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by l0stman 17y ago
You can't expect people to be reasonable when it comes to language flamewar. Personally, I think weak advocacy is worse than no advocacy at all. So why not create syntax that catches 99% of the cases for which you intend the language to b
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by l0stman 17y ago
I just read Coders at Work and here's an excerpt from the interview of L. Peter Deutsch about this quote: Seibel: I think Larry Wall described it as bowl of oatmeal with fingernail clippings in it. Deutsch: Well, my description of Perl i
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How to optimize Common Lisp under SBCL(john.freml.in)
2 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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Timing-independent array comparison(rdist.root.org)
15 points by l0stman 17y ago|3 comments
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by l0stman 17y ago
You're not a company man, aren't you? :)
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Q&A with Professor Hal Abelson of MIT(research.google.com)
50 points by l0stman 17y ago|9 comments
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by l0stman 17y ago
I used to agree with these principles, but in the long run it will cause HN's demise. It was fine when we used to be a low-traffic website, but I think these guidelines don't scale very well. The most upvoted stories are the ones which ev
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Profiling and Optimizing Common Lisp(t-b-o-g.blogspot.com)
24 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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by l0stman 17y ago
Indeed. This video is probably worth a thousand words. http://www.guba.com/watch/3000054867
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by l0stman 17y ago
Well, I wrote a simple blog engine after finishing the chapter although I don't use a database here, the blog is saved directly to disk ( http://github.com/l0stman/Blog ). The biggest hurdle with Common Lisp is configuring the system corr
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by l0stman 17y ago
Seconded. I just finished the first chapter of this book and it's really worth it. I want to complete a project using Common Lisp. And I'm using Hunchentoot as a webserver, Postgresql as a database and the Postmodern library to interact
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by l0stman 17y ago
Einstein was certainly a great physicist, but not a mathematician. He was really bad at math, it wasn't false modesty.
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by l0stman 17y ago
A problem can occur if you're shuffling a large number of cards (greater than the maximum of the random number generator) because each random number should be unique.
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Lower fertility is changing the world for the better(economist.com)
48 points by l0stman 17y ago|54 comments
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by l0stman 17y ago
Well, SICP is hardly about Scheme itself as a language. Some features such as macros aren't mentioned at all. It has more emphasis on programming paradigms and Scheme is just a tool to convey them. Its core is small and simple enough that
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by l0stman 17y ago
Especially for those who don't have flash installed.
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by l0stman 17y ago
If the command-line interface doesn't scare you, I recommend Mutt. It's customizable and have pgp integration. It seems there's a Windows port too but I haven't tried it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/unixmail-w32/
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by l0stman 17y ago
> No other programmer has this kind of track record. Donald Knuth probably comes closest, but his diary about writing TeX (printed in Literate Programming) shows how he kept finding bugs for years and never expected to be finished, only
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Spread betting with genetic programs(andrewwhaley.blogspot.com)
1 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small(blog.chromium.org)
105 points by l0stman 17y ago|25 comments
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HOWTO: start using lisp in your work environment (part 1)(ryepup.unwashedmeme.com)
1 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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Unity of Interface(www-archive.mozilla.org)
1 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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by l0stman 17y ago
What do you mean by being better? Having better grades than him or being a better problem solver. Because most of the time, these kind of people follow their own agenda and don't really bother to be at the top of the class.
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Strange Cellphone Behavior(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
1 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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Google now realizes Outlook is here to stay. Xobni welcomes you.(xobni.com)
3 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python?(danweinreb.org)
96 points by l0stman 17y ago|65 comments
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Can you trust 37signals with your password? (jgc.org)
189 points by l0stman 17y ago|130 comments
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Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion (Part II)(funcall.blogspot.com)
2 points by l0stman 17y ago|0 comments
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Ever run into one of those bugs where you begin to doubt your basic assumptions? (funcall.blogspot.com)
31 points by l0stman 18y ago|6 comments
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Some Lisp Machine Minutia(funcall.blogspot.com)
17 points by l0stman 18y ago|5 comments

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