Bootvis

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by Bootvis 16y ago
That's true but if you want to learn Lisp (anything) well you will have to see examples, talk with peers etc. Everyone discourages too much imperative code in Lisp so this will be very hard to pick up on your own. So to be an effective Lisp
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by Bootvis 16y ago
I'm very surprised to hear about people bringing laptops to meetings. I've never seen this happen (where I live). It seems to be disrespectful and contraproductive. You're there to talk and think right? Who does this and why?
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by Bootvis 16y ago
How can humans survive in a post-food world? This is just unsensical.
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Skill isn't one dimensional. If I'm better at X and my colleague is better at Y we can both learn from someone 'smarter' and everybody is clearly better of by cooperating.
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by Bootvis 16y ago
For young people financial theory advises against investing excess capital in bonds and for investing in stocks[1]. The idea is that in the long run stocks have a higher return then bonds and the volatility doesn't matter much (agian this
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by Bootvis 16y ago
I have nothing insightful to say about this topic but I'll comment anyway and ask: Is there a way to bookmark threads without commenting?
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by Bootvis 16y ago
On the other hand you have beautiful games like this one: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1124533 where the computer has a lot of trouble finding the best move. Clearly programs still do not understand at the level that was h
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by Bootvis 16y ago
It's my understanding that these keycombo's are originally from the readline library. Other programs that have these combo's available are irrsi and bash but I love to know more!
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Strange, I get 3 profiles in the Netherlands that all registered a few days ago. Maybe there is a bug there? EDIT: I guess our musical tastes differ by too much. Maybe it's better to show bad matches then no matches at all?
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Do not downvote if you don't agree. He raises a valid point (with which I myself don't fuly agree but it's a valid point nonetheless).
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by Bootvis 16y ago
A more innocent trick with unicode and twitter is squeezing extra characters in a tweet by using unicode ligatures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_precomposed_Latin_chara... Unfortunately the amount of ligatures is small but it migh
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Paul Kedorsky is actually a well respected blogger who has just signed a partnership deal with Bloomberg: http://inside.bloomberg.com/blog/2010/11/paul-kedrosky-joins...
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by Bootvis 16y ago
One tip for the overly enthusiastic (like me): Unfortunately Vagrant does not work on Windows 7 64 bit (yet). See: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/issue/194
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by Bootvis 16y ago
It's seems to be fixed now and I could download the eBook after logging in to NoStarch. Thanks for the book!
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Am I the only one having problems downloading the ebook after purchasing?
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by Bootvis 16y ago
It works for me and paying with PayPal should protect against fraud. You don't actually need a domain. I signed up with one with I control but I have not transferred it to them yet. They provided an IP I can log in to. I haven't done anythi
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by Bootvis 16y ago
You can watch it here: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1151381/d293ebcd/simpsons_ba...
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Even better is concealing your helmet under a long blonde wig.
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by Bootvis 16y ago
But what if Apple doesn't allow it? How many people would jailbreak their phone to play poker?
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by Bootvis 16y ago
From wikipedia "although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_(university) .
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Was downloading music you already owned really illegal in the USA pre-DMCA? After all, the music company did sell you the right to listen to that music. I know it's legal in most of Europe.
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Also Rotterdam
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by Bootvis 16y ago
Isn't the problem with Common Lisp that you have to start with a lot less? I've dabbled with Common Lisp for webdevelopment and I failed, miserably. I tried various the Mandriva package manager, downloading latest releases from the web, aut
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by Bootvis 16y ago
I think this app has potential, but: Your lyrics database is too small or I am unlucky, I just listened to Muse, The Smiths, Jacques Brel and Muse again and it didn't find any lyrics. (For some reason it seemed to miss the Brel song entirel