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Re:Should You Buy a ThinkPad?
on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:33AM (#49595594)
> pre-owned ex-corporate ThinkPads are sold for very little
Anyone knows a website in Germany that sells these Thinkpads? TIA
Re:Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture
on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:43PM (#48507153)
Yukihiro Matsumoto is an Emacs user as well[1]. He is also the original author of ruby-mode.el[2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094610 [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...
Re:Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:45AM (#47994876)
There is also a native implementation of Clojure on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
Re:SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:36AM (#47348001)
Do you have a link to the proposal and the discussion? I am quite interested to see the implementation details. Thanks!
Re:Getting Started in Common Lisp
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:41AM (#47324785)
I also found this blog post useful for using Vim with Common Lisp
https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html
Re:Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010)
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:43PM (#45530784)
Here[1] is a nice breakdown of Zippers in Clojure. I am not the author of the post but I found it very helpful when I wanted to learn more about Zippers in Clojure. There are some nice illustrations as well.
Re:Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:06AM (#44104297)
- Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations
- Free Software Foundation (FSF): https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate
- LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/
Method Values
Factor 0.100 Now Available
On method values, part 1
Re:The Second Golden Age of Emacs
on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:24PM (#39530194)
He has also recorded two videos on youtube demonstrating some of emacs' features that I really like.
- A guided tour of Emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys
- Emergency Emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWp05OW1c0
A Tour of the Lisps
Re:I Love Ruby
on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:59AM (#38693765)
> My Ruby projects often have a wrapper that reloads code and puts me in pry prompt. I can edit code and introspect objects live as the code changes.
That sounds very interesting! Can you please share the wrapper that does all that magic? Thanks!
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Re:Lua: The Little Language That Could
on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:46AM (#36112336)
mruby[1] fits that category too. It can be used with H2O[2] server as well. There was a discussion here a couple of months ago regarding some use cases[3].
Re:Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing R...
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:21PM (#36074913)
Thanks for the post!
Another great blog post series about implementig Raft in Go that I found is this one https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/implementing-raft-part-0-...
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I am not quite sure how particular feature will look but Emacs can be already used as a SQL client. Here is a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97vDu_BhwA
Here is an introduction blog[1] and the related mode[2]
[1] https://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/06/13/using-emacs-as-a-data... [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...