celoyd

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   by celoyd 18y ago

   Actually, given call/cc ( http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/callcc.html ), it's not a big deal. I think Termite ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/841 ) is implemented in Gambit with call/cc.
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   by celoyd 19y ago

   He could go further with the lisp comparison. In the abstract, forth is lisp with fixed argument counts (i.e., without parens) written backwards (i.e., on a stack). If you went to someone who knew either language and described those two dif
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   by celoyd 19y ago

   I hope you're being intentionally ironic.
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   by celoyd 19y ago

   For running text itself -- as opposed to posters and advertisements -- try The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst ( http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780881792065-1 ). It goes well with Tufte's books.
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   by celoyd 19y ago

   He's pointing out that the Windows algorithm uses a lot of tricks to compensate for the low resolution of screens compared to paper. As screens approach the crispness of paper, those tricks will become pointless distortions. In a roughly si
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   by celoyd 20y ago

   Documentaries for geeks or about geeks? The ones about geeks will probably be really boring. They'll leave out both the technical stuff and the potentially actionable war stories. "Revolution OS", for instance, was a well-crafted film, but
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   by celoyd 20y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit is a good overview. It amazes me that this doesn't get more coverage, especially after the Nobel. One of many interesting details is that women get the majority of the loans because they're usually
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   by celoyd 20y ago

   I'm a little overweight too, but I think it's because I eat too much, not because I eat junk. And, at the risk of mapping "hackers and Xers" over every X in sight, I think jward is right: cooking feels noticeably like coding. Maybe I'm just
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   by celoyd 20y ago

   Wow, they changed it since I said that. Good for them. Their robots.txt blocks the Wayback Machine, but the current Google cache has it (search for "The main - usually whiny - argument"): http://tinyurl.com/26o3nq Edit: link syntax.
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    by celoyd 20y ago

    This is sad. I've always thought of cooking as an ordinary hacker passtime, like juggling or reading. Many of the coolest nerds I've hung out with are borderline foodies, though constrained by time and money, and nearly all are on the healt
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    by celoyd 20y ago

    I started skimming when they used hyphens for dashes.
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    by celoyd 20y ago

    And s/OSX/OS X/