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by apgwoz 15y ago
The WikiPedia history states that there was some personal communication with his sister.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Does anyone have a better article? I can't find any other information about it. I found out from the NYC Lisp mailing list, and Wikipedia confirmed it. Sad, sad, sad day. :(
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John McCarthy Has Died(en.wikipedia.org)
1619 points by apgwoz 15y ago|218 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
> Seems suggestive of retirement Why does that seems suggestive of retirement? They're obviously optimizing this bar for my mom and not people who know what, and how to use Reader. "Calendar", "Documents", "Photos", "Web" (which takes
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I'm still using a D70s as my primary camera, but I have to say, when Nikon released it's first camera that supported ISO 6400, they made available full resolution JPGs. You could see a bit of noise if you looked really hard for it, but, it
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by apgwoz 15y ago
With that ISO range, they've effectively eliminated the need for flash on 80%+ of photographs. Obviously, you'd still want flash for fill and studio situations, but sports photographers, and everyone else, even (maybe) concert photographers
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I think it could still be done, but there needs to be more than one at the helm. After the initial announcement that he was accepting proposals, I never heard about it again until the Sussman and Hickey interviews (thanks btw). There is cer
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by apgwoz 15y ago
What loop? I'm sorry, but the only thing I can take from this comment is: "I'm so awesome because it was really my idea that didn't work out." But, positively responding to your comment, I'd really like to read all of those articles, and I
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I submitted an article, but failure to receive a response in a timely manner caused me to edit (probably poorly) myself, and just publish it on my blog [I did actually get a positive response after I had already published it, nearly 2 month
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Towards really incremental MapReduce(permalink.gmane.org)
3 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Racket has support for serialization of closures and continuations, which it's web server makes extensive use of. It seems like it'd be possible to expose the relevant functions to make that happen, though I have no idea how large the closu
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I'm sure that if Larry Ellison died, it wouldn't only be RMS making this comment.
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The Logo language and the Logo style(eecs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
So, now that it's sold, the people that put up that $1-$13 are SOL? I guess you always take a chance when you buy something online that is hosted without any guarantees (which I assume was the case here).
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Oh god, I hope you're joking.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
New York City - Meetup We're looking for mobile devs (iOS and Android) as well as backend and front end engineers. For more information: http://www.meetup.com/jobs or contact me directly andrew@meetup.com Meetup is growing, profitable and
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by apgwoz 15y ago
> Silk seems to be an Opera Mini-like proxy browser, where the client asks the server to fetch and render the page, and then receives what’s basically a bitmap image. This makes for very fast browsing and little data traffic. I doubt
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by apgwoz 15y ago
You still can filter by multiple tags. Just keep clicking on tags in the sidebar. I rather like the promise. Since this is basically a complete rewrite, I'm sure they'll take into consideration the feedback from their users. And I'm sure th
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One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got(objology.blogspot.com)
218 points by apgwoz 15y ago|86 comments
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John Cowan on R7RS (NYC Lisp)(vimeo.com)
4 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
You can buy a kit, for $30^H^H79. Looks like the attention of the project made him change his mind about cost...
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by apgwoz 15y ago
So, your app is unlikely to be as popular as foursquare, for instance, at least right now, and they seem fine and happy with MongoDB. You might recall the issues they had with it a while back, but those have all been fixed as far as I'm awa
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by apgwoz 15y ago
How does 2to3 help you with this? If you intend to port macros, you're sort of out of luck in python.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I worked at a company that was acquired. All of the engineers had to interview, and the interviewers weren't aware that it was an acquisition situation.
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Caching In(making.meetup.com)
1 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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‘Geeky Insane Chaos’ at Berlin Hack and Tell(siliconallee.com)
1 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
New York, NY - Meetup We're looking for backend and UI people as well as a Sysadmin and someone who knows (MySQL, HDFS/Hbase, MogileFS) backwards and forwards (and maybe even sideways). We've got a great office culture, have periodic hackat
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by apgwoz 15y ago
downvoters: If you disagree, at least tell me why...
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Sure, but when a bug like that occurs it gets "mainstream" press and PHP haters everywhere add it as part of the book of "Ugh, PHP Y U So Horrible?"
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I think he's referring to bugs such as breaking crypt() when using an md5 hash as a salt, and other things of that nature.

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