raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic on Hacker News

…Undecideable //=> Undecideable You are opening up the “Hopelessly Egocentric Null” can of worms: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-12-15 · in Strangest Language Features

…thoughts, but Learned Optimism has helped me with a more generalized despondency and helplessness: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-... My won feelings about helplessness learning to play Go parallel feelings if…

comment by raganwald · 2011-12-13 · in Suicide

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Ask HN:OOP inheritance and virtual functions

story by ejenkinsiii · 2011-12-08 · 0 comments

For posterity, the original title of this blog post was "White Power": https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/commit/bd55e8ad731cc... Reg Braithwaite doing the Clayton Bigsby. Stay classy.

comment by quitedisgusted · 2011-12-01 · in Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

…mention jQuery. I wrote “Significant Whitespace” in March of 2010, long before trying Coffeescript: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/03/...

comment by raganwald · 2011-11-30 · in Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

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Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

story by raganwald · 2011-11-30 · 91 comments

trying: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/pull/6

comment by lukeholder · 2011-11-30

…talking about blocks, lambdas or methods that do not call anything except what has been passed in. https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-... Thanks for pointing out an important omission. Updated.

comment by raganwald · 2011-11-21 · in Mockingbirds and Simple Recursive Combinators in Ruby

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Mockingbirds and Simple Recursive Combinators in Ruby

story by llambda · 2011-11-21 · 0 comments

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Mockingbirds and Simple Recursive Combinators in Ruby

story by raganwald · 2011-11-21 · 11 comments

Learned Optimism really helped me: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-11-19 · in Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression

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Williams, Master of the "Come From"

story by fogus · 2011-11-17 · 0 comments

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Williams: Master of the "Come From"

story by ColinWright · 2011-11-16 · 40 comments

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The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post

story by llambda · 2011-11-10 · 0 comments

Some consequences: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-11-10 · in Don't overload #nil? in Ruby

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Aspect-Oriented Programming in Coffeescript using Combinator Birds

story by raganwald · 2011-11-08 · 0 comments

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OOP practiced backwards is "POO"

story by joeyespo · 2011-11-02 · 3 comments

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I Make Dreams Come True

story by llambda · 2011-10-30 · 37 comments

…and giggles, here’s another Fib algorithm, chosen strictly for the pleasure of implementing it: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-12-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-10-03 · in Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server

A few of my own reasons for thinking Joy is interesting: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-08-15 · in Perlis Languages

The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post discusses this anti-pattern: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-0...

comment by raganwald · 2011-07-29 · in If you gaze into nil, nil gazes also into you

Let's make closures easy: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/10/...

comment by raganwald · 2011-06-23 · in How do JavaScript closures work?

raganwald has some nice thoughts and code devotes to our feathered friends. https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-...

comment by route66 · 2011-06-17 · in ICFP Programming Contest started

…complex and subject to change, thus it is very difficult for me to brand someone as an "asshole." http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-0... UPDATE: Thinking about the OP, I wonder if seeing behaviours as simple and…

comment by raganwald · 2011-05-19 · in I refuse to tolerate assholes

…apologise for the blatant blog self-promotion, but I tried to say this exact thing a few years back: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-0...

comment by raganwald · 2011-05-10 · in Depression May Be Foretold in How We Remember

…in the same way that Lisp (in its purest sense) is a direct representation of the Lambda Calculus: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-1...

comment by raganwald · 2011-03-28 · in Concatenative Programming: An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programmng [pdf]

…yours. If you would like something pretentious to ponder, here is my post on what's wrong with OOP: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/12/... I suggest to you--with absolutely no justification whatsoever--that…

comment by raganwald · 2011-03-08 · in What's a Post-PC device?

…for loops are clever and unmaintainable. Moving up the scale, what about recursive combinators? https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-... They look very clever. But then again, rolling your own recursion from scratch…

comment by raganwald · 2011-02-20 · in I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp

…Combinatorial Logic, just as Lisp and it's descendants are representations of the Lambda Calculus: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-...

comment by raganwald · 2011-02-13 · in What if Lisp were invented by the Japanese?

…ought to write a blog post about it tonight, but for now this sketchy overview will have to do: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/...

comment by raganwald · 2011-02-07 · in Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

…Fibonacci in an interview, I could say "Oh yes, I blogged my answer to your question in advance." https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-12-... As it happens, I have never been asked to code Fibonacci. But if I ever am…

comment by raganwald · 2011-01-31 · in Interviews with Fibonacci

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Misadventure Code Review, Part III

story by raganwald · 2011-01-27 · 0 comments

Part II: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/01/...

comment by raganwald · 2011-01-25 · in Misadventure Code Review, Part I

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Misadventure Code Review, Part I

story by raganwald · 2011-01-25 · 1 comment

…FWIW, I think I understand the solution. In fact, I wrote a blog post about the exact same thing: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/10/... But nevertheless, I know that from time to time I unwittingly make this…

comment by raganwald · 2011-01-20 · in JavaScript Interview Question

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Let's make closures easy

story by raganwald · 2011-01-20 · 2 comments

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Reg Braithwaite: Why I Write Concept Software

story by j_baker · 2011-01-06 · 0 comments

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Elegance and the Surreals

story by joubert · 2010-12-21 · 0 comments

…discovered a truly marvellous follow-up to your comment, which this box is too small to contain. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/12/o...

comment by raganwald · 2010-12-10 · in What OOP Isn't

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OOP practiced backwards is "POO"

story by raganwald · 2010-12-10 · 90 comments