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by blue1 16y ago
So the only reason for education is to produce more money?
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by blue1 16y ago
Once upon a time, when Netscape added the BACKGROUND attribute and FONT element, we obtained web graphics of the geocities variety. Good expressive results for new technologies take some time to be discovered.
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Nick Levine abandons his book "Lisp Outside the Box"(enlivend.livejournal.com)
46 points by blue1 17y ago|6 comments
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by blue1 17y ago
I don't understand. I believe that if you take away the Creative Suite from OS X, the macintosh platform loses its main professional niche. It would be suicidal for Apple to do this. But Apple seems not afraid of this possibility. Maybe is
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by blue1 17y ago
One thing I do not understand. The graphic design crowd is the biggest force behind Mac popularity. And "graphic design software" and "Adobe creative suite" are synonims. So Adobe has the power to inflict huge damage to the OS X platform if
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by blue1 17y ago
"finished" the part published so far, that is. Many are doubting that Martin will be able to finish it, given his pace and the huge scope of the story. But I second the recommendation, read it anyway!
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by blue1 17y ago
> I didn't think patenting of algorithms was permitted. Wasn't RSA patented, for instance?
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by blue1 17y ago
Ceteris paribus, language choices affect latin as well. ;)
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by blue1 17y ago
I sincerely don't understand the standard flaming /about/ the CL community. I've read this complaint for years. But my experience is very different. I have been learning CL in the last two years, and I've found that most people (including t
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by blue1 17y ago
Which EU law, exactly?
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by blue1 17y ago
The changeover TO euro had to be carefully prepared for years. The reverse looks like an apocalyptic scenario. I don't know, anything can happen, of course, but I live in the eurozone (Italy) and the very idea of abandoning the euro looks l
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by blue1 17y ago
Can anyone explain what is meant exactly by "failure of the Euro"? It just refers to a falling of the exchange rates of EUR vs anything else? Or rather to a scenario in which there is a changeover back to national currencies (slightly unthi
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by blue1 17y ago
Mark Pesce, technopagan and inventor of VRML. Interesting guy.
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by blue1 17y ago
Gotti Tedeschi is italian. While it's true that a low birth rate is typical of rich countries, it is also true that in Italy the hope for the future is currently at historical lows (sociologists are also writing profusely about this). Not t
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by blue1 17y ago
It is worth nothing that this "Institute for the Works of Religion", aka IOR, is basically the bank of Vatican. It is shrouded by absolute secrecy, much more than the swiss banks for instance. In the past it has been involved in rather shad
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by blue1 17y ago
If those are the numbers, it seems to me that -while certainly an interesting concept- it has no future in practice, unless it is extremely cheap.
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by blue1 17y ago
Very naïf question from a software-only guy: given that such a chip exists, how is one supposed to USE this kind of thing? Like, maybe plugging some kind of card on a PC? Or is it just interesting for hardware manifacturers?
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by blue1 17y ago
same for .it
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by blue1 17y ago
It is not very clear what is "language" and what are "libraries", in a conceptual sense. For example, you can build Common Lisp from a handful of things / special forms, but the ANSI standard is very large, because it wanted to standardize
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by blue1 17y ago
Also it wouldn't be a bad idea to mark them as "repost" somehow.
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by blue1 17y ago
Not EU, this is how Europe works (certain parts of it at least, and certainly where I live). There is a certain political culture in european states that causes a sense of unease when anything of no trivial size is not "regulated". The "r
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by blue1 17y ago
Common Lisp needs something well structured like CPAN too. The situation with clbuild, mudballs (deceased?), asdf-install etc. is rather confusing IMHO.
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by blue1 17y ago
Some things I have learned: Make a big, approximate plan of everything you have to do. Take the first step and detail it, dividing it in little, non-scaring tasks. Then start working on the first. While you are working on one, concentrate o
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by blue1 17y ago
The Vatican does this with latin too. It became a dead language nonetheless. English always absorbed lots of words from many different languages. I suspect that this is a better recipe for language vitality than the "National bureau of new
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by blue1 17y ago
Legibility is mostly a consequence of training, i.e. habit (see the famous article by Rudy VanderLans in Emigre magazine, in the 90's). For example, the fraktur typefaces of Germany (the ones you see in nazi movies), they seem unreadable to
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by blue1 17y ago
Just my experience: I have been using textpad for ages, and I am still using it (v.4.7, for the reasons you mentioned). In the meantime, however, I had to learn emacs (for Slime etc.). Now I notice that when I open textpad I begin to miss e
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by blue1 17y ago
#1 Rule or programming is: programmers start counting from 0, not from 1.
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by blue1 17y ago
actually I think it depends on the state. Until recently, cheques were much more used (and cheaper) than bank transfers in Italy and AFAIK even more in France. Online banking changed this.
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by blue1 17y ago
> cost is the only metric that matters. And on that metric, it is impossible to compete with hydrocarbons. Even if considering the cost of the side effects?
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by blue1 17y ago
Same here, SBCL + slime for no-web stuff, and it's great. Never tried lisp for the web; for that I find perl + catalyst a very good solution.

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