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If you lost interest in the language and won't take it up again because a feature you don't NEED (and is in fact unrelated to the language itself), then I'm prepared to say that's not really the problem here.

You're just not that into it and blaming SLIME or anything else that's part of the ecosystem is just misguided and wrong.

You compare SLIME with Visual Studio when they have almost nothing in common and most lispers detest the idea that you have to have something like Visual <anything> to work with a language.

If you really want to learn Lisp, sit down with an editor and start running code instead of trying to optimize for a problem you're likely never to stumble upon. When you get it, you'll gladly write Lisp even if they mandate that you're only allowed to use a chisel and stone tablets.
Still they block the exits for cars that need to merge. Happened once to me, a train of ten trucks slipstreaming right when I needed to take an exit. Couldn't slow down and merge at the end and the head was already after the exit.

Had to match carefully speed and merge the car in a space I wouldn't have used for parking. And the asshole even blew the horn at me!

Seriously, fuck those idiots doing it. Driven for years on highways and all scary things ever only came from truck drivers needing to save those 10 bucks/five minutes.
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Who can afford that? You will always be outmatched be by big corporations.

That's clearly untrue; class-action lawsuits are regularly successful against big corporations without Government intervention (other than the provision of the justice system itself).

Just look at the ratings agencies during the 2008 crisis. They were supposed to be a market based information source but in reality they were paid off.

Sure. And many people who relied on them got burned. The moral hazard arose when the Government decided to bail out people and organisations who'd depended upon them, with money extracted from taxpayers by threat of force. I'd also point out that a lot of the corruption you mention is Governmental; many of those subprime loans only existed because of market intervention in the first place.

There is a lot that's wrong with agencies like the EPA but abolishing them and dreaming up market based solutions that are corruption free doesn't seem to be realistic to me.

Me neither. As I've said before, I think it's entirely reasonable for a Libertarian Government to regulate polluting activities. The caveat is that such legislation must be rights-protecting, rational, and uniformly enforced. Also, in the case of the USA, there's no Constitutional mandate for a Federal EPA so it ought to be dissolved and its responsibilities taken up by the States.
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As I posted on the other thread (that didn't seem to get a lot of attention), the range is actually worse on the P85D (270 miles on the P85 and 253 miles on the P85D),
That seems to be answered in "Which add-ons will stop working when XUL/XPCOM is deprecated?"
Also a question in IRC someone basically said: noscript won't work yet with the current API, and we are working with extension devs to make things possible.
> It doesn't matter if you have the best security solution because in the end, the human factor is the most vulnerable part of any computer.

100 percent correct.
Ditto. I think this is a valuable conversation, esp. for bystanders who haven't been exposed to Libertarianism before (or have been misled into equating it with Anarchism).
For mobile a lot of folks are now using Clojurescript. There have been several highly rated discussions on here about the breakthroughs in the Clojurescript community for getting it to operate very quickly on mobile devices.
If you're using React you could look into different flux frameworks or even Relay+GraphQL to avoid jQuery ajax (or at least hide it). That last thing is the bleeding edge right now but looks promising. Flux is probably here to stay and you have a ton of libraries to choose from. I started with Reflux but is now using Alt.
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only in this case, it should be ->>, because -> inserts argument into first position, but you need it in the last... And you can omit parentheses around functions without additional arguments (sum in this case)
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I totally agree with that part of the conclusion that says Bitcoin has failed in regards of it's "no need to trust anyone" goal. It's not a failure for us though. There are so many things we can learn from Bitcoin, like no matter what your technical solution is, you'll always have power bubbles (e.g., for bitcoin the power aligns around the developers and the huge farm owners), you'll always have disagreement in the community no matter how morally high your goals are.
Scala is definitely a better blend of FP and OOP than either of those languages. It's also a heavier FP language that either of those.
"...these structured agreements often deliver monthly payments across decades to protect vulnerable recipients from immediately spending the money."

Why must someone, an adult, be "protected" from spending their own money. This nanny state nonsense has got to stop. Do people really have to be protected from themselves? If they aren't smart enough to take care of their business, they ought not be allowed outside of a group home.
Most Clojure devs (myself included) are not building projects right at the REPL and indeed we do typically write normal code files, each file is a namespace. The changing of a Var is not a typical Clojure idiom at all, and I don't think I've ever seen it done in any production code or the big Clojure libraries.
Thanks a lot! That is hilarious!
Neat, hopefully this new understanding paves the way to better cancer treatment in the future.
I imagine "where is my pussy" would get a chuckle out of most anglophones today, too...
Neither the website nor the title nor the nonexisting comment explains what this is about. I know what a MUD is but what do I need a MUD connector for? Why do you think this website is special to tech and start-up people?
Ha, yeah, I get where you're coming from. And I toyed with putting a threading macro example inline, and in the end put a footnote in instead.

My reasoning was that basically, regardless of the threading macros, you are going to have to learn to read/write s-expressions as-is for a couple of reasons:

1. The threading macros won't be the best way forward in all cases.
2. You're going to need to read other people's code, which wasn't using the macros.

Overall, I was trying to make the point that it is a real hurdle (at least that's how it felt for me), but worth getting over. As a week or so later, you can read s-expressions with relative ease. That it's worth making the effort, because they are pretty awesome. Maybe I just didn't communicate that very well.
Here's a Paxos implementation in C++ that I wrote for my old startup's distributed database product:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo...

If you just want to agree on a leader, there's PaxosLease:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo...
Totally agree with your point, but just a quick note: using the thread-first -> macro won't work in this case, instead you'd use the thread-last macro ->>. Also Clojure doesn't have a sum function, so you'd actually use (reduce +).
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That's the default, but usually can be negotiated with the university.
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Because this is higher level in terms of functionality than OS. Android API lets you access hardware, e.g., get a photo from camera, establish a network connection.

Processing data from hardware is higher level.
They are both beautiful in their own way. Haskell is more pure, certainly, and closer to mathematical beauty, definitely. But the extraordinary flexibility of a lisp, which Clojure does immensely well, makes it more powerful than any language I've experienced for quickly expressing or manipulating an idea. Any program written in Clojure could eventually be refactored into another language, but its strength as a dynamic lisp makes it possible to really get to the heart of a problem and work out its solution without anything else getting in the way.
In the UK, the non-sterling transaction fee is separate from the currency exchange.
Common misconception I guess[0]: Chromes version is not the same. (Unless I am seriously wrong.)

Try to type

new com <part of title of something you read on hn today>

to test. On FF and PM this just works but on Chrome I still don't think it works.

[0]: which might explain why not everyone is using the better browser :-P
Firefox has a pretty good reputation among users and web developers, despite risks of hitting bad extensions. Their problem amont end users is more the relative obscurity vs the big 3 commercial browsers. IE on the other hand has been a swear word for years.
Good to see that E2E has been progressing, but I still wish we had a PFS alternative to PGP.

With today's hacks and the total state of surveillance in which we are in, it's a little crazy to expect people to use the same key 10+ years without it getting compromised. Even a year seems too much.
Sidechains are a kind of complex mess. After reading about them I'd definitely chalk them down to terrible, committee based software development vs. just bumping the size like the XT people want to do.
As much as I like Clojure the lack of static typing always made refactoring a pain. The lack of it makes this a beauty I just can't appreciate and see.
But that's for companies outside Australia, right? My experience has been that Australian companies are not still open to the idea of remote work(Melbourne).
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I don't think so, the reputation still hasn't matched the reality :)
> The clock is altered by adding and removing old coins from its pendulum to change the rate at which it swings.

British engineering at its finest. I understand they have a stock of discontinued six-pences and ha'pennies which weigh only a few grammes each and are used for these fine adjustments.
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I deal with it by using an IDE or plugin for paren highlighting.
Would be nice if they provided more information about their implementation. I currently pay for a barcode API that doesn't have the dumb binary off/on pixel logic of the free version of zxing almost everyone else uses. It's just better UX for users if their bar codes can be recognized even with out of focus images, for example. There's nothing on this site about if the Google library is better or worse than popular open source offerings, however.
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Perfect description of the average Enterprise codebase!
It took me nearly two decades working in IT before I was in a position where I was respected, secure and comfortable enough to be able to say "I don't know" in front of the business client.

If I had said that even after five years on the job I would have been hauled into a meeting room by my manager and dressed-down for giving a 'poor image of the Technology department'.

Unfortunately that's also one of the reasons we have so much buggy code; people are afraid to express their lack of knowledge of a particular subject, so they kludge on through with some code pasted from a Google search.
Same here; Tree Style Tabs and Vimperator are indispensable, new HTML/CSS/JS features are not.
>This nanny state nonsense

Is the state even involved in the decision to structure these settlements (other than through its role as enforcer of a contract between 2 non-state parties, namely, the insurer and the insured)?

It could be that the insurer chose to write structuring into the contract to avoid negative publicity from the insured's spending the entire settlement and ending up poor again.
I'm not sure exactly why it's been posted here (perhaps to kickstart a discussion about MUDs in general?), but The MUD Connector is a directory of MUDs/MOOs/MUSHes/etc. in operation, with descriptions, player reviews, activity stats, and so forth.
How confusing! Rust's Arc is "atomic reference counting" whereas Obj-C/Swift's Arc is "automatic reference counting"
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It says she's 20 and it's a 35 year period, or 55 years. That means she's born around 1995 and the life expectancy for a black female was 74 years, almost 20 years longer than the end of her payouts.

I don't think the risk of death is anywhere near significant enough for her to sign away half a million dollars in payments for $60k. She barely got more than 10 cents on the dollar in nominal amounts, and still less than 20c on the dollar in present dollar terms. I'd gladly pay double what she got and I'd still make a ton of money all things considered.

The number you were quoting (63) by the way is 'years of life remaining', not life expectancy as in 'age of death'. For example for a 100 year old the number is 2 years, which doesn't mean she'll live to 2 years old, obviously :)
Time reversibility exists in quantum mechanics because observables are self adjoint operators. Closed systems evolve unitarily. In simpler terms, you can think of it as the requirement that maps preserve distances and are easily invertible. We need this so that the information describing a system (which we can still talk about in terms of traces), remains invariant with time. In the classical sense, the corresponding violation leads to probabilities not summing to 1! We clearly can't have information shrink and for pure systems, dropping distance preserving maps leads to a really awesome universe (I believe this also ends up highly recommending L2). We literally go from a universe that is almost certainly near the bottom end of the Slow Zone of Thought to the Upper Beyond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Setting). We gain non-locality, causality violations and powerful computational ability.

In practice, our confusion about a system does increase with time as classical systems become ever more correlated, losing distinguishability, aka decoherence.
1) it genuinely protects people who otherwise don't have to live in a group home. silly exaggeration.

2) as you by now should know if you didn't know already, you can sell guaranteed future payments and get your lump-sum if you really want to. tons of businesses will do buy it from you. you're not forced into receiving monthly payments if you don't want to, you can change it on day 1, it just happens to be the default because it makes more sense for most people.

that's not a nanny state, it's incredibly sensible.
"FYI - there are better books to get started with [than the Joy of Clojure]."

FMI: what are they? :-)
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I agree with all other people who say that she probably may be able to void the contract if she a) can pay back the money b) knows that it's possible to void a contract. But that is discussed already enough in the threads here. So I want to add a new point.

Should she trust such a contract and its maker? I think even if you are a little brain damanged and unable to read you should have some basic ability to determine if you can trust someone. I mean he came to her home and gave her food. That basically screams "I want to F* you" in one way or another. And when next he introduces some opportunity you can know exactly that this is where he's trying to cheat you. It's basic survival knowledge to recognize that. If you are a young white man, you might not have experienced such kind of situation before, but this structure of getting tricked is very common and not too hard to recognize, no matter where you go or what the trick is. After getting cheated a few times you recognize it as easy as a red light on the other side of the street that stops you from crossing over. If that girl doesn't have that much brain capacity she can't live alone. And if she has she certainly must learn to recognize that.
Yep, I've done the Googling a few times and as I looked further in to the attribution change it became progressively unclear. Not sure how much we should trust an "unsourced attribution".
Yeah. John College. I'm surprised to haven't heard of him.
Most serious Haskell users are most likely using a REPL and when doing this it's trivial to get and think about type information even while checking other stuff. It's also obviously part of the thought process while developing anyway, so I don't see the same value in this as you do. There's a cost to having a full IDE anyway and it's more sensible to get the features you do want (auto-completion, etc.) from plugins and then not using a IDE.

Even if you want these things, there are better ways to go about this instead of making a whole gargantuan interface to get a couple of features.

I'm not usually one to tell people what they should be working on, but time could be spent on this instead:

https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/wiki

(See also this for how to get in-source error information and type checking, if needed:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Emacs)
That won't be true for everyone. Why should we just accept less privacy?
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I remember reading that this is why the late James Brown insisted on being called Mr Brown.
Not necessarily American; fresh drinking water is becoming scarcer across the world [1] and therefore even more valuable.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727435/
To me currently the biggest learning curve in CL is that "how to use CL" e.g. list/vectors etc. and not "how do I use CL to solve X". To the former, koans are good way to get familiar with the syntax and how to use the language.
It would probably be impossible to eat a diet completely void of glucose, even meat contains some sugars.

People have been known to survive for weeks without food, and therefore dietary glucose.
It's totally fine to promote and link to your own product on HN (based on your submission history you're the author).

https://geckolife.com/

Making the submission a question, then saying 'we came across' without a good description or link to the product just sounds weird. And it's obviously not a Slack killer because geckolife is a mobile app while Slack primarily runs on the desktop.
An earned undergraduate degree is not an 'honorary degree'.
Apparently so! I love the idea of them taking off a coin to speed it up and adding it back again once its in time.

For such a famous clock you would think they'd create some kind of perfectly accurate weight, but I guess this gives them more control (Easier to add and remove weight, and why make custom weights when you have a few in your pocket?!)
I fail to see how.
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Do they literally have to put these and take them of as the thing is swinging back and forth?

I am also thinking of unfortunate scenario where someone adds /removes momentum accidentally while trying to place pennies.
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I think Germans still place a lot of importance on titles and they still have formal and informal ways of referring to people Du vs Tu
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Thanks, but that approach is not something I would enjoy.

I try to stay away from the JavaScript universe unless I have a customer requesting a webdev project.

For me mobile dev means only native code and not web widgets.
I use the gmail priority inbox and have not seen a single mail client that is able to replicate that. It's incredibly powerful, showing me the emails first that are labeled as important and are unread, then the already read and starred emails, then everything else. This vertical split into three sections is quite important to its power. Combined with some data crunching algorithms that learn what is important to me it's very easy to keep working on only the important things, even though you might get flooded. I'm so dependend on it that Thunderbird simply doesn't cut it. The only reason I use Thunderbird is for these people who really,really want to encrypt mails. Otherwise it doesn't get even a little close to what I want. Do you know if it's possible to get this in Thunderbird?

PS: Not even the Android Gmail client can replicate that. It can show my important labeled mails, but also shows the already read ones and doesn't have that split.
It would also render the previous ways obsolete. New-style formatting never took over completely from old-style because it wasn’t sufficiently compelling—`"%s %s" % (a, b)` versus `"{} {}".format(a, b)` doesn’t have a clear winner. But `f"{a} {b}"`? Clearly superior. With the exception of backwards compatibility matters (which will be a nuisance for far too long), there would really be no reason to keep using the old ways in most places. i18n/l10n would really be the only mainstream reason for using anything other than f-strings.
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Coincidentally cha1 ("1" here means the first tone in pinyin) is a sexual innuendo alluding to sexual intercourse. The character itself, which means "to insert", has nothing to do with sex in normal usage though. And most importantly, there is virtually zero resemblance between the pronunciation of "change" and that of "cha1".

> to have sex (lit. insert).

> Source: a long list of Chinese profanity on Wikipedia.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_profanity
> if they aren't smart enough to take care of their business, they ought not be allowed outside of a group home.

Lack of capacity should be limited as far as possible. A person with intellectual disability may be able to live a reasonably normal life but need help with cooking; or with financial planning. Suggesting that we imprison (because that's what you're calling for) people who have no committed any crime; who pose no risk of harm to others; and who lack capacity over one small aspect of their life is fascistic.

What you're asking appears to be is "Why should this industry, which is heavily regulated to protect the general population from abusive practices, and which has a long history of illegal, unethical, sleazy, behaviours have to comply with regulation to protect society's vulnerable members?"
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Good point. My code is littered with threading macros all over the place, and it can really reduce ))))))))))) to ). But I wouldn't have been able to use it effectively if I didn't know how s-expressions work.
There is another direction too: farher people should also be vary of not ending with thinking "let them eat cake," from the position of somebody not directly affected by the real problems of those who live them.
Oh yeah, for sure, that's a very good point actually.

I'm hugely opposed to fluorescent lighting in the home, especially at night. I only run incandescent / halogen, or 2700K compact fluoros / LEDs, and in the late evening all the over-head lights go off and we light the living spaces with tricolour LEDs and dim 2700K desk lamps.

I was at a relatives house a few months back and sitting under the fluorescent lights in the their house was hugely irritating.
I didn't say make it part of the OS, I said part of the Android Open Source Project. The platform SDK (applications, services, UI, media playback, notifications etc. etc.) and the support library are both extremely high level and part of AOSP.
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