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Oh ok, you're referring to assignment as one expression, not the PLT definition of expression, which for that example would be like 3-6 expressions depending on whether you conside…

No functions: You can't do length + 1 as a single expression in any language though, in python for example len(ls) + 1 is two expressions, but I get what you mean, it is a little l…

I'm not sure how you would handle your specific situation, but my general take on interviews is that the interviewer isn't just screening you, in the sense that they want to know w…

There does seem to be a sort of sampling bias thing that I've only recently noticed, that I think does come from being older now. I started to get back into old retro games I used …

I don't know, the problem with that mentality is that you can't just separate the art from the artist, right? unless we're talking about historical figures, on some level it's vali…

Idk, popular people and probably influencer types look cool with a phone. They look like a VIP, people are constantly texting them, it looks like they're constantly socializing, ne…

Nice! is it R7RS compatible? or just specific to Guile?

Intentionally leaving out important or key information is still lying and deception, and is harmful, and can be really harmful if it's a big thing, even in cases when it's done wit…

Nobody is going to fix the problem without fixing the culture, which isn't easy to do. The issue isn't around tasks that are predictable in nature and therefore easy to estimate wi…

I could see that working well for managers, if they incentivize estimates as biweekly or monthly bonuses going to the most accurate one, and each person gives a detailed estimate o…

The arrow and page up/down keys don't work in any predictable pattern for me, it's really weird. Like I thought it only scrolled up and down with the arrow keys if I press it 4 tim…

Companies aren't incentivized to eliminate false negatives in hiring (talented people getting overlooked), they just need to make sure there are no false positives (bad hires). I'm…

I wish it were built with a very small, minimal core, that was just the TUI with the lisp machine like functionality, scriptable using R7RS scheme instead of elisp. And then everyt…

There already is a pretty major effort around the prolog community to build everything as much as possible around pure, monotonic prolog, and to provide a means to support multiple…

Very nice! I'm looking to use prescheme for low level code that needs more precise control where chibi scheme or guile isn't a good fit. I'm also hoping at some point that I have t…

I feel like the hype around LLMs replacing dev work is similar to what happened years ago when they were saying the same thing about scripting languages and WYSIWYG editors like Dr…

Deprecating an API doesn't mean you have to break work already done. It can just mean that _newer_ apps can't use the deprecated API.

Would you need every single version of Android? or just a much thinner compatibility layer for deprecated APIs? Newer apps wouldn't be able to use the deprecated API but older apps…

> Now the new API adds fine-grained access and removes complete access. > What are they gonna do? Give the old gallery app fake file access, making it completely useless? Can you e…

The monomorphic vs polymorphic argument is an interesting one. I think that you could explicitly get unboxing if you used something like CLOS style multimethods to dispatch based o…

I was strongly in the static typing camp for a long time, with Haskell, Purescript, Idris, OCaml, and Typescript, but over time I realized that the costs mostly outweigh the benefi…

Yeah prescheme is really interesting, I really liked the SystemCrafters exploration of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKuHylIqBs

> What is a variable in C? A register? A memory location? Wouldn't it depend on the type? Something like: int p; p = &x; MOV @R1, R2 ; R1 contains the address of x, move it to poin…

The left-pad issue isn't related, it was more related to having a lot of dependencies from untrusted or unverified sources. There's nothing stopping you from following what the aut…