syncopate

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1. 31.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   I also would like to have a meetup in Munich
2. 32.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   Especially since there's also Sybase SQL server, on which MS SQL Server was originally based on, and which actually ran on Unix just fine...
3. 33.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   Peter Norvig's lispy ported to 800 lines of C: https://github.com/sck/clispy There's also a new version I've been working on that's more R5RS compatible and will support compilation to x64_86: https://github.com/sck/ponzi RIP John ...
4. 34.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   I second that the name "bing" is unfortunate. It sounds Chinese but the only words pronounced bing in Chinese are things like "being sick", "sad", or "nightmare"; it's not a good name.
5. 35.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   How come Pixar was still able to make great movies after Steve left?
6. 36.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   I wonder if NeXT was really that much of a failure, considering that ultimately today we use many of it's software technologies. I used to be a NeXT programmer and am always amazed how much of it is still there today in OS X..
7. 37.▲
   by syncopate 15y ago

   For what it's worth, I've written several projects that entirely rely on mmap()ed memory: Localmemcache (key-value database): http://localmemcache.rubyforge.org/ clispy (Port of PNorvig's lispy to C): https://github.com/sck/clispy
8. 38.▲
   Clispy: A scheme-like language in 800 lines of C code(github.com)

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