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by fsck--off 13y ago
The Constitution does not explicitly give you the right to vote in the same way that it gives you the right to free speech. Wikipedia has this to say about it: "The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constit
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by fsck--off 13y ago
This program has Keith Alexander's name written all over it. Alexander has a history of mining as much data as he can, even if it turns out to be worthless. From a Foreign Policy article [1]: "When he ran INSCOM and was horning in
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> Back in 1983 online collaboration was unheard of Not really. Stallman mentioned Chaosnet which the AI Lab had used for, among other things, internal mail (not yet called "e-mails") between developers about changes to programs
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by fsck--off 13y ago
"I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS editor." Stallman may have significantly improved Emacs, but he isn't the inventor. Guy Steele and David Moon are. Stallman only took over develo
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> To my mind, the article is a demonstration of how poorly the media cover just about everything. When you or I read articles about subjects wherein we are not experts, we (or at least I) assume that they are well-researched and accurate
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by fsck--off 13y ago
>I think, because it leads directly to the Question of Why Lisp Failed. Lisp isn't a failure. You're commenting on a server that is powered by a Lisp. >Why did Lisp fail? Many people say, because it couldn't be standard
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by fsck--off 13y ago
This statement is ridiculous. Symbolics is dead for a number of reasons, but Stallman's Emacs isn't one of them. Stallman copied some of the features in Zmacs. Zmacs was one small part of a much larger operating system which, amon
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by fsck--off 13y ago
The Wikipedia page on Lisp Machines isn't great. Read Dan Weinreb's "Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI" [1]. Weinreb was a much more credible source than Stallman. The AI Lab hackers h
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by fsck--off 13y ago
By "Zuck" do you mean Mark Zuckerberg? Mark Zuckerberg was the captain of the fencing team at Phillip Exeter, which requires much more than average athletic skills.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
My tenuous hypothesis is that people think sharing news of an injustice will increase the likelihood that it will be redressed.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
If you're going to use an unusual keyboard remap it's easier just to adopt a completely different layout, e.g. Programmer Dvorak or something like that. You can use software to remap the symbol keys to be unshifted and on the numb
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Foot pedals can eliminate the need for full sized function keys. You can also use foot pedal wiring to add new physical buttons onto the keyboard. http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=26579.0
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by fsck--off 13y ago
SICP uses Scheme, not Common Lisp. Edit: Here's a list of available Scheme implementations. SICP uses MIT/GNU Scheme, which uses an Emacs-like editor. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/scheme/
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by fsck--off 13y ago
>The most dangerous element that he, and several other, anti-polygraph coaches are teaching is that the polygraph itself isn't a very effective lie detector. Dangerous for people taking the test or administering the test? Your comme
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by fsck--off 13y ago
In the HN thread discussing the article [1], pg said: "It's not our top criterion. It's just one that I'm willing to talk about publicly, because there's no way to fake it. We're not against funding people from
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by fsck--off 13y ago
This page should keep you entertained for a while: http://metacalculus.com/prose.html It links to several manuals (most likely including the one you read) and has links to papers about PROSE and it's predecessor, SLANG
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Is there support for pretty-printed input? I'm hesitant to mention this since it doesn't really take away from your project, but "concatinatitive" should be spelled "concatenative".
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by fsck--off 13y ago
BBN Lisp had context sensitive error correction at least four decades ago. It was called the DWIM (Do What I mean) facility. It operated (in 1971) on unbound atoms and undefined function errors. If you misspelled a function name, typed an 8
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Oops. His name is Michael Travers, not Traven.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
This article is from 1994, when the Unix Haters Handbook was published. A year and a half ago Michael Traven (news.yc username "mtraven") founder of the Unix Haters mailing list, wrote: "...these days I like to say that U
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Nonsense. Most languages that include garbage collection allow you to turn it off; the same languages also allow you to explicitly control memory.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
"Emacs pinkie" is a non-issue if you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, e.g a Maltron or a Kinesis model. Investing in a good keyboard is just as crucial as investing in a good chair, especially if you make a living by coding. Th
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by fsck--off 13y ago
If you want to play with a Lisp Machine on Apple hardware, Symbolics is still selling refurbished MacIvory boards. Even though the hardware is ancient the latest model (MacIvory model 3) costs more than a top-of-the-line retina MacBook Pro.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
A quote from the Business Insider article linked to in this thread: This source tells us that Lenz always took photos at Patch all-hands meetings. He would later post them to Patch's internal news site. There isn'
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> There are also issues where people ask why it is that it is legal for men to go topless, yet is criminal for women to go topless? Should not the law apply equally to both men and women? That is a reasonable question and there is no ans
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> On a related note, you will be hellbanned if you create an HN account over Tor That's not true. This account was created using a Tor browser bundle less than three weeks ago, and it is definitely not hellbanned.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Not having a free market (because of gender inequality) was actually very beneficial for education. Until the mid 20th century, one of the only available professions to half of world's brilliant minds was teaching. Privileged kids ofte
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> The fact that people get used to it (like people get used to the garbage smell in New York) doesn't mean it isn't a real problem. New York smells much better than it did 150 years ago, when there was no organized sanitation s
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> Additionally, I feel increasingly leery about rubbing aluminum under my arms every day. Then don't use antiperspirants. Regular deodorants don't have aluminum zirconium in them, and in the U.S (I'm not sure about non-U.S
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Do you know of any devices that don't require a reboot when you switch batteries? It shouldn't be difficult to implement. All you have to do is build a small second internal battery into the device that could keep the volatile mem

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