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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy i...
on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:12AM (#21978307)
As I understand it:
We are not expanding. Size of e.g. a hydrogen atom is not changing.
Re:NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:46PM (#6143410)
Me too.
Usually the bbc/guardian/telegraph all have the same stories, just with a different slant.
BUT for Snowden leaks there is a black hole, with only the guardian covering it. (Though everyone covers personal gossip about Snowden, of course).
Scary.
Re:XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on t...
on Thursday August 01, 2013 @05:54AM (#6139378)
It is in the slides the article links to: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa...
Slide 16: "Show me all PGP usage in Iran"
Re:Free "Lisp Hackers" Ebook
on Sunday June 23, 2013 @06:31AM (#5926973)
The full quote is:
"It’s also very easy to turn Common Lisp REPL code into unit tests, which I tend to
do a lot. That is something that’s very hard to do with object-oriented code, which is
why idiotic things like dependency injection and Test-Driven Development have to be
invented.
– Vladimir Sedach"
Re:Clojure: All grown up
on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:13AM (#5367742)
How does this compare to lisp, where you can break straight into editing code, inspecting variables, etc, and then continue?
This seems to be something Clojure really lacks, but I never see it explicitly stated in 'why you should use Clojure' articles, nor in Clojure books. What I want to read is a sober 'pros and cons of using Clojure' article, so I can properly judge whether I should switch.
Re:Emacs Live: A Great Clojure Environment in an Instant
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @04:38PM (#5063196)
Wow, clojure in emacs after just a few commands (get emacs 24, then input the 2 or 3 commands for leiningen and emacs live).
Now I have repl, code highlighting (with the lambda symbol rather than 'lambda' !?!), parentheses matching etc.
Thanks Sam!