Daemmerung

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by Daemmerung 16y ago
Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers , which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals to the Pisan mercantile class. Mea culpa.
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci , written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
Or Windows CE.
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZSCHEME=mzscheme.exe ; :run ; "%MZSCHEME
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
Most of the articles of any size on that site have been cut-and-pasted from elsewhere. Maybe it's a splog-in-training.
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by Daemmerung 16y ago
M-x dissociated-press
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly slow. At the moment
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores. Personally, I'd rather see that app on the Kindle DX, or a dev
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Gambit is a Scheme-to-C compiler; Objective-C is a superset of C. Hence all the iPhone sees is a regular subset of Objective-C. http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users must enter APL characters by hunt and peck on a soft on-scre
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To my eye, less sensa
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exultation instead of terror. I do not believe I
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Thanks, Walter. I've tried using XKeymacs ( http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html ) to this end, but had problems with the previous Thunderbird. Perhaps I should try again with 3.0.
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow analysis in higher-order programs. So at some level, it am
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Scientific American has been declining ever since Flanagan left its masthead, twenty-five years ago. Try American Scientist ( http://www.americanscientist.org/ ) instead-- it reminds me so much of what SA used to be. (And don't get me star
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README ).
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ . The just-released game Qua
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
A lucky hole in our current series of rainstorms gave me horizon-wide clear skies, and the moon was not yet risen. I saw a lovely show, about 2 per minute. (rural West Coast, USA) Thank you very much for the alert.
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were increasing the rate at which symbols mechanically tickle you
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
"Strips of old tire" (from your cited article) would be thicker than the soles of my Fivefinger Sprints. All of my running surfaces are rocky or gravelly, and the Sprints do not provide enough protection for me against stone bruising. Per
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Neurotic indeed. The author was born in 1964 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deresiewicz ), which makes him the same age as me. Thus we probably attended Yale as undergraduates at the same time. Yet I recognize absolutely
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Not only are fingers very low-resolution input devices, but they're opaque and attached to a big meaty human hand, obscuring your view of whatever you're manipulating. The visibility problem worsens with multiple touch, since you may have
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
I do a little of this, using a Dell D630 ATG (reasonable review: http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_dell_ATG630.html ) to supply screen visibility in full sunlight. Programming while out of doors may not be as satisfying as you migh
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by Daemmerung 17y ago
Amen. This book is wonderfully quantitative, and in my experience discusses rye doughs like no other. I am also very fond of Emily Buehler's "Bread Science" ( http://www.twobluebooks.com/book.php ), particularly as a gift for precise indiv
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by Daemmerung 18y ago
Or a Squeezebox Boom.

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