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Intrade Betting is Suspicious(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by rplevy 18y ago|1 comments
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Post-scarcity Software(jasmine.org.uk)
16 points by rplevy 18y ago|5 comments
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Google Miscalculator: Revealing Errors(revealingerrors.com)
1 points by rplevy 18y ago|0 comments
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New Perl Patterns Book(use.perl.org)
9 points by rplevy 18y ago|0 comments
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Fare: Metaprogramming from the ground up: avoid C(fare.livejournal.com)
4 points by rplevy 18y ago|5 comments
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by rplevy 18y ago
Maybe it's because I live in Massachusetts and not Kansas, but I really deplore the fighting back and forth between armchair (and actual) evolutionary biologists with the anti-science rightwing religious groups. While I am on the side of s
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The Purloined Letter - Celebration Of Perl(purloinedletter.net)
1 points by rplevy 18y ago|0 comments
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by rplevy 18y ago
(push 'javascript dynamic-languages-faster-than-C )
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by rplevy 18y ago
Have you ever been to common-lisp.net? It's no CPAN, but same idea. In practice you've got everything you need to work with, no need to reinvent the wheel.
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by rplevy 18y ago
I think (today's) Lisp could be blub, but only if Lisps were to become the standard category of programming languages. Then some other more advanced meta-lisp that is a few layers of abstraction up, and applying some yet-undiscovered princi
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by rplevy 18y ago
I’m a Perl developer and a big fan of Lisp. However, it should be well known by now that Common Lisp is the only dynamic language that beats C in performance. It also defeats Python and Ruby in productivity and joy. And the code is beautif
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by rplevy 18y ago
I use Lisp whenever I can. I think most people who have been initiated into thinking in Lisp would prefer to use it over other languages in most circumstances. Many recent languages have grown to accommodate Lisp thinking in differently b
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by rplevy 18y ago
In accordance with Godwin's Law, I hereby declare this subthread dead.
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Why Musicians Make Us Weep And Computers Don't(sciencedaily.com)
7 points by rplevy 18y ago|3 comments
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by rplevy 18y ago
That's also nonsensical though. I think most useful Lisp programs will probably run faster in Lisp. Trying to fake defmacro alone in Perl will be probably be a waste of time and ultimately result in following the original Greenspun rule.
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by rplevy 18y ago
Matt, I want to focus on the part of your argument that FOSS is related to Communism. First, let's define our terms. Hopefully this is not a false accusation, but it seems like you are using "Communism" in the way that conservative politi
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by rplevy 18y ago
On the other hand it might be going too far to suggest a corollary of Greenspun's 10th Rule for Perl, tempting as it may be.
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by rplevy 18y ago
Good call, I highly doubt Best Buy is getting free copies from Ubuntu. If they are pressed by Ubuntu they must be paying something for them, and it is perfectly reasonable to sell at a profit because as someone else said they are selling t
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by rplevy 18y ago
I think this version would be clearer though: print $_ . "\n" foreach ((<>) =~ //g);
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by rplevy 18y ago
I second this, I can't find any way to display an asterisk.
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by rplevy 18y ago
I think you are right about there being an error. I didn't try running the code but it looks like it would match everything inside the html comment braces, but incorrectly stop at any occurrence of '-' instead of stopping matching only at '
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by rplevy 18y ago
Don't forget the lightweight xubuntu distribution, which uses the xfce window manager. It is nice and fast. It works nicely on older machines with less resources.
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by rplevy 18y ago
The fact that the two coexist does not constitute a valid argument for how things should be, in a better world. There are many less-than-ideal things that coexist together with superior alternatives. For example there are countries wher
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by rplevy 18y ago
It's important to ask whether society benefits from proprietary source code whether it be controversial claims to patents on genetic data or software. Proprietary ownership of code harms society by limiting farmers, scientists, end users fr
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by rplevy 18y ago
My understanding of downvoting is that it is meant to tag/reinforce negatively any behavior that is not in keeping with what is considered the ground rules or standards of the community. This definition should promote keeping signal/noise
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by rplevy 18y ago
I thought it was interesting for the comments/discussion triggered by the blogger's error. Maybe that's why he posted it?
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by rplevy 18y ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
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Why Lisp?(fourmilab.ch)
3 points by rplevy 18y ago|0 comments
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by rplevy 18y ago
Forget rewriting, they should open the source. That's just about the only thing they could do that would make their operating system interesting to me. I don't know much about business, but it also might be just the shark they would need
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by rplevy 18y ago
I think the reason why that is not likely to catch on is that most Lisp hackers enjoy using an editor that can itself be hacked in Lisp. Also, emacs is one of the most stable pieces of software in history. It will probably live forever and

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