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   by enupten 13y ago

   I can only hope that this doesn't lead to another AI winter.
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   by enupten 13y ago

   Nice. I do agree with this article; there really is no reason to emphasize coding any more than say math or music. Making things overtly fashionable makes everyone worse off.
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I wonder what hapenned to pesky old CO_2 there :)
4. 184.▲
   by enupten 13y ago

   What else would you expect when much of our Software architecture is from the 70s ? :)
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I was surprised to not find SICM on the list: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
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   by enupten 13y ago

   Yes, but its not the features per se that make Clojure and Racket different from CL; any feature in these languages can be tacked on top of CL fairly easily by a half-decent hacker. What makes these languages different is their vibrant comm
7. 187.▲
   by enupten 13y ago

   Wouldn't this be bad reproducibility wise ? I mean, the language spec is essentially changing on a rolling basis.
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   by enupten 13y ago

   It is but a surprise, that the states in India have not seceded.
9. 189.▲
   by enupten 13y ago

   With the reward systems currently in place, what else would you expect ?
10. 190.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    This reminds me of course of the Bipolar Lisp programmer :) http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
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    by enupten 13y ago

    #12: Home Security: Worried about someone breaking into your house ? Leave it up to the NSA, to keep an eye and ear on your place, while you're both home and away. We'll even call the FBI, in case a "terrorist" comes int
12. 192.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    This is wonderful news, go NIF !
13. 193.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    If only Microsoft understood how undervalued the Rupee is, and made licensed versions of Windows cheaper. The starter edition is just a disgrace.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    The sad thing is that, apart from whatever feedbacks are there in the environement, there are far to many economic feedbacks pushing our civilization towards greater environmental destruction. Do you think there will such a furore over Cana
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Yes, and that is likely going to mean that, the Arctic is never going to freeze again (if this takes off). Goodbye, Polar bears, we like you, but we don't think your survival is in our "national interests". Meh.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    It is very sad to see that this is the case. I'm becoming more convinced that Humans have become, as Attenborough put it, a plague on the Earth.
17. 197.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    I'd assumed from reading the UNIX haters' handbook, that everyone who had used a Lisp machine would automatically hate UNIX :)
18. 198.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    Bit late for that don't you think :) The Europeans (like the rest of the world), probably don't care much for lisp these days.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Doesn't look like the ISO standard is used much. Is there something useful in ISLisp which is not present in CL ? If there is no standard FFI interface, threading model..., then why bother ?
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Wow, that's very nice; thank you for making up for my laziness.
21. 201.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    Apparently, that is also true of farmers in India. If only the government can bring in better policies to improve logistics; oh how poverty corrodes the soul of a society.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Yes, this is awful, but what more can you expect from the Middle East? On a more political note, did Al Jazeera, report on this ?
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    by enupten 13y ago

    I guess this is why RMS dislikes binary blobs. Something like the Lisp machine, where you can access/modify OS source while it's running, would be dream come true in today's world.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Given all the backdoors and remote access stuff that are in place already, surely it should be a piece of cake to give parents some sort of remote access to their children's phones ?
25. 205.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    This a very well laid out essay; kudos to whoever actually wrote it.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    All big companies are the same, little companies are evil in their own way.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    This is rather silly isn't it ? I hardly think you can enforce good culture with negative operant conditioning. Why is it that Microsoft's silly ranking system is much criticized, while this is one is being applauded ?
28. 208.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    All hail the destroyer of Nokia.
29. 209.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    If you account for inflation, it has actually moved down :)
30. 210.▲
    by enupten 13y ago

    This is outrageous, aren't there laws to prevent people like him from speaking about this! (That was sarcasm, by the way).