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Your dream, my nightmare.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

When I first learned to program (err, actually just to press buttons in an IDE, anyway), I had a "great" idea how you could make a site like Facebook, just simpler and better. Thankfully the friend I explained my idea to was more sensible than me at the time.

Do you know if there is a way to quickly jump to a specific window in Opera, with a strings search, like in Vimperator? This would be really nice.

My bank password is 4 digits. But they ask another, one shot 4 digit password from a table they've sent to you when you actually move money. I thought all banks did this?

Last time I tried SBCL on FreeBSD, the binary package didn't have threads enabled, and when I compiled it from ports, the configuration dialog had me enable the threading manually and said it was "experimental".

No it can't. Browser is pretty much the only platform where you have to use a certain language.

I wonder about the legality of such licenses.

Whan was this published? "09/05/03" doesn't say anything to me.

What is that a reference to? I suppose this is what I get for not owning a tv.

Extensibility of the type without breaking existing code. When you add or remove a case from an algebraic data type, you pretty much need to modify all functions that operate on it since they contain patterns that mention the data-constructors that you either removed, or they don't cover all the cases anymore.

(if you meant pattern matching as in text/regular expressions, disregard what I just wrote)

There is no need for (implementation) inheritance just to use dynamic dispatch. Many languages provide mechanisms for dynamic dispatch without needing to use inheritance.

Also, you can certainly have encapsulation even in pure C with proper use of header files and use of typedefs, though C in no way requires you to encapsulate anything. Ever wondered what is the FILE in FILE* that many C/Posix functions use? I certainly have. But it's not necessary to expose it to callers of functions that use it. So much for encapsulation and inheritance going hand in hand.

I use emacs and dired as a condom that shields me from the stupidity that is remembering this kind of trivia.

Sufficiently Smart Compiler(tm) should be able to optimize `case` that switches only on a known set of symbols pretty well. Certainly not necessary to do hash-lookup.

AFAICT, free Github repositories are always public.

This seems like good advice for getting rid of bad habits:

"just because I did something yesterday is not a good enough reason to do it today"

Gotta keep that in mind.

KISS

I was with the author until this:

> A dangerous myth To wrongly suggest people need to eat animal protein for nutrients will encourage them to add foods that are known to contribute to the incidence of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and many forms of cancer, to name just a few common problems.

For some values of "actual". I think these kinds of retarded units are one reason for not doing the arithmetic.

Or Niklaus Wirth:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/supreddit/prog_lang_wirth

Try entering

   (eval. '(lambda (x) x) nil) 

to the REPL with the following definitions:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.lisp

Overly clever or confusing to you, idiomatic to others (and vice versa).

Why is everyone, including NYT and HN doing exactly what that scumbag wants? This disgusts me.

Common Lisp does this and it's not restricted to being interpreted, you just have to include compiler, linker etc. as part of the language runtime.

Uh oh, I wouldn't want anyone to copy anything that has to with typesystem from Go before they tell how they are going to have typesafe containers without generics. Haskell typeclasses would be a better source of inspiration IMNSHO.

"I am not stupid, I know the law."

Those two things are not mutually exclusive, obviously.

It's funny that Lisp's "syntax" draws so much attention when it is pretty much the simplest and most unambiguous syntax possible, and that messes like C++, Python and Perl don't seem to bother anyone enough to propose alternatives.

It's likely much simpler than that. Stop eating and subsidizing cheap carbohydrates - acquire health.

Are there shapes that are non-geometric?

Something about using one set of credentials for a bunch of unrelated sites rubs me the wrong way.

I think it has something to do with what commenter Kevdog said:

> Here's where the driver license analogy breaks down: I have physical control over my license, it stays with me. No one can lose my license for me.

Setting up SBCL+Emacs+SLIME is really easy if you use Ubuntu or some other distro that contains packages for them. All you need to do in current Ubuntu is

    $ sudo apt-get install sbcl emacs slime && echo "(require 'slime)" >> ~/.emacs

and then start emacs and press Alt+x, write `slime´ and press enter (M-x slime for the initiated).

Now using all the available features of that combination will take a lot of time, but starting isn't really hard.