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by blue1 11y ago
You mean, besides https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ ?
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by blue1 11y ago
I also wrote a book in Emacs org mode. My plan was to do all the editing in emacs, and then design the layout in Adobe Indesign. I struggled a lot with several delirious XML-based solutions for this (e.g. Docbook), but finally I found out t
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Implications of the Third Industrial Revolution(theeuropean-magazine.com)
75 points by blue1 12y ago|11 comments
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The Future of the LispM(arrdem.com)
56 points by blue1 12y ago|15 comments
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by blue1 12y ago
I think here "x" may be intended in the botanical meaning of "crossed with"
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by blue1 12y ago
Yes, I recall having noticed that, but still didn't feel very natural, probably because I use different systems (not all of them OS X even) and this complicates habit making.
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by blue1 12y ago
in OS X system preferences you can set sticky modifiers. I used it for a while with emacs, but finally abandoned it because, while easy on fingers, it tends to cause strange things if you start typing a combination and halfway you change yo
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by blue1 12y ago
forgot the quotes: LOAD "*",8,1
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by blue1 12y ago
The Republic of Venice developed that idea to a system of great complexity for electing the Doge, that included copious injections of randomness. There is an interesting analysis of this protocol in a paper by HP laboratories, available her
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by blue1 12y ago
My experience is that for wargames it works nicely. For other games, there are some really awful modules out there. I once tried a game – can't remember the name now – that in physical form it is usually played in about 45 minutes. Wit
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by blue1 12y ago
I've seen this discussion around LW an incredible number of times. The problem seems to be exactly this one: LW may be a nice product (many experience lispers seem to think so) or not (as someone on this thread is arguing), but in all
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by blue1 12y ago
This article is a bit shallow. I recommend Schwarz's book, The Paradox of Choice ; it's a fun read and I found it very insightful.
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by blue1 12y ago
Jacobulous: Your comments are very interesting, can you point to some good resource (book/site/etc) to learn about such things?
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by blue1 12y ago
The problem with framework reviews is that they are mostly written by people that have used just that one (not surprising since it takes some time to become proficient in such things), and always the conclusion is, oh it is awesome. I would
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by blue1 13y ago
This does not appear to be a consumer-oriented format like CDs and DVDs, but rather a niche product. Meaning that it will probably be not cheap. How is it supposed to be competitive with tape? 1TB is not that much.
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by blue1 13y ago
  is an entity, not a tag.
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by blue1 13y ago
> Mixing Html / Javascript / Templating never really worked flawlessly. multi-web-mode works pretty well in my experience
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by blue1 13y ago
Framemaker is still alive and well, although confined to the niche of technical publishing.
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by blue1 13y ago
The article mentions "dutch roundabouts" without explanation. Here is a page describing them: http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-modern-amster...
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by blue1 13y ago
I've been using Sparkleshare ( http://sparkleshare.org/ ) as a secure alternative to Dropbox, and it works decently, although it has some rough edges.
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by blue1 13y ago
Seconded. Some years ago I started having wrist problems, hand pains, seeing specialists etc. Then I bought a Unicomp keyboard and every problem disappeared. It is also very aurally satisfying (clac-clac-clac) :)
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by blue1 13y ago
Doesn't this description of the OSI way look similar to how the W3C works?
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by blue1 13y ago
"Gendarmerie" is the word
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by blue1 14y ago
> I remember getting a lego cargo ship as a kid (the hull was four specialized pieces — bow, stern, and two mid sections and thinking this was awful. From an aesthetic point of view it was indeed awful, yet necessary: those ships were m
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by blue1 14y ago
Common Lisp is the obvious choice
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by blue1 14y ago
It's also dead because spam killed it. It wasn't designed to deal with it (see the famous Canter-Siegel incident)
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by blue1 14y ago
there are 25 special operators in common lisp, not 40+.
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by blue1 14y ago
"One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor." — Kernighan/Pike, The practice of Programming
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by blue1 14y ago
Richard Gabriel. Though Peter Gabriel would be good too :)
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by blue1 14y ago
Is there actually a public Lisp library to do that? Erik is no longer among us and brought his code with him; Tim Bradshaw had his version called TML/DTML that AFAIK was never released.

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