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Anyone around level 10/11/12 interested in playing together? by timtamboy63in summonerschool

[–]mcandre 0 points1 point ago

Summoner c0wbell reporting for duty. Level 12, played for two weeks so far.

Playing For Objectives: Being a Stronger Team Player by MileyCyrusNo1Fanin summonerschool

[–]mcandre 0 points1 point ago

Fantastic article. I'm very new to the game, glad to see someone with a level head is interested in teaching players to be better.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

Any tutorials for such?

Dara O'Briain: Argument #1 against creationism (youtube link in comments) by monkeysee_monkeydoin atheism

[–]mcandre 0 points1 point ago

I've always assumed O'Briain was Catholic. What's his religious history?

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

I spent a lot of time treating this exact problem in a few languages, including CL and Emacs Lisp. Feel free to edit the article; I'm afraid so few people use shebangs, let alone Lisp that I haven't described the problem well.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] -1 points0 points ago

SBCL provides shebang support as you suggest, but how do you propose to write cross-CL compatible shebangs? If you're using SBCL and I'm using CLISP, and we both want to use shebangs, version control becomes a nightmare.

In particular, because there the CL standard provides no requirements for CLI arguments, SBCL and a few other CLs provide the script name as the first argument, but CLISP and others do not. Furthermore, CL does not provide a standard variable name or function call for accessing CLI arguments. Shebangs are indeed a hack.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

I find IDEs get in the way. For instance, I stopped using DrScheme when I found mzscheme too fiddly (it doesn't mzscheme hello.scm by default).

Does Racket now provide such CLI functionality, or is it the same old mzscheme?

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

Racket supports lazy libraries and typed Racket too.

My Haskell heart started pumping faster. I'll have to look into this, because when I start on a new project I often have trouble deciding between the rigor of Haskell and the dynamism of Lisp.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

Yes, everyone suggests the third-party tool Leiningen just to be able to import a class from curdir. Java can do this; why can't Clojure?

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 1 point2 points ago

I forgot about newLISP. My favorite thing about it is the docs, very well organized and with LOTS of examples of actual function calls. Pretty much the opposite of MATLAB docs.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, Chicken Scheme's fiddliness seems to be limited to locating the Windows installer (well hidden on their website), and setting up readline.

Recommended lisps for newbies? by mcandrein lisp

[–]mcandre[S] 0 points1 point ago

Hadn't thought of that. There is the terrible learning curve of learning a text-based editor while at the same time learning a new programming paradigm and syntax style, but...

Its practicality can't be denied.

RProxy - a highly efficient reverse HTTP(S) proxy by sanitybitin netsec

[–]mcandre 1 point2 points ago

What's the difference between a proxy and a reverse proxy?

What does the "Word of God" mean, and is the bible we have today the Word of God? by tuffbot324in ChristianApologetics

[–]mcandre 2 points3 points ago

According to many Christian biblical scholars, such as Bard D. Ehrman in Misquoting Jesus, the Bible is most definitely not the literal word of God but the haphazard assembly of hundreds of Christian texts, many authored by sects of conflicting beliefs.

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre 1 point2 points ago

My turn. Right now you sound like a redneck.

How old are you?

We clearly have much to learn from your years of wisdom.

How do you feel about flames?

You haven't raised a family or run a company or shot a prowler or kept your marriage together for decades or had a loved one die in your arms as they reached out to Jesus.

These things are irrelevant. If they offered you one iota of wisdom, you wouldn't go around Reddit blasting every minority. Your folk wisdom hasn't taught you manners, and you presume too much. Judge not, lest ye be judged, brother.

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre 0 points1 point ago

If we depart from empirical evidence, then there is no way to decide whether Christianity is true, or Hinduism, or Satanism. Everything becomes equally valid.

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre -1 points0 points ago

UI =/= AI

:)

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre 0 points1 point ago

Yes, but which prophets? Muslims interpret Jesus as one of those prophets, and nothing more. Who's to say they're wrong?

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre 2 points3 points ago

I do listen to older gents. One of my favorites is Daniel Dennett.

I'm not a pot head, and I don't like South Park. By your age, you should have learned to not pigeonhole people.

Windows Cmd line question, Don't kill me. by KnightmareLGin commandline

[–]mcandre 2 points3 points ago

No hate here. Windows CLI questions are highly relevant here, since MSDOS can be even more obscure than UNIX.

One solution involves cheating UNIX tools into your command line environment, such as UNIX date and time. Have you considered using Mingw?

Hello, I'm an atheist, ask my anything. by mcandrein Christianity

[–]mcandre 1 point2 points ago

The Reddit UI sometimes double posts my comments, too. Grr.

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