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Do notice how the answer to “Are the Yankees the best team in baseball?” has changed from “Yes.” to “We used to think so.”

Doesn't really matter what it's written in as long as its logic is easily extendable by someone who doesn't know Ruby. Preferably without having to code at all.

Why yes, I agree that the vast majority of people aren't very high in the Humanity Table of Records (to put it mildly). However, I think that if you're trying to set the world ahea…

> Each generation that goes by, your relative contribution is halved. I prefer a different way of measuring contribution: suppose that (for simplicity) the checkpoints on the progr…

Only if you base your evaluation of “outcome” on what will happen to you , completely ignoring the effect you've had on this world. Which is why I am disappointed with this game an…

Thanks for telling! (I've written a bit of a response here: http://artyom.me/learning-racket-2#gus_massa-from-hn .)

Which is exactly why I was very surprised when it got posted to Reddit and wasn't immediately downvoted.

Pascal is strict, but it still has stuff like “move(var1, var2)”, out parameters, etc., so it's also call-by-reference. I didn't know at the time that Racket was call-by-value. Quo…

I think this was a cached thought – a year ago I was reading a bit about Lisp and probably had stumbled upon what is known as the Lisp Curse.

Of course I couldn't summarize Racket in a page – I don't know it! And there's so much to learn about it that I could probably write half a hundred posts of this length and still c…

There are lots of tools which allow sending typo reports instantly to the author, e.g. http://orphus.ru/en .