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Walmart Labs is open for business(walmartlabs.com)
6 points by mtraven 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 15y ago
Microsoft's HealthVault appears to still be in business: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/ and they seem to be actually doing the work of getting industry partners. I know, MS is icky, but maybe they aren't quite as afflicted wi
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by mtraven 15y ago
http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/ Not that it gets a whole hell of a lot of postings.
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by mtraven 15y ago
More here: http://dailypapert.com/
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by mtraven 15y ago
What a surprise that an implementor would think implementors are the most important people in the world. Of course, in most cases management has the exact opposite view -- implementation is an unfortunate cost of doing business, maybe we ca
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by mtraven 15y ago
Foucault and Deleuze are definitely not for beginners. Don't start there. It really depends what you are interested in. You might check out the Philosophy Bites podcast: http://philosophybites.com/ (now a book too) which has good, short
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by mtraven 16y ago
Well, there are more than a few, but they tend to be highly specialized, knowledge-intensive apps that you've never heard of. Here's a list from one Lisp platform vendor -- I've worked on several of the projects listed there: http://www.fr
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by mtraven 16y ago
I don't think you can separate language and culture so cleanly. Oone of the attractions of Lisp is that you can mold the language so its just the way you like it. That makes it harder, sometimes, to have a group come to a consensus about th
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by mtraven 16y ago
As someone who has programmed Lisp commercially for a long time, I have to agree with this essay. I've had much the same thoughts over the years. At one point I was one of five Lisp engineers in a 10-person company. I think we had no fewer
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by mtraven 16y ago
Hm, nobody seems to have yet mentioned that OOP was practically invented as a teaching tool for novice programmers: http://samizdat.cc/shelf/documents/2004/08.02-historyOfSmall...
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by mtraven 16y ago
And how about this from 1995: http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/ZStep/ZStep-SoftV... ZStep 95: A Reversible, Animated Source Code Stepper Henry Lieberman. Christopher Fry Oh well, nothing new under the sun, and just because it is
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Palantir Technologies involved in sabotage against Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald(techdirt.com)
6 points by mtraven 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 16y ago
There were better ways to set type even back then, like the Selectric Composer http://ibmcomposer.org/ (1966). But yeah, things have improved quite dramatically. My high school had a print shop with some old hand-fed letterpress machines
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by mtraven 16y ago
Thanks for the comment. You are right -- Kelly should be given some credit for trying to come to grips with really big issues. But I don't think his approach, which amounts to inflating technology into a cosmic, autonomous, and unstoppabl
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A Power so Great it can only be used for Good or Evil(omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
5 points by mtraven 16y ago|2 comments
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by mtraven 16y ago
I know [just the billionaire]( http://www.alleninstitute.org/ ) to spend some money on helping these people out, in exchange for getting to do some science.
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by mtraven 16y ago
Apple bought Siri, a spinoff from SRI's AI division, earlier this year. That was a pretty big deal.
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Did you know that China is run by engineers? I didn't.(omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
21 points by mtraven 16y ago|47 comments
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by mtraven 16y ago
Nice, maybe Google would be interested in doing something similar in the Bay Area? And by next September please so my high-school aged junior nerd kid can enroll? Thanks!
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by mtraven 16y ago
Here's a very simple library for Heroku that makes delayed jobs switch on background workers only when necessary. http://github.com/mtravers/cheepnis
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by mtraven 16y ago
It does, because people's preferences do not obey the rules of rationality. They differ inconsistently across different time-scales, so that it's very common (eg) to have a very strong desire for something immediately gratifying (a cigaret
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by mtraven 16y ago
http://biobike.org CommonLisp + knowledge representation + symbolic bioinformatics + visual programming; all through a web REPL.
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by mtraven 17y ago
How important is physical proximity, really? An electrical signal can travel 186 miles in a millisecond. So locate the servers in cheaper real estate 10 miles away an you lose like about .1 millisecond round-trip. If that really makes a d
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by mtraven 19y ago
It's reasonably trivial in RDF/OWL as well; Supplies would be a class whose instances have statements that point to supplier, part, and customer. In rough SPARQL that would be something like: select distinct ?supplier where ?supplies hasSu
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by mtraven 19y ago
Google already recognizes embedded RDF metadata that describe Creative Commons licensing, and you can filter on these on their advanced search page. A long way from full semantic web adoption, but it's a toe in the water.