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erikj
9y ago
Who is even using these browser notifications willingly at all?
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erikj
9y ago
Apple doesn't seem to care much about legacy software given their recent history. They could revive their Rosetta binary translator.
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erikj
9y ago
No, he is rolling in dough.
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erikj
9y ago
The cheapest 3DCoat license prohibits any commercial use. The less restrictive license costs a lot more.
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erikj
9y ago
Substance Painter is also a great option for texturing, costs a lot less and is extremely popular among biggest game developers.
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erikj
9y ago
Both Lisp Machines Inc. and Symbolics were selling the MIT version before redesigning it into their own brand new products, the LMI-LAMBDA and the Symbolics 3600.
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erikj
9y ago
The new authoring tools are already available for Dota 2, you can install them in Steam.
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erikj
9y ago
This part: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/6vvn00/a_laidlaw_...
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"Warp programs are written in a high level Pascal-like language called W2, which is supported by an optimizing compiler written in Common Lisp. W2 programs are developed in a sophisticated, Lisp-based programming environment supporting
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erikj
9y ago
Well, you can say that Scheme continues in the general spirit of MACLISP, yet we separate them.
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erikj
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No, Racket is a separate language, though it grew out of a Scheme implementation (PLT Scheme) and still includes its predecessor.
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9y ago
What's the general state of the Scheme community? I'm getting the impression that after the backlash against R6RS and R7RS most people moved on to Racket, Clojure, or Common Lisp.
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That's Gabriel Laddel's screenshot, he is quite an abrasive fellow but he doesn't represent the entire community.
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erikj
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McClim existed for decades and it's still struggling to become production-ready, a poor example of the "revival".
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9y ago
Our communications must be decentralized as much as possible, if we want to avoid the dominance of any kind of thought police. Maybe it's the best time to start rolling out wireless peer-to-peer networks everywhere and to switch to sof
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I don't think it's possible to reliably enforce this ban.
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What I really don't want is clickbait titles.
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erikj
9y ago
What about a gamma ray burst?
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What do you expect from it?
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9y ago
Nintendo would never do the latter, if you mean publishing software on the Switch without their approval.
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The death of x86 is long overdue.
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9y ago
Not "science" but "a science", psychology, which is notoriously problematic with regards to reproducibility.
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9y ago
I think Symbolics' Dynamic Windows and CLIM could be added to this gallery as well, as early examples of presentation-based user interfaces: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41161/AI_WP
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Was this generated by a Markov chain?
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Symbolics managed to fit their Lisp VM into the cache of DEC Alpha processors in the early nineties: http://pt.withy.org/publications/VLM.html
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As far as I know, Bret Victor is looking exactly into that, check out his talk "The Future of Programming": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMiCo2Ntsc
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LambdaDelta – An Emulator of the LMI Lambda Lisp Machine
(github.com)
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RnRS are barebone compared to ANSI CL, and the last few versions of Scheme suffered severe resistance from the community.
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Skolkovo is a Potemkin village, all real work is being done elsewhere.
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9y ago
It's more like stop-the-world garbage collection.
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