hawkeyedan

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by hawkeyedan 2y ago
A little more context… This is a real decision I’m making with Common Lisp, Guile and Janet as my current leading options. But … I feel like documenting all the thoughts in an essay/blog form may be helpful to others. (And my post hist
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Ask HN: Which Lisp? (Lowercase)
2 points by hawkeyedan 2y ago|6 comments
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Text run by an interpreter. Different strokes.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
It’s not in my mix because it’s a fairly “big” language, which is a huge bonus once you’re proficient but makes it a poor choice for me to dive into Lisp(s). For someone else, that might not be true. But I like to be able to hold things in
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
LFE lacks it’s own robust web app development stack … and translating between documentation in Elixir (Phoenix) and Lisp all day will make my head hurt. Clojure is a tougher call. For this project it might be good. However, I want to includ
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
While I’ve got you… What’s the state-of-the-art story for package management in Gambit?
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Thanks, that’s a very helpful insight. You’ve put my mind a significant ease.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
In my case, web-based just means "it is a piece of software you access via the web." Web application, website, SAAS, whatever. And you're right, I should have considered Gambit. Dang, now I have a ternary decision to make.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Just to be clear: yes, there are other Lisps. Yes, Clojure is cool. Yes, LFE is a thing that exists. Yes Elixir is Lisp-adjacent. Yes, any of those would give me access to a larger ecosystem and the resources of a well used, well supported
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Ask HN: Anarki or Racket?
5 points by hawkeyedan 4y ago|16 comments
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
To be precise, applets were an early application of Java. But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.” The project began in 1991 targeting set-top boxes. [source]( https://web.ar
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
This is a pretty great tool, despite the limitations of existing in iOS-land. It obviously has the same problem any Tor browser has though, you run into bot blocking on a very large % of the regular (non .onion) interwebs. Worth considerati
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
And yet I can only read Dante’s original work in Italian!
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Arguments about the “superiority” of Python vs Ruby always sound a bit like arguments about the “superiority” of Italian vs Spanish. If you squint a bit they’re basically the same. (By that simile, Lisp would be Sanskrit?)
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
So funny that Rails has gone from “exciting” to “boring” in (relatively) the blink of an eye. But boring is good, nice to see it embraced.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Best post I’ve read on this so far!
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
This is a really important story. I think about all the requests government agencies make for backdoors to things ... then I read something like this ... Ick.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Of course if you’re one of the platforms, owning some or all of other people’s login processes does happen to be a win for you.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
As somebody who loves databases, I think the real issue that folks are meaning to critique isn’t actually using a “model.” It’s using an ActiveRecord-style ORM (or any ORM) without grokking what lies beneath. A database layer IS a model. It
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Bash is bad and ugly… But I just avoided a day’s worth of development of a little command line utility by adding two alias lines that go into .profile.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Sadly, that might not be a great bet. The world of government software procurement is very, very ugly.
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Great idea! Thanks for making it!
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Hopeful this will get noticed here and folks will go in and comment (presumably positively or with constructive criticism) to make this frequently used .gitignore better.
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Let's improve GitHub's recommended Perl .gitignore(github.com)
1 points by hawkeyedan 4y ago|1 comments
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by hawkeyedan 4y ago
Jumping in on this late, but I think the haters and some of the lovers miss the point. Perl doesn’t need to be Python. It’s great to be the #20 language.
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by hawkeyedan 6y ago
Still wrapping my head around this. And hoping Raku will start to get some mainstream adoption.
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New newsletter for JavaScript data science(twitter.com)
2 points by hawkeyedan 7y ago|0 comments
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The T-I calculator is awesome(bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com)
1 points by hawkeyedan 12y ago|0 comments
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by hawkeyedan 12y ago
This is a great example of the curative powers of even a little bit if sunlight. Good job PP! Now if only Verizon had shame.
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by hawkeyedan 12y ago
I'd suggest that the guest use case is the most important one and that account generation/creation/etc is for most sites the use case that should come second.

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