mahmud

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by mahmud 11y ago
Well, there is a Le Lisp. http://christian.jullien.free.fr/lelisp/
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by mahmud 11y ago
You are not their target market. They cater to students and working people who eat it everyday, for subsistence. $10-12 for a small sandwich is too expensive, and even those of us who can afford it would rather save our money and, or pack o
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by mahmud 11y ago
This is terrible. Yahoo definitely has a case. Lal comes off as irresponsible, malicious, and even a little unhinged.
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by mahmud 11y ago
tl;dr?
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by mahmud 12y ago
Mozart/Oz. Such a beautiful language and system; except the syntax, dynamic typing & sophomoric runtime ;-) There is nothing like Oz. I spent 2 of my best years just studying its research papers.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Have you used Intellij? It's quite possibly the best software development tool ever made. Sometimes I just gawk at how polished it is. Intellij IDEA is simply amazing.
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by mahmud 12y ago
1) It's free. 2) CRAN, nothing like it for SAS & SPSS. 3) Early adoption by book authors. A whole generation of data scientists were taught in R.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Update the copyright year of the mithril site footer; it still says 2014.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Passports (travel documents) are increasingly moving to central authentication too. They were prone to trivial forgery before they were chipped and barcoded. And exactly for the same reason.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Common Lisp is more pronounceable: (incf C) "ink FC", sounds like a soccer club for tattoo enthusiasts :-)
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by mahmud 12y ago
Even if you have been working for the last 15+ years (hopefully you don't have gray hair)
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by mahmud 12y ago
So, like an igloo?
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by mahmud 12y ago
Hopefully this is a rare occurrence.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Sierra is a genius. I have been developing for 12+ years when I read her design patterns book for "newbies", and I learned something from every page.
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by mahmud 12y ago
The author of the slides, Markus Winand, wrote the book "SQL Performance Explained".
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by mahmud 12y ago
I think mmarks is referring to this classic: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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by mahmud 12y ago
I did it a few times for exchange students who struggled with English. I made sure they understood the concepts and could explain them to me in Arabic. It was a mix of editing, translation, and tutoring.
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by mahmud 12y ago
2006 article "A maths genius who won fame last week for apparently spurning a million-dollar prize is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her £30-a-month pension, because he has been unemployed sinc
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by mahmud 12y ago
Shen is Lisp-NG. It's the infusion of Lisp with 30 years of _proper_ PLT research. It's a Lisp that learned from its successors; and for that, it's a Big Deal™.
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by mahmud 12y ago
This sounds amazing!
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by mahmud 12y ago
GNU Emacs. The first thing I install on every computer I have to use for more than an a day.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Off-topic: I know this is a long stretch, but if any of you bought a used copy of LiSP from someone in Virginia, USA, please can you check if your copy has a telephone number hand written on inside of the right cover? It's the only con
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by mahmud 12y ago
Doug Comer's "Internetworking with TCP IP" volumes 1&2. Walks you through the protocol suite along with the implementation of a simple stack in C. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/comer/netbooks.h
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by mahmud 12y ago
Op's work environment is exceptional in many ways. It's a quintessential hacker work place. Unbelievable flexibility. I am sure a place like that attracts people who can make any technical edge, however miniscule, into a real fe
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by mahmud 12y ago
This the premise of a good chunk of Reid Hoffman's Startup Class lecture. http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec13/
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by mahmud 12y ago
How did you come up with that name? "InterTechTion" sounds and looks horrible to me. Almost like it could be a defunct semi-conductor manufacturer from the 80s.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Someone hacked their email, and send them his resume? Isn't that a felony?
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by mahmud 12y ago
So, baiting more suckers, I mean, "day traders".
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by mahmud 12y ago
Very cool! Downloading now.
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by mahmud 12y ago
Ah, Dr. &rest , prolific!

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