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mahmud··on Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
Vue is SEO friendly and has native support for SSR.

Use Nuxt to get started.

https://nuxtjs.org/

mahmud··on LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
Lulu is also an online publishing platform. In fact, only "Lulu" that I know.

https://www.lulu.com/

mahmud··on CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
Am I the only one that washes dishes immediately after use? No need to even use the machine. Wash immediately after use, let them dry on rack, wipe and put away.

Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.

mahmud··on Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?
I have been programming for over 20 years, most of it in FP land. ML is tractable, a beautiful prism through which one can peek at Computer Science as a subject, but it has a frustrating lack of _practical_ tooling and beginner-friendly community. For anything outside basic I/O, you will need to dust off compiler-specific extensions, most of them last used on "Un*x Workstations".

Just look at the Basis library. Safe to say it's nowhere near Racket, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, ...

http://sml-family.org/Basis/manpages.html

mahmud··on A Whale's Guide to Crypto Trading (2014) [pdf]
Or more likely, some imaginative fanboy wrote it. Like much of the espionage / military / conspiracy articles. There is a heavy demand for literature that makes people feel knowledgeable and significant.
mahmud··on JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
No, they both got it from Common Lisp (ca 1984)
mahmud··on Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
Frink has existed for ages.

https://frinklang.org/

mahmud··on An Empirical Study of Load Balancing Algorithms
Are you affiliated? If so, kudos and thanks!
mahmud··on D-Expressions: Lisp Power, Dylan Style (1999) [pdf]
Holly smoke! The supervisor committee on that thesis is _heavy_. I'm so gonna study it.
mahmud··on Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes
Standard ML, rather.

It might have appeared in earlier MLs as an extension.

mahmud··on Building a Completely Reversible Computer
Not a recommender system or anything that intelligent. This is basically a keyword search of the paper titles. Even something as simple as term-frequence analysis would place the two papers far apart.
mahmud··on Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling
JS developer. It's a fairly low-skill job, taught widely, and demand for it far exceeds anything else related to PC support.
mahmud··on A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest
Every time I see those things, I can't hold back laughter.
mahmud··on The JVM is not that heavy
It's called "treeshaking", and is a classic option in Lisp delivery tools.
mahmud··on Cryptanalysis with Reasoning Systems
That's the default emacs color scheme. The terminal is just SLIME.

https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

mahmud··on Odo: Shapeshifting for your data
Star Trek, Deep Space 9.

Odo is a shape-shifting being who is removed from his home planet. But we don't find that out til the 3rd season.

mahmud··on Couple Pleads Guilty to $20M Visa Fraud Involving Indian Workers
On the other hand, making citizenships "sticky" can dissuade people from some crimes BECAUSE they're citizens.

In the war of terrorism, U.S-citizens caught fighting for Al-Qaeda/ISIS are tried for treason (potentially carrying a death penalty) while foreign fighters could be afforded the luxury of the Geneva Convention rights.

And yes, I am a naturalized US citizen.

mahmud··on How and why I made a zine
She brings back the child-like wonder and joy of early "tuts" of hackerdom. The old "asciiz" were tutorials written by people who both _enjoyed_ programming, and found it mischievous.
mahmud··on The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.
FYI: None of the music heard in that video is "dubstep".
mahmud··on Mentat helps people land their dream jobs
That's still not how recursion works.

They would be mutually recursive if Fallout's was a reference to Dune, and Dune's a reference to Fallout.

This is just a simple reference, perhaps indirect, but not recursion.

mahmud··on Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
More specifically anomaly detection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_detection

mahmud··on Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?
Am I the only one who saw the twin towers?

Sorry, 9/11 still has me on edge.

mahmud··on Curry: A Tutorial Introduction [pdf]
The Mozart/Oz papers do a great job showing interesting use-cases.
mahmud··on American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth
Not too hard to be intelligent when you have a monopoly on the means of knowledge transfer (books) and the time to persue leisurely learning.

But it all changed widespread literacy. To steal a quote from Hilbert, "No one shall expell as from the paradise Guttenberg has created".

mahmud··on The Colombian Hit Man Who Became a YouTube Star
I'm from Somalia and I can assure you the Colombian experiment is being watched with a keen eye.

We too have murderous killers reformed to some sort of tribal elders.

Our violence, much like yours, has been mostly profit/power-driven. Except ours got tremendously worse with the introduction of Jihadi ideology.

I pray to FSM for the safety of both our nations. Stay safe, and may Colombia and Somalia stay safe. Con todos mi amor, hermano/a!

mahmud··on We Hired a Blind Coder
Blind devs would be perfect for certain problem spaces, like security-sensitive work or expert-witness type research.
mahmud··on Muhammad Ali has died
> We need another (dozen) Cassius Clays.

And yet you call him by a name he himself changed and hated.

mahmud··on Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease
Salesforce is not gonna like this. They already have a "cloud" programming environment called Apex.

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.m...

mahmud··on Libui: GUI library in C
Umm, Gtk?
mahmud··on Qanat
It's the exact same thing.

For example, Suez Canal is called "Qanat al-Suez" in Arabic.

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