lanolin

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by lanolin 16y ago
> "Simply beautiful", "Distraction-free computing", "Everything at your fingertips", "completely redesigned for GNOME 3", "And much, much more", ... This page reads much like a corporate ad. > "GNOME 3 is crammed full of new feature
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by lanolin 16y ago
> And the only way you can ever know which one you'll like best is to live there and go native. Would be nice if we could learn from others' experiences to help us make a better decision right off the bat, rather than moving all over th
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by lanolin 16y ago
This discussion seems to focus on the plain spartan Scheme standard, when -- comparing to CL -- it should focus on an implementation that contains standard-ish libraries as well. Although CL might be the whole well-stocked golf bag (1-wood,
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by lanolin 16y ago
Would be useful if, in chapter 1, section "Lisp is a huge language", the author mentioned approx how many pages of CLtL is devoted specifically to the core of the Language. Comparison to the size of Scheme would be helpful as well (one regu
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by lanolin 16y ago
> ... but no-one can give me any logical reason why this is the case. If you search the c.l.s archives, you can find the various reasons. > I wish Scheme implementors would stop dragging their feet and implement R6RS already! My lim
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by lanolin 16y ago
BeOS was amazing. It simply smoked the competition. It was sleek, functional, good-looking, fun to program for, and had blistering speed (remember it playing 6 different videos each on a side of a rotating cube?). It was not free software
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by lanolin 16y ago
It actually makes very little sense for men to get married (in the USA, anyway) these days. It's simply far too easy for women to 1. become "unhappy", 2. get a no-fault divorce, 3. be awarded primary custody of the kids (this happens somewh
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by lanolin 16y ago
This article skips a very important aspect of these subjects: can they choose a topic and learn it inside and out and not forget it? For example, if they were interested in, say, botany, could they use their fantastic memory to remember det