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such_a_casual

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About such_a_casual

some n00b learning to code

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    Comment #14996381

    It's crazy that as far as we've come from limewire, internet music sources are still having problems staying alive. I still miss 8tracks.

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    Comment #14990861

    Only to oversensitive children who can't handle the word fag.

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    Comment #14990763

    Assuming someone is a homophobe because they use the word faggot is fucking ignorant.

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    Comment #14990751

    It only requires explanation here because of the silicon valley culture of liberal oppression rather than individualism and freedom of expression which are the true values of a hac…

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    Comment #14990653

    Evidence does. Maybe you should learn the difference between just calling someone a name and providing evidence that their character is shit.

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    Comment #14990609

    [flagged]

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    Comment #14970290

    I'll take my chances clickbait.

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    Comment #14969669

    They will always have the cream of the crop. It's not comparable to a Cal state.

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    Comment #14969533

    > The implicit message here seems to be, "let everyone pass through the system regardless of how qualified they actually are, but we'll have to lower the bar to keep grades and gra…

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    Comment #14965290

    I'll make an argument that has nothing to do with the quality of disney's entertainment or disney's ability to give value to your child in the form of happiness/lessons. Being a hu…

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    Comment #14965246

    The cost of software (which is essentially just information) vs what people will pay for is fucking mindblowing.

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    Comment #14952417

    "This article is aimed to introduce and explain a number of topics and ideas that will help you when practicing recursive problems." I know I'm not supposed to shit talk the articl…

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    Comment #14952093

    Did you think of that on your own? God I feel dumb. (I like being made to feel dumb) I googled it and didn't get that answer. I guess remembering ST can be a street or saint is a g…

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    Comment #14952070

    You're amazing. I hope you're given more power than you already have.

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    Comment #14947113

    I don't know what that is (tried googling it), but it doesn't look like it's doing the same thing as let.

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    Comment #14919500

    The blog post has tremendous value to the right audience, no doubt about that. But it's worse than worthless for its actual target audience because the article makes those people f…

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    Comment #14919427

    I'm sorry to say that I completely agree. As a "here's how you do X in javascript" this is a great post. However, the conclusion clearly shows that this post was not aimed at peopl…

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    Comment #14919101

    (defun udpate () (let ((pos (find-char-pos))) (move-char pos)) (print (stats)) (rotate enemies)) (defun udpate () (set 'pos (find-char-pos)) (move-char pos) (print (stats)) (rotate…

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    Comment #14919040

    And it's pretty trivial to roll your own.

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    Comment #14919022

    It's like comparing the Empire State Building gift shop to the Empire State Building.

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    Comment #14916481

    I feel like comparing Racket to Common Lisp is an insult to all of the people who worked on Common Lisp. I don't think the makers of Racket would have the hubris to compare their w…

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    Woops - Lisp IDE using LTK

    A month full of Sundays ago I looked at the shitty mess that I was and decided that it was time to stop whoring around, one language after the other, c#, c++, ruby, python, java, j…

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    Comment #14916180

    Prefix notation is a problem because nothing beats the familiarity of: x = 10 But prefix notation is superior. You don't have to invent an order of operations out of thin air. All …

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    Comment #14913700

    Each version works a little less. It's great! God forbid I can find the chatbox, I might use it!

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    Comment #14827137

    Perl 6 has macros: Copied from: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/day-23-macros/ macro checkpoint { my $i = ++(state $n); quasi { say "CHECKPOINT $i"; } } checkpoint; fo…