I'm always sad when I read something like this. If believing in God and protecting the planet or accepting basic science are contrasting ideas, then your wife's grandparents are believing in a caricature, not God. But I…
Except that if your conscience (and everything in you) is under the _laws_ of physics, it implies that you are a deterministic or randomized machine. But then it is not easy to explain free will, for example. You could…
I haven't used the LOOP macro in CL, but the for macro in Clojure is also very powerful and (imho) very readable. My take on the 'versify' example in 4 lines: (for [book book-order chapter (range 1 1000) :when (get-in…
I had similar experiences in Hungary: I grew up in a very religious community (mostly Catholic) and went to a Catholic high school. Many of our teachers (including biology, geology and physics) were Catholic priests,…
"If you always knew the wise thing to do, would you ever choose the unwise path?" Yes, people do that. When someone cheats on his/her spouse, is it because it seems to be the wise path? No, it's quite likely that such a…
It took me a while to find at least some explanation of what happened: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.factor.general/4940 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.factor.general/4505 Still, it's so strange to…
Well, the guy was 17 when he wrote LZEXE. So yeah, I still feel tiny in comparison to his achievements.
> I don't have that same sense of enthusiasm because for me everything isn't new. I agree. I think one of the reasons why people in 30s seem to be more "close-minded" to new ideas is because they already have a…
I'm always sad when I read something like this. If believing in God and protecting the planet or accepting basic science are contrasting ideas, then your wife's grandparents are believing in a caricature, not God. But I…
Except that if your conscience (and everything in you) is under the _laws_ of physics, it implies that you are a deterministic or randomized machine. But then it is not easy to explain free will, for example. You could…
I haven't used the LOOP macro in CL, but the for macro in Clojure is also very powerful and (imho) very readable. My take on the 'versify' example in 4 lines: (for [book book-order chapter (range 1 1000) :when (get-in…
I had similar experiences in Hungary: I grew up in a very religious community (mostly Catholic) and went to a Catholic high school. Many of our teachers (including biology, geology and physics) were Catholic priests,…
"If you always knew the wise thing to do, would you ever choose the unwise path?" Yes, people do that. When someone cheats on his/her spouse, is it because it seems to be the wise path? No, it's quite likely that such a…
It took me a while to find at least some explanation of what happened: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.factor.general/4940 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.factor.general/4505 Still, it's so strange to…
Well, the guy was 17 when he wrote LZEXE. So yeah, I still feel tiny in comparison to his achievements.
> I don't have that same sense of enthusiasm because for me everything isn't new. I agree. I think one of the reasons why people in 30s seem to be more "close-minded" to new ideas is because they already have a…