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phillord

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    Comment #19652020

    Emacs-26 has threads yes. How many packages use them at the current time I do not know. With nrepl, though, most of the problems are likely to get from the interaction with an exte…

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    Comment #19651991

    "Text-centric computing platform" is lovely. Why don't you send that to Nicolas Petton -- it would great on the website.

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    Comment #17190320

    Build from the source tarball, or a bootstrap build? For me, I can't get the later much below 10 minutes and often much longer.

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    Comment #17188879

    Should be available in a day or two. If you are desperate, the RC1 is available on alpha.gnu.org

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    Comment #12522628

    There are nice tools like "which-key" which massively reduce the work of remembering shortcuts. They are, incidentally, only shortcuts. The menus work as well.

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    Comment #11695067

    Thank you!

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    Comment #11691301

    I wrote a different version of the pizza ontology years ago, where the level of "spiciness" was dependent on the country you came from -- so American "hot" was equivalent to Britis…

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    Comment #11690187

    Depends on the leavening agent (or not). I would argue that flat breads, yeast leavened, and sour doughs are all pretty different. Sour dough pizza is pretty nice. Not sure it's al…

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    Comment #11690068

    It's about pizza not fruit. This article is light-hearted of course. But there are food ontologies for real -- the BBC have one for organising their recipes. And there is another w…

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    Comment #11638275

    It doesn't force anything though, unless you statically refer to the runtime. It does force you to exclude their logging backend, but that is straight-forward enough.

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    Comment #11638200

    It's ugly advice. Wish there was a better alternative. Ideas on a post-card please.

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    Comment #11638188

    My framework is built in Clojure. The interpreter is always there. Think of it like a statistics library with R. The idea of a "main application" is itself not a clear one. There a…

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    Comment #8449187

    The aliasing is just an example. The real use case involved pulling functions out of a map. The main use of "aliasing" is to alias a namespace (to save typing) or to rename a funct…