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josch

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    One thing you win is that the name of the script can give you a hint as to what it does.

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    Comment #23418672

    This ban probably comes as a response to this activist project by the Peng! collective: https://pen.gg/campaign/mask-id-2/ where they used morphed portraits for passports.

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    Comment #22138196

    "pervasive multiple-dispatch design tailored towards JIT code generation" sounds interesting. What is the relationship between the two?

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    Comment #22053928

    It's about APL.

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    Comment #17029143

    How did you start? The usual, climbing on it and falling off?

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    Comment #15089380

    You might be interested in this note by Oleg Kiselyov which talks about branch prediction in the context of one of the 1st computers: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Zuse-accolade…

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    Comment #13847006

    That is not necessary since a while ago (Xcode 7).

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    Comment #13485374

    I guess Scala being "the most expressive typed language on the JVM" is true in the sense that it has a ton of features (OOP, FP, Exceptions, null Java backwards compatibility, etc.…

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    Comment #12483857

    But they are not implemented as just a library.

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    Comment #10616968

    I haven't really used it myself, but there is RemObjects Elements ( http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/silver/ ).

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    Comment #10040065

    _She_ has that point (Mary Ann).

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    Comment #9869065

    Not to be confused with the Common Lisp Implementation Clozure CL ( http://ccl.clozure.com ).

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    Comment #8965218

    So you need to use a different phone number than the one you usually use for WhatsApp? Then you wouldn't be linked to your friends anymore, right?

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    Comment #8928387

    http://www.sxemacs.org , an xemacs fork, works as a window manager. hasn't been updated in a while, though.

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    Comment #8728258

    The Oberon OS works that way as well.

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    Comment #8073455

    Leo Brodie says in "Thinking Forth" in the style section: "The most-accurate, least-expensive documentation is self-documenting code". I am sure there are other prior examples.

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    Comment #4707246

    Not really answering your question, but more to the point of the discussion in my opinion, a() + b() could be ambiguous if a() and b() are functions with side effects and the evalu…

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    Comment #3260677

    also cd - which goes back to the last directory you cd'd from.