shiro

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   by shiro 20y ago

   I write Lisp/Scheme for living, but I'm not sure I can make such a bold statement (esp. how Lisp compares to other functional/logical languages---they do require different paradigm). But I can tell one thing from my experience: All competen
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   by shiro 20y ago

   It depends. I've got an impression that Wasabi is highly-specialized domain-specific language (just a wild guess from his article). If it is a general-purpose language it's worth to build a community and get feedback, but if it's a niche D
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   by shiro 20y ago

   I have a different view. Taking exiting site as an "example" for "how to build a web app in X" type tutorial is quite useful, since the audience also know what to expect, and can have something working at the end. Of course the true diffic
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   by shiro 20y ago

   Here it is: http://practical-scheme.net/wiliki/wiliki.cgi/Kahua:Reddit-modoki
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   by shiro 20y ago

   Personal experience from AllegroStore, a predecessor of AllegroCache: - In AllegroCache/AllegroStore, the class definition is the schema definition; so if the newcomer understands class structures he understands the schema. - Hot-patching
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   by shiro 20y ago

   A few techniques I've used: If the file is small, I write to a tmp file then rename. If multiple files are involved, I write new data to fresh files, then update the "master" file atomically that has pointer to the data files. If lots of da
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   by shiro 20y ago

   .. or resident aliens. http://www.irs.gov/instructions/i2553/ch01.html
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   by shiro 20y ago

   There's a service in Japan where you can associate text to a point in a video. You type text like chat while watching a video, and the text is recorded with the timestamp and played back along the video. Association is bidirectional---you
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   by shiro 20y ago

   I see. I understood the original article's two categories maps to the case whether those "random factors" exists or not; I'm not familiar with school admission process in US, so I don't know if that particular example is good or bad.
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    by shiro 20y ago

    PG is just pointing out a general fact, which is well known to those who are constantly being judged. It doesn't change whether PG wrote this as a response to the post, or as a general advice. If you doubt that, ask anybody in the profess
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    by shiro 20y ago

    Note that they didn't write their engine IN Allegro CL---they developed a Lisp-like language which compiled into native code, and the compiler was written in CL. If you're developing for console you won't want to drag all the runtimes come
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    by shiro 20y ago

    You're half right. Tuned Lisp code can be as fast as C, but you have to know the compiler so intimately that you can tell what kind of machine insturctions it is generating; you'll use "disassemble" a lot ("disassemble" is a part of Common
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    by shiro 20y ago

    Not exactly what you asked for, but another option is to use persistent objects (e.g. AllegroCache) instead of mapping them to RDBMS.