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by sedachv 8y ago
> The language has the equivalent of GOTO Common Lisp does not have the "equivalent of GOTO," it has GOTO. I don't know why you think that is a bad thing.
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by sedachv 8y ago
> Robert X. Cringely is often incredibly observant and accurate. Quite the opposite: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/writings/holes.ht... Cringely is a good writer and storyteller. The stories h
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by sedachv 8y ago
Thank you for those links and your post!
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by sedachv 8y ago
> if i was going to waste a bunch of time learning Your problem is not what language to learn, your problem is that you think that learning is "wasting time." > a functional language in 2019 Lisp is not a functional language
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by sedachv 8y ago
This is why I discourage Free Software projects from using hosted issue trackers entirely, especially ones that are proprietary (such as GitHub). Mailing lists are the best solution for longevity and meaningful discussion. If you really nee
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by sedachv 8y ago
> Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading? The best thing about ANKOS were the footnotes. The footnotes/appendices could have made a good popular book on the history and relationship of computation and physics, except for al
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by sedachv 8y ago
Mathematica (SMP) started out as a Macsyma clone. Here is a anecdote of how Wolfram went about this with his usual humility: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/BUxXH76CYdc/I...
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by sedachv 8y ago
> The misunderstanding, I think, comes from the fact that lisp code is typically quite terse, which is often a measure of simplicity. I have been programming in Lisp for a few years, and I think that Lisp programs are verbose, and not te
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by sedachv 8y ago
One of the reasons why Linux is not suitable for real-time use is virtual memory. It's not even about swapping. The Translation Lookaside Buffer introduces too much variance into timing. Same thing with instruction and data caches and
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by sedachv 8y ago
Last week I came across a Usenet post from Kent Pitman (who helped create Common Lisp, and coined the terms Lisp1 and Lisp2 in this paper: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Separation.html ) which provides the best explanation I ha
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by sedachv 8y ago
> - Does every person, adult and child, have access to world-class education/training they want or need, including private tutoring if they wish? The well-resourced organizations seem to be backing broad-based ongoing PR and politic
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by sedachv 8y ago
> But in 5 years we'll start to see automated solutions that record all of the inputs, outputs and logs of these containers and reverse engineer the internal logic into something that looks more like a spreadsheet or lisp. And that
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by sedachv 8y ago
> I was around in 1985 and if I had proposed using "an eventually consistent schemaless DB" to tackle a bank or a manufacturing project I would have been laughed out of the room. Medical record systems were running on MUMPS (sc
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by sedachv 8y ago
> I mean: what would you use Node.js for - in 1985 In 1985, your hypothetical bank would be running VMS, which had asynchronous IO system calls as the default. There was no need to "invent" something like Node.js.
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by sedachv 8y ago
Yes, some of those theories were also applied in decades old systems. Look up Tandem Computers and Teradata.
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by sedachv 8y ago
> It was foundational research In the 1980s there was a lot of "foundational research" (poorly re-inventing the wheel) for microcomputer people who did not know about the work done on large computers in the 1960s. Move fast and
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by sedachv 8y ago
There is no horse "pet food." Horses are fed hay.
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by sedachv 8y ago
It just occurred to me that even for domestic animals, the "fast food" hypothesis cannot be true. There is now an obesity epidemic among horses: https://www.paulickreport.com/horse-care-category/obesity-ep...
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by sedachv 8y ago
One of the studies in the meta-analysis was about rats in agricultural areas ("From 1948 to 1986, male rats trapped in the rural area gained 4.5 per cent in body weight, while females gained 5.2 per cent, and the increases in the odds
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by sedachv 8y ago
An actionable way to discourage this outcome is to use the General Public License version 3 or later, which contains "right to repair/right to tinker" provisions: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-
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by sedachv 8y ago
One very striking thing I noticed is how this nutrient density decrease correlates with the observed obesity epidemic in mammals. There is a meta-analysis that came out of David Allison's¹ lab that examined studies of increasing rodent
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by sedachv 8y ago
Livestock feces runoff into irrigation water is also responsible for most cases of fruit and vegetable E. Coli contamination (such as the recent one of lettuce: https://www.independent.com/news/2018/dec/14&#x2
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by sedachv 8y ago
> In their defense apparently they were trying to prevent background apps from spying on your screen. I have heard from several blind people that this is also Google's excuse for the horribly broken Android accessibility.
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by sedachv 8y ago
> I think it's worth pointing out why the author's of SICP themselves acknowledge why it was phased out. Gerald Sussman made some remarks about this during an unrelated roundtable discussion at the 2009 International Lisp Confe
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by sedachv 8y ago
> I, myself, just use xsel on the clipboard and pipe it automatically to translate-shell You can do SHELL-COMMAND-ON-REGION (M-|) and get the output in the echo area.
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by sedachv 8y ago
Can you please stop trolling? You make assertions about GNU Emacs development while obviously having no clue about it. Your last question is nonsense (why don't those companies just not build on Eclipse instead of making new IDEs? Has
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by sedachv 8y ago
> It is great that Rust supports it, but I really wish people would stop talking about it being novel and unique. What I really wish people would learn from Actors is that even if your programming language prevents trivial race condition
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by sedachv 8y ago
> Meta/Alt Meta and Alt are two separate modifiers, so if you get a JIS Japanese layout keyboard (QWERTY with extra modifiers), you can have Alt as a separate modifier, at least in X11, which has enough mod bits (mod1 through mod5)
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by sedachv 8y ago
> They are unsuitable for projects with many developers though. Please go tell this to everyone on the GNU Emacs mailing list, I think I am not the only one who missed the memo.
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by sedachv 8y ago
> Raising graph analysis to the level of linear algebra is brilliant. Adjacency matrices is how graph problems were handled by APL programmers in the 1980s, mostly because there was no alternative before nested arrays. At the time, there

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