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He uses Racket.

And if you cannot afford PICO-8, there is a free TIC-80 alternative.

> "you're lucky you even have a job; shut up and stop complaining" You probably have seen the dotcom crash yourself - there were a lot of developers feeling lucky to even have a jo…

> I wish there was a way that we could apply our skills toward fixing this injustice. Educate yourself on why does that happen. Main purpose of every company is to make money. As l…

Parinfer is another good attempt at making editing Lisp code easier: https://github.com/shaunlebron/parinfer

Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism. > but the extreme poverty has been shrinking Indonesian 12 y.o. who makes Nike sneakers for 1$ a day will probably disagree. Humanity …

> nearly feral generation of children that almost collapsed the country Care to provide a source? We have kindergartens that accept children as young as 1.5 y.o, older kids (3+) ty…

It helps a lot. My C and Python code have improved significantly since I've started learning Clojure.

Because you don't write a lot of code on paper? Working with text (for notes or prose) is very different than working with code. You don't think "I need to correct that thing locat…

It's not just raw input speed - writing on paper allows you to quickly jump around the text, making small corrections, adding notes/symbols/drawings, etc.

* US spreads propaganda and lies around the globe (Voice of America) but doesn't like it when RT does the same.

Worker productivity has been steadily increasing for the past century, but wages stopped growing in the 70s-80s. No amount of corporate compensation can compensate for that.

Some tabloid is already writing an article "First alien nudes from outer space discovered".

I've seen similar statements before, and it is a major point in Lockhart's Lament. I wonder if only people who are both good mathematicians and good teachers can pull off teaching …

What do you think about clojure.spec approach?

Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (people, who control the wealth and means of production - factories, companies, banks). They dictate their will to the proletariat…

The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem.

KGB, obviously.

> This is in part because the risk was not shared equally. Developer joining a startup risks almost as much as a founder. He leaves his existing job for a promise of a salary, and …

This reminds me of an article where people tried to reverse-engineer a rocket engine from the Saturn V rocket, whose manufacturing process was also lost: https://arstechnica.com/sc…

There is a joke: Couple walks into a photo exhibit, and compliments the photographer "these are very nice photos, you camera must be pretty expensive". After an exhibit they invite…

There is a dedicated site: https://darkpatterns.org/

Totally agree. > (which go way beyond mere bit-twiddling, btw) I was fascinated by optimizations people come up for Game of Life by reading Michael Abrash's Black Book. > a program…

Conway's Game of Life can be implemented naively in C/C++/Java/etc, using a boolean for every cell's state (on/off). This will require at least n*m bytes (probably more in Java). U…

"Hammock driven development" is the modern application to the software engineering ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc )