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It has both, but the short options are more compact when you're doing multiple transformations at once.

No, this encoding uses a bitwise encoding for each float, so they are fixed at 10 characters each and encoded with constant speed (except possibly for subnormal numbers, which I've…

That's a definite possibility. We went with base-94 because it avoids UTF-8 overhead in situations where the browser will treat your data as a string (e.g. no typed-array support).…

That's not why I did it. I felt bad because my family and friends know me as being unreasonable, idealistic, etc. But HN doesn't know anything about me and might assume I'm an othe…

Hang on, you're being a little unfair about this. I believe in what I said. I think FP is a great step forwards and I think it's going to win out. I'm biased because I think this. …

I'm really glad you wrote this, and I'm now linking to it from my post. Definitely agree that you should try Google for yourself. It didn't work out long-term for me, but hopefully…

That, and because my main machine is a 1024x600 netbook, so I sized it to fit on that screen.

I originally wrote it for that reason: it's sort of a mind-bending exercise and I wanted to see if it could be done. (The first attempt was actually in Bash, but that didn't work a…

Two questions: First, may I quote you; and second, are you being sarcastic? (Because if you are, then I really want to quote you.)

I think it's an imperfect solution, though it might still be solid. It depends on your reduction strategy (basically breaking associativity). If you do a fold-left, then you'll acc…

Well actually, I did end up writing Lisp on top of Javascript this way: http://github.com/spencertipping/caterwaul . The basic mechanism is to call f.toString() on some function, t…

Very true. It's also one of the only languages out there to let you inspect functions' source code, which means you can implement full-blown Lisp macros in it using eval(). Given i…

Project Euler is nice because Lisp (Common Lisp anyway) is good at dealing with large numbers. It's also reasonably fast.

I don't know if this is the kind of thing that most JS folks will go for, but I've found it useful in both node.js work and on the client-side: http://github.com/spencertipping/cat…

I have a preliminary implementation of this, geared for map/reduce-style parallelism in Perl, up at http://github.com/spencertipping/metaoptimize-challenge (in the fcm directory). …