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by metageek 16y ago
The RFC curmudgeon in me says we shouldn't be using login forms anyway; we should be using HTTP Digest authentication. No passwords are sent over the wire, in the clear or not.
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by metageek 16y ago
The article cites the decline in music sales, but ignores the fact that a large part of the music sales in the 90s was people buying CDs of albums they already owned--an artificial bubble which burst independently of any increase in illegal
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by metageek 16y ago
Thanks for the opinion about Tron. I missed seeing it early, and now the only places showing it near me are in 3D. I was wondering if it'd be worth it. Now I'll just wait for the DVD.
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by metageek 16y ago
On the other hand, the NPCs would probably agree that the PCs rampaging through their world are pretty ganglike.
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by metageek 16y ago
True. It comes up as #2 and #3 if you google for "adder lisp", though.
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by metageek 16y ago
Hmm. Maybe. I'd have to look closer. My main resistance is that I've used languages where you have to use special syntax for a recursive function, and I hate it. But this isn't quite the same thing.
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by metageek 16y ago
Interesting...no, I hadn't seen that before. I'll think about it.
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by metageek 16y ago
Well, the main one is that you combine access to Python libraries with Lisp macros.
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by metageek 16y ago
No, because it compiles to Python. I suppose I could finagle some way to manage it for self-calls, by putting the whole function in a loop. Although that would bind the function name earlier than usual for Python. In Python, you can (in t
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by metageek 16y ago
This is the language I presented two years ago at the 2009 International Lisp Conference. It's finally ready for people to try out. From the documentation: Adder is a Lisp-1 which compiles to Python. It aims to integrate seamlessly into Py
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Adder: Python with a Lisp(thibault.org)
53 points by metageek 16y ago|16 comments
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by metageek 16y ago
Actually, I think the article said that was what their previous study looked at. Having found cognitive improvements, they went looking for brain changes.
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by metageek 16y ago
Just saw this, and it doesn't seem to have come up here. MRI scans show "Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks" http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/21/mindfulness.medi... Submitted here: http://news.yco
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MRI shows meditation changes brain structure in 8 weeks(esciencenews.com)
173 points by metageek 16y ago|54 comments
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by metageek 16y ago
I found the problem: it works iff the HTML uses an absolute URL for the image.
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by metageek 16y ago
I wish we had a term that meant "things like regular expressions, that may not actually define regular languages". A real regular expression can always be translated to a DFA, and be executed in O(len(input)) time. Perl regexpen are not r
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by metageek 16y ago
(a) If Android, Inc., didn't have all the policies in place that larger companies do (e.g., code review), then it would have been easier for a naïve engineer to make the mistake. If so, it might actually not be willful. (b) The longer ago
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by metageek 16y ago
I think so; willful infringement triggers the triple-damages provisions.
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by metageek 16y ago
Or even images. Better to take a screenshot of the site and check that.
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by metageek 16y ago
> The timing is irrelevant. Not entirely; it might make a difference in how hard it is for Oracle to prove willful infringement (which increases the damages. And even if it's irrelevant to the case, it's still an interesting question.
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by metageek 16y ago
I don't have much patience for the claims that not thinking can yield profound insights; but I have found mediation techniques useful for simple relaxation. I got the techniques from an ebook called "Mindfulness In Plain English": http://w
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by metageek 16y ago
> First, SMS is reliable transport. Not particularly. I've had messages dropped a few times--especially when sending from AT&T to Verizon. I've also had messages delayed a day or more, which was as bad as dropping them. It's more
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by metageek 16y ago
But does the hardware prevent copying? It prevents you from running a game without Sony's imprimatur, but that's not the same thing. If the hardware does not effectively prevent copying, the DMCA does not apply.
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by metageek 16y ago
I don't know the details. I suspect the answer is that the threading support was written when pthread support was less common, and the MzScheme developers haven't been sufficiently interested in rewriting it.
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by metageek 16y ago
MzScheme is an implementation of Scheme (dialect of Lisp); it implements its own threading. This is not uncommon for languages which support (or used to support) many OSes, with many different versions of threading: it's easier to write it
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by metageek 16y ago
I'd hesitate to put books on my résumé. My fear would be that the interviewer would then pick the hardest part of the book to ask me about. OTOH, if I were interviewing someone, it might be worthwhile asking them what good programming book
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by metageek 16y ago
Anybody know if he was right?
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by metageek 16y ago
> I feel that the only reason you don't like any of these words is because you don't want copyright infringement painted in a bad light. No, I'm just pedantic. I don't do copyright infringement; as a developer, depending on copyright
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by metageek 16y ago
Maybe the long tail really does drop off that fast. According to the "Facebook is a Ponzi scheme" article ljlolel posted [1], most Facebook advertisers experiment for a while, then give up; that would make for a long tail and a steep curve
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by metageek 16y ago
Counterfeiting is the wrong word, too, because the illegally copied good is (usually) just as good as a real one. Counterfeit physical goods are usually lower quality than the genuine article, and can damage its reputation.

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