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by jimwise 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree -- it's my experience that too often `practical concerns' become an excuse to teach faddish details of what is being done in the `real world' now, instead of provide any sense of the parts of the field which don't cha
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Chapter 22 (nondeterminism) of PG's "On Lisp", in Ruby and C(github.com)
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by jimwise 15y ago
Anyone know what's changed in the new edition? Addition of IPv6, I assume? Nice to see A-W keep developing these (and APUE, and UNP) after Stevens' passing. Hope Fall proves as good a choice here as Fenner did for the new UNP edition.
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by jimwise 15y ago
This is obviously a book about how Steve's small business succeeded in one small niche industry -- but a lot of the advice here is more general. For those interested in his niche market, there's also interesting stuff here about entertainme
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Steve Cole's "Running a Game Publishing Company"(starfleetgames.com)
2 points by jimwise 15y ago|1 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
I'm not sure that judging a retail sales strategy by change in sales between January and April of 2009 -- exactly the period when consumer confidence plummeted to match the tanking Dow -- is a great idea. For comparison, line up this chart
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by jimwise 15y ago
Try ESC-@, which runs mark-word -- once you have the mark set, you can expand/contract the region as normal by moving point.
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by jimwise 15y ago
I think the fact that we're now asking this question shows how successful the Scheme and Common Lisp efforts have been. Thirty years ago, there were dozens of variants of LISP out there, from the mainstream (MacLISP, InterLISP, Lisp Machine
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by jimwise 15y ago
That's good advice on ncurses-based systems. This is Solaris 10 (SysV curses, with a hand-imported xterm-color terminfo entry). :-)
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by jimwise 15y ago
For more on the "Functional Patters are Concurrency Patterns" idea, see Bob Harper's recent post on the subject: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/parallelism... (The whole blog is worth reading; Harper is basically giving
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by jimwise 15y ago
Haven't checked which color escapes (16 or 256) it actually supports, but it does do the xterm-color color escapes just fine. GNUS looks really nice, for instance. :-)
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by jimwise 15y ago
I'd been using touchterm for a while, and had experimented with other iOS ssh clients. They... worked, but the experience always felt a bit clunky. I've been using prompt for a day now, and so far it feels better than the others. The app
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Details on the TCP "Split Handshake" Attack [pdf](nmap.org)
22 points by jimwise 15y ago|1 comments
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After 11 years, a new "Programming in Standard ML" [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
87 points by jimwise 15y ago|21 comments
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by jimwise 15y ago
Quite correct -- sorry for the confusion; I misremembered the quote's original attribution, and didn't catch my mistake when looking up the link. I suspect that in another few decades, GLS will, with Alan Perlis, Don Knuth, and perhaps Eds
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by jimwise 15y ago
Actually, today's hardware, with multiple cores/CPUs clashing over shared memory through non-shared cache, is less friendly to mutability than the old systems. Immutability does require different data structures; a (singly-linked) list i
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by jimwise 15y ago
Yes and no -- closures are a tool to provide a behavioral view of state which is environmental in imperative languages. A closure is a set of state, presented as a function, with behavior provided by that function. In an immutable world,
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by jimwise 15y ago
Per Guy L. Steele: The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly
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by jimwise 16y ago
Interesting timing for me -- I've been working through "The Art of Prolog" (MIT Press, 1994) recently -- I'd done some Prolog in school, but never beyond the ``here are a few weeks in a programming languages course'', and the logic programm
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by jimwise 16y ago
Interesting bug in this example: Since the AppleScript instructs the terminal to change _the current session_'s theme, if ssh exits while you're in another tab (say due to a disconnect), the tab which is currently frontmost will have its th
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by jimwise 16y ago
How would you compare this product to the consumer-grade stuff Vuzix[1] makes? [1] http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/
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by jimwise 16y ago
Right. This is why Ada, which has always paid special attention to the needs of embedded systems, provides so many guarantees about what program behaviors are and are not allowed to cause allocations or exceptions. The upcoming Ada 2012 st
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The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List(secular-homeschooling.com)
5 points by jimwise 16y ago|2 comments
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by jimwise 16y ago
I think you mean `correlation is not causation'. Where there is causation, there certainly _is_ correlation. In any case, are their any methodological problems with this study that you can point to? Any other studies you can point to that
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by jimwise 16y ago
I'm curious whether you think home schooling favors the wealthy more than the public school system does? Recall that public school funding is a local affair; the wealthier the local population, the better funded the school. I'm also not su
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by jimwise 16y ago
It's certainly no less AI than natural language processing is -- both seek to use algorithmic approaches to resolve the ambiguities in a bunch of input captured from fuzzy real-world sources, and build data structures representing that data
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by jimwise 16y ago
Neat example of how all aspects of the pharo dev environment are visible to the programming language. Though as for actually counting LoC, I agree with Bill Gates that "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircr
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by jimwise 16y ago
This is a better starting point for the politics of the situation: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-Januar...
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by jimwise 16y ago
That depends. Do those jeans make your ass look fat?
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Reminder: Snake Oil (Schneier, 1999)(schneier.com)
2 points by jimwise 16y ago|0 comments

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