jbclements

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by jbclements 2y ago
I think this is a fair question. In my opinion, if you're developing a larger application then nearly all of your code will either be in the "racket" language. If you're keen on types, substantial fractions of this may b
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by jbclements 3y ago
Interesting, looks like Ben Greenman started work on a port to Racket, but it does appear that that work is still firmly WIP: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics
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by jbclements 3y ago
I think it's probably more productive to think of this in economic terms; "nonchalance toward optimization" <-> "I can write this code in an hour instead of three hours". And, from a company's perspective
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by jbclements 4y ago
I think the poster is referring to racket-lang.org, which is served through cloudflare. But wait! I have a solution. If you want the web site content locally, the whole thing is built from the public repo at ` https://github.com&#
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by jbclements 7y ago
Lots of good clean fun in this article. My one question: would continuation marks avoid all of the `set!` messiness?
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by jbclements 8y ago
No, it's clear that the researchers are using the term trapdoor in a technical sense. Specifically, one of the key ideas in the swiss system is that it produce a proof that the votes produced as the result of the "shuffle" op
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by jbclements 9y ago
Sounds like you have a good source of information; any chance you can share pointers? Thanks! Apologies if I missed this in upstream posts.
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by jbclements 9y ago
Okay, this is going to sound mean, but this is like the definition of p-hacking. When you look at 30 values, you simply can't be surprised that one of them is lower than the mean, with a p value around 1/20th. Use something like
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by jbclements 9y ago
No, I think that the socratic method can be much more intensely infuriating because it's clear that the teacher is withholding the answer from you. (FWIW, I use the socratic method a lot... so I'm definitely familiar with students
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by jbclements 9y ago
(Mostly just hoisting Noel Welsh's comment to the top level) How will the expected upcoming move of Racket to the use of Chez affect the comparison between Gerbil and Racket? I'm trying not to set my expectations too high. BTW: Ra
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by jbclements 9y ago
I'm afraid I literally laughed out loud at your request for a simple standard algorithm for r5rs macro systems. However, it's a sympathetic laugh. Macro Hygiene is still very hard, principally because (I claim) there's not
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by jbclements 9y ago
You're right that the image is just one source of data. But... that's true of any one source of data. This data doesn't prove anything, it just contributes a bit more evidence (to an already enormous pile...).
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by jbclements 9y ago
self-reply: just tried it. It does well. Alarmingly well. so sad to have to choose between Brendan Eich and Mozilla. :(
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by jbclements 9y ago
so, as someone who keeps meaning to try it out but hasn't yet: how does Brave do with this site?
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by jbclements 9y ago
Ditto, except that I just use postfix's 'virtual' mechanism. Simple additional hack to simplify address creation; all my legal addresses begin with a particular 4-char sequence, and by default, all email addressed to a uid be
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by jbclements 9y ago
One data point to the contrary; I subscribed, and I can now view the site without ads. ObDetails: I use ghostery, and I don't block Google Analytics. All other trackers blocked, according to Ghostery. I do see Ad Council ads.. things l
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by jbclements 10y ago
Wow; I really disagree with this viewpoint. I want clever compilers that produce good code from high-level specifications. I fully accept the lack of predictability. Also, your comment that "everyone gets what they deserve" sugges
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by jbclements 10y ago
Looks like another poster mentions " https://meet.jit.si" . Ran a 10-second test, and it looks like it can successfully display my face. Haven't tried it for actual communication.
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by jbclements 10y ago
There are some very helpful folks on Stack Overflow, but the racket-users mailing list is definitely the authoritative resource. Also, Neil Van Dyke (the package's author) is helpful and responsive.
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by jbclements 10y ago
Yes! I wrote about this in a widely-discussed ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H totally-unread blog post back in 2014: https://www.brinckerhoff.org/blog/2014/12/12/the-why-button/
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by jbclements 10y ago
I think that Eve is tackling the wrong problem. Allow me an analogy: "Bronk, the math designed for humans." Instead of dense algebraic expressions like "3x+49", you get to write "thrice the value of x plus 49."
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by jbclements 10y ago
quite a bit longer, though...
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by jbclements 10y ago
Shameless plug (of my FOSS): if you like Diceware, you might like Molis Hai even better. Maps the 56-bit sequence 0x556bfdce0148c9 to "wrowd aut settea". I betcha the corresponding diceware passphrase is way longer and less memora
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by jbclements 10y ago
Is this the same article that appeared in the Communications of the ACM? Not behind paywall, that's a plus. ( http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2699417&CFID=612805967&CFT... )
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by jbclements 10y ago
I'm sorry, I can't help it: "Salmon Rushdie archives"? Literally laughed out loud.
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by jbclements 10y ago
I believe you misread the text you're replying to. The bijection is between the points in the 2d space and the points in the line segment. Both of these are uncountably infinite.
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by jbclements 10y ago
Interesting. Love to see actual analysis of this.
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by jbclements 10y ago
How do you say "Exterminate! Exterminate!" in Chinese?
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by jbclements 10y ago
Racket has native threads, called "places".
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by jbclements 10y ago
Are you suggesting that an increase in unit tests is correlated with a decline in code quality? That would be a surprising correlation.

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