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Yeah I think HTML is a good exams of a domain spec language. Instead of putting HTML in a dead string it can be in a parsible lisp object can be manipulated with editor commands. O…

To me it is clear he is saying dry wall work and bridge design are separate skill sets. Contrasting that with the general term "developers" where different skill sets fall under on…

I personally don't prep for doomsday events. But I think being financially stable, owning a plot of land, etc has advantages. Just normal things stable people tend to do or own. Ma…

Business Intelligence. Making reports. Usually over a large set of data. A normal query would be too slow so the results are pre calculated. Maybe you will calculate the average an…

Yes. Originally it was a thought experiment. Just like mathematicians can imagine an idea and use a notation without creating a compiler.

You are also contributing to global warming. It takes a energy to transfer this data all over the world. And poor people will will run out of their monthly phone data limit.

Muscles (ie meat) are organs too.

I'm an omnivore. Chicken, eggs, beef, broccoli, carrots, peas, potatoes, rice, bread, cereal, milk, water, black coffee. Just about anything but this is what comes to mind. Avoid d…

Well the point of gc is to allow the algorithm to focus on the problem domain. and not worry about mechanical implementation details of a computer. Everything has a trade off. An o…

In c# you can implement IDisposable. The garbage collector will call a dispose method allowing you piggyback on the garbage collector for just about anything. But it's rarely a goo…

Get ear cancer from the stronger radiation levels.

The secret of lisp is it's an abstract syntax tree (AST). When you compile a C or Java program it is first converted to an AST. With lisp you are already there. It's kind of a big …

If the goal is access to a wider job market then learn regular Java. It's the most popular JVM lang now and likely to remain so for decades.

The creator of c++ has similar thoughts about how c++ usage for Google search reduces co2 emissions. It's significant reduction. Reduces as much as a while city may produce.

The usual basics are hard to beat. Error logs to pinpoint the location of a bug. Info logs too to observe data or possibly timing issues with multiple users or things. And of cours…

No it's EQ. It's the latest BS thrown around by soccer mom's to describe themselves or their children.