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Iota – An LLVM IR to Common Lisp Compiler(github.com)
79 points by erikj 9y ago|10 comments
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by erikj 10y ago
I don't see Valentin Turchin mentioned in the book which is a shame, he was arguably the Soviet counterpart to John McCarthy.
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by erikj 10y ago
I wonder how such properly-designed extensions would look like in Common Lisp or any other language with similar metaprogramming capabilities.
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by erikj 10y ago
I wish this wasn't a joke.
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by erikj 10y ago
Also there is an object system called Flavors for the early Lisp flavor ZetaLisp.
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by erikj 10y ago
All hail the "new" Microsoft, still using the old anticompetitive tricks from the DOS era.
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by erikj 10y ago
There is this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-...
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by erikj 10y ago
Well, there were minicomputer disk drives: http://i.imgur.com/7VVFXEg.jpg
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by erikj 10y ago
There is a price list for Lisp machines in this archived Symbolics presentation made in 1986, page 14: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/h...
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by erikj 10y ago
I wish someone would try to reimplement Symbolics Genera under an open source license and make it run on modern hardware properly, without VLM. Its design and philosophy is quite different from Unix derivatives, being so object-oriented in
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TI Explorer Lisp Machine Source Code (1991)(archive.org)
1 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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Common Lisp UltraSpec(phoe.tymoon.eu)
3 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 10y ago
Nintendo is not going to make a general-purpose mobile device, it would contradict the company's core philosophy.
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Nichimen N-World 3.1 Running on SGI Indy(youtube.com)
3 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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Trump: Lockheed Martin cut $600M off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter(cnbc.com)
4 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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The curtain comes up on AMD's Vega architecture(techreport.com)
1 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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Intel packages CPUs, FPGAs as GO to target automated driving systems(automotive-eetimes.com)
3 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 10y ago
Am I the only person who first heard about Ticketmaster on the website of Terry Davis? He wrote an operating system for them.
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by erikj 10y ago
It would be amazing if Valve made Source Engine open source, but that would require them to replace Havok and perhaps other middleware.
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by erikj 10y ago
Check out Empire Earth and its sequels.
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by erikj 10y ago
We already had the AI winter before. The worst thing about it is the death of Symbolics. The latest AI resurgence, unfortunately, created nothing comparable to the legendary Lisp machines.
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Trade with China literally kills Americans, economists say(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by erikj 10y ago|0 comments
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The sneering response to Trump’s victory reveals exactly why he won(blogs.spectator.co.uk)
68 points by erikj 10y ago|64 comments
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by erikj 10y ago
You can include it in coreboot.
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by erikj 10y ago
No mention of Trilema?
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by erikj 10y ago
Detriment? To who exactly?
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by erikj 10y ago
Bandwidth is only one part of the problem. Latency is another one, and it seems to be insurmountable with the modern network media.
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by erikj 10y ago
The parent comment was talking about "every situation", not "most people".
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by erikj 10y ago
The TDP limits of smartphones (no more than ~10W) make them unuseable for heavier workstation loads, and there will always be demand for a lot of local computational power.
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by erikj 10y ago
Wow, this is pretty impressive. The last time I checked its progress, it was very basic. Now it even has a working GUI with transparency! I should find some time to tinker with it.

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