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"?" takes 2 key presses to make, while "o" takes only 1.

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3 points by shiro 6131 days ago | link

If one stroke of shift is so important, you should ditch () and use [] to represent the primary list structure :-)

(Or you would use Symbolics keyboard which you can type () without shifting.)

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2 points by vrk 6131 days ago | link

As a sidenote, square brackets are harder to type on Finnish/Swedish keyboards than ordinary parenthesis. The former requires Alt Gr + {8,9}, the latter Shift + {8,9).

(Why am I using the Finnish keyboard layout to edit code? A bad habit from the past, admittedly.)

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1 point by helium 6129 days ago | link

same in germany

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2 points by tokipin 6130 days ago | link

programmer dvorak: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

been using it for about a year and dvorak in general for three or four. the difference in comfort vs qwerty is huge

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2 points by sacado 6131 days ago | link

or a french keyboard

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2 points by shiro 6130 days ago | link

good for french lispers! you can save 5-10% of typing!

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2 points by pg 6130 days ago | link

This is a good point, and in fact I consciously tried to make it possible to avoid shifting as much as possible.

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2 points by mdemare 6130 days ago | link

Yes, but of all the characters that need shift, "?" is surely the easiest.

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1 point by bcater 6139 days ago | link | parent | on: Use Apache for static files?

I've been playing with blog.arc, and the only thing that I could figure out was to put external files on another server not running Arc.

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1 point by bcater 6139 days ago | link | parent | on: Simple Vectors

"My final concern is finding a hashtable inside something called \"vector\"."

Yeah, I didn't actually know how to create a vector, so I used this instead.

Also, I realized just after posting that setting the car really was the right way to do this (all else being equal, of course).

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1 point by bcater 6143 days ago | link | parent | on: Is there an Arc wiki?

Someone could probably modify blog.arc pretty easily to get one running.

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3 points by bcater 6144 days ago | link | parent | on: Lots of unrelated impressions of Arc

Isn't trimming the fat (so to speak) from Common LISP - thus unfettering its development - a far larger accomplishment than that article gives it credit for?

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1 point by serhei 6144 days ago | link

Yes. (spoken by the article's writer). I had no intention of downplaying the accomplishment, just pinpointing it. All that remains is just (just!) performing the unfettered development. Not something to be downplayed either.

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1 point by tjr 6144 days ago | link

Yes.

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1 point by bcater 6144 days ago | link | parent | on: Congrats on the release

A blog in <100 lines of code? Incredible.

Best, Brad Cater

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