binglo

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Learning Lisp: Start with Scheme, CL, or Arc?
1 points by binglo 18y ago|2 comments
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by binglo 18y ago
Regarding battery technology, if I'm not mistaken, that's already a solved problem: Lithium-Ion batteries have great capacity and are quite light. Their only problem is "venting with flame" if you don't charge/discharge them within their li
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by binglo 18y ago
Converting cars to electric is ... not optimal. Cars are built very heavy these days due to "safety concerns". They're also heavy because they're loaded with features. It's very unlikely that you can find a nice light minimalist car that yo
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by binglo 18y ago
Ah. Ok, then that makes things easier. For your case, don't use Python, nor PHP. Both are pretty much just like Perl and Java with only minor syntax changes. If you want to expand your understanding of computing in general, while also lea
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by binglo 18y ago
Why are you determined to use either Python or PHP in this latest project? I would make sure you have a good answer to that question before using something besides Perl.
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by binglo 18y ago
I love LaTeX for docs that simply use one of the built-in documentclasses -- and which use no extra packages or custom commands or environments. I strongly dislike it for anything else. Getting anything non-default to work right has always
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by binglo 18y ago
Wait. So, getting 4 hours sleep, then showering and rushing out of the house with a cup of coffee within 15 minutes of waking isn't optimal?
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by binglo 18y ago
From the article: "I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. ... you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace." ???
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by binglo 18y ago
Working at night is great. Trouble is, you pay the price the next day when you're downing coffees just to keep from falling asleep on your keyboard. I'm guessing at least some here have made that trip out to the parking garage around luncht
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by binglo 18y ago
Could it be that you're just scarred from trying to do branching with cvs? I've heard svn is much nicer regarding that.
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by binglo 19y ago
That's quite nice. Still not sure how I feel about wiki-style plain text markup formats though. I like them for simple and short docs, emails, and README's because it looks good in the editor, but it seems like the more you ask from that so
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by binglo 19y ago
Those seem to just be a collection of html files where you can edit them and fill in the blanks. I guess if you like having your docs in raw html, it could be useful for those who have a hard time choosing where to begin. Thanks.
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by binglo 19y ago
Yes. Thank you. I like POD for man-page -style docs, but for longer multi-section docs I'm not sure it buys you much more than plain text (except that you can easily convert to other formats). Also, it's harder to read than plain text -- th
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by binglo 19y ago
Definitely beautiful pdf output, but I was never happy with the available "latex2html" converters. Bonus for being able to render mathematics in your docs. Edit -- Also, I agree with you about the learning curve. Although it's very easy t
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by binglo 19y ago
Why do you use docbook?
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by binglo 19y ago
I find that a plain text file longer than about a dozen pages in a terminal window -- containing more than a handful of sections and subsections -- becomes a pain in the neck to efficiently navigate around (during both reading and writing).
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Ask HN: documentation format?
6 points by binglo 19y ago|15 comments