gongador

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by gongador 2y ago
Lots of misunderstandings in these comments, something that in itself shows of difficult communication is. What Witkowski is saying is that communication, as we think about the concept, between species likely won't be recognizable as c
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by gongador 4y ago
To clarify: sure, I'm wrong in the sense that there is a normal way if we by 'normal' mean 'most people do it like this'. Unfortunately, 'normal' almost always also carries a meaning of 'the proper wa
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by gongador 4y ago
> Your questions instead sound like you are doubting him. Respectfully, I disagree: _to you_, the "questions instead sound like you are doubting him". Maybe it even sounds that way to most people. It doesn't to me. I have
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Black Death, Covid, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age(exurbe.com)
1 points by gongador 6y ago|0 comments
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by gongador 10y ago
In my opinion, it is Common Lisp that is famous for carefully chosen design decisions and nerdy attention to details, given the situation and the constraints (Darpa saying 'fix the situation or we cut funding', and lots of impleme
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by gongador 11y ago
As far as I can remember, that's a relatively recent trend though (dubbing childrens' programmes), at least in Sweden. I can't remember any being dubbed until possibly in the late 1990s, more likely the early 2000s.
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by gongador 11y ago
Indeed. "The dominant file systems at the time the design was done were TOPS-10, TENEX, TOPS-20, VAX VMS, AT&T Unix, MIT Multics, MIT ITS, not to mention a bunch of mainframe OS's. Some were uppercase only, some mixed, some w
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by gongador 11y ago
The plan for Common Lisp originally was to have a "core" and a standard library. From Daniel Weinreb's blog post "Complaints I’m Seeing About Common Lisp": It’s just too big. Actually, the real problem is that
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by gongador 12y ago
Because PRINT also exists, and doesn't do the same thing PRINC does. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/CLHS/Body/f_wr_p...
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The Software Developer's Sketchbook(prog21.dadgum.com)
157 points by gongador 12y ago|22 comments
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The Psychology of Learning(metamodular.com)
1 points by gongador 12y ago|0 comments
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Performance and Types in Lisp(blog.30dor.com)
7 points by gongador 12y ago|0 comments
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by gongador 13y ago
> ... which of course has no equivalent in Clojure, Scheme, or really any other language I can think of. Python, for example: def cross(xs, ys): return [[x, y] for y in ys for x in xs] LOOP in disguise :) (at least to my (ve
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by gongador 13y ago
Actually at least Sweden was involved in slave trading, out of a slave fort in Ghana called Carolusborg. I'm pretty sure there was one or a few short lived attempts at colonies as well, somewhere in the Carribean. Here's a link to a Swedish
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by gongador 14y ago
I agree, it's hardly representative of the whole country, which is why I referred to the photo essay as a viewpoint rather than claiming that (the whole of) Afghanistan was a modern progressive country in the 1960s. I have no knowledge of w
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by gongador 14y ago
Here's one viewpoint: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...