LispSporks22

I’m of limited mental capacity. Who’s doing the supervising in this thing?

Nice. I worked on a Linux disto when I was a wee lad and all we did was compute a new md5 and ship it.

Too much typing ‘if err..’ everywhere

We have some Perl scripts that are freaking immortal.

The rest of the code base started in Java, then Clojure, now it’s Go. The scripts are there still in their very-not-modern Perl style though. They have a self-evaluating behavior consisting of data blocks that are interpolated. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how it works. Very discouraging for the casual passerby looking for some cleanup to do.

I love this guy

I’ve hated working on every Angular project I’ve worked on. No matter the team, the experience level or complexity, it’s always been an absolute misery.

I cannot understand how it was invented/why it exists, how smart people at Google convinced themselves to use it. I cannot understand how they let it escape into the wild or even why those not forced to use it, choose it.

I know I’ve begged before for this, and it’s pointless, but please if you’re in the position to, please consider snuffing it out and starting over.

> it's almost unkillable.

Kills my iPhone XS Max daily though.

The navigation is completely broken as well. Some things don’t close, back button might or might not work, never seems to remember where I was before, frequently rescrolling stuff.

This is all after ad blocking.

Without it, endless spam of embedded ads distracting me, wasting my time. Janky loading, page hangs on clicks.

I’m not sure wtf their engineering team is doing but the site’s basically broken. Maybe it’s the normal state of things. Before I was using some third party app that was working great until Reddit killed api access.

My usage of it has dropped as well. It’s just unpleasant to use now.

I think it is direct threaded Forth but there is a conditional token table in there (tokens.asm). Thought it might be some clever hybrid of threading techniques, but I don’t see how tokens is used.

I play around with White Lightening occasionally because of the ease of making games with it on C64 and the comprehensive documentation (PDFs of it have been preserved).

Man, I hate living in a nanny state like Texas where big government is reaching into all parts of peoples lives.

Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.

Does this one have a good REPL experience? Like interactive as well as “eval top-level/region/etc” features

> the developer who had implemented the function said he had heard that if/then was inefficient, so he used try/catch instead

I would love to see that function

Well I think we just witnessed the end of CUDA then. We usually code around such brain damage.

Is Signal one of the other platforms they mention?

> Why do you unwind the stack? Something terrible happened? Definitely not,

Definitely do.

In Go we just have to emulate it, badly, by manually writing code to forward the error up the stack so you can finally top-level print “error bad thing happen” or maybe some unholy stringification of wrapped errors possibly collected along the way.

At my old school we had glorious two story high steel monkey bars apparatus. At some point they put rubber shavings under it as a safety thing. Several years later, they cut it down to one story. Later they removed the whole thing.

I know exactly what they mean by fear, excitement and risk. It was fun while it was dangerous yet it was extremely rare for a kid to fall off and be hurt.

I fondly remember those steel bars polished by countless human hands like it was yesterday.

I don’t know what’s there now. Probably a big sign that says “Your parents made you a pussy”

I didn’t notice it until I got a motorcycle and started riding, because there’s very little between you and the environment and you’re moving so fast you can definitely feel the cooler and hotter parts of a city.

Areas with trees, not necessarily sharing the road definitely feel a few degrees cooler

I think the SDL2 bindings for Common Lisp went through a similar realization and any kind of finalization was removed.

I did my first mud on a 386. It was dos or Linux I can’t remember. I was learning C at the same time so you can imagine it was the software equivalent of pruno.

I did this for a few years. I started off listing component volumes and mass etc. Towards the end I was just noting “good” or “bad” (like how I thought I went) on a calendar, then not even consistently.

I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.

Man wait until they find out where all my stuff is made.

Is this the stuff that’s also a great lube?

I think about this almost daily while slogging away in hundreds of lambdas, working on the world’s slowest app server. I think maybe 10% of our effort rubs off as business value. Maybe less.

You can count on humanity to have learned nothing from the last war.

Can this thing be updated real time?

This brings back memories. We did the same thing with a giant Fortran 77 app turned CGI app. It was my first job, fun times.

I have a feeling those pascal developers are getting stuff done super productively.

Until they are fitting the carbon capture machinery over the end of coal/gas fired power plant chimney stacks, it’s bullshit.

I think this kind of catastrophic failure starts with the leadership and a board that seems to be asleep, not with the intern program.

Reads less like Perl in Lisp:

    (loop for i below 10 when (zerop (mod i 3)) collect (* i i))