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by agambrahma 6y ago
Probably worth mentioning that if you're looking for "all this and more", try out Tinderbox ( https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ ) too. - local storage - notes can be "namespaces" within documen
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by agambrahma 6y ago
Striking how _different_ this is from the pyramid of Giza. For this one, every inch covered with illustrations and hieroglyphs; for the great pyramid, completely bare, devoid of images.
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by agambrahma 7y ago
(nvm, the paper directly mentions Zizek, should've clicked through first) Still, one of the more fascinating HN finds today.
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by agambrahma 7y ago
who else saw the title and thought of Zizek? :-)
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Have to say that with its latest release, Tinderbox ( https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox ) have most of this in a _non-cloud, local-storage_ form.
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Thanks, sounds useful. I guess what I'm also looking for is some sort of JVM/Java intermediate-to-expert level intro ... so far the relevant results have been jvm-performance-related material.
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Ask HN: Java ecosystem overview for experienced programmers?
2 points by agambrahma 7y ago|2 comments
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Seems to be a better "programmable language", but does it have the "have a running image to modify" and "interrupt and resume without rerunning" features of Common Lisp?
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Came here to say I paid for this a couple of years ago and found it very useful (ended up using it on both C++ and Java codebases), do give it a try. Sad to see that it didn't make it as a commercial product (wonder what lesson to draw
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Good to see someone fill in this missing link! Could become a viable competitor to Julia (uniform language stack, as opposed to the Python+C combination currently being widely used).
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by agambrahma 7y ago
Do you think this might just be people wanting something familiar "at the bottom"? E.g. both Swift and Julia (and Rust, and Clang ...) have a common underlying backend (LLVM) in common, whereas in Common Lisp, it's ... Common
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by agambrahma 8y ago
Done! ... did you say there's a book coming? :-)
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by agambrahma 8y ago
Thanks a lot, this is a great guide to go by!
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Ask HN: Advice on self-publishing book of haikus?
8 points by agambrahma 8y ago|4 comments
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by agambrahma 8y ago
Upvoted just because it's the only time I've heard anyone else talk about this (read Hyperion some time back, can't believe it took me this long to get to it) :-)
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by agambrahma 8y ago
> FreeBSD’s grep does not have a "-P" flag by default (I continue to wonder what's stopping everyone from just ditching `grep` altogether and switching to `ag`/`rg`)
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by agambrahma 8y ago
Ah good, will try it out then!
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by agambrahma 8y ago
Is this somehow tied to SBCL, or generally useful across all implementations (e.g. Lispworks) ?