Dima Pasechnik @dimpase@functional.cafe

Lmfao!

@juliobiason I've been saying this for decades now. Djikstra was straight-up wrong on this one.

While I'm not a professional educator, I have given talks about best practices for programming over my career, and I've found that teaching people low-level programming first (for example, assembly language) and letting them experience the pain of trying to scale that process up gives the right foundation and motivation to introduce higher-level languages and, more importantly, the concepts that they introduced at the time.

I'm a big proponent of this. If you go the opposite direction, you get ... waves hand around current software landscape this.

This substack post was hard to read.. It really worries me to think someone so privileged with full access to information on both sides still rides this situation out by "both-siding" it as if we weren't basically forced to block Russian state backed media because they posted nothing but verifiably false information for a week straight.

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/anneapplebaum/status/1499718722445094915#m

MFA #Ukraine official website https://war.ukraine.ua Слава Україні!

Don't write a programming language

https://write.as/loke/dont-write-a-programming-language

It would be nice if someone delved into the stories of early Lisp hackers outside Boston and the Bay Area. What about those TI LISP machines? The entire scene around Le Lisp and EuLisp?

French Open Science Free Software Award Ceremony: The Coq proof assistant is the winner https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/open-science-free-software-award-ceremony/

Hourra typage statique !

Yak shaving is wonderful.

Today I got to rewrite DRAW-CONS-TREE and add some features, bugfixes, tests, and documentation for it.

And that's all because a single CLR recipe mentioned that library in a footnote, and I thought that it would be good to get it into a bit more production-quality shape if I'm mentioning that library.

A PR upstream is waiting for review.

Lisp Yaks, beware, here I come.

https://github.com/phoe-trash/draw-cons-tree

#CommonLisp #Lisp

Roti Prata is really nice. If you ever visit Singapore, don't miss it. If course the true answer to the question that that the best place can be found in the North 😂

If anyone has a good example of a similar channel in their own country that I can watch, please share a link.

https://youtu.be/e-Z51ipAezg

#caturday

Interesting article, and the sentence that rang the most true to me was the following:

But to some extent, it feels like a big part of C++ committee and the ecosystem is focused on “complexity” in terms of showing off or proving their worth.

https://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/

OK, I'm not a fan of Apple for many reasons, especially for their treatment of developers on their platforms. Just when you thought they couldn't be more evil: https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-buying-ads-subscription-apps/

"How do i close this?"

submitted by oogagaming

lmao stop driving cars #fuckCars

Myths of Lisp: Curse didn't really happen? https://freshcodeit.com/freshcode-post/myths-of-lisp-curse #clojure #lisp

Russia declares editor who delved into Navalny poisoning a wanted man, he says

The editor of a Russian news outlet that angered the Kremlin with its investigations, including into the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei #Navalny said the authorities had declared him a wanted man.

Roman Dobrokhotov, editor-in-chief of The Insider, told Reuters the authorities had accused him of illegally crossing the border to leave #russia.

#news

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/russia-declares-editor-foreign-agent-media-outlet-wanted-man-he-says-2021-09-30

Facebook Outage Sends QAnon Followers into Conspiracy Frenzy

QAnon conspiracy theorists were sent into a frenzy after Facebook and other social media apps went down for several hours.

#qanon #qanoncult #QAnonsense #conspiracytheory #cult45 #news #facebook #facebookdown #facebookstaydown

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/facebook-outage-sends-qanon-followers-into-conspiracy-frenzy/ar-AAP9OXX

If you didn't think NFT's had gone too far already. Look at this absolute insanity: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/fantasy-equity-nft-game-wants-you-to-spend-real-money-buying-fake-shares-of-real-startups/