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by kroger 16y ago
I think a combination of those (the city is walkable and bikable), plus a taxi ride now and then.
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by kroger 16y ago
Of course Eliza [1] is a famous AI bot, but I laughed quite a bit when I learned (on PAIP) that they wrote a program to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic (PARRY) and made then talk to each other [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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by kroger 16y ago
Yes, they do exist. Check, for instance: http://weitz.de/cl-who/ and http://weitz.de/cl-who/
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by kroger 16y ago
I don't like it because it's too cluttered. (5 columns, seriously?) You never know where to begin reading. I never was big in reading newspapers (physical or online) but I like reading the NYT in my itouch. The interface is much simpler tha
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by kroger 16y ago
one page version: http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/67024/
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by kroger 16y ago
I recommend On Writing Well by William Zinsser: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
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by kroger 16y ago
I agree. You may also like this screencast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977358
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Python to Shell to Ruby(blog.extracheese.org)
19 points by kroger 16y ago|12 comments
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by kroger 16y ago
The (small) kindle reads PDF files, but usually the font is too small to read comfortably. With the new firmware upgrade one can resize pdfs, but I'm not sure if I want to read a programming book this way. I think the best way is to conve
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by kroger 16y ago
The lisp code has a few problems. It's using a regex library that's only available in clisp (I think), it's not using the standard input like the other examples, and having two functions named has-suffix and has_suffix is no good. Also, it'
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Ask HN: ICFP Programming Contest begins tomorrow, are you going to participate?
7 points by kroger 16y ago|0 comments
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by kroger 16y ago
And, of course, his name looks funny when someone is asking a question: "Is that you Professor Robert Smith??" And I wonder if he introduces himself as "Robert Smith Question Mark" ;-)
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by kroger 16y ago
For Mandarin I like this dictionary: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&...
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by kroger 16y ago
For those confused what an article about zombies (first link) has to do with questions marks in one's name, here's the relevant quote: "Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and not a typographical mistake)"
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by kroger 16y ago
You can always go to San Francisco when you feel bored. I lived in Menlo Park last year and did just that. But I think that the Bay area offers different kinds of fun things to do like hiking (have you been to black mountain? it's beautiful
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by kroger 17y ago
You may like to visit the science museum: http://www.exploratorium.edu/
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by kroger 17y ago
In common lisp 08 is the number 8. clisp -q -x "(print 08)" 8 An octal number has the prefix #o, as in #o3
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by kroger 17y ago
How to make Lisp go faster than C www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.imecs.pdf http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/log/programming/lisp/reverse-... And there are more papers on the subject (google for it)