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by jhuni 15y ago
In emacs I represent everything in Lisp and I use separate color schemes for SXML documents and code. This effectively allows me to distinguish between these different classes of data. Furthermore, emacs has different sets of functionality
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by jhuni 15y ago
Math was written on paper long before there were computers. As a result, the use of infix notation was an act of necessity not a calculated decision. Now that we have computers and keyboards we should use prefix notation.
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> "sophisticated symbol shuffling" is sufficient to beat the world's best chess players Try to beat even amateur players in 19x19 go. Von Neumann machines are inherently stupid, the domains you mention have very simple rules which allow
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by jhuni 15y ago
I am not easily impressed. We wouldn't have any need for driverless cars in the first place, if we just had well designed designed cities. Furthermore, Siri and Watson are just symbol shifting applications which work for iOS and SUSE Linux.
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by jhuni 15y ago
What I meant to state in my post is that so far I have not seen "a lot of progress." Feel free to show me anything that may change my mind.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Why would a computer pass the turing test? We haven't made much progress in building intelligent machines since the late AI winter.
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Don't stop dreaming.
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Capitalism comes in many forms. I am not sure any of them are "true."
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by jhuni 15y ago
Chinese workers are powerless and sometimes even suicidal. That definitely sounds like capitalism to me. The capitalist exploitation of the working class comes in many forms, in China it just doesn't involve market mechanisms.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Saying that their other option is to 'starve' seems improbable in a country that is based on the communist teachings of Mao and Marx. Chinese policy is based upon the teachings of the capitalist roader Deng Xiaoping. Go into a Chinese boo
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by jhuni 15y ago
Actually most Lisps offer optional means of static verification and static typing for when its necessary. Furthermore, Lisps have vital metaprogramming features that Haskell lacks which are essential for symbolic AI applications.
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by jhuni 15y ago
China has been blatantly capitalist since the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping, similar to the USSR after the 1965 economic reform. Don't fool yourself - China is capitalist. It is capitalist regardless of what its leadership claims or the
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by jhuni 15y ago
I have exclusively used Lisp for over a year, and I haven't fell into any traps.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Its pretty easy to criticise, so instead I will discuss the steps I would take to a student CS principles from my own experiences. I find graphs to be fundamental, so I would start the student out with them. 1. Teach the student basic conce
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by jhuni 15y ago
tl;dr I stopped at "our democracy."
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Yet another Algol-based language. This is just what we need.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Users already are free to choose proprietary technologies if they want to. The FSF isn't going to change that, nor are they are trying. It is developers that ought to use completely free software, rejecting all proprietary programs in the
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by jhuni 15y ago
To answer your questions, despite what some governments say, corporations are not people. We should strive to allow the people to be in control. By definition, proprietary software grants exclusive control to a private group such as a corpo
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by jhuni 15y ago
This isn't a problem in other languages.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Open source is nice but its not a silver bullet. Most young hackets are free to view UNIX crud well state of the art features in OS design like single address space orthogonal persistence remain mostly unknown.
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by jhuni 15y ago
If anything would make me want to suicide its listening to other peoples suicide tales. I don't know how they do it.
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by jhuni 15y ago
I am a smug lisper, so you can probably guess what I think of poll results like this...
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by jhuni 15y ago
Who let people start dying this fall!!?!
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by jhuni 15y ago
Flash is still a fundamental part of the desktop user experience, so the battle is not over. The free flash alternative gnash remains a high priority project.
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by jhuni 15y ago
You can do anything in any Turing-complete language. JavaScript not only can manipulate trees, it often does. Of course, rather or not you see Lisp in it depends upon how you are identifying Lisp.
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by jhuni 15y ago
AI itself fell out of flavor because of social forces, see the AI winter. I don't believe AI has really recovered socially or economically because even now there is a major financial crisis.
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by jhuni 15y ago
The Lisp machines were a platform, they lost, and utter crap won instead.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Lisp isn't about just any sort of list, it is about nested lists, aka trees. JavaScript programs commonly manipulate XML trees.
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by jhuni 15y ago
JavaScript has the most important dynamic features of Lisp (GC, dynamic typing, first class functions, conditionals, eval, etc). JavaScript, is even a pretty solid tree processing language, because most JavaScript programs manipulate XML tr
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by jhuni 15y ago
Dear kahawe, One thing you said is that "all YOU do is talk." If you looked into my activities in more detail you would realize that one of my main areas of research is improving web browsing techniques. This is because I consider manual in

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