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by stray 11y ago
The 'iconicity' part of homoiconicity refers to the textual representation.
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by stray 11y ago
>> Lisp has not succeeded on a relative scale. Let's not discount that. > Is there a clear reason for this? Yes. In the 1980s AI was teh new shiny and at that time, Lisp was almost synonymous with AI. A bunch of people over-pr
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by stray 11y ago
That's not really homoiconicity though, is it? Smalltalk source code does not appear to be expressed in terms of a Smalltalk data structure. Whereas Lisp source code is expressed as lists of lists.
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by stray 11y ago
Can confirm. I once took a job working on a product I had a moral objection to -- on a platform I despise (windoze embedded) -- simply because I'd be working in Common Lisp.
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by stray 11y ago
Thanks for the link. The page on that site that gives the history including the original lispy syntax is here: http://opendylan.org/history/index.html
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by stray 11y ago
I believe Dylan used to be a Lisp with Lisp syntax.
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by stray 11y ago
TIL. I have edited my comment to account for smalltalk.
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by stray 11y ago
I've never had to change my mind about Lisp -- but to me, Common Lisp's condition system kicks the crap out of every other language because it allows you to handle conditions without unwinding the stack. And whenever you get dro
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by stray 11y ago
The thing I hate about an open office setup is the noise. The Costco shed wouldn't help with noise. So no.
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by stray 11y ago
"Founders have a duty to think about the way the things they build will change society" Fair enough. The primary focus though, is still the things they build. It's always about the things. The things. And how those sp
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by stray 11y ago
Because Hacker News is about computer science and entrepreneurship. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Race relations as a subject then, is only rel
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by stray 11y ago
On my computer it's a directory: $ ls -l | grep Chrome drwxrwxr-x@ 3 stray admin 102 Jun 19 21:41 Google Chrome.app
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by stray 11y ago
BlackPolishedChrome.
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by stray 11y ago
Drag Chrome into the trash and empty trash.
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by stray 11y ago
At least as far back as 2011 or so, I noticed that Chrome was causing my computer to behave differently when something was said. My setup at the time: a mac pro with 3 30" cinema displays. The first time I noticed it I was several fee
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by stray 11y ago
I don't recall exactly. It would be interesting if someone could dig up the old apple App Store Review Guidelines from whenever Core Location first became available. Currently it disallows "Apps that use location-based APIs for a
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by stray 11y ago
Build it anyway. I've been working on an app that I believe will be beneficial to millions of people. And I've seen a few built and deployed that are SOOOOO close -- and even an announcement by a VERY big player that is also
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by stray 11y ago
I ask them to walk me through it to make sure I fully understand the issue -- because I'm clearly missing something important. Sometimes I am missing something important. But either way, framing it as if they know something you don&#
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by stray 11y ago
Try learning enough Django or Rails to serve up the TwiML you need. Don't worry about the payment stuff just yet. You can use ngrok or localtunnel to make it possible for twilio to get your TwiML from your laptop. You'll likely fi
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by stray 11y ago
Not just yet. I think it's super obvious and would rather nobody beat me to the punch.
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by stray 11y ago
I will be googling with descriptions of my problem. You should have something in those search results that catches my eye.
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by stray 11y ago
I'm sure they use it to bypass the fingerprint scanner. Oh sure, the scanner may be turned off but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not collecting fingerprints anyway. Perhaps the Chinese are more realistic about pervasive
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by stray 11y ago
Make yourself findable. When I need something I'll look for it. I actively avoid any product or business whose ads keep following me. To me that is even more annoying than a persistent telemarketer. hope this helps
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by stray 11y ago
I actually have a personal side project addressing precisely this. You see, we don't use the web as a publishing environment any more. We use it as a view layer for n-tier applications.
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by stray 11y ago
0.0.21.24 is an invalid address.
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by stray 11y ago
You know, using a shortened version of your first name isn't the same as using an assumed name to hide your true identity. Probably nobody named Mike was given that name at birth. More likely it was Michael. And for people named Mich
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by stray 12y ago
Young people hitting it big makes news copy advertisers like. But news is news because it's out of the ordinary. Henry Ford was 40 when he finally won. Ray Croc was 52. (Colonel) Harland Sanders was 62, Jon Hamm (Don Draper) was 36,
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by stray 13y ago
Do you have money?
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by stray 13y ago
The President of the United States is the spokesmodel for our owners. A presidential candidate thinks he/she is going to be a leader.
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by stray 13y ago
Hanging out with Jimmy Hoffa.

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