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How come emacs shell still does not support input redirection? You have to do cat file | program instead of program

Only skimmed the article but i think they want something like this objc_msgSend(Object *receiver, String *method, ...) { return get_method(receiver->class, method)(receiver, ...); …

There are lisps being worked on to resolve points 1, 2, and 4. https://github.com/tomhrr/dale https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

Ocarina of Time is running at 20 FPS on NTSC, 17 FPS on PAL, and is still fun. We started worrying about FPS when competitive online gaming became a thing (Quake 3, Counter-Strike,…

>It's a shame the game is only available on the two most underpowered gaming devices. The Switch is handheld gaming device.

also censored on https://zoom.earth/#-70.166939,87.824707,11z,sat

vector-immutable is unusable, all operations on vectors return a mutable vector forcing you to rely on vector->immutable-vector every time. Vector lacks many operations that List h…

i found the Racket library to be inconsistent, especially anything related to Vector.

https://truecraft.io/ (Minecraft beta 1.7.3)

Partial application and currying are two different things.

I prefer car/cdr over first/rest since a list is an implicit type and cdr/car are actually operating on pairs that are not necessary part of a list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

>Accessing an element of an array via ptr[3] is actually just short for (ptr + 3). This can be equivalently written as (3 + ptr) and therefore as 3[ptr], which turns out to be comp…

Check this one (clang) https://godbolt.org/g/Brn57Z

When AMD says 8 cores, it's actually 8 ALUs and 4 SIMDs/FPUs. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/12/amd-fx-8150... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/amd_sued_cores…

A stack is an abstract type having two operations: push(element) and pop(). The implementation can cheat till it's transparent to the user. To quote CLRS, The INSERT operation on a…

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_cata... Note that both the amd and the nvidia kernel modules always have been FOSS because of the GPL license. It's just tha…

he's now using Donald Knuth's LCG http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Kernel/KMathB.html

you can do sizeof(T[n]) instead of sizeof(T) * n

https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/

There also Nuitka for compiling python into a native module. http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html

A review of the 1977 Turing Award Lecture by John Backus by Edsger W.Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

> but many people don't seem to trust it This paper explains how to weaken the intel RNG by modifying only one logic gate and still make it passes the integrity tests. http://sharp…

There is also Spacemacs which is emacs + Evil with some sweets. http://spacemacs.org/

Hal Abelson on the end of SICP at MIT (2011) http://codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/