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by bitdiddle 15y ago
files go in and out thru email, seems to work well
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
Tiny Scheme 1.40
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
'Be Here Now' was exactly my thought also - 'The Only Dance There Is'
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
how about Git itself?
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
yes, and the title of the post is a bit misleading. HyperDex seems to be a serious effort and worth a close look.
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
Well we may have less entities like Bell Labs but we still have the T.J. Watson Research Center.
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
Thanks, very interesting and informative comment on how the ad business works. In my head I'm hearing Frank Zappa sing "I am the slime from the video" and Mick Jagger sing "Satisfaction". It shouldn't sadden us though. We have to protect ou
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
If I recall that's already in the works
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Ron Paul and Liberals(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I agree that the Apache patent clause is important. In fact if I recall it motivated some of the changes in GPL3 in order to make it compatible with the Apache license
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I agree totally. As a sole proprietor the GPL certainly protects my interests and my customers are comfortable knowing they can always hire someone else to enhance or maintain the source. I'm surprised that as it becomes easier than ever to
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
It's been dead for a long time from what I can tell
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
Interesting, I need to read up on this. I would have thought compensation plans are what drive share buyback programs rather than the tax handling of dividends. Thanks!
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
What's even more impressive is that IBM pays a dividend, which in volatile equity markets and low interest environments is a very good thing. Apple and Amazon do not.
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
great article! It reminds me of Curien's work on categorical combinators, where the machine definition is given by the equational axioms of the model, in this case the cartesian closed categories. I don't think McCarthy was informed by the
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
absolutely! A strong component of FP is getting programs right, and forcing the explicit management of state is critical to that. Of course that makes FP a lot harder also, Haskell was not so pretty before the emergence of monads.
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I can't say, I looked at this briefly and was hoping for an elementary proof. This paper casts the problem in terms of linear operators over holomorphic function spaces and assumes a number of prior results in that area, and it's been far t
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
Roy Adler made that same, which reminds me, I wonder if Erdos offered money for this one?
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I will look at it this weekend. If true, the productivity of math departments everywhere will go up. I know so many that banged their heads on this one for a while. I once wasted an entire week playing with this on the Symbolics. It's horri
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
"The world is full of wicked men Wyatt" -- Gene Hackman in Wyatt Earp
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
definitely, both worth reading also especially for the historical context. I found the whole section on the Symbolics machine quite interesting as I was working on one at the time and was completely unaware at what was happening at the Mit
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I would find this comment shocking and insulting if weren't trotted out so often. One might argue with Stallman's ideas, but he walks the talk and he sticks to his guns.
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, are you saying one can't make money using GPL software? Are you saying programmers can't charge for their labor? What message are you referring to? I see many successful businesses, for example IBM, making money
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by bitdiddle 15y ago
This "simple description" at a glance appears to be just plain wrong. For example, the GPL license is compatible with ASL2.o
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
It's interesting that all the docs and APIs are open and they advertise that, but say nothing about the platform. It's great for the client to be open and for users to own their data, which presumably is RDF and very portable, but risky to
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I suppose "somewhat orthogonal" is like being "almost pregnant", perhaps the author was just speaking loosely here. I agree that the examples were toy ones, but it's precisely these simple things like projections that we see folks strugglin
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I've seen several posts now with this same theme. Emacs is an awesome lisp IDE and it appears to be not widely known that emacs is written primarily in elisp, a lisp dialect. So I would highly recommend learning emacs and elisp together and
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
excellent choice!
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
"With all due respect "I hae ma doots" - show me such a beast as this eight grader. (as a non-American I don't even know what an eight grader is? a 14 year old, a 12 year old?)" I'm referring to the teach scheme[1] project of Felleisen et.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I understand totally. I had the great fortune to learn lisp after Fortran and Pascal and Pl/1, but before all the others. lisp is a functional language (more or less) so recursion is preferred to iteration. The beauty of lisp is that it's s

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