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by abhinav22 5y ago
For learning Common Lisp, I highly recommend https://github.com/ashok-khanna/common-lisp-by-example
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by abhinav22 5y ago
But isn’t PostgreSQL and (sorry if I got the name wrong) MariaDB also open source? I think the success of SQLite is the small size / no installation, but I agree it could only become as popular as it currently is due to its open source
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by abhinav22 5y ago
It becomes (or at least implies) too much anecdotal, which is not ideal for a unopinonated discussion. Excessive use of first person imo is a good flag that the writer is too self concerned (egotistical), which can interfere with their judg
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by abhinav22 5y ago
This is something I try to be careful of. Programming takes time, which is an opportunity cost as we get older. If I was well off, I would love to relax my mind on projects not going anywhere. However until that point, I try to do something
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Be bad at things you don’t want to do. Be good at things you want to do. That way people don’t typecast you into roles you don’t want to do and typecast you to roles you do want to do. (This is in the workplace). Wish I learnt this earlier
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by abhinav22 5y ago
> ..you're not on very solid ground. (Sorry not quoting the entire point, not out of rudeness but due to its length). My point rather was that they are all successful and similar to Paul, so during their review they didn’t pick up o
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by abhinav22 5y ago
> The article does have more substance, for example exploring where the hate comes from. Of course, it does not seem relevant to you, because all you see from haters is a bit of flaming on forums. For famous people, this is a big pain po
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by abhinav22 5y ago
It’s a valid point, and I wouldn’t be able to assume what Pg’s target audience is. Unfortunately I missed out anything substantive, perhaps I didn’t comprehend the main points of the article as there are two replies (including yours) noting
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Preface: I like Paul Graham’s work generally, not amazing but good (in particular his Lisp books). He has a gift of writing in an inspirational style, which I believe many enjoyed when reading his essays. He and his colleagues had a brillia
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks! Will check it out.
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks! Will check it out! Re Smalltalk, I’m 100% a Lisp man, so perhaps later, but not at the moment :-)
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Man that looks so cool . What a beautiful, clean user interface and I assume an amazing experience, with the full power of Lisp. Is there any chance to get a Lisp Machine as an image that we can load in a VM? All I need is a connection the
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by abhinav22 5y ago
That domain name is amazing! Worth millions I’m assuming. Would you be able to provide an English description of what it does as many of us don’t speak Japanese?
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by abhinav22 5y ago
There are many different types of meetings, so you will need to give some additional color on yours (number of people, frequency, is it within a team, cross team etc). Effective meetings are hard . I struggle moderating them constantly. He
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Google has such a monopoly that it will take a lot to overcome their plans. Glad to see WP taking a stand - I never knew that FLOC would be so bad. The WP proposal made it clear that it’s a discriminatory technology.
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by abhinav22 5y ago
For those interested, refer to https://sites.google.com/site/sabraonthehill/postmodern-exam... Thanks also to kagevf on #lisp irc channel for his help here
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Interesting example. Yes, it’s not a perfect language by any means :-) Some things are better in Lisp, some things are better in other languages as well for sure!
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks for all your insights today :-) Have a nice rest of the day!
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Does that mean the swank thread still gets all the inputs of the live process and you can debug in isolation there and then push changes to the main thread? Sorry if I’m stupid (no need to reply), I need to read into this more.
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Ah that might be able to help bridge the gap for me. I still don’t quite follow, but I guess having multiple threads allows for easier testing of the interface with other components, perhaps? Sorry I am out of my depth on this one. Will Goo
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks! I will use that
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by abhinav22 5y ago
That’s so cool! Simply amazing. And so much through lisp and its dialects. Thanks for sharing. Do you find Lispworks superior to SBCL / Emacs? Any tips for other programmers on what to do / what not to do when it comes to producti
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks! I agree with you, it’s not perfect for readers and until I caved and signed up as a member, I also was annoyed at hitting my monthly limit of articles. They have amazing SEO so inevitably many articles I need while researching a sol
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Thanks! I’ll have a look. I find Certbot a bit fragile to use, but not sure if that’s just the problem space (since you have to verify domain control before issuing SSL certificates). Perhaps this will be a more robust approach
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Wow - that’s awesome! We would all be really grateful for a blog of your experiences, if you have time one day. Which field do you use it in? I have a stereotype that it’s mostly used in scientific / quantitative fields
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by abhinav22 5y ago
Would you be able to expand on this? I’m very basic when it comes to debugging in Lisp :) So you are running a second server to test issues away from production? I thought this is possible in other languages / frameworks, so I must be
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by abhinav22 5y ago
There are many views on this (so please don’t take my word as gospel), but from my experience, Lisp gives the following benefits: - A fantastic and easy to use open source web server in Hunchentoot - Very easy integration into databases lik
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by abhinav22 5y ago
I would love to hear more on the security challenges and debugging issues, if you have time. It’s not used as much in industry, so any insights are really very valuable. Also so cool that you worked in AI! That’s my dream field :)
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by abhinav22 5y ago
The issue with my code is that somebody can put in arbitrary SQL queries within the data field (I think - not sure if it is 100% possible because their data would be enclosed within the programs SQL query, which may break their attempts) Be
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by abhinav22 5y ago
That’s a good point. I will update the code to prevent any potential SQL injections so that others follow the right practice. Very nice catch! Thank you very much.

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