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Congratulations, I'm sure it was a monumental effort to build this. Good luck with marketing and all that.

> Not as a stand in for general stupidity. It's being used as a stand in for a very specific example of stupidity, and it is "clever" because it evokes strong imagery in an unexpec…

I assume you're being sarcastic, but moron, retard, stupid, dumb, idiot, mad, imbecile, mongoloid, spastic, lame, lunatic, maniac and psycho were all used as medical terms before t…

Most of our insults against intelligence come from medical terminology originally. Every word eventually starts being used offensively, and then a new one gets coined and the cycle…

It is, and autism is just the swap-in vulnerable minority of the day that is socially acceptable to be the butt of the joke. If you don't understand what I mean, swap out "autistic…

Governments have been working on this for more then 20 years now. 40 maybe. As long as I've been alive at least. It's just that all of the actions to try and deal with this have be…

The fact that Arch is bleeding edge has been an explicit part of the Arch philosophy for as long as I've been using it (for 20 years now). It breaks a lot less frequently than it u…

It depends on whether or not latency is the constraint of throughput in your circumstances.

And that demonstrates the difference between a developer that is ready for promotion vs one that isn't. You need to be able to make the correct choices for your employer (even if t…

It's fine to prefer the comfort of familiar problems and obstacles, but you shouldn't pretend to yourself that you haven't chosen to embrace them over fear of the unknown.

Instead of talking about skills, or personal efficiency, talk about technologies that you're going to introduce to your product, or some specific difficult problem that you're inte…

This is bait right? Obviously the answer to this question is there is some population that are happy for there to be suffering so long as it benefits them, and then there is anothe…

I need a !remind me 15 years.

That argument seems crazy to me. 18th is so good. There are literally thousands of programming languages that it is competing with.

This is just not true. The Lisp family contains all conceivable variants of languages, from statically typed Coalton, to dynamically typed Scheme. From functional, immutable by def…

I've seen a few of your comments here today, and generally speaking they are appeals to authority, ad-hominem attacks dressed in allusions to superiority in either knowledge or man…

If nobody understood the argument, then it was either weak or unclearly communicated.

I think it would be a huge advantage to be taught by the person that wrote the textbook in a particular field.

I wouldn't argue about things that are a matter of taste normally, except that I've had the experience where I've turned down optimizer settings in order to debug some code better …

Sigh and yet it continues to be true. You can make a pragmatic decision and rely on tail call optimisation for your specific case, but if you are writing a CL library, then it is n…

They are as different from one another as Java is from C# is from JavaScript.

Worse: Using recursion in Common Lisp isn't idiomatic, given that CL doesn't guarantee tail-call optimisation in the specification.

A small amount of heat is a lot harder to isolate from than water though.

Senior Engineer means many different things, even within the same company. It could mean, "This person is more productive than everybody else around them" or it could mean, "This p…

First of all, congratulations. As somebody that also achieved the senior developer title within the first three years of being hired out of University, mostly by luck: Yay money, b…