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by shiro 19y ago
I think its more like going back to the initial spirit of Scheme and making it right: "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional fe
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by shiro 19y ago
To understand Arc fully, I set up an unofficial wiki site for Arc documentation. (Maybe I should post this in Arc forum but I don't have access yet).
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Arc Cross Reference Wiki(practical-scheme.net)
8 points by shiro 19y ago|3 comments
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by shiro 19y ago
IMHO, it's not an issue of implementation . It's an issue of design . If PG explicitly says "ok, I don't have time to do Unicode stuff now, but my idea is that a string is a sequence of characters, regardless of how a 'character' is repr
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by shiro 19y ago
Is the user database is shared, or just copied? I forgot my news.yc password and wonder if resetting password in news.yc propagates to the arc forum.
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by shiro 19y ago
When I ran CL server (it was in-house service, but heavily accessed 24/7 and I couldn't stop it to update frequently), I used a few ways, depending on how imminent the problem was. The normal routine was to change the source, test it, then
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by shiro 19y ago
I've been using DH for almost 10 years (I've switched to dedicated servers years ago so I haven't been affected by those shared hosting issues, though their recent main switch / nameserver failure did.) I don't know anybody inside DH person
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by shiro 19y ago
I see your point. So the question is actually whether a language designer can only care his "types"---those who have similar thinking habit and thus has less difficulty to understand the code---or should target at larger audiences. Ultimat
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by shiro 19y ago
I wonder what makes the difference in person's perception of code. I think I have a good idea of what the pg's code fragment does at a first grance. (I do know what [ _ ] means in Arc, though; pg mentioned it somewhere.) I doubt it's the
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by shiro 19y ago
So the Right Thing is a language that allows to extend by itself, and makes such extensions run blazingly fast as well. It's been done in some languages (like the one with lots of ()'s) and I don't think there's an inherent obstacle for R
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Asiajin - info on startup scene in Asia (mainly Japan)(asiajin.com)
1 points by shiro 19y ago|0 comments
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by shiro 19y ago
"the best system should be similar to the Page Rank." It's been suggested, but I don't know how popular such index is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor#Other_measures_of...
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by shiro 19y ago
"why the whole industry needs to negotiate a single contract between one cartel of buyers and one cartel of sellers." Partly because each talent has so little power than each company if they negotiate one-to-one. You can see that in the co
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by shiro 19y ago
It might be also useful for parents with small kids. If you got a 104F fever on Saturday night you just take some pills and sleep over next day to see how it goes. If your kid get 104F you don't want to wait for your pediatrician to open
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by shiro 19y ago
My wife once asked me how I could practice the same piano piece over and over and over, for hours, without being bored. It seemed to her that I was making a great effort. To me, every time I play, I discover something new, about music, ab
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by shiro 19y ago
Yeah that makes sense. Whether the obstacles are there or just a phamtom created by our ego, my point is that the "effort" here is more like a round-trip journey, which can be quite enjoyable even if you'll eventually come back to the same
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by shiro 19y ago
"Genius is simply the release of the inner spark." Good remark. I think you still need effort, but that's the kind of removing obstacles between the spark and the outcome, rather than the kind of blindly digging here and there hoping you'l
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by shiro 19y ago
CL has logand, logior, logxor, lognot, etc. It also has a parameterized version, boole http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_boole.html
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by shiro 19y ago
Recently I did a consulting job for a project of a kind of network backbone testing suites used by one of major telcom providers in Japan. The suite was mainly in CL, but my part was an independent, stand-alone tool and I used Scheme (Gauc
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by shiro 19y ago
I suspect the relative slowness of Lisp you've seen was probably due to the transition of porting Lisp on Unix. (Besides, I suspect CS courses didn't teach how to write optimized "faster-than-C" Lisp code.) In late 80s, probably the only
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by shiro 19y ago
I've heard somewhere that PG uses vi. Is that true? Besides, there are some nice Lisp modes for vim, which not only shows matching parens but indents, autocompletes, and does a lot more (or so I heard; I'm a emacs user).
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by shiro 19y ago
Thanks for sharing that. I have similar experiences that saved myself (more than once) by patching 3rd party libraries. In our case, they were proprietary and we didn't have the source . Sometime it was an apparent bug in the library, so
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by shiro 19y ago
It's easiser to understand by using 2D geometry. Pick one point on a paper and call it query , the input, and draw a circle of radius n around that point. Your goal is to find the points in the dataset which are inside the circle. Let
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by shiro 19y ago
You guessed right. On March 2006 Computer magazine the author's letter was posted stating it was a fake. <quote> The reviews, I will state outright, are fiction, but with a twist: Most of the observations and attitudes they convey
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by shiro 19y ago
Wow this is both encouraging and scary. Encouraging to know even those great people were once rejected. Scary to think I 'm also likely to be one of these editors, thinking I know the field fairly well and dismissing true gems.
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by shiro 19y ago
whether YC will do something or not is beyond my concern, but as a general remark, could such feedback loop encourage applicants to fit into criteria to pass that particular system instead of their actual goals (building successful startup)
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by shiro 19y ago
Ok, don't confuse the cases where giving feedback benefits both parties and where it doesn't. In most selections that draws a "pass or fail" line among applicants, giving feedback benefits neither. I explained the reason in my comment in
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by shiro 19y ago
This is not particulary related to YC or startup, but a general advice. I've been, and still occasionally am, in both sides---sometimes in a position of selecting people, and more likely, in a position being selected. And I can assert the
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by shiro 19y ago
Right, but could this type of small-scale generator partially alleviate the distribution problem? I think that's one of the main points of this invention...
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by shiro 19y ago
Seconded. Furthermore, their immigration policy changes year to year; so one person's experience a few years ago may not be applied to this year's applicant.

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