treerex

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by treerex 9y ago
Format is ugly, but like a bulldog it is so ugly it's cute. If you don't want loop, you can always use iterate. :-)
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by treerex 10y ago
Perhaps because it uses draft.js?
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by treerex 10y ago
I've seen this in various Lisp implementations. And the Boehm collector is written in C for C.
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by treerex 10y ago
I did this 20 years ago. My allocator had multiple regions (slabs) that were tuned to specific allocation patterns and lifetimes, with different algorithms for managing block size, fragmentation handling, and freeing. We could turn on detai
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by treerex 10y ago
Compiler vendors have been doing stuff like this (recognizing specific code patterns from common benchmarks) for 30 years, back in the days when there was real competition amongst C compilers (Borland vs. Zortech, for example.)
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by treerex 10y ago
The symbolism implicit in the characters used in APL is lost with J/K/Q and any other ASCII variant. I highly recommend reading Ken Iverson's Turing Award Lecture too.
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by treerex 10y ago
Certainly not to record the relations or visualize them, but social network analysis certainly falls into the realm of mathematics.
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by treerex 11y ago
It is. The advert was to notify you that the iTerm 3 beta is available and that it has some cool features. It did not ask for donations. It was purely informational.
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by treerex 11y ago
Indeed. A better link would have been to http://builtoncement.com/2.6/ which tells you what Cement is immediately. Looks useful if you're a Python developer.
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by treerex 11y ago
Here are two papers that describe the techniques used by the FDA system (or that were used in the mid-2000's) to find these confusable names. "Automatic identification of confusable drug names" (2006, http://goo.gl
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by treerex 11y ago
Yes, silent TCO. Isn't that what most people mean about TCO when applied to recursion?
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by treerex 11y ago
> no TCO Neither does Emacs Lisp nor ABCL. Yet they are Lisps by your definition. > different approach about side effects (-> avoid) Though not precluded. You can write Clojure with side-effects, but to do so you need to be expli
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by treerex 11y ago
Lisp != Common Lisp. The very thought that you can cut-n-paste code from one Lisp dialect to another is daft. The author obviously didn't take the time to acquaint themselves with the basics of Clojure. The lack of TCO in JVM hosted la
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by treerex 11y ago
I love Common Lisp, and as you say, there are many outstanding libraries that Quicklisp gives you easy access to. ABCL hasn't been "marketed" enough to the Java community, so it has less mind share. When I last looked at ABCL
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by treerex 11y ago
Can someone compare Oberon against Genera, beyond the obvious implementation language and hardware?
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by treerex 12y ago
I have yet to see a good stylesheet for AsciiDoc's DocBook output for creating a decent PDF. Do you have recommendations? I love AsciiDoc, but am only using it to generate HTML right now.
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by treerex 12y ago
No, but that's really not the point of the analogy.
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by treerex 12y ago
"How quaint." -- ClojureScript
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by treerex 12y ago
If you willingly buy the Fire Phone and let Amazon collect the data, this isn't an "invasion" of your privacy. Rather you have opened the door wide open, set out hor'dourves, and asked Amazon to come on in.
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by treerex 12y ago
You get an app banned and it doesn't occur to you that maybe you should pull the other apps that couple violate the same nebulous terms? The "I grew up in the 70s/80s and it was cool to defy authority if you didn't agree
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by treerex 12y ago
I completely agree: I do a lot of printf debugging in exactly the cases you describe. As with everything though it's a tool, and not necessarily the first one to go to.
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by treerex 12y ago
I started programming in 1982 and became adept at writing my code (especially machine language) out by hand before converting to hex by hand so I could key it into the monitor (this on a 6502, VIC-20). Having to do this makes you very caref
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by treerex 12y ago
THINK Pascal was doing this on the Mac in the mid 1980s... TP was an amazing piece of engineering given its functionality and the environment it provided.
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by treerex 12y ago
SharePoint. Our entire Intranet and project management processes are rooted to SharePoint. It may work great in a homogenous Microsoft environment, but Linux and Mac users are screwed.
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by treerex 13y ago
Perhaps I'm just old and tired, but I loathe reading technical papers on a screen, whether it's my LCD monitor, my iPad, or my Kindle. One thing that irks me about the WWW specifications, for example, is that you cannot get a nice
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by treerex 13y ago
Ha, I remember seeing him talk at a conference in 1991 and it was hand-written transparencies on an overhead projector. Comic Sans is a relief. :-) Also, to add what others have said, he is one of the best speakers I've ever been lucky
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by treerex 13y ago
Is this really an issue that surprises anyone? If you are paying for a lower tier of insurance then it makes sense to limit the hospital choices available to you. The whole "I'm going to pay less but still want the same level of c
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by treerex 13y ago
Bah, as a Lisp programmer a standalone executable for hello world weighs in at 43 MB (SBCL 1.1.8 on Mac OS 10.8.5).
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by treerex 13y ago
From the 20th Century, definitely Adolf Hitler: the fallout from the war he started has shaped modern world. The Cold War was certainly accelerated as a result of the land grab after Germany's surrender and the US development of the at
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by treerex 13y ago
What was the global impact of emancipation in the US? I ask not to be a dick: I'm legitimately interested in the answer.

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