jhorsager

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by jhorsager 10mo ago
"Less noticeable" are the keywords. Premiums are not paid by employers. They are paid by employees from what would otherwise be part of their salary.
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by jhorsager 5y ago
This is what you call a false dichotomy.
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by jhorsager 7y ago
It is sketchy, but mainly it's the headline that's misleading. For the 64% number they used all crimes, including immigration. For non-immigration crimes the percent of total is stated as 15%, but they also make sure to note tha
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by jhorsager 7y ago
Other species have the ability for tool making, some of it relatively complex. So clearly there are other factors. Language is obviously one of them. The differentiator described here is PFS secondary to a genetic (evolutionary) change in
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by jhorsager 7y ago
In Emacs you have to actively evaluate expressions (i.e., C-x C-e). This IDE apparently will evaluate highlighted expressions without interaction on the user's part. That said, you could easily write an elisp routine to do the same (
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by jhorsager 7y ago
Chicken Scheme is a Scheme variant. It compiles to C. => https://www.call-cc.org/
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by jhorsager 8y ago
I think this is the right approach to the problem. It's a question of meaning and bootstrapping a minimal language that's based heavily on metaphor (specifically, the conduit metaphor). The answer from this perspective, based on s
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by jhorsager 8y ago
I hear this alot about Racket as if this is the value proposition and Racket stands alone with these features. Languages like Ruby are routinely used to build DSLs (RSpec, Rails, ServerSpec, Chef...etc). I would like to hear somebody addr