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by mapreduce 2y ago
Why is it so that every so often one of these feel-good LinkedIn-style posts make it to the front page? Is there so much demand for banality on this site? I come here to read good tech articles or articles that stimulate my curiosity and it
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> It was on the front page ... it hit the top spot. Various people in the community clearly did think it met the bar. It was on the front page. It hit the top spot. Then it got flagged. Many people in the community clearly did think it w
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> If ever you make a mistake, never, ever write it up. Sure you can write it up! But post it to maybe, Reddit? The HN audience expects certain standard of quality and insight in the article if the article is on the front page. Here the c
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by mapreduce 2y ago
Don't people RTFM anymore? Is this another "changeme is valid base64" moment? Come on! Base64 has been around for 30 years!
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by mapreduce 2y ago
Ah! Misunderstood your original comment. My apologies! Yes, I am with you when you question the usefulness of the multiplication syntax. I prefer simplicity and consistency in a programming language grammar, syntax and semantics as I advoca
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> If you’re already trusting it for your IP address, you might as well trust it with the current UTC time I don't follow! How does trusting DHCP with IP address automatically mean I should trust it with the current UTC time? Time r
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> What problems is it solving that require the confusion that it generates? I think I answered that already. It keeps the language spec consistent and simpler. Imagine the complexity you have to add to the language spec to say that when
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> that is worth the complexity tradeoff of people often using it subtly wrong? I don't think that makes the complexity tradeoff worth it. This is the kind of tradeoff that makes the language implementation, reference and semantics m
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> "less than 2 drinks a day" "less than 2 drinks a day" would be called "moderate drinking" in my culture. I mean if someone is having a drink or two everyday that is moderate drinking already. Light drinkin
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> Of course they phrased it that way on purpose because implying causality makes their results sound way more important than they are. How do you know that? I am at a loss to understand how someone on HN can read one sentence and begin d
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? Because we are on a tech website and as good samaritans we want to help each other out by sharing the information, knowledge, projects, tools or recommendations we have?
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by mapreduce 2y ago
> Real LaTeX users don't use LaTeX to write documents. Really? That's a bold claim. Got any source or stats for that? I assure you I am a real LaTeX user and I use LaTeX to write documents. I see everyone around me doing the sa
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by mapreduce 2y ago
Like others have said this is hardly Logo. Turtle graphics != Logo. Turtle graphics is a tiny tiny subset of Logo. But let us not miss the forest for the trees. It is still very impressive that the tiny tiny subset of Logo fits in 508 bytes
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by mapreduce 3y ago
Yeah. I thought HN edits them automatically to remove listicle from headlines but this one slipped through?
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by mapreduce 3y ago
(2011) that article. That's like 13 years old. I very well remember 13 years ago the FANG were not filled with middle managers like they are today. Massive cultural shifts in these places since then.
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by mapreduce 3y ago
This might sound crazy or stupid but I really want to know if there is some Lisp with manual memory management? I love Lisp syntax. People complain about the parentheses but for me they are a blessing. I like how extremely uniform and regul
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by mapreduce 3y ago
> Maybe. but with the same effort one can build a useful language, even adding new ideas that will advance development, which is also fun. So others must have fun the way you approve of? Otherwise they are having fun wrong?
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by mapreduce 3y ago
If the anchor tag already has the URL as text, then will the URL be printed twice? Like if I've got <a href="https://www.google.com/">https://www.google.com/</a> Will it p
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by mapreduce 3y ago
> Also, it's entirely unrelated to the post. Entirely unrelated to the post? Entirely? The post talks: "To write Common Lisp code with comfort and still have the ability to interact with REPL, you can choose your favorite IDE&q
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by mapreduce 3y ago
> that documentation doesn't matter and nobody reads it anyway Did I say that? I don't think so. I said that it is possible to create key mappings without reading 18 chapters of documentation. How? By looking up what we need. B
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by mapreduce 3y ago
> Emacs' solution to switching between buffers is harder to use if you want to go between different files you have open. Are you sure? If I am on foo.rs and I want to go to bar.rs all I type is C-x b bar and type Enter and done! I f
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by mapreduce 3y ago
> but having to read eighteen chapters just to get to make my own keyboard mappings is... That's a very disingenuous way of deflecting your lack of motivation for learning Emacs on 18 chapters of documentation. I'm sure you cod
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by mapreduce 3y ago
Sorry, couldn't find the RSS feed. Mind pointing me to it?
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by mapreduce 3y ago
This absolutely happens to me. Happy to know I'm not the only one. > But in a physical book, I often remember that a phrase was at the top or middle or left side of a page, or that I was sitting in a particular chair when I read it.
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by mapreduce 3y ago
Appreciate the link. Looks great. Thanks! Alas this post did not get the votes to get more links like this.
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by mapreduce 3y ago
>>> A face is a unique identifier. >> Guess you’ve never heard of twins? > Guess you’ve never heard of names? Or date of birth? Personal doesn’t mean unique. Your parent commenter is contesting the "A face is a unique
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by mapreduce 3y ago
Frankly nothing about this title seems clickbaity to me. The word "Joy" can be ambiguous here is the real issue.
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by mapreduce 3y ago
Is this type of comments really in the spirit of HN discussions? From HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. I find this type of
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by mapreduce 3y ago
To quote HN, "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." If it's good for HN, it's good for me.
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Ask HN: What are some less known blogs I can add to my feed?
3 points by mapreduce 3y ago|8 comments

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