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by dpezely 8y ago
If you're starting to learn, please contribute to http://Lisp-Lang.org at the very least by highlighting parts that may need improvement for a new learner by opening an issue at https://github.com/LispLang&
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by dpezely 8y ago
Python 3.7 was just released, and 2.7 is to reach end-of-life/sunset in 2020 after they already gave it a five year extension. As the linked PEP 404 makes clear, there will be no 2.8. Several recent conversations indicated that none f
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PEP 404 – Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule (2011)(legacy.python.org)
2 points by dpezely 8y ago|1 comments
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by dpezely 9y ago
> 4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. I believe this line comes from Brian McDonald and am witness to his use of it in a writing class he led at S
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by dpezely 9y ago
SPI did not directly have game servers, but yes, at least one of our members ran one. I don't recall if it was a MUD or something else. Speakeasy also had other co-location hosts in the rack. If I recall, one was for a design firm so
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by dpezely 9y ago
in 1996, we created the Seattle Peoples' Internet by co-locating our equipment at an upstart internet cafe in Belltown called Speakeasy. The deal was that we paid for their most expensive monthly line item: the T1 circuit. We covered
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by dpezely 12y ago
Usual disclaimers apply... speaking within US jurisdictions... based upon advice I received earlier in my career when asking the same question... and so on: I created a personal website to which I would grant limited access to select portio
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by dpezely 13y ago
"Recoverable system upgrades" - https://coreos.com/blog/recoverable-system-upgrades/ Run from root partition A and only update on partition B, essentially via chroot. Downtime required for updates is th
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by dpezely 13y ago
It's also worth calling attention to Lisp flavored Erlang (LFE), which has come a long way recently. They've specifically addressed language artifacts that would be more welcoming to someone coming from a strong Common Lisp backg
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by dpezely 13y ago
There are instructions for using 'apt-get' and friends for installing current releases: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-erlang-o... While R17 wasn't ready for this approach immediatel
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by dpezely 13y ago
I get continually reminded of this when people see that I registered play.org as late as mid-1994. It was still free, and a substantial number of English words were still available. I'm often reminded by others that I could have also
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by dpezely 14y ago
For the near-1kg range: Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3C-A01US) Ubuntu 12.04.1 installs & runs without modification, but some minor Fn keys didn't work (e.g., WiFi toggle button). Arch Linux with systemd installs & runs fine, and it had g
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by dpezely 15y ago
Chris Esposito at Boeing in the early 1990's worked on such a project: aircraft maintenance augmented using "VR glasses" concurrently developed at the Human Interface Technology Lab in Seattle. I suspect that this is his profile: http://ww
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by dpezely 15y ago
Although Google will make this more popular due to their marketing efforts and brand, it's hardly their brainchild. Tom Furness developed similar devices decades ago: Once out of the military lab, this was a key project of the Human Interfa
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by dpezely 15y ago
Yes, end results are equivalent, but complexity shifts. If a consistent stack is more important, caching may be the best option. If fewer layers of complexity at run-time is more important, out-of-band/pre-processing may be the best option
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by dpezely 15y ago
Serving static files is more about pre-processing, or rather: Don't do at run-time what can be done at compile-time. This doesn't need to be any more manual that the labor involved in uploading content into a CMS or data store by another na
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by dpezely 15y ago
There's a conference this week in San Francisco that is to cover these topics: http://SentimentSymposium.com
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by dpezely 15y ago
Why change machines when at your desk versus elsewhere? That sounds like an 'rsync' accident waiting to happen. I've been using the first generation 11.6" Air which replaced a unibody 15". Other than FreeBSD and Linux servers racked elsew
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by dpezely 16y ago
> I really surprised at Google by this implementation--it seems like they didn't really think it through. You're looking for utility; whereas, I believe they are taking a pro-active step against Facebook's newly awarded patents on "soci
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by dpezely 16y ago
I have a current model 11.6" Air purchased in January, and Xcode was pre-installed into /Developer. This was a stock machine: walked into Apple Store to buy it. (No special factory config) Compiling SBCL and a few items from MacPorts worked
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by dpezely 16y ago
Continuing your first point that the industry is fairly young: We also have a "mythology effect" but with a twist... It applies to companies alive and thriving today (unlike an urban myth where no credible source can be found). Consider sto
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by dpezely 16y ago
Related: solicited by internal Google recruiter but declined. Google sucked-up nearly all the Python people from Seattle mid-decade this way, just as I was migrating back to Common Lisp, so it wasn't that appealing to me anyway. It was mont
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Bypass new Mac App store using old URLs for open source: Emacs, etc.(apple.com)
1 points by dpezely 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpezely 16y ago
The bit regarding the winner getting to make a new rule has long been tested since the industrial revolution and likely far before then: In that context, of course, the new "rule" is essentially a law through lobby efforts, etc. It becomes
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by dpezely 16y ago
The jargon file's "tape" reference is likely to mean paper-tape than magnetic 9-track, so the term possibly goes back further to card-punch days. (I first heard the term in 1985 at my first job during high school: a PC consulting shop.) I'
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by dpezely 16y ago
Sony's Y Series uses the ultra-low voltage version of Core2 Duo, consuming about 10W with a 13" LCD. No internal disc, but Ubuntu and FreeBSD are easily installed via USB stick... Unfortunately, Sony Y Series inventory has been depleted, s
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by dpezely 16y ago
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/
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by dpezely 16y ago
I've used Hunchentoot (weitz.de/hunchentoot) in production with strong track record. antiweb (hoytech.com/antiweb) also looks promising, but I haven't put anything into production with it yet.
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by dpezely 16y ago
What are your criteria for analytics? If you require third-party reporting for vetting your traffic numbers to potential advertisers, there are services such as Quantcast.com. The big fish in the game is Omniture.com, recently acquired by A
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by dpezely 17y ago
Regarding a return of Linda, I couldn't help but note similar themes when first learning about Amazon's Dynamo and later, the Apache Cassandra Project. I'm not saying that there's a perfect match, but when one's imagination has academic ro

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