you think that reducing the amount of syntax-errors via a powerful structured
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Good answer! Wittgenstein’s philosophical work also adds an extra critique to this view of language. [1] https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/meaning...
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by ywei3410 6y ago
To add to this excellent point; a common culprit is not using ~use-package~ correctly to lazy-load as much as you can. I use Emacs extensively for all my languages and have loads of packages installed, but the startup time is around half-a
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by ywei3410 6y ago
Facebook uses Haskell for [Haxl]( https://github.com/facebook/Haxl ), Standard Chartered has a their own Haskell [compiler]( https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6im268/standard_ch
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by ywei3410 6y ago
I remember being extremely spiteful when I first got attacked in Civ. I didn't just wipe them off the map; I first found a tiny one tile island near one of the poles with a couple of resources around. I then forced them to take ownersh
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by ywei3410 6y ago
> How does emacs UI work? Emacs has the idea of _buffers_ which are the actual window panes that you can view. The _buffer_ has data in the form of text which has properties in much the same way a block of html can have properties. An em
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by ywei3410 6y ago
The HarfBuzz font engine should help. What trouble were you having with specifically?
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What are your feelings on applications which have a server-side component which isn't necessary to it's functioning? For example JetBrains products with their plugin store or Unity with the asset store?
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I see you didn't bother to read past the first few words; but I'll be charitable and explain why this is _reducto ad absurdum_. First, we're talking about capitalism as a economic system which has only been in place for ~200
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There's a difference between, > we ultimately need to end animal testing and, > work hard to eliminate animal testing One is known as a universal; animal testing shouldn't be done regardless of the consequence. The other is
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> I think your point is less about wealth creation, and more about access to capital and how that influences who can fund what work. It's a subtle distinction, but I think an important one - and yes you're right access to capit
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> Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others. It absolutely is zero sum - but not from the point of money, but from the point of vie
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by ywei3410 6y ago
I've used more Java enterprise frameworks than you can shake a stick at; I started with Java 1.4 mostly so I'm certainly aware of those patterns! Whether they are "equivalent" depends on your definition of equivalency. C
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I see the other replies mention Rust/Haskell's traits and typeclasses; but a better example to use imo is Python's duck typing. If both objects `Foo` and `Bar` have a method called `baz`, calling `object.baz` will dispatch to
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Let me reverse the question; what metric would make sense to a new programmer? Experience dictates that the only measure which new people really care about is familiarity (see the debate between s-expressions vs. infix operators) and it&#x2
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I think this sort of reduction is lazy in terms of design for language semantics; there's a massive difference in expressiveness between languages and to pretend otherwise is to do a disservice to the rich field of PL theory. Even when
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The article completely falls apart because the only link that the author has between crafting wheels and creativity is done in the following paragraph which is so vague that it can be applied to anything and nothing at all. > a spontaneo
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Here's a fix! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t... .