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by zeveb 8y ago
In fairness, it'd actually be: (my-method my-object x y z) But yes, the Lisp version is so much clearer to me. I just don't get why it's not more popular.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Put the right leadership team in place and you can do amazing things with that power. Sure, but that's the thing: IBM doesn't have the right leadership team in place, and hasn't since Gerstner left. It shows no sign of
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by zeveb 8y ago
I checked, and sure enough you're correct. I could have sworn that I'd had two linear scales, but … I was completely wrong. Been decades since I used it, and the memories obviously faded.
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by zeveb 8y ago
This, BTW, is IMHO why recent Android versions refuse to use self-installed certificates for all traffic: to prevent you from knowing what apps are sending back home. It's not in Google's interest for you to control your phone and
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Browsing the web with Common Lisp(babbagefiles.xyz)
4 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
666.
by zeveb 8y ago
But that's a circular definition; one could use a different unit than grams (e.g. grains) and get a different pseudo-mole and hence a different pseudo-Avogadro's number.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't think chicha is fermented directly after chewing — saliva contains too many other microorganisms to do that and have something at all tasty. Give it a nice boil though, and then ferment it, and I imagine that it'd be just
668.
by zeveb 8y ago
Mine had them. I don't think that I'd prefer it for accounting work, though.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Another two factors in the '00s re-rise of Lisp were Steve Yegge's Drunken Blog Rants ( https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants ) & Practical Common Lisp ( http://gigamonkeys.com
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by zeveb 8y ago
> That must have been a brutal time to be involved in AI research. They don’t call it the AI Winter because it was fun!
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I would prefer the HQ be closer to NY, Boston or Toronto While anywhere east of the Mississippi is going to be a rude awakening compared to Washington, Oregon, California, Colorad, Utah, Wyoming &c., New York, Massachusetts, Canada
672.
by zeveb 8y ago
> most scientists and engineers didn't really care too much about the moral implications of their work Have you considered that they might care very much about the moral implications of their work — and be proud to contribute to t
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by zeveb 8y ago
> sin taxes seem to have increased much faster than inflation I think that's because back then, everyone smoke & drank, and rather more than we nowadays do, whereas now it's common to look down upon smokers in particular.
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by zeveb 8y ago
You can count from zero to twelve one the knuckles of each finger, using your thumb as an index. Easy-peasy. Combined, that means you can get from 0 to 156 (12*12 + 12). Much better than the 10 one can manage simply by holding up fingers
675.
by zeveb 8y ago
Well, one might blame the EU for being so bad that a majority of the voters preferred the poorly-defined, widely-understood-to-be-potentially-dangerous option rather than remain. As an aside, I think terms like 'jingoistic' aren&#
676.
by zeveb 8y ago
> … we had to pull it back. No, you didn't. The Right Thing™ to do would be to have simply told the complainers to carry on with their lives. There's no reason to give hecklers a veto.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I find many common lisp users' attitude towards scheme condescending. Are you familiar with the Blub Paradox[0]? I contend that the things you dislike about Common Lisp or don't mind about Scheme having or not having are pre
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by zeveb 8y ago
Scheme is a neat little language, but it's really not ideal for writing full software systems. Indeed, Guile & Racket (back when it was PLT Scheme) are perfect exemplars of Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently complicated
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Researchers discover a pattern to the seemingly-random distribution of primes(motherboard.vice.com)
6 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
That's pretty cool, but it seems to me that mixing in the stack pointer just means adding more code to function epilogues & prologues, while not buying much in the way of security. But no doubt I'm missing something.
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Why you should buy into the emacs platform(two-wrongs.com)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
And that's an ignorant law, since all a link is, is a way to say, 'hey, go to this machine and ask for this resource.' If you, the owner of the machine, wish not to give it to people who ask for it … don't.
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by zeveb 8y ago
This sounds really fascinating, and I'd love to go visit sometime. I sincerely wish them the best of luck. I do have a pair of downer thoughts, though. The first is that I wonder how much repeat business they can do (yes, dreamcomp
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by zeveb 8y ago
Ditto. As an aside, while it's certainly true that if one can compromise a web server (whether serving static HTML or generating dynamic HTML) then it's game over, the modern style of JavaScript-centric development greatly expan
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by zeveb 8y ago
Oh, I'm not going to take a position on Objective-C vice Java (I have some residual fondness for the former, from back in the 90s, but never really used it in anger) — only on the fact (well, in my opinion it's a fact) that Java i
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by zeveb 8y ago
I really, sincerely doubt that even Apple with all its capital could fix all the issues with Java. At heart, it's just not a good language. You can get work done in it, slowly and painfully, paying a great deal of money to a great nu
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by zeveb 8y ago
You're right that it'd be awesome to have some singularity of vision, but the problem is that a consistent vision requires a small team, and Linux is, fundamentally, built on C — and C is insufficiently powerful to enable a small
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by zeveb 8y ago
> it's not like anybody will need to act immediately upon some news regarding foreign affairs for example Well, that's not quite true: there are organisations which need to act immediately upon news of foreign affairs. Those
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think that's okay, because those large, multi-person codebases are precisely the ones which pay a huge cost for premature abstraction. Too much copy-pasta is a great reason to refactor.
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An appeal to the WHATWG(more-magic.net)
1 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments

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