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Common Lisp [New Site](lisp-lang.org)
11 points by dwc 10y ago|3 comments
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by dwc 10y ago
> I'm just getting started on setting up an OpenBSD router that I want to be the basis for making sure much of my data is secure. A bit of warning... I've seen this go wrong when people who don't know OpenBSD do this. Addi
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by dwc 10y ago
I would call it a fluke. Two things to keep in mind: * Don't compare JAXA (or anyone else) to NASA at this point. We (the US) have a ton of experience, some of it bought the hard way. * This isn't Japan's typical performance.
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by dwc 10y ago
This is the key passage: The spacecraft then automatically switched into a safe mode and, at about 4:10 a.m., fired thrusters to try to stop the rotation. But because the wrong command had been uploaded, the firing caused
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by dwc 10y ago
There are too many projects of any name (most never see the light of day), but somehow all these Krakens get released.
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by dwc 10y ago
I'm as bad at those kind of picks as the next person. I wasted time and money figuring that out, though. The only time I buy in is when the market overreacts to some bit of bad news or something and I see the undervaluation. Of a stron
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by dwc 10y ago
Agreed, with one exception: when you as an individual have fairly deep knowledge about something and spot a market opportunity based on that knowledge, you might be able to correctly judge whether you can take advantage of it. I've d
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by dwc 10y ago
IIRC, Card wrote Ender's Game in high school and later dusted it off, fixed it up, and published it.
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OCaml in Operations(michipili.github.io)
99 points by dwc 11y ago|20 comments
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by dwc 11y ago
> Some of those systems come from vendors who have very competent teams and invest heavily in their systems, and some have tried fancy, expensive JVMs with supposedly better real-time performance and have failed to get them to work. This
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by dwc 11y ago
I don't agree with your Jane Street / money reasoning. I had never heard of Jane Street until I started looking at OCaml. That Jane Street makes money and is "all in" on OCaml does support the idea that one can use OCaml
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by dwc 11y ago
Instead of toughening up, I'd suggest two things: * Try to get ahead in your day job. This doesn't necessarily mean making the big bucks. It means being someone who deserves the big bucks. To find better work and more money you&
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by dwc 11y ago
I sympathize. Different concerns pull lisp in different directions. CL is, and always has been, about getting stuff done and isn't above having some warts, especially historical warts. Scheme was more academic and elegant, but not grea
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by dwc 11y ago
The conflict between the article title and the domain name is delicious.
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by dwc 11y ago
I think this is correct. I am not sure if unions would help at this point, unless they can lobby for laws to prevent moving manufacturing out of the country. Paying lower wages for manufacturing (as well as other lower costs) being the reas
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by dwc 11y ago
I've struggled with this myself. A while back, due to linkage from here and other sites, I had used up my free allotment of free nytimes stories and thought, "hey, let me see if I can pay a bit to raise the limit, because I'm
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GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux(sfconservancy.org)
252 points by dwc 11y ago|261 comments
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by dwc 11y ago
> The explore link was visible from our sign in page I had clicked through to a fair number of pages, but not finding any repos I wasn't prepared to sign up, so I missed the repos ;-) > I made it visible in the top menu of our st
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by dwc 11y ago
> You can find the nascent but growing list of publicly listed projects here: https://gitlab.com/explore Gitlab often comes up in these discussions. Ok, it comes up every time. Several times in the past I've went an
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by dwc 11y ago
People still do good things with greenhouses. I recently watched a video from a guy growing veggies through the winter in his greenhouse. He did have a non-glass southern wall but it wasn't the type for storing heat. Instead, he was us
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Parinfer in Emacs Lisp(github.com)
49 points by dwc 11y ago|4 comments
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by dwc 11y ago
Almost everyone I work with uses ZNC. I've stuck with my same old method of tmux/screen and a text mode client. Apparently ZNC isn't hard to set up or use but I have no direct experience with it.
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by dwc 11y ago
Turning on logging in most IRC clients is very easy. But once again this is an extra step and means learning the client a bit. One nice thing is that I can have those logs offline and search them whenever and however I like. I regularly do
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by dwc 11y ago
On a daily basis I work with C and a handful of modern languages. I do reach for Common Lisp and Prolog sometimes, so I'll count those. Common Lisp : many, many great things about lisp have been incorporated into modern languages, b
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by dwc 11y ago
I had a lower back injury at about that age resulting in a ruptured disk. It was debilitating and required surgery. The surgery worked wonders but, unsurprisingly, I've had intermittent back trouble in the decades since then. I'
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by dwc 11y ago
Shredder claimed to have human-like play at lower levels, so I gave that a try. It works surprisingly well at my level, making plausible mistakes in a fairly consistent manner. When I was playing against it I was in the 1200-1500 range, so
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by dwc 11y ago
How sure are you about that?
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by dwc 11y ago
Erlang's pattern matching allows a great many things to be done in a declarative style. For some problems you end up with a lot of pattern stuff and not all that much "normal" code. Or you pattern match through what would ord
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by dwc 11y ago
This is also an area that can be studied. In addition to the other points it's worth looking at recidivism rates, which are much lower in places like Norway than in the US. The major reasons for success of Scandinavian countries in cri
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by dwc 11y ago
> Everything about the landing except the stuck leg seemed to be perfect. And there's the issue: it only takes a tiny bit of imperfect to ruin a landing. I do think that SpaceX is going to get to the point where they are recovering

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