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by daly 7y ago
I have been programming in Lisp for 50 years, all the way back to a Lisp 1.5 version. Every few hours someone decides to write lisp with a different syntax, one that lacks parens. Yes, it can be done. No, it shouldn't be done.
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by daly 7y ago
This is one of those "We need to advertise the job" but don't want anyone to apply because we want to keep the person we have who is up for contract renewal.
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by daly 7y ago
Watch "Inside the War Room" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3q8go9
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Book Review: Limited Strategic (I.e. Nuclear) War Knorr/Read
3 points by daly 7y ago|2 comments
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by daly 7y ago
I recall work from the 1980s doing something similar. It turns out that a Fast Fourier Transform of an object can be used to recognize the object in an scene. The result of convoluting the FFT of the "interesting object" and the s
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by daly 7y ago
What's really sad is that Microsoft claims it wants "developers, developers, developers". But when I pay over $1000 for a computer I expect it to work for me. Losing work at any time, for any reason, is a problem. Losing work
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by daly 7y ago
I'm quite amazed at WSL. Everything (almost) works. Emacs keeps losing the blinking cursor which is annoying. Other than that everything I've tried worked. I started developing on it and was making great progress. I had several da
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by daly 7y ago
An Abrams M1A2 tank weighs 69.4 tons. I suppose they plan to repave the street later.
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by daly 7y ago
Kudos to the WSL developers. An excellent effort. I thought WSL was great... until Microsoft decided to reboot my device and I lost all of my work. Stick with a native linux install. My shows linux box shows an uptime of 126 days, last boot
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The 0th Commandment: Survival of the Species
4 points by daly 7y ago|0 comments
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by daly 7y ago
I agree. Columns 73-80 should only be used for sequence numbers. That way if you drop your card deck you can sort it on the last columns.
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by daly 7y ago
The TTL chip computer was fun. The hardest part was fixing bugs in the wire-wrapping. You could have a wire buried 3 wraps deep that needed to be changed... oh, wait. You probably don't know about wire-wrapping. The memory wire-wrap wa
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by daly 7y ago
Firefox used to allow this by using a "bulk bookmark" feature. Apparently this no longer works in my spiffy new "upgraded" firefox. Not only does my work not matter; the very tools I use don't care to remain stable
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by daly 7y ago
Have you tried turning automatic updates off? For corporate systems Microsoft makes this possible. Send them money and they will prioritize your work. For consumer-level systems Microsoft is basically saying "Oh, that's some nice
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Work Is Worthless
2 points by daly 7y ago|7 comments
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by daly 7y ago
I miss building my own computer out of TTL chips. I miss "the front panel" where I could single-step my program and read the octal / hex off the front panel lights. I miss debugging my program with a plastic block and a wire
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by daly 7y ago
I've been the lead developer on an FOSS software project for about the last 20 years. I average about $3000 per year in expenses (hardware, phone line, paper, conferences, travel, books, etc.). It all comes out of my pocket. I have tri
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by daly 7y ago
It is a Navy tradition not to wash your coffee cup. While I was never in the Navy, my coffee cup can be used to make coffee by just adding water. If the manager dropped the candy wrapper, the manager should pick it up. Managers who play min
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by daly 7y ago
I have been doing open source computer algebra for the last 20 years. I have made about 100 dollars from book royalties. I spent about 3000 dollars a year (conferences, books, web servers, etc). So a dollar a week puts you in the top 1%. Co
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by daly 8y ago
accurate touch tpying :-)
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by daly 8y ago
Consider Aspect's experiment and Bell's theorem. Consider a blanket. Pick a spot on the blanket. Duplicate (entangle) the spot into two. Move one of the two spots along the blanket but fold the blanket carefully so that the distan
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by daly 8y ago
I have a long background in Ai (robotics, PDP, expert systems, symbolic math, vision, planning). There appear to be two classes of knowledge. Pattern knowledge, such as riding a bicycle, which we tend to learn in ways similar to the current
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by daly 8y ago
I have Appel's book. I love the fact that I can get very expensive books "second hand". The same information without the high cost. Appel doesn't get paid but I know from my experience with publishers that tech books alm
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by daly 8y ago
Lisp in Small PIeces is one of the best books I've ever read. Besides being a deep reach into programming decisions it is one of the best examples of a literate program. By "getting ride of it" I assume you put it into a glas
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by daly 8y ago
Several comments. First, Axiom is a research platform (currently working on proving the algorithms correct). It is no longer a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple (as it was in the 90s). Second, Axiom is based on Group Theory, gi
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by daly 8y ago
BALL-PITS and CLOWN NOSES I worked with a guy, Bob, in our college computer room. Bob had returned to get his BS after many years in industry. He had great stories. He also had great advice. He taught me that you can learn a lot about how a
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by daly 8y ago
Latex. Fixed that for you.
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by daly 8y ago
As lead developer on Axiom, an open source computer algebra system, I can fully appreciate his funding problem. One problem is that open source software can't really handle grants. Government grants require accounting to handle receipt
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by daly 8y ago
Are they planning to implement "The End of Error" ( https://www.amazon.com/End-Error-Computing-Chapman-Computati... ) algorithms?
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Book Review: Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Science
1 points by daly 8y ago|0 comments

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