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Comment · 1 day ago
The Visitor (S4, E2) was nominated for a Hugo award. The main character in this story is an older version of Jake Sisko, played by Tony Todd.
Comment · 3 days ago
Not quite, even by the second appearance of the Ferengi (The Battle, S1 E9), the Ferengi captain who tries to take revenge on Picard is eventually relieved of his command because "revenge is not profitable"
Comment · 16 days ago
Some examples of those?
Comment · 1 month ago
Somewhat related: Readable Lisp S-expressions Project

https://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Problem/

(I learned Lisp in the 90's and enjoyed it, but I still find it difficult to read.)

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Comment · 2 months ago
On the front page, there is an example about optional typing, but it's not very clear how the typing is coming in:

  def fib(x) { x <= 2 ? 1 : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2) }
  
  println "40th fibonacci number is ${fib(40)}"
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Comment · 4 months ago
Why does Ruby make Asciidoctor horrible to work with?
Comment · 4 months ago
And at the end of that Bob says:

> For my part I'll just say that I have given due consideration to the points you've made, and while I disagree with your conclusions above, I have integrated several of your better ideas, as well as this entire document, into the second edition of Clean Code.

Comment · 4 months ago
I agree that the prime list example is really a constructive proof. But what about the sqrt(2) and log(2) examples?
Comment · 4 months ago
Can you say more about those bugs?
Comment · 4 months ago
Right at the end of the article:

> Why not release the belugas into the ocean?

> It's geopolitically difficult to return many belugas to their native waters, because many come from Russia, Lott said.

> Sending the Marineland belugas into the wild would have been "inhumane," Trites said. At least half of the animals were born into captivity, so they don't know how to hunt and wouldn't be accepted by the local beluga population.

> "The animals are so social that they can't survive on their own," he said.

Comment · 4 months ago
Which VPS?

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