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Awesome! Great work on this project. Congratulations!

Could you talk about the arithmetic you are using to make mixing colors work?

Is it just me who finds the old website design much better than the redesign? The new redesigned website seems to lack character that the old website had.

Can you (or anyone who has run Lisp software in production) share how the experience has been? Do the management and other colleagues like it? Do they express any concerns? Want to…

> As soon as something enters the standard library its API is basically set in stone Is that really all that different from Python?

> do not criticise Nobody said that. Of course you can criticize. But be aware that your criticism itself could be subject to criticism.

> My point was that GP's rule of thumb (if it has a keyword, it's a statement, otherwise is an expression) is wrong on both ends. I do agree! Sorry to bother you but I am a bit con…

I can appreciate the points about not knowing enough to engage an expert early or using a good wrapper library, etc. But this point blows my mind: > There’s this Network Partition …

Interesting! Any examples of such languages?

`alert("hello")` is an expression and also a statement. a = alert("hello"); // Assigns a to undefined What isn't an expression? An `if` statement is not an expression. a = if (true…

Really needs Mathjax/Katex support otherwise the math formulas become very hard to read. Adds mental load just to parse the math text and make sense of it. Take a look at any of th…

> I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this on Hacker News considering it's the Fields Medal. Many would argue that looking for engineering applications in mathematics is no…

Thanks! Never knew this existed. Would have been better if the sidebar was not shown in a new frame. There are third-party customizations to launch speedbar in the same frame thoug…