shiro

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by shiro 17y ago
Yup. I think there was a demand (of better language), but supplying necessary tool chain in Lisp required too much resources. In PlayStation2 era, NaughtyDog got advantage from their custom compiler, that's I heard in their GDC talk. But
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by shiro 17y ago
> My primary focus in life has been computer graphics, and my first language was C. I was born in 1980 Ah, you've come a bit too late. Late 80s through early 90s Lisp machines were popular in the CG industry; modeling, animating and ev
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by shiro 17y ago
> Consultants usually earn more money the longer a project takes, and their income is not tied to the yields of the project. Well... that seems oversimplification. When I consult, I ask the price roughly based on the estimation of how
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by shiro 17y ago
Interesting read, but somehow I sensed there's a touch of persuasion in this a lot more than other pg's essays. Maybe persuasion isn't the thing... explanation? It sounded like pg's trying to explain really hard why his essay was in that
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by shiro 17y ago
SICP is a really good book to learn what is abstraction in programing, but keep in mind that it intentionally uses very limited range of features of actual Scheme to achieve its goal---here by "actual Scheme" I mean Scheme that is used to
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by shiro 17y ago
I do. When I think of algorithms I vaguely imagine DAG, which maps nicely to S-expr (the junction point maps to a tail function call). In languages with syntax, I have to add syntactic fluff to satisfy the compiler, which is mostly an ext
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by shiro 17y ago
Not necessary that "indented" lisp breaks code==data property. Just like YAML can represent an arbitrary tree structure, indented syntax can be mapped to S-expr and vice versa. I suspect the reason that alternative syntax for Lisp doesn't
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by shiro 17y ago
These days quite a few languages already support bignums, rationals and even complex numbers. CL's support for these was unique back then, but I guess it has lost its edge in this domain. Still, support of strict read/write invariance of f
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by shiro 17y ago
He doesn't say "see only randomness". It's a counter proposition against our tendency to assume too much.
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by shiro 17y ago
I was joking. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
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by shiro 17y ago
Goto is pretty handy if you're not writing in the language but writing a translator to the language instead. That is, when some corporate politics demand the product must be in PHP but you feel you start losing your mind writing in it
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by shiro 17y ago
Robustness, and potential of evolution, of a society relies on its diversity, I think. Tech start-ups stand on the huge body of relatively risk-free infrastructure provided by traditional structured organizations. Although such structure
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by shiro 17y ago
I remember I was amazed that IEEE Computer did give an interview with Stroustrup shortly after this hoax interview was circulated on the net. The real interview was not as funny as the hoax one but nevertheless was interesting. http://www
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by shiro 17y ago
> the tax difference between the 2 boils down to how much you're going to make - that is if you make over $X per year you want one solution and if you make under $X you want the other. I have an LLC, and some time ago I discussed about
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by shiro 17y ago
There certainly are cases with well-understood causes (e.g. birds flew into both engines to make them stop), but I guess there are cases that originally caused from combination of previously-unknown failure pattern; since the failure patter
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by shiro 17y ago
That's exactly what I meant in "In CL ... (b) using packages greatly reduces accidental shadowing." So I'm not sure what you are asking to be convinced. CL certainly does not prevent you from messing with package-private symbols, but usu
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by shiro 17y ago
Ah, this has been repeated many times, but I can't help to click "reply"... > It's easy enough to achieve with a defmacro-style macro system - just use gensyms. Gensym cannot prevent global identifiers from being shadowed in macro use e
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by shiro 17y ago
In theory, if the feature provided by the library is very important (apparently it is important enough for C# implementors to build it in the language), you can expect that the library will eventually becomes standard or quasi-standard. F
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by shiro 17y ago
Yes. Profiler is the secret weapon. When I write optimized Lisp code, I heavily rely on the profiler of Allegro Common Lisp. Sometimes per-line or per-function isn't not fine enough and I go down to per-machine-instruction level profiling
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by shiro 17y ago
Ok this may be a repeat, but what you are looking at is about immigrant visas , a.k.a. Green Cards. I believe what OP is talking is a nonimmigrant visa , probably E-2 treaty investor kind. Those two visas are so different, thus typicall
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by shiro 17y ago
> If you are using functions you have to first construct the whole page and only then render it's html. Not necessarily... even using functions, you can create a 'lazy node' in the page graph to delay completion of calculation until the
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by shiro 17y ago
Y combinator is not something that makes your daily engineering life easier. Its main point in CS is that it allows to construct a Turing machine equivalent solely by lambdas---hence it allows reasoning of computation process based on ver
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by shiro 17y ago
> If some_function calls a bunch of random functions, it is very, very hard to tell if those calls will execute "self.worker = some_other_function" as a side effect. I still don't see, since changing self.worker at runtime does not matt
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by shiro 17y ago
> you cannot easily tell at compile time which function will be called at run time: the code can call a function that rewrites the name space as a side effect. I think you don't need to know which function will be called at compile time
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by shiro 17y ago
This is why I don't like people referring proper tail recursion as tail call optimization . It leads to an assumption that it is somewhat optional, or something that doesn't change meaning of programs but only affects performance. Proper
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by shiro 17y ago
I feel ambivalent. Personally I don't watch TV at all but I do work for TV projects time to time. I started my career in a TV production (part-time CG programmer), and still get projects with some connection to TV time to time. TV indust
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by shiro 17y ago
Japan does that, even further. Your employer not only files for you but also calculates all adjustments and pay you (if you paid too much tax) or deduct from your wage (if you owe some). If you work for one company and have no extra incom
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by shiro 17y ago
I don't know about English, but in Japanese digits can be pronounced in several ways and many of them are short (e.g. 1 = "hi", "i", "in" or "hito", 2 = "ni", "nin", "fu", "bu", "pu" or "futa", etc), so it's typical to compose a meaningful
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by shiro 18y ago
I've worked on visa for several years, so I know it's like putting your life at the mercy of USCIS. I got enough stress until I got a GC. But there are already people who are willing to risk that, so it is one step forward for those peopl
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by shiro 18y ago
I think pg's point of investors accreditation system is that it's not the government you have to cheat, but the group of pre-selected investors. (I'd imagine something similar to professional guilds... you have to be recognized by peers to

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