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Yes, that must be it. As I understand it, the deconstruction was included in the working copy of his book before Chapter 1, and then later removed, correct? Edit: Ah, incorrect. He…

I've read of Zed Shaw's critique of K&R in "Learn C the Hard Way", and I've gathered that he had indeed raised an interesting range of issues, regardless of the backlash. I've trie…

Perhaps he's just doing it for the lulz?

Are you using cwm on OpenBSD or on something else? (Just curious.)

YT link (in case you want to avoid FB): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5w11Cm3gM

"On Lisp" is a good book but perhaps too advanced for an introduction, whereas his "ANSI Common Lisp"[0] is better suited to the purpose. Barski's "Land of Lisp" has also received …

This might have seemed as a superficial witticism, but it's not meant as one (honestly!). There's a fundamental difference in approach towards hardware and software that's cultivat…

Haven't tried that, but it really sounds it would be terrible to the wrists after prolonged use (in which case "prolonged" would mean longer than 10-15 minutes).

Might you mean the "nipple"?

Not really surprising. Old MBA 2013 has an awesome keyboard for coding (and is overall a great terminal device), and the Apple Wireless is identical to some MBA/MBP keyboards. The …

The primary difference is whether you think it's alright to spend £35 on a single simple cable or not. Many things that follow simply hinge on that.

Definitely go for it, then, and try to do Common Lisp rather than anything else. You can always expand later to JVM-based Clojure, or indeed contract to Scheme, but it's good to st…

It would seem as too much of a shot in the dark with questionable ROI for a non-technical (and probably even a technical) manager. From their perspective it would seem as the equiv…

Somehing missing from he ile?

Previous discussions from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16679963 (Common) Lisp usually gets more use than exposure, …

I feel guilty for laughing when he said "to have a friendly chat with HR". It's certainly not a good month for him, as apparently his wife recently left him as well[0]. Bit sad (an…

SDF is changing its main PAUX server. > Broadcast Message from smj@sdf > (/dev/pts/83) at 19:17 UTC... > > > The AMD Opteron 150 known as 'sdf' will now be retired. > A new 'sdf' i…

Similar in Greek academic networks, adapting to local mythology. The amount of routers and mail servers named 'Hermes' was ridiculous. Different experience in English academia, whe…

> "This robot will never die, it will just keep updating itself and evolving," priest Tensho Goto told Agence France-Presse. So that's why goto is harmful.

That would be my impression as well. Linux does have a much wider user base, however, and that enables the community to even stumble across problems more frequently, while a smalle…