ScottBurson

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   by ScottBurson 16y ago

   I use Xpra, but it's a little buggy. E.g., buttons don't always appear in the right position within a dialog. Sometimes it hangs up and I have to restart it. Some fairly complex apps don't like to run under it (I think I had this problem
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   by ScottBurson 16y ago

   "One of my big fears is that I may not be the most qualified person to teach my children." Maybe not "the most qualified", but you sound pretty smart to me, and there are a lot of thoroughly unqualified teachers in the school systems. I th
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   by ScottBurson 16y ago

   My recollection of John Holt's writings -- admittedly somewhat fuzzy, but some 25 years ago I read all his books and even did some volunteer work for him, so I think I got the gist -- certainly doesn't include a recommendation to abandon on
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   by ScottBurson 16y ago

   I think it's more accurate to say that Lisp has a metasyntax rather than a syntax. Each special form and macro, including user-written macros, has its own syntax; but all of these syntax are layered on top of the standard metasyntax.
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   by ScottBurson 16y ago

   JSON and XML (especially XML) are not better approaches than what preceded them. S-expressions have been around since 1958.