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by pwpwp 16y ago
User-hostile is what it is.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
"the rarity with which users feel the need to check their spam box for false positives demonstrates a high precision of classification" I find this a curious claim. How does people not checking their spam boxes demonstrate that there are, i
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Unbelievable...
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by pwpwp 16y ago
See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
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by pwpwp 16y ago
See http://github.com/manuel/cyberlisp and http://github.com/manuel/ell for my takes on the subject. Judging from my experience, a full - but slow - Lisp compiler+runtime that does most of the stuff I wrote about should take about 5 KL
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by pwpwp 16y ago
I was only talking about (a), the language being "superior" in a very "idealistic" and fundamental sense - i.e. being "more expressive". I do believe that the son-of-FP I hand-waved about will also attain (b), being the most popular languag
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by pwpwp 16y ago
There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of researchers, who use Haskell (and related PLs) as their vehicle for type system research. People working on "gradual" type systems like Typed Racket are probably around a dozen, which means t
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by pwpwp 16y ago
The great thing is: if and when Haskell ever evolves as far as described in the post, we'll have Lisp again - inside "Haskell". ;)
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Good point - I forgot to consider this approach. I'll have come back to it at another point. Generally though, I think Haskell's approach of re-adding freedoms is more fruitful than trying to add bondage to Lisp. And "the Haskell movement"
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Good question. The point is that "early LISP" was royally screwed in some important aspects. If you repeat these errors, then that may be harmful, and you're missing out on learning "how to do it right". Which is why I wrote the post.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Sure. But don't stop there. If you're interested in Lisp-like PLs, then also study what happened after 1959. It sounds stupid, I know, but a lot of people don't seem to do it, which is one of the reasons for the slow progress in dynamic la
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by pwpwp 16y ago
As nailer pointed out in a comment on the earlier thread [1], from RIM's perspective the iPhone probably just didn't have usable lifespan away from a power outlet . [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043835
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by pwpwp 16y ago
The government actually doesn't have a monopoly on violence/force: self-defense and citizen's arrest are counterexamples.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
A cheap and unexciting trick for passing a value through a couple of functions. (Monads are cool, but it's important to understand that there's nothing, nuttin', whatsoever fancy about them, so I like to call them a "cheap trick".) This i
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Why do you glorify doing something new and stupid, when doing good things well is what people really should be admiring. — Linus Torvalds
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Great name!
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by pwpwp 16y ago
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, because he shows that there's writing after Dostoyevsky, and because he probably was a hacker.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
It's a reference to the Facebook movie.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
8500 series
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Things I like about my Blackberry: - I haven't had to reboot it since I bought it months ago. I have yet to experience an application, let alone OS, crash. - There wasn't one instance where any of the applications were sluggish, even a li
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by pwpwp 16y ago
How to write a good research paper and give a good research talk by Simon Peyton Jones: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers... From memory: 1. What's the problem? 2. Why is it an interesting problem? 3. What's my
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Atom + a custom XML namespace should be uncontroversial.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Mirror Worlds patents that are probably the issue here: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XJ4SAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=pcASAAAAEBAJ Personally, I find it outrageous for an academic to demand credit for "inven
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by pwpwp 16y ago
ratpoison, because it actually manages those pesky windows.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
If you think that RIM is in any way copying or fanboying Apple, you have probably never used a RIM product.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
A lot of Plan 9 innovations have appeared in Linux. One of the outstanding issues are union aka. overlay filesystems , and these are currently being addressed. That said, Plan 9 seems to see continued use in some niches. For example, Pla
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Unboxed data (incl. structs) can be a performance win, because it removes indirections = memory loads.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
Obviously, that remark is a bit tongue-in-cheek... that said, Omega should be accessible to anyone who's motivated, and able to get through college mathematics. And in some cases, the benefits seem clear and very worthwhile.
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by pwpwp 16y ago
What the JVM has going for it is the incredible amount of resources thrown at it in order to make it fast. Technically, the CLR seems more interesting (it has runtime type information for generics, it allows structs, it allows unboxed data
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by pwpwp 16y ago
What I don't like about Clojure is that it leaves out some features which I love about other Lisps. See this post: http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/04/dylan-and-lisp-family...

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