So I'm finding myself writing macros that look like this
(defmacro set-from-map [objform valmapform & set-pairs]
  (let [obj (gensym)
        valmap (gensym)]
    `(let [~obj    ~objform
           ~valmap ~valmapform]
       (other stuff happens here))))
Those top two lets are basically just letting me make obj and valmap strict -- making them evaluate ( Read more... )

People started tweeting at their teen selves on Twitter. I tried to pack all the advice I could into one tweet, and then expanded ( Read more... )

Naturalism is the radical notion that people are composed of parts that aren't people.

#polysongs
@lumiousalicorn

Drawing both from the Principle of Charity and from the discipline of Holding Off On Proposing Solutions, the Principle of Optimism (also known as Aang's Principle) states that in any dispute, both parties should, as long as possible, assume that everyone's desiderata can be obtained if everyone's clever enough, without recourse to argument or ( Read more... )

"So there doesn't seem to be any soap in any of the men's showers except the one with the curtain."
"Yeah, we know, but there's no men on shift until 10, so we can't do anything about it."
"Oh.... Well can I help? I'm totally a man!"

TL;DR: Now I know how to change the soap dispensers at my gym.

A brainfuck program is any string of characters in which the square brackets match. That is, you could walk the string, pushing addresses of left brackets to a stack, popping when you encounter right brackets, never encounter a stack underflow, and end with an empty stack ( Read more... )

‎"Yess, I hear," hissed Harry. "You are an Animaguss?"

"Obvioussly," hissed the snake. "Thirty-sseven ruless, number thirty-four: Become Animaguss. All ssensible people do, if can. Thuss, very rare."

-HPMOR

Serious question: What one thing do all sensible people do (if they can) in real life?

Rick Santorum

Because the fucker does *not* deserve to have his campaign site top his google results.

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