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Re:Emacs Rocks on Sunday November 16, 2014 @02:02PM (#8615056)
This feels strangely relevant: https://rms.sexy/
Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp on Sunday November 16, 2014 @12:19PM (#8614735)
I expected GOTO implemented with continuations. Very disappointing.
Re:Rescuing Aristotle on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:01AM (#8478128)
The object of science, in the final analysis, is the collection, evaluation, and‒if the stars align‒acceptance as truth of sufficiently explanatory evidence. It is laughable to assert that the astrologers have better assisted us in this endeavor, or even that their contributions are on a par with those of astronomers. If you cannot adopt this perspective, you are simply lost to logical discourse; what evidence could possibly be provided to you to convince you to value evidence?

For what it's worth, you might like to know that it's destruction which pride precedeth.[0]

0: http://biblehub.com/proverbs/16-18.htm

You would do well to heed Wikipedia's advice[0].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_symbol

Re:GCC Undefined Behavior Sanitizer – Ubsan on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:24PM (#8467843)
s/ a while/ever/
Re:A Raytracer Implemented in LOLCODE on Saturday September 20, 2014 @01:27AM (#8343759)
Even more so with syntax highlighting: http://i.imgur.com/pDSUIb5.png
Re:Programming language subreddits and their choice of words on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:30PM (#8203023)
Go, Objective-C, Swift, and Visual Basic.
Really, Pygments did a hell of a job with it: https://github.com/threeifbywhiskey/pwnbs/blob/master/app.rb