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by eschaton 10y ago
The NeXT/Apple Objective-C runtime has been Open Source since the late 1990s, the API and ABI have been documented since the late 1980s so anyone could create a compatible runtime, and GCC has had a portable runtime almost since Object
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by eschaton 10y ago
The blog post leads with: > This post aims to provide a unifying approach to symbolic and non-symbolic techniques of artificial intelligence. This is the sort of thing people build academic careers on. I'm extremely skeptical that a
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by eschaton 10y ago
Microsoft got into applications before DOS existed. Microsoft applications like Multiplan were available for a variety of platforms, running CP/M and a variety of other operating systems. You could get Multiplan for systems as small as
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by eschaton 10y ago
Back then there weren't really ML libraries to speak of, you had to write your own. Though Symbolics did have a neural network tool and framework they sold. And you could certainly do things like shuffle lots of data easily for more ha
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by eschaton 10y ago
Another interesting aspect of M-expressions is how much like Mathematica/Wolfram they look.
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by eschaton 10y ago
I suspect it was more that ()-is-nil-is-false-is-0 is entirely visible to the programmer ("see through") rather than an implementation detail hidden by the language. I still need the occasional reminder myself that nil is () is ni
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by eschaton 10y ago
People shouldn't say "fired" when they mean "laid off." Being laid off means someone's position was eliminated. Being fired means someone was terminated for cause, i.e. because of something they did (or didn&#x
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by eschaton 10y ago
The poorest often pay the proportion of their income they can least afford to lose in taxes: A person who makes a million a year paying 50% is more able to afford it than a person making $10000 a year and paying 10%, because there's a
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by eschaton 10y ago
At least in the Word 6 et al timeframe, Microsoft had switched to developing their Mac software using the Visual Studio Tools for Macintosh cross compiler running on Windows. They switched back to doing development on the Mac for either Off
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by eschaton 10y ago
It sounds like the author doesn’t really have any idea what a “framework” is, but has heard several things they dislike called frameworks, so the presented thesis is “frameworks considered harmful” when what might be more accurate is the ”t
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by eschaton 10y ago
Interesting that you don't say what exactly it was that he said to which someone made a "Ferguson connection."
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by eschaton 10y ago
Hope this will eventually lead to Fedora on RPi3 with arm64. Like everyone else they say "maybe" and "it only has 1GB RAM" with no consideration of the other reasons to support 64-bit ARM.
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by eschaton 10y ago
They have a couple, they're on display and in the collection. Better that it would go to someone who would restore the whole thing (not just the exterior) and actually use it.
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by eschaton 10y ago
This isn't so much "Lisp" as "S-expressions via Python." I was expecting it to actually be implemented in Lisp.
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by eschaton 10y ago
You're conflating the cost to construct and maintain the landlord's building with the amount of money the landlord can charge to rent the apartments in it. The construction and maintenance costs just put a floor on the rent below
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by eschaton 10y ago
I feel like I'm having a stroke trying to read it. So really, it's pretty close to the original!
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by eschaton 10y ago
In my experience, people expect programming languages to look different than human languages (and maybe more like math) and thus aren't put off by whatever structure the one they're learning takes. It's after people have gott
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by eschaton 10y ago
The author appears to credit the X Window System or Microsoft Windows with repaint-on-expose. To my knowledge that was first implemented (along with regions) by Bill Atkinson for the Apple Lisa, because he misremembered what he saw on the v
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by eschaton 10y ago
What did you find non-helpful about the response?
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by eschaton 10y ago
Uber and Lyft are actually among the most exploitative, in terms of real income versus the promises they make.
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by eschaton 10y ago
Please, both of you, get in touch with Al Kossow at the Computer History Museum about preserving these important pieces of our heritage.
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by eschaton 10y ago
It's amazing how employers seem to think they're exempt from supply and demand. The real problem is that employers in those areas can't find employees in those areas at the rates they want to pay—and not just in monetary term
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by eschaton 10y ago
Yet more “research” primarily citing itself and science fiction charlatans like Yudkowsky, without any apparent awareness of (1) the actual state of artificial intelligence research or (2) any serious grounding in philosophy. A paper like t
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by eschaton 10y ago
Nope. Moon apparently bought into the "people don't like Lisp because of the parentheses, so we should make a Lisp that looks more like ALGOL and people will like it" line like the rest of the Dylan core team. IMO if it doesn
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by eschaton 10y ago
And the creators appear to be reserving some features for the "commercial" version, and also attempting to heavily promote that version in a way which—I think, based on a few decades' experience—will actively turn away the pe
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by eschaton 10y ago
I'd suggest the last great Lisp wasn't ZetaLisp, but (prefix-syntax) Dylan, which was designed by many of the same people. It's essentially a Scheme plus CLOS "all the way down," with a cleaned up subset of the core
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by eschaton 10y ago
The page describing Shen uses the terms "proprietary" and "closed source" as if they're good things when describing the "Shen Professional" dialect. (Compiler? Environment? It's a bit opaque.) I'
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by eschaton 11y ago
They wrote a paper with Alan Kay, why wouldn't it pop up on HN?
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by eschaton 11y ago
Crystal Quest was developed by someone else. All of the games in the Soft Dorothy repo were original to John's company.
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by eschaton 11y ago
The OpenDoc sources were on the developer CDs at the time as well. It wasn't really Open Source and as far as I recall you couldn't change and redistribute it, but it could be quite handy for debugging as well as for seeing how ev

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