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Lenna is the lorem ipsum for images (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png). For a bit
by ori_b 17y ago
Lenna is the lorem ipsum for images (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png). For a bit of history, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
- akamaka 17y agoNot really, Lenna is more like the Utah teapot of images.
- imperator 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
- pg 17y agoWe had one in our demo store for Viaweb, a version of which still seems to exist, probably unbeknown to Yahoo: http://store.yahoo.com/acme/teapot.html http://store.yahoo.com/acme/teapot.html
- rickmode 17y agoAre they still running your code? I'd curious to know more of the history of Viaweb between 1999 and now. Is the architecture still the same (CLisp backed by files)? I'm curious from a "how good is Lisp long term" angle.
- pg 17y agoThe code later got translated into C++. However, we had a template language for describing pages that was basically Common Lisp with a few macros. These templates are stored on disk as s-expressions. They couldn't change the template language because some users had created their own. So the C++ version literally had to read Lisp programs off disk and execute them. I.e. it was a Lisp interpreter. That's what I was talking about at the time when I described it somewhere as a new world record for Greenspun's tenth rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule
- DaniFong 17y agoThat's hilarious! :-)
- pg 17y agoOur favorite was the one-way telephone, which still lives as a meme at YC. http://store.yahoo.com/acme/phone.html http://store.yahoo.com/acme/phone.html
- mynameishere 17y agohttp://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/3/34/Lenna.jpg http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/3/34/L... (full nsfw image). Check out the strategic, crude touch up designed to keep away obscenity charges.
- stanleydrew 17y agoI'm not seeing it. Help me out?
- jk4930 17y agoLenna was Playboy's Playmate of the month. In other words: She's nude. There's an alternative url: http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html
- Confusion 17y agoI think he was referring to the 'crude touch up', not the image itself. I'm guessing mynameishere means the genital area is slightly blurred.