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Why is it so that every so often one of these feel-good LinkedIn-style posts make it to the front page? Is there so much demand for banality on this site? I come here to read good …

> It was on the front page ... it hit the top spot. Various people in the community clearly did think it met the bar. It was on the front page. It hit the top spot. Then it got fla…

> If ever you make a mistake, never, ever write it up. Sure you can write it up! But post it to maybe, Reddit? The HN audience expects certain standard of quality and insight in th…

Don't people RTFM anymore? Is this another "changeme is valid base64" moment? Come on! Base64 has been around for 30 years!

Ah! Misunderstood your original comment. My apologies! Yes, I am with you when you question the usefulness of the multiplication syntax. I prefer simplicity and consistency in a pr…

> If you’re already trusting it for your IP address, you might as well trust it with the current UTC time I don't follow! How does trusting DHCP with IP address automatically mean …

> What problems is it solving that require the confusion that it generates? I think I answered that already. It keeps the language spec consistent and simpler. Imagine the complexi…

> that is worth the complexity tradeoff of people often using it subtly wrong? I don't think that makes the complexity tradeoff worth it. This is the kind of tradeoff that makes th…

> "less than 2 drinks a day" "less than 2 drinks a day" would be called "moderate drinking" in my culture. I mean if someone is having a drink or two everyday that is moderate drin…

> Of course they phrased it that way on purpose because implying causality makes their results sound way more important than they are. How do you know that? I am at a loss to under…

> Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? Because we are on a tech website and as good samaritans we want to help each other out by sharing the information, kn…

> Real LaTeX users don't use LaTeX to write documents. Really? That's a bold claim. Got any source or stats for that? I assure you I am a real LaTeX user and I use LaTeX to write d…

Like others have said this is hardly Logo. Turtle graphics != Logo. Turtle graphics is a tiny tiny subset of Logo. But let us not miss the forest for the trees. It is still very im…

Yeah. I thought HN edits them automatically to remove listicle from headlines but this one slipped through?

(2011) that article. That's like 13 years old. I very well remember 13 years ago the FANG were not filled with middle managers like they are today. Massive cultural shifts in these…

This might sound crazy or stupid but I really want to know if there is some Lisp with manual memory management? I love Lisp syntax. People complain about the parentheses but for me…

> Maybe. but with the same effort one can build a useful language, even adding new ideas that will advance development, which is also fun. So others must have fun the way you appro…

If the anchor tag already has the URL as text, then will the URL be printed twice? Like if I've got https://www.google.com/ Will it print like this? https://www.google.com (https:/…

> Also, it's entirely unrelated to the post. Entirely unrelated to the post? Entirely? The post talks: "To write Common Lisp code with comfort and still have the ability to interac…

> that documentation doesn't matter and nobody reads it anyway Did I say that? I don't think so. I said that it is possible to create key mappings without reading 18 chapters of do…

> Emacs' solution to switching between buffers is harder to use if you want to go between different files you have open. Are you sure? If I am on foo.rs and I want to go to bar.rs …

> but having to read eighteen chapters just to get to make my own keyboard mappings is... That's a very disingenuous way of deflecting your lack of motivation for learning Emacs on…

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