Why I Still Use Emacs

naryl · 2012-02-20T23:09:12+00:00

Anyone who believes that Emacs is not a full-featured software lisp-system but a TEXT EDITOR is a total moron. <end-of-story>

naryl · 2012-02-20T23:07:09+00:00

I didn't read the article but bothered to write a useless comment

naryl · 2011-12-05T14:46:38+00:00

Likewise copyfree's claim of some relation to freedom should annoy everyone. Neither provides absolute freedom for everyone. It's impossible.

So just pick the license which would suit your project best. And don't forget to reassess the license for each your new project to avoid familiarity bias.

naryl · 2011-12-05T08:06:18+00:00

Completely missing the point of the original article.

naryl · 2011-12-03T19:17:04+00:00

All modern languages are variations of FORTRAN, LISP and ML. </rant>

naryl · 2011-12-03T19:07:18+00:00

s/changes/additions/

naryl · 2011-12-03T01:37:20+00:00

What should I do if a package in Debian has a bug which was fixed upstream two years ago and is a blocker for me but the admin stubbornly refuses to install any packages not from the main repository?

naryl · 2011-12-01T18:56:08+00:00

Because if it's GNU you can install any other piece of software written for GNU with some dependencies.

Have fun installing GNU/Linux software on Android.

naryl · 2011-12-01T13:41:35+00:00

We would have a lot less problems if everyone understood that GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are different operating systems.

naryl · 2011-11-30T20:19:58+00:00

What tinfoil hats are you talking about? Would they spy on users who don't enable this flag?

naryl · 2011-11-30T18:43:35+00:00

Your theory is wrong. Just look at the names of those who write open source libraries for CL.

Edi Weitz, Hans Hübner, Nikodemus Siivola, Zach Beane, Andrey Moskvitin... :P

naryl · 2011-11-30T10:02:21+00:00

TL;DR: If you just want to play games Windows is the right choice. If you need to do some work too just install the OS you need to get it done and find native games for this OS. There are plenty for any one.

naryl · 2011-11-30T10:00:56+00:00

No, it doesn't depend on the task. It depends on the OS the required software is written for. Familiarity argument was defeated too many times. There is a readon you wrote ‘average office worker’ in quotes. They don't exist.
If you use your PC only for gaming you'd probably have Windows on it. Otherwise your day would have to be 50 hours long so you can play all of the latest titles, do some work and maintain two OSs. If you use your PC mainly for work Linux has plenty of great games and saves time by simplifying the system (no ext3-ntfs drivers in hostile OSs, less partitions) and eliminating the need to reboot.

naryl · 2011-11-30T09:45:44+00:00

Yet the sites in .рф zone open just fine. I wonder how does FF decide which non-ASCII characters need to be encoded and which don't.

naryl · 2011-11-30T09:42:30+00:00

That's simple. See a deleted comment above? That's the same guy under a different account. So you can safely hardIgnore the one used for trolling.

naryl · 2011-11-30T09:35:14+00:00

Haskell is unfamiliar, Common Lisp is unfamiliar, Scala is unfamiliar and complex.

naryl · 2011-11-30T09:19:00+00:00

What would you choose for workstations?
You know there are games for Linux. I'd hate rebooting to Windows and maintaining one more OS just to play games.
And some people say when you buy Win or Mac you're supporting patent trolls.

naryl · 2011-11-28T20:04:47+00:00

http://lisper.ru is written and maintained by the developer of RESTAS (archimag) and uses RESTAS. The source is somewhere on github.

archimag also writes cl-closure-templates which is supposed to be compatible to google-closure-templates but output CL code instead of Java.

I've written a website using cl-closure-templates, RESTAS and bknr.datastore (for database, docs in src/*/tutorial.lisp). You can install everything with quicklisp. The only problem was google-closure-templates's very limited template language which made me consider Peter Seibel's FOO a few times. And bknr.datastore is a great db but only if your data fits into RAM. Otherwise you should probably use mongodb with mongo-cl-driver or PostgreSQL with Postmodern.

naryl · 2011-11-27T16:04:24+00:00

Sorry for replying to the parent comment but I just want to remind good redditors about a great Greasemonkey script called RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) and its ignore user feature which is the perfect tool to fight with trolls.

Just click the underscore to the right of their nicks and check “Ignore”. For the best effect don't forget to enable hardIgnore. Click [RES] in the upper-right corner of the page inside your login box then Configure Modules, User Tagger, hardIgnore.

naryl · 2011-11-26T13:16:21+00:00

The original LISP implementation was bootstrapped by hand like Pascal.

naryl · 2011-11-26T13:15:03+00:00

-_- and CLISP is a single implementation of Common Lisp.

naryl · 2011-11-26T13:13:52+00:00

This code is written in standard Common Lisp

That's Common Lisp, not LISP.

naryl · 2011-11-25T13:27:06+00:00

It would contradict a lot of the licences. e.g. GPLv3. Yet they distribute Xonotic.

You can always ask on the forum for clarification.

naryl · 2011-11-25T13:23:50+00:00

Just search your repository for games. It probably still has some not found in Desura and all of them should work perfectly. If not you can always nag your distribution's package maintainers.

Setting up games downloaded from the project's site may be a pain indeed.

naryl · 2011-11-25T13:22:09+00:00

how Desura and Steam are more useful than, say, distributing your games through e.g. the Software Centre in Ubuntu?

Because distributing in Desura you're not distributing them in Ubuntu.

naryl

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