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by blue1 16y ago
a Facebook group. What a sad choice.
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by blue1 16y ago
To my eyes, it looks too american-style.
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by blue1 16y ago
Yup. It must be an american thing. I've never seen it in any typewritten document in Italy.
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by blue1 16y ago
I hope this is not the usual resurrected brand disappointment, Amiga-like.
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by blue1 16y ago
and Compute!'s Gazette!
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by blue1 16y ago
If you can handle, go for it! But if after a while you'll think that lisp is not so different from the other languages after all, it's probably because you tried to learn too many things at once. In that case, persist. :-)
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by blue1 16y ago
I am no lisp expert, and I'm well aware of the legendary cloud of terror and harshness which is said to hover on comp.lang.lisp. However, by lurking there for a while, I came to understand better the reasons of the residents. Here, "obvious
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by blue1 16y ago
I am not sure that writing a web app is the best way to learn common lisp; it introduces a lot of extra complexity (libraries, web server, etc) in a language that is itself quite complex. You'd better start from a simple CLI application as
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by blue1 16y ago
Never had any problem with the CL community. You often get really good and extensive replies, provided you don't ask questions before connecting the brain.
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by blue1 16y ago
It seems that Eco's DVD player has no "pause" button. Also, the interesting part regarding Berlusconi in the WL cables are not the facts, but the american opinions about them, which apparently are quite different from the official ones.
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by blue1 16y ago
I've never searched for them, but I know that modules for SPI games do exist, they aren't just distributed on the Vassal site.
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by blue1 16y ago
There is very little "rule set" in Vassal. Essentially it is a configurable electronic board; rules are enforced by the players, not by the platform.
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by blue1 16y ago
Note that while some modules are hobbyst work, some publishers (most notably GMT Games) make the vassal modules of their games freely available when the paper game is published. It's a great resource indeed.
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by blue1 16y ago
Vassal is mostly used for wargames. There are some modules for eurogames, but they are few and not always of good quality.
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An appeal for the Shen project (successor of Qi lisp)(lambdassociates.org)
2 points by blue1 16y ago|0 comments
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by blue1 16y ago
"Never an obligation" is imprecise. Voting in Italy was obligatory until 1993. Also see article 48 of the italian constitution, where the exercise of the vote is defined "a civic duty".
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by blue1 16y ago
I don't doubt the quality of LW, I just doubt that 64bit can be considered an optional feature these days.
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by blue1 16y ago
While not strictly (and not just) a to-do system, I am quite satisfied -so far- with the Pomodoro Technique. It enhanced my productivity considerably, and it is also an apparently sustainable todo system.
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by blue1 16y ago
...and you have to get the enterprise edition (+2400€) if you want the luxury of 64-bit.
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by blue1 16y ago
The "learn to play go" series of five books by Janice Kim is the best.
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by blue1 16y ago
I have both a model M and a Unicomp Customizer. They have a slightly different feel, and are equally noisy (not that it's a problem for me), but they are both great keyboards. Before switching to those, I experienced several problems to my
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Chuck Moore's 144-computers chip is now available(greenarraychips.com)
85 points by blue1 16y ago|47 comments
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by blue1 16y ago
Withdrawing from the euro is unthinkable, in practical terms. However, what if national currencies are reintroduced in addition to the euro? (just some lateral thinking...)
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by blue1 16y ago
This list has been created just yesterday and already has one hundred subscribers, including a lot of well-known names in the CL community (some of which have left comp.lang.lisp since a while) so it will likely become an authoritative foru
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Pro: a mailing list for Common Lisp professionals(common-lisp.net)
24 points by blue1 16y ago|3 comments
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by blue1 16y ago
Actually, it strongly depends on the region. I live in one of the "lawful" ones.
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by blue1 16y ago
Italy is not corrupt enough for this. The law is more or less applied (more or less also depending on the region) but in a random, chaotic, occasional fashion, because an uniform application is really impossible. It's a bit like the idea of
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by blue1 16y ago
But civil law more easily may degrade in a byzantine mess. Here in Italy there are more than 100,000 laws (estimated, for no one really knows, and this is just for national laws, and not including technical regulations). Which means that no
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by blue1 16y ago
Safari on ipad crashes on this page. Is that a new kind of sarcastic review?
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by blue1 16y ago
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/?format=pf

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