commonlisper

Cool project but... This is an egregious misrepresentation of the actual results both from significance perspective and accuracy perspective.

A. No validation is done on server side to confirm the workers are reporting correct results.

B. Increasing the limit by less than a thousandth of a percent does not make this a "world record"! If we go by that logic, I only have to validate one more example than you and claim a world record. And then you'd do the same. And then I'd do the same and we'll be playing "world record" ping pong all day!

But "B" isn't the big problem here because we have worse problems "A"! Nobody (not even the OP) can tell if the results are accurate!

No, I'm not simply dissing at a Show HN post. There are many comments here that explain these problems much better than I could.

This is egregrious clickbait!

Ctrl+B to move a letter forward

Did they mean Ctrl+B to move a letter backward?

Ctrl+F moves a letter forward.

The OP was using hacker in the classic sense, security folks

Really? I'd say that the classic meaning of "hacker" is what we have on HN. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/hacker.html

No license is going to be suitable for everyone. You might think BSD, MIT, WTFPL are the most liberal licenses but they are not suitable for me. If I am invested in an open source software enough to contribute code to it then I want that when a greedy company takes that software and improves it and redistributes it they are also forced to release the source code benefitting everyone. BSD, MIT, WTFPL can't do that but GPL can. No license is a silver bullet.

Can you not use a desktop software to correct your spellings, fix your grammar and reformulate sentences? I think even something like Microsoft Word is going to be a good bargain for this. If you want a free tooling Emacs with some plugins can be great. A quick search gave me https://simpleit.rocks/lisp/emacs/writing-in-emacs-checking-... Exploring this space may give more results for free tooling that runs your desktop and sends your data to noone.

Exactly! Raymond Chen is doing a great job at sharing interesting stories from a bygone era.

Programming languages! It is ironic because I am a programmer and I write programs and develop software for a living. But proliferation of programming languages has made my life worse. Too many programming languages and every company has their own favorites!

It may be an unpopular opinion on HN but I don't enjoy learning new syntaxes every year for relatively few benefits in new concepts or paradigms.

In my ideal world everyone would be using Lisp (my username checks out!) but so much power. It has a simple syntax (some say it has no syntax but I think that is a little hyperbole). In my ideal world new concepts and paradigms are implemented in Lisp using Lisp. I'd much rather spend time solving real problems that real human beings care about. I'd much rather learning new ways of solving problems with new paradigms. I don't want to waste hours learning new syntaxes and their gotchas and edge-cases!

If anything, I think websites have more uptime these days than they were 10 years ago. Remember the "this website is under maintenance" banners of the bygone era, anyone?

I know that being a tourist in Canary Islands is fun but is it a good country for a German to move to permanently? Does it have the kind of infrastructure and healthcare Germany has?

In case it is not apparent to others, Lisp-Stat (OP of this story) and singaporecode (parent commenter here) are different people.

The account singaporecode and a few other related accounts really look dubious. They are promoting a few websites created by the same author: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ashok%20khanna&type=all

The comments by singaporecode where they say "I should sponsor the guide’s author" (when the author is himself/herself/themselves) and "I found online" (where they published it themselves) are clearly deceptive self-promotions of https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/ and https://github.com/ashok-khanna but do notice that they are unrelated to Lisp-Stat.

I must say here that I agree this point but one should also exercise caution that they don't go overboard with abstractions while planning for future. Abstractions for future planning should be lean and flexible enough to be extensible.