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by enduser 14y ago
dict is not a function or macro in common lisp, so the example is fictitious. in CL one would construct an A-list or a P-list (both cons-based ways of expressing a small map). see http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-lists-other-uses-for
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Communities, Audiences, and Scale [2002](shirky.com)
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)(shirky.com)
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The Road to Lisp(tuxdeluxe.org)
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by enduser 14y ago
The irony: > You will choose your words more carefully, and make less mistakes. Should be "make fewer mistakes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
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by enduser 14y ago
I have had my W530 for a few months and it is the best laptop experience I have ever had. The power brick is a beast, the only downside. I use the NVidia card in dedicated mode (Optimus disabled) and would recommend the T530 for someone wan
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by enduser 14y ago
ThinkPad T530 or W530 with the 1920x1080 screen upgrade. The W530 is marginally heavier but cheaper in some configurations and takes 32GB instead vs the T's 16GB. Install an aftermarket Samsung 830 (not 840) SSD if you have the money. The 8
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by enduser 14y ago
Some of us prefer bitmapped fonts, even on high-resolution displays, and software with fewer dependencies. There are some nice high-resolution bitmap console fonts in the standard X font collection, and others (Terminus, Proggy) are readily
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by enduser 14y ago
ArchLinux with wmii, chromium, rxvt-unicode, SBCL, and vim.
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Donate to The NetBSD Foundation(netbsd.org)
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by enduser 14y ago
US public charities (which means donations from the public are tax-deductable) are limited in the percentage of their income they can receive from private foundations and families. The amount of the large donation may have been contingent u
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by enduser 14y ago
How it is not an optimization to implement the evaluation of a given segment of code in a way that uses less memory? My understanding of the historical reasoning is that DO and LOOP are preferred in practice because the conditions of iterat
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by enduser 14y ago
All major Common Lisp implementations do have constant-space tail-call optimization: http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html It is not required by the spec, presumably to ease compliance in simpler implementations, because Common Lisp provid
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by enduser 14y ago
My girlfriend runs a small (~30 employee) full-custom* folding bike manufacturer in Oregon. Asia makes up almost half of their market--and the number is growing, especially the Chinese segment. * they start with steel and build custom-fit b
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by enduser 14y ago
1,000,300 Chinese people would make up only 0.074% of the Chinese population.
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by enduser 14y ago
Everything in Scheme is there for a theory. Everything in Common Lisp is there for a practical reason. Common Lisp is the result of many smart people--who understood the theory--delivering big software systems and refining the necessary too
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by enduser 14y ago
Learning and practicing the full Common Lisp language. It's a big language for a reason: Greenspun's Tenth Rule is true. If you work on sufficiently large programs in other languages, you will reimplement features already present in Common
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by enduser 14y ago
He didn't use computers much, other than for email and browsing the web. Most of his writing was composed by hand using a fountain pen. He did work on ALGOL 60 and it is believed that he approved of the language. Source: Wikipedia
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Big Ball of Mud(laputan.org)
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Three Steps for Ubuntu's Success(subtlepath.tumblr.com)
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The Matthew Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by enduser 14y ago
This phenomenon is referred to as the Matthew Effect. From Wikipedia: In the sociology of science, "Matthew effect" was a term coined by Robert K. Merton to describe how, among other things, eminent scientists will often get more credit tha
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by enduser 14y ago
My understanding is that people don't find out their assignment until after the hiring. Sounds like the Air Force: dream of flying jets, end up cleaning toilets. At least at Google one can quit.
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by enduser 14y ago
Designing Web Applications
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The Infinite Canvas(scottmccloud.com)
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iPad: Scroll or Card?(informationarchitects.net)
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Edge Side Includes(varnish-cache.org)
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by enduser 14y ago
I lost my sister to cancer 9 years ago when she was in her early 20s and I was in my teens. Her experience with the medical system was humiliating, futile, and expensive. My parents have never fully recovered emotionally. It has taken me ye
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by enduser 14y ago
You would need to have been storing cdrs as well as cars for it to be considered valid prior art.
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by enduser 14y ago
SBCL is perhaps the fastest open-source implementation of Common Lisp. It has incredible developers and a rich set of implementation-specific functionality. SBCL's "home platform" is Linux, but it runs on Linux, *BSD, Mac, and Windows (32-b

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