MegaLoler

Mego's code review of Mercury 2019-4-30

I'll read through each file and write verbose live comments in hopes to provide some insight as to what might be going on in somebody's head while reading through it! (Although I'm just one person, and I don't read through others' code that much, and I've never done a "code review" like this before, anddddd I'm sure you know more CL than I do, so with all that in mind, of course take it all with a grain of salt XD)

Also keep in mind that this is very much a "speak before you think" scenario, in order to show you what's going on in my head, so much of what I say will be ininformed at first, and then gradually become more informed. You might want to read the conclusion first, to see what my final and more refined thougths are before delving into my completely unrefined thoughts! :D

After reading each file, I'll write a short summary of my thoughts after having read the whole thing. And finally, after I've read through all of the code, I'll write a short summary

death

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;;;; | Advent of Code 2017                                            |
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;; Inspired by
;;
;; https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/7hngbn/2017_day_5_solutions/dqthchz/
;; https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/
;;
;; When developing this code I found a bug in SBCL's assembler, which

hernamesbarbara

Principles of Adult Behavior

1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.

cbaggers

(defun update-swank ()
  "Called from within the main loop, this keep the lisp repl
   working while cepl runs"
  (continuable
    (let ((connection (or swank::*emacs-connection*
                          (swank::default-connection))))
      (when connection
        (swank::handle-requests connection t)))))

bishboria

These links no longer work. Springer have pulled the free plug.

Graduate texts in mathematics

duplicates = multiple editions

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

marick

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

hraban

Moved to https://github.com/nobssoftware/nocommit

burtonsamograd

;; -*- mode: lisp -*-
;;
;; A quick and dirty tree shaker for SBCL.  Basically, it destroys the
;; package system and does a gc before saving the lisp image.  Gives
;; about a 40% reduction in image size on a basic hello world test.
;; Would like to hear how it works on larger projects.
;;
;; Original idea from: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/6zpZsWFFW18/WMy4PyA9B4kJ
;;
;; Burton Samograd

prakhar1989

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

XVilka

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