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by metagame 5y ago
The argument against it, presumably, is that "If you try and make us pay for committing crime, you won't get access to our toys anymore" is very strange and seems illegal, since the ability to play with toys should not stop
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by metagame 5y ago
It is legal, yes. That license is awful and proprietary (3.3), but it's most definitely legal.
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by metagame 5y ago
I'm talking about the code. Models are distributed separately.
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by metagame 5y ago
Computer-generated artifacts are non-copyrightable. This is not the problem. (That said, as the law is written, no binary should be, but we already threw that baby out with the bathwater.) The problem is that the software is not free soft
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by metagame 5y ago
I'm aware of what he said on it, and I don't disagree with what he said, but you're misrepresenting him by leaving the preceding two lines out. «As an advanced Lisp text, PAIP stands up very well. There are still very few oth
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by metagame 5y ago
You can't use any of it commercially. Nothing within is under an acceptable software license (nor an open source license, nor a free software license). Advanced warning.
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by metagame 5y ago
I would have mentioned that, but it's mentioned in the Stanford post and is also less interesting from a "You Should Know" standpoint on a website built on a Common Lisp-inspired Lisp. Not to mention that the book isn't
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by metagame 5y ago
For anyone not in the loop, Norvig was the author of Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. This was a substantial contribution to the field of educational computer science literature, and helped to kickstart the idea that the wa
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by metagame 5y ago
It wasn't swept up ( ha! ) by iRobot. IS Robotics changed their name to iRobot. If you're skeptic, check Wikipedia for the first author on that paper.
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by metagame 5y ago
Software engineering has always been a team sport, even though we've known since The Mythical Man Month that throwing more programmers at a problem just slows the work down. Choosing a non-mainstream language can absolutely contribute
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by metagame 5y ago
Even pg participated in Lisp flaming; what he said about newLISP on LtU, for example. It's tradition! But yes, Lisp flamewar is not very productive. I do think there's a debate to be had as to whether or not Clojure is a Lisp, tho
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by metagame 5y ago
In which Paul Graham served to popularize the idea in August of 2004: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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by metagame 5y ago
I can answer this one! It manages to have significantly less elegant syntax and behavior than both C and Common Lisp, while also having drastically lower performance than both. Alongside that, it's incredibly difficult to port to new s
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by metagame 5y ago
I think it's hilarious, personally, and I'd disagree that the two are meaningfully distinct. Acting like any language that makes use of parentheses is a Lisp is similar to the Diogenes plucked chicken allegory. There are a lot of
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by metagame 5y ago
I think most of the people who spam the macro are Emacs Lisp and CL users, so while in the Emacs case they might not understand modern software ecosystem interoperability, they definitely understand deep software ecosystems.
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by metagame 5y ago
I got the joke, but I still find the dialect fascinating enough that I will pretend to take one of the many jokes of Don Hopkins literally to get an excuse to post that paper.
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by metagame 5y ago
I quoted a macro that gets spammed on discussion forums. Of course it isn't popular with Clojurists, it mocks them. The origin article is irrelevant. If you copy and paste that paragraph into a search engine, you'll find it on m
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L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems (1995) [pdf](web.archive.org)
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by metagame 5y ago
I saw a great paper on their dialect a while ago. Will try and find it and edit this with a link. Check out passage 3.4; it goes into detail on their garbage collector. L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems Rodney A. Brooks and Charles Ros
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by metagame 5y ago
Almost certainly. Taxation is hard enough between states, for both the employer and the employee. Adding another country in the mix and it gets really hard, especially when (as is common with tech employees) people go to other countries
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by metagame 5y ago
There are a lot of people who would debate that point. There are even some fairly common macros that are used when this comes up. My favorite is this one: «I find Clojure revolting. It is the most explicit to date abandonment of the age-old
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by metagame 5y ago
Spaced repetition has been a thing for a really long time. Were you in college +/-1900? Depending on where the line is drawn for spaced repetition, it could be claimed to have been discovered initially from roughly 1885 to 1932.
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by metagame 5y ago
I've never been much for sentiment, but I am one for making my life easier. I assume it's how many people think.
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by metagame 5y ago
The joke here is that this is something he only told by text, that was initially on his Twitter account, and it was a long-winded, typed story that ended with "don't be fooled by typists."
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by metagame 5y ago
Yes, actually. Chrome is unusable adware. Firefox is borderline unusable adware, and it takes a long time to remove all of the proprietary components and proprietary services from it. Waterfox is probably doing something to snatch your data
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by metagame 5y ago
You're wording this in a way that's deliberately representing your ideological opponents in the worst possible faith and light, and if nothing else it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of not only the views of your o
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by metagame 5y ago
As I've said multiple times in the thread, my own viewpoints are very close to the professor's! Public opinion of people who are not already in the system , however, is a different game, and you should always go with the safest b
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by metagame 5y ago
Offering a social, outreach-based task to a man whose views are cause for alienation against prospective students not just prospective MIT students, but the field at large , which is substantially larger than the four-thousand undergrads
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by metagame 5y ago
Nobody who's in the demographic of people who could be attending university in the next ten years is going to see some professor getting knocked from a position as anything noteworthy; there's no viral potential in somebody not d
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by metagame 5y ago
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