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by caslon 6y ago
Wow, the quality of discussion on that second link is really incredible. Surprising!
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by caslon 6y ago
Thanks for the link to the talk! Putting it on right now. The summary for it mentions open firmware in the generic sense; on the Sun note, will Oxide be reusing OpenFirmware/OpenBoot? It's one of Sun's most fantastic accompli
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by caslon 6y ago
Oxide is in the Bay Area, and its employees so far seem to be doing fine. That said, it's not like the Bay comes up favorably when compared to...everywhere else in the world; given the choice of hiring in the Bay and...everywhere else,
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by caslon 6y ago
What exactly is Oxide doing? Which parts of Sun is it trying to take after? I'm guessing hardware isn't the majority of its focus, since most people who've publicly acknowledged being hired are software people, but the Oxid
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by caslon 6y ago
This was the point, yes. Though Aqua/whatever Mac is calling their thing now is also a downgrade.
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by caslon 6y ago
Google: Making it even less likely there's anything other than Blink that implements the most recent HTML* spec since 2013.
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Lisp Is Not Functional (2008)(letoverlambda.com)
4 points by caslon 6y ago|0 comments
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by caslon 6y ago
Wow, reddit is really strongly attempting to be Facebook lately. I was one of the detractors of the "reddit is becoming Facebook!" comments when they did their redesign, but it definitely seems like it's trying to become Face
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by caslon 6y ago
"pretty efficient" = slower than CCL and SBCL, implementations of a language that by-design isn't fast to begin with.
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by caslon 6y ago
> so I know you respect Brendan. I really don't. Eich didn't make Firefox. I have respect for the three people who did make Firefox, but none for Eich. Eich hasn't done anything to earn respect.
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by caslon 6y ago
> JavaScript is spectacular and has reshaped our world for the better. It made popular language design even worse. It also can't be implemented efficiently or quickly, and on its own more than likely contributes to a sizeable port
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by caslon 6y ago
He created a terrible programming language and a browser that's slower than Safari and risks the privacy of its users with half-considered Tor implementations; he also made Mozilla, which has been doing more harm than good since long b
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by caslon 6y ago
The Brave brand is nearly worthless. I'm not sure how to feel about that. They're releasing their new search engine as free software, which is nice, but their long history of messing even the simplest of things up still leaves a s
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by caslon 6y ago
I am! Thank you! Why doesn't it work without REFERER headers? I haven't changed any settings from the Firefox default, and allowing it breaks links to jwz's site.
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by caslon 6y ago
The Internet Archive is incredibly commendable! It's impressive that such a small organization can do so much. I wish they would fix the Wayback Machine being broken in Firefox, though.
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by caslon 6y ago
For a more accurate screenshot than a scan of a picture on a paper that had a screenshot in black-and-white on it: http://acme.cat-v.org/_imgs/obsd_acme.png Though a screen shot really can't sum up what makes acme
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by caslon 6y ago
Acme doesn't work in a terminal. Acme is a window manager that can edit text, use multiple fonts simultaneously, revolves around the mouse and has near-perfect synchronicity with the underlying system. Edit's long-term goals lis
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by caslon 6y ago
A tutorial, if you don't know what it means by being influenced by "sam": http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf
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by caslon 6y ago
Acme is inherently graphical. Moving to a terminal application would be a regression, in this particular case. Then again, X11 is also a regression, in Acme's case.
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Edit: A text-editor mixing vi and Acme(c9x.me)
106 points by caslon 6y ago|31 comments
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SICL: A fresh implementation of Common Lisp(github.com)
3 points by caslon 6y ago|0 comments
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by caslon 6y ago
No, not really. $ mit-scheme MIT/GNU Scheme running under GNU/Linux Type `^C' (control-C) followed by `H' to obtain information about interrupts. Copyright (C) 2014 Massachusetts Institute of
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by caslon 6y ago
Intel has kept their ISAs roughly-consistent with each other since 1972. Of course, in doing this, they have created a behemoth. You can't make something smaller when your goal is eternal (in)consistency.
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by caslon 6y ago
Or, ideally, use mit-scheme, and have zero modification.
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by caslon 6y ago
The elegance of that time is something unfortunately missing from modern software.
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by caslon 6y ago
Absolutely agree! I love writing it, myself.
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by caslon 6y ago
Is the 6502 the peak of hobbyists writing assembly? I think it fills a fantastic niche of being well-documented while also not being completely terrible to write by hand.
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by caslon 6y ago
It's also a freely-available book from MIT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... Texinfo version (recommended) and pretty PDF version: https://github.com&#
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by caslon 6y ago
If curious for more, the Lush documentation is some of the finest of any language. You can find it in your preferred format here: http://lush.sourceforge.net/doc.html
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Lisp Machine Manual (1984)(hanshuebner.github.io)
8 points by caslon 6y ago|0 comments

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