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Performance. It matters even in the 20's.

Common lisp because it's lisp all the way down which makes debugging in slime is better then clojure. With CL you can just have a buffer and start writing code, evaling snippets th…

The rest of the world didn't have area 51 military testing 50+ years ago producing sights no one had ever seen before. In a desert with clear skies. That triggered a cultural pheno…

What if I told you people break the law and are dishonest?

There is no cure. The best solution is to feed the addiction. Buy as many monitors as you can then display as many subreddits on the screen as you can. Then develop your ability to…

Hedge fund managers were shorting GameStop. Made sense as GameStop is a brick and mortar game cartridge seller living in a digital download world. But they went too far. After shor…

Would you consider rice to be "whole food plant based"? Populations that eat rice as a staple tend to get diabetes.

If you are are already familiar with apple software you'd be crazy not go with the new M1. Super power efficiency without compromising on power? Yes please. It's the first big adva…

Deciding between Debian/Arch is mostly about the package system. Debian locks in to package versions for stability. You don't need to worry about updating package A changing it's A…

Sure, reducing transmission rate makes you less likely to be exposed in the first place. But it's not an alternative solution to a cure. Corona's have been with mankind since befor…

Both. Tabs up to the current level of indentation. Then spaces after that for alignment. Spaces never come before a tab, only after and only for alignment purposes. Everyone likes …

Your assumption forgot that remote applies to the entire world, not just the Europe. Have fun competing with team from who mirrors time zones more closely with the US.

> Remote work will take care of this. If by "take care of" you mean put downward pressure on European wages, then sure. Unrestricted remote competition would benefit 3rd world deve…

You have to destroy your social safety net or escape it.

Unreadable gray text on white background is the latest in Web Designer fashion.

You may want to tell that to France.

If you punch the US in the gut with tariffs you may get reciprocation.

You don't even need the "REPL" buffer to do REPL style development. You can just use the "eval" keybinds of your editor to eval the source code in the files. For any test/scratch c…

So REPL may make people less likely to document the code? I don't see the correlation.

1) fully remote 2) 50 miles away from physical workplace. 3) Great. Life is easier with less commuting. 4) Pro: no commutes. Helping the environment by not driving, and conserving …

Their scarcity is not "like". The owner of beanie babies has/had full power to produce any amount of beanies, inflating their supply. The owner could start up the factory again and…

> How often is it used for that use case? 100% of all cases. You just used gold to ask that question.