Yeah, I was switching between my phone and desktop to watch the stream and I had a seamless experience on both devices the entire time. I’m not sure why so many people are assuming this was a universal experience.

Did you miss this early in the article? Or did you just not find it convincing?

> Chile is so long because of the Andes. Here's a map of elevation in South America.

> You can't easily pass these mountains, and the tiny sliver of land to their west is Chile.

Basically, going east<->west is nearly impossible at scale, so moving an army is not going to happen if there is any resistance.

And going north<->south is so easy, that anyone doing it could likely cover the whole country pretty quick. So odds are, if there were two countries in that area, there would be just one pretty quickly.

Definitely one of those ‘geography defines the culture and the borders’ situations.

Ok but why a single country ? Why hasn't it split?

TFA also covers that - desert in the north and rainforest in the south.

…what ads? See the last paragraph here [0].

Obviously your statement is true about most other sites, but I thought it was an odd thing to say about a platform that famously doesn’t serve ads.

[0] https://medium.com/about

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you simply referring to “applied mathematics” and “pure mathematics”, respectively? I skimmed through the replies to your comment and I don’t believe anyone mentioned these terms, although I did see one reference to “abstract mathematics” (a term used by you, as well).

I thought these were well-known terms and thus that the dichotomy you describe was itself well-known, but I thought I’d add this comment on the chance that you weren’t familiar with them.

No, not necessarily. At least according to Wikipedia, suicide is the act of _intentionally_ taking one’s own life. [1] It seems that the legal definition, at least in some jurisdictions, aligns. [2] If you find someone has died from self-inflicted wounds, it may be ruled suicide or accident. The colloquial use of suicide may also include accidental suicide, which could introduce confusion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide

[2] https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=2057

When I read “I feel like I'm fundamentally missing something about iterative development in Common Lisp” in the GP, I thought of exactly what’s in these replies. I’ve only recently started learning CL via Practical Common Lisp, and while I liked Emacs+SLIME, I’m a vim guy (I know) and switched to vim+VLIME instead, and so far I’m loving it. This to me has actually been the “secret sauce” of Lisp in my early experience, because now when I go to write code or use the REPL for languages like Python and Ruby, I find myself missing the SLIME/VLIME experience. I find it to be a very intuitive and efficient way to write code interactively.

Any chance you could drop the Common Lisp equivalent of the Python program in the original post here? That is, the code that goes in Vim, then what commands or key bindings you use to execute and find the "add two lists" syntax error.

Even VS has send to REPL kind of experience for Python, maybe vim isn't the right tool, rather using something else.