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by math-dev 4y ago
Sounds like a misleading headline then…”rewritten” implies it has been done :(
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by math-dev 4y ago
Interesting - thanks, I’ll check it out sometime
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by math-dev 4y ago
After your comment, I went and read the article too. Scroll down to the below part onwards > 10 REASONS TO PUBLISH A BOOK ON SUBSTACK > (1) Substack is an accelerating platform: > A few days ago, I had a chance to sit down with Sub
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by math-dev 4y ago
You may not agree, but from a technical / UX perspective it is impressive - the rest of their UI platform sucks but I think their editor is top notch https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
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by math-dev 4y ago
How is this related to blogging / text editing?
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by math-dev 4y ago
It’s a YC company. I don’t see much special for it, let’s see how long it lasts. At least Medium did some very unique things with their text editor (I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world o
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by math-dev 4y ago
Actually you are right :)
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by math-dev 4y ago
I disagree. A program is meant to produce useful output. Yes it should be written well (code clarity is a very strong correlator to the validity of a program), but the primary goal is that it should work.
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by math-dev 4y ago
I thought CM had some example code on how to override the tab behaviour. Might be worth checking out as I agree it sucks to not have tab = indent 4 spaces
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by math-dev 4y ago
That is for YCombinator though (and also says all items are copyright YC if I read it correctly - not sure how hacker news falls into that). The absence of a copyright or license notice implies full rights to the author https://e
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by math-dev 4y ago
Yeah. It just goes against the spirit of the internet to take someone’s blog and package it up as a GitHub repo without their explicit approval.
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by math-dev 4y ago
Well, the author’s preferences should be ideally followed IMHO. > I'd rather you linked to it instead. I like to keep track of which ones people read, because it gives me ideas of what to write about next. I also like to be able to
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by math-dev 4y ago
Is this legal (is there an explicit license allowing redistribution)?
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by math-dev 4y ago
Surely in this day and age one would set up https, that too on a website related page
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by math-dev 4y ago
ignore me, read the comments above
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by math-dev 4y ago
Oh yes you are 100% right, I just had a brain fart. Thanks for correcting
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by math-dev 4y ago
Lovely book, thanks for sharing. I may use it as an example to follow in the future if I write a beginner’s book
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by math-dev 4y ago
most of it should work in elisp, note that elisp and common lisp have different semantics for IF. you might find some variances later on. also elisp doesn’t have as nice a debugging environment as SLIME so I’d honestly recommend just settin
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by math-dev 4y ago
emacs is the easiest but you can try lispworks personal edition or allegro common lisp (they have a web ide IIRC) there’s portacle which combines emacs with a lisp environment
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by math-dev 4y ago
Wonderful article, even if it’s not the best way to do things (per your conclusion and the discussion in this thread).
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by math-dev 4y ago
Lisp (nothing is impossible)
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by math-dev 4y ago
No evidence, just conjecture.
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by math-dev 4y ago
That’s the point - people are saying google is promoting the SEO sites that copy content from stack overflow and use googles ad system
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by math-dev 4y ago
You could have a group of humans vote on whether sites can be included in the whitelist and a main criteria is that sites nexus to an actual human involvement. Could that work?
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by math-dev 4y ago
For example, they may show a copy of stack overflow because it has more ads - for many users they will still click through and deem the copy site sufficient. Same thing with other SEO sites that blatantly copy other websites
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by math-dev 4y ago
Google is optimising for ad revenue. Is it possible to take the google results and apply a domain score overlay on it to get rid of the spammy SEO sites? ie a community curated whitelist of sites that get preferential treatment
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by math-dev 4y ago
Thank you, this was a very informative post
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by math-dev 4y ago
Great write-up. Indeed, the journey with Lisp is an interesting one and what you have witnessed seems to parallel many others experiences. What I found on my journey with Lisp: - I learnt Emacs well and learnt the beauty of its codebase and
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by math-dev 4y ago
It’s very popular in Dubai and India as cheap labour makes it economically feasible. Also one of the plays is they collect data on your purchase habits and can stock better /suggest higher margin alternatives.
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by math-dev 4y ago
Something related: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computing-expert-says-program...

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