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by hga 10y ago
Being file based is very much in MIT Lisp DNA, certainly MACLISP and the CADR MIT Lisp Machine. (Re-)Building from scratch from files and saving out an image for faster loading times (or resaving an image with your project's stable fi
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by hga 10y ago
Ed is infinitely more user friendly, was in fact my first editor (punched cards or very limited environments like the one IBM provided for BASIC and PL/I prior to that), and it's what I drop back to, usually in its more user frien
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by hga 10y ago
Wikipedia??? Please, and I don't believe jwz was an eyewitness, plus that link no longer works EDIT: I forget what he did with redirects from this site, but all he says that I could quickly find is: Dramatis Personae: Richard S
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by hga 10y ago
Stallman's and Gosling's Emacs as if they were the same thing They were, Gnu Emacs is a fork of what was then an old version of Gosling's Emacs. This was something contemporaneously admitted to by RMS, claiming he had an e
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, and if we "fix" that, well, I satisfy myself with the thought that many of the people supporting that policy, and/or their loved ones, will needlessly suffer and/or prematurely die because they stopped the develo
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by hga 10y ago
That's the most very basic principle of marketing and sales, so why "big pharmas" wouldn't engage it would be curious. In field where marketing and pricing are much less understood, like ours, the trick is that after y
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by hga 10y ago
The first two rules of gun safety is that there is no such thing as an unloaded gun (a rule of attitude, admittedly), and that you never let the muzzle of a gun cover something you're not willing to destroy. Rule 3 is to not to put
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by hga 10y ago
Google, why can't you have support like DigitalOcean and Linode? Because it's totally not in their DNA? Because GCE and company are relatively low priority offerings? Would you agree these are higher: Ad Words etc., which make
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by hga 10y ago
It's this linkage with the rest of your accounts that can make doing business with them particularly dangerous. After the Google+ real names debacle started, which included people using their real names which Google didn't believ
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by hga 10y ago
Actually, people are looking forward to a long period where a certain node, "20" something nm (not Intel's 20 something), becomes so standard that economies of scale result in it being the one most entities use for their desi
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by hga 10y ago
That's why I qualified 1 gallon/3.8 liters as a "comfortable" minimum, if you're planning water storage for your dwelling, given the size of containers and your not needing to carry it anywhere, you might as well in
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by hga 10y ago
I was born and raised in, and have retired to a town famous for its distance from any large body of water, let alone salt water (Joplin, MO), and most Germans aren't on their coast as well. Here, if I run out of stored water, along tho
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by hga 10y ago
The harder part is water, as just a few days worth of drinking water for one person can take up a huge amount of space. Eh??? A generally "comfortable" minimal budget for water is 1 gallon per day (3.8 liters, call it 4), altho
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by hga 10y ago
Heh, but not true, speaking as a native of the state (born, raised, and retired to it). Nor is it a widespread law, certainly such a proposal wouldn't go down well here in the SW corner of it (especially in the very SW part I'm i
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by hga 10y ago
It looks like it's set to 8 hours or so, which for those of use who regularly sleep 8 hours, plus avoid HN while getting ready for it or don't immediately go to it on waking up, means we don't get a chance to downvote a lot o
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by hga 10y ago
Businesses have the right to kick out anyone they feel is engaging in behavior that they feel hurts their relationship with other customers. BZZZT : you're flatly, totally wrong about this in the US, please re-read my opening post i
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by hga 10y ago
Wow, thanks for the implicit warning, I've been an Amazon customer since a year after they opened, am using them very heavily right now as I remodel and move to a small house built in 1910, and it would be crippling to be disconnecte
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by hga 10y ago
It all depends on what you want to do with it. Crunch numbers? No way after some point. Prepare the Air Force's annual budget submission without information leaking? A real example of a perfect fit. Or provide the IT for MIT'
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by hga 10y ago
No, all word of mouth, often from the microcoders themselves (Moon and Greenblatt, at least). And it was either a compiler from Lisp to microcode, for making hot code faster, or Lisp primitives implemented in fast microcode. And the virtu
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by hga 10y ago
The LISP machines were incredibly different with one able to use macros for API's or bottom layers. Or drop down to microcode, were things like eval and the garbage collector tended to live, along with graphics primitives and the usu
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by hga 10y ago
Don't over-engineer your products, or you'll end up with a product that fails in the market; like MULTICS. While it might have failed in the long term anyway, Multics didn't fail because of market reasons. It failed becaus
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by hga 10y ago
And your understanding, while the Official Story, is of course wrong. Previous actions like inexplicably removing his blue verification check should suggest something else might be going on. The possibility that harassment is being used as
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by hga 10y ago
Myreen et al can go from specs to machine code directly with verified translation, which seL4 used IIRC. His special method is to meet in the middle, to analyze the binary code and "turn it into logic" and then check that agains
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by hga 10y ago
Lisp first ran on a vacuum tube computer, it was definitely "small", and it can certainly run fairly nicely on current "small" machines, although not "very small" like I recall of Forth. Smalltalk's machin
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by hga 10y ago
The subtext of the article is about banning those on the right, most notably the fabulously gay Milo Yiannopoulos, which might have provoked the first really serious pushback of their general suppression, not just banning, of the voices o
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by hga 10y ago
See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315275 ( Very roughly half the US population is on "the right", half on the left. If you add "the middle", there are more on the right than on the left.)
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by hga 10y ago
and private organizations such as Twitter are fully within their rights to further limit speech on their platforms as they see fit. You tell me when I can operate a segregated lunch counter or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake and I'
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by hga 10y ago
Higher level ones who's compilers can better reason about the code? See for example more generally Fran Allen's comments in Coders At Work for how desolate a optimization wasteland is C.
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by hga 10y ago
Much of it is, because they had to squeeze big concepts like those from Multics into very small minicomputers. I don't know how much memory they had on their PDP-7, but for the original PDP-11 it would have been 64K each for data and
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by hga 10y ago
Should they offer better wages? Errr, they did, back in January, at some majors costs in hours people are allowed to work, their bottom line, but not their absolute stock price (weasel words because I didn't check to see how they&#x2

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