johnaspden

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How to Destroy the World using only Absence of Mind(johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com)
2 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Looks cool, I tried to install it under ubuntu and got the error (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (STRING-EQUAL ASDF-INSTALL::URL " http:// :END1 7) Full procedure if anyone's interested is: sudo apt-get install sbcl sbcl-asdf $ rlwrap sbcl This i
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Beautiful. Thank you.
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Is there really no piece of Spanish that you cannot translate into English without changing the meaning? And no English poem that will not translate into Spanish without losing some of its power?
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by johnaspden 16y ago
That is a fascinating article, but isn't its point rather that languages probably do have an influence on how you think? And no-one is claiming that you can't do closures in C, but I am claiming that C-only programmers don't usually think i
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Strong disagreement. My first language was also Spectrum BASIC (I'm not dissing it, by the way, a mighty engineering achievement and my life would have been much poorer without it), but it's not a language I'd expose a child to today, becau
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by johnaspden 16y ago
But law, maths, computer science, and weirdly, classics all appeal to the same minds. Are there examples of people with English Literature or History degrees who say the same? I would have thought they would be more useful for the sorts of
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by johnaspden 16y ago
he died
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Yes, let's. You first!
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Being a sometime embedded man myself, I was nodding sagely at your comment until this bit: "Java itself is far from the fastest thing possible, and the speed of Java is itself a strict upper bound on Clojure's speed" Clojure doesn't compile
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Last time I tried Scala, it blew Clojure out of the water for speed on the program I translated. I assume that Java did too. I think that's probably not true any more. Anyway, pretty fractal tree program in lisp!
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Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast)(learningclojure.com)
102 points by johnaspden 16y ago|25 comments
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Clojure is Fast (Simple Optimization of Numeric Code)(learnclojure.blogspot.com)
13 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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A Very Basic Clojure Macro Tutorial(learnclojure.blogspot.com)
55 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Behind the scenes, they work very much in the same way. It's the interface that's different.
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The Key to Mercurial and Git (one page to grok it all)(mercurial.selenic.com)
1 points by johnaspden 16y ago|2 comments
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by johnaspden 16y ago
This is just getting better and better. It almost makes me wonder whether I should bother reading Harry Potter to get some context for it. Although I understand the Author hasn't actually read all the books?
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by johnaspden 16y ago
And thus, benefits from trade.
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Ron appears to have got what he wanted, starting from a very bad position!
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by johnaspden 16y ago
So, there are two ways to do things, an easy way and a hard way. Once you've done it the easy way, it's probably a lot easier to cover up the traces and make it look like you did it the hard way. And a guy who is famous both for being incre
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Reduce is not Scary (an explanation in Clojure and C)(learnclojure.blogspot.com)
7 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnaspden 16y ago
If we had infinite energy we could make more aluminium.
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness(paulgraham.com)
2 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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Venus Williams confounds us as Rationalists(johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com)
1 points by johnaspden 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Is it perhaps the same difference as between "I am English" and "I am an Englishman"? Presumably you'd need to be a true bilingual to tell if they feel the same, and even then, your thought processes aren't going to be the same as either ty
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by johnaspden 16y ago
I think interesting rather than weird. According to Galton at least, people like you are much more common amongst scientists than people like me. Thank you very much for your comment. I was hoping that people would give me answers like this
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by johnaspden 16y ago
Cool article, thanks! I particularly like the bit at the end, which reminds me of the fact that I can no longer code without syntax highlighting. I've no idea what your mental whiteboard must feel like, but I imagine it's very useful. I fin
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Can you form Mental Images?(johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com)
7 points by johnaspden 16y ago|6 comments
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Clojure, Maven & SWANK(learnclojure.blogspot.com)
3 points by johnaspden 17y ago|1 comments
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Clojure Dojo 4: Symbolic Differentiation(learnclojure.blogspot.com)
1 points by johnaspden 17y ago|0 comments

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