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Thanks for noting this. We are so accustomed to reading comments as of a point in time, but their meaning is also impacted by when they are made. In this case, a future historian may draw a different conclusion had they not seen your clarifying post. Whereas now it confirms that the community viewed it as a good thing, and HN also agreed steadfastly.

I hope to see it. RIP

I just bought a Lenovo laptop and wiped Windows off it / installed Linux for the first time.

As largely a newcomer to Linux, it was very smooth. Had some issues getting the wifi to work, but once that got resolved, everything has been super smooth. I must admit there is a bit of a learning curve, i didn’t fully appreciate the differences between the various distributions.

Shame that an indie company who is actively selling linux machines, can’t have them working off the bat. That’s unacceptable

Not hacker news. It’s mostly click bait / programmer junk food for the last couple of years (I only started reading then but took a while a realise)

Thanks!

How to install on linux for a newbie?

And damn you so awesome!

Thanks for sharing this link, very useful reading

cons is a recursive data structure. it’s not discussed much here in the comments, but a lot of its useability comes from that fact - you can write elegant recursive algorithms with cons as your data structure

with vectors that doesn’t work UNLESS you add a bit of overhead (which most optimising programs may do since for many cases vectors can be more performant)

I’m happy with my Topre keyboards (in particular All 30 gram keys) with their n key roll over (?).

Article was good, worth reading.

Usually the most practical programmers are too busy focusing on coding than internet arguments. They _occasionally_ appear and drop nuggets of gold.

In Australia, unfortunately yes (upto 12 months)

The performance sensitive parts of Emacs are written in C, which would explain why you don’t see a huge difference between Emacs and LW imo

Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure. Try each three and see which you like. I prefer CL, but that's because I develop programs in the large.

Yes it’s good to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism and I could (more than likely) be equally wrong, but I hope my comment encouraged others not to take comments online at face value always.

For what it’s worth, I signed up to fast mail yesterday, onboarding vs my cloudflare managed domain was a breeze and so far no issues (it’s email hosting (and their iOS app isn’t great), so there’s not much to get excited about on a day to day basis - apart from a long term appreciation of privacy first email).

I have just started using the Spark Mail App - now that I am excited about…if it lives up to its hype, it will be a great addition to my workflow.

Reading some of these comments, I wonder how much astroturfing goes on HN these days

I think he/she misread but one could argue what you wrote is anti-DEI in terms of those who don’t have kids, etc but I can’t imagine anybody proving it.

FWIW your approach is the most sound one I read on this thread and how most successful companies probably do it. I do feel it is slightly discriminatory though against those with un ordinary paths

On Lisp by Paul Graham

That’s crazy to hear! It really feels like the wild Wild West with these large tech companies - consider in contrast how much regulatory and compliance scrutiny a bank would have, they would never dream to behave like petulant little kids. I guess the more fines big tech get and the more regulations enter the space, the faster they will clean up their act.

I don’t work at facebook but based on your response I am more likely to believe you now. Sorry if it caused any angst, wasn’t intended.

However doesn’t change the fact that a lot of things get accepted at face value if they align with what someone’s view of things is

Unfortunately on the internet the onus is on the defendant to prove innocence. I hardly buy the top comment as true but everyone eats it up here since it goes with their narrative

You should make a Shown HN for yourself!

Thanks for sharing

Do Share when you have a moment.

Others I have (personal) - Alignment of Headers should match that of content (centre aligned headers = centre aligned content) - Headers should be bolded or another color - Subtotal & grand total should be bolded - Keep same font for both headers & content - Try to keep columns and rows equally sized and spaced - Table heading at the top (IMO) - Avoid using cell (0, 0) that the article talks about

All of the above IMO aids in simplifying the table and hence makes the content stick out more. But granted they are more design principles vs. UX so I too would be keen to learn more about UX guidelines to apply

Given the author of the post and it’s target, indeed the date is very important (but I appreciate it’s an easy oversight to make)

Marvellous language

Working in a large corp, I find IT consultants from the outside overpromise and underdeliver on projects

It’s infuriating as anybody below senior management can see right through it

> Getting help is also often a problem. Experienced Common Lispers assume a basic understanding of the language, good style practice, and familiarity with Emacs and the associated Common Lisp tooling installed. Asking for help as a beginner, and posting a small snippet of code, more often than not results in a wall of text of replies asking the user to fix their style before they can consider helping. This is quite disuading as a newcomer, and detracts from the user's learning path. In extreme cases, which are not rare at all, the community can be quite inflammatory towards newcomer questions, as they often get very upset over incorrect terminology or improperly formatted code.

It’s a shame to see such posts as you were a cordial and enjoyable member of the IRC community for quite some time. For me, it’s one of the better IRC channels out there and I learnt a lot from the PROFESSORS of computer science who regularly helped newcomers in the channel #clschool. [lisp123]

Otherwise glad to see you have found something enjoyable and curious on how you have pivoted away from CLOS, maybe I should investigate Julia too

Good luck! May the force be with you

This piqued my interest so I had a read of the below which explained things very well, although I’m only about 70% fully comprehending it:

https://lucasfcosta.com/2018/05/20/Y-The-Most-Beautiful-Idea...

Sounds like a misleading headline then…”rewritten” implies it has been done :(