thephoeron

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by thephoeron 6y ago
Sure, rankings are meaningless to us. But they matter to children, who still being primates of little to no distinction from the animal kingdom, really like to keep score. You know how kids are. They only hear what they want to hear. They s
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Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser(github.com)
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Haha---it's fine. The internet makes everyone's life an open-book. Which place of employment do you mean, though? As a contractor, I jump around a lot; but I'm also involved with a start-up (but that's still running in
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by thephoeron 12y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but I think it's worth explaining that I don't have a "belief system", per se. I'm a deductive thinker (which I realize is weird for a programmer), so I find metaphor and allusion to be
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by thephoeron 12y ago
I've been working on LLTHW pretty much every day since LLTHW was first posted on HN, but as I said in my reply to austenallred, I'm still working on shaping the content, in order to have a very clear work-plan to follow as I write
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by thephoeron 12y ago
You're right, of course. It's a little overwhelming at times, how much interest and attention this project has garnered---especially so early into the 2nd draft, where I'm still shaping the breadth, depth, scope, and directi
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Thanks for the link! I'm surprised that I have not seen this before. The methodology in this book is definitely close to what I'm trying to achieve with LLTHW. I'll be sure to add it to the list of references, and look forw
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Thanks everyone for your continued interest and support of this project as I work towards completing the second draft! Unfortunately, it looks like the traffic spike has once again caused my webhost to kill and block the web application&#x2
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by thephoeron 12y ago
And it looks like my webhost is now automatically blocking the process. Sorry everyone!
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Oh, yeah that was just the group for members of their developer program. It's gone now though.
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Restarted the server, you should now be able to see the next three exercises... although there's very little to be seen in them so far.
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by thephoeron 12y ago
It's worth noting that I don't work for D-Wave. Quantum Computing is an interest of mine, so naturally I signed up for their developer program when they launched it a couple years back (which they shut down entirely earlier this
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by thephoeron 12y ago
Wow. The response on here has been amazing---yes, the criticism too. I was really shocked last night with the spike in traffic from Reddit, but I had no idea what to make of getting to the front page of Hacker News. TBH, I'm feeling p