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by byron_fast 11y ago
The reason Paul Graham used Lisp is it was the only reasonable way at the time to implement RTML, which was the HTML macro language with online editor that Viaweb was built out of. RTML was how every website in Viaweb was constructed, it i
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Ah well it always worked for me... may have been a case of "close enough for rock'n roll" though.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Neat. Or just use a (real) phone's dialtone, which is E.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
True, I'm being cranky. Genuine feedback usually looks pretty cranky, I figure. Most people will close things that aren't immediately understandable. But you see the problem in the other comments as well: it's "cool&q
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Judging by the lack of support for this post, I'll have to stand by my comment. The interface poorly displays a great amount of information; the creators need to play more videogames to understand why. We see the limits of an upvote&#
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Wow, what a crappy interface. Close.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Flash did solve the problem that the article complains about: consistency of experience and not having to develop your site / app to a pile of different runtimes. But that's not a bug, but a feature for those in the business of
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Not a single mention of Flash! I've got a hunch Windows 10 may popularize it again... Still a more consistent runtime than all the stuff that "killed" it.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
The program they are calling "SmileBASIC" was formerly known as "Petit Computer" and for some reason has been removed from the Nintendo store, but was previously available on the DSi and 3DS. This new version was release
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by byron_fast 11y ago
It's nice Basic is still around. But SmileBasic is far, far more interesting: http://www.smileboom.com/product_nintendo3ds.php#01 Basic should be fun to learn, and being able to program the 3DS - with a nice library o
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Divide the bytes by 10 and we are in 1998... The suck level remains the same.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
It's a bit of a red herring... The boomtree server is written in Lisp, but it implements a new language called bdf that the R2P app (and the whole server) are built in. All of the bdf code is viewable at the site. To see the source
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Redstone2Phone: Send an SMS Text from inside Minecraft. Built with Lisp(boomtree.com)
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