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by gnosis 14y ago
"This definitive information comes to me courtesy of research performed by Buzz Marketing, as well as three 14-year-olds who tried to rob me of my orange Puma sneakers."
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MIT suicides [cached](webcache.googleusercontent.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
"as a society we have compartmentalised social life, so that the help one previously expected from his family/friends (and ultimately: from the way he can structure his life) is now to be had from paid professionals (or tacky volunteers)"
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by gnosis 14y ago
"It's not a matter of restricting access to public knowledge; it's a matter of Aaron draining the village pool." Copying documents does not destroy the original copies, so it does not drain anything. "Information shares all of the downsi
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by gnosis 14y ago
Also, Lawful Neutral characters in Dungeons and Dragons.[1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon...
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An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis [pdf](nikkeffingham.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Interesting that the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank) is the one coming out with criticism of high textbook prices. Aren't they supposed to be "pro business"? Shouldn't they be cheering how much profit the textboo
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by gnosis 14y ago
Could an alpha layer be used for this purpose?
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Vim misconceptions(blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
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Vim annoyances(blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
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by gnosis 14y ago
I think Chicken[1] is a very attractive Scheme alternative. It's full-featured, fast, compiles down to C, has a very nice library (egg) system, and a relatively large and active user community (as far as Schemes go). [1] - http://call-cc.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I have to agree with that. I find Scheme to be a lot cleaner, more modern, and easier to use than Common Lisp. I really only see two reasons to choose Common Lisp over Scheme. The first is that CL has a ton of libraries compared to most S
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by gnosis 14y ago
When I first learned Lisp, I quickly got to the point where I "don't even see the parenthesis". Shortly after that I learned to love them, and see them (and Lisp's simple syntax as a great strength). Now extraneous syntax, even in a half-L
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by gnosis 14y ago
One of the reasons avoiding state is promoted is to make it easier to write robust software. State is too often the enemy of robustness.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more?" In a sense, people are using it more. A lot of features that Lisp pioneered and that used to be radical back in the day (l
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by gnosis 14y ago
Lisp is a multi-paradigm language that's perfectly capable of representing state. Perhaps you're confusing it with some purely functional language like Haskell.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"I've wondered what it would take to write an anonymizing tool that would strip identifying patterns from the sentences." Peter Wayner came up with a technique called "Mimic Functions" [1] that could (at least in principle) change a file
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by gnosis 14y ago
Yes. I see war as just about the ultimate unethical human activity. The (non)ethics of enhancing soldiers and using robots pale in comparison to the (non)ethics of participating in warfare and weapon design and manufacture in the first pla
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by gnosis 14y ago
* Primer (fantastic puzzle movie, filmed on a $7,000 budget) * Abre Los Ojos (Vanilla Sky is the shitty American remake of this film) * Revolution #9 (best fictional depiction of schizophrenia I've ever seen) * Memento (filmed backwards, ab
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Scheme vs Common Lisp: war stories(programmers.stackexchange.com)
94 points by gnosis 14y ago|29 comments
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Haskell and Scheme: Which One and Why?(scienceblogs.com)
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The Essence of Scheme(evanfarrer.blogspot.com)
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Mainstream Influence Of Functional Languages(c2.com)
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The Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost(theatlantic.com)
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What makes Lisp great?(semantic-programming.blogspot.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
"whenever anyone gets close, my instinct is to put my hands on my pockets." Pickpockets love it when people do this, because it shows them which pockets your valuables are in. They also love the "WATCH FOR PICKPOCKETS" signs in tourist a
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by gnosis 14y ago
There are some nice Apollo Robbins videos floating around on youtube. Like this one: [1] Also well worth watching is the work of Bob Arno.[2][3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIU1uZlH-o [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_Bp
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YoungLispers tell how they got into lisp(cliki.net)
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Working efficiently with VI / VIM(blog.anantshri.info)
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Eighth draft of Scheme R7RS-small published(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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