tokipin

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1. 601.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   the notion that humans could affect earth this much is laughable. we could smother the surface with nuclear explosions and the world would repair itself as an organism, never mind something as negligible as human CO2 emissions
2. 602.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   great! forgive my noobery, but who is the person in the second poster?
3. 603.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   sounds like a maddox wannabe imo
4. 604.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   not sure about that, but i can say that new york is an ugly city, and i'm happy it's not a technology hub
5. 605.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   i don't worry about it :) [edit]i like the "say in one tense, mean in all" declarative style (where the present is the "all tense,") if that makes any sense. it's sort of like functional programming
6. 606.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   i must have failed english four or five times before i dropped out. doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers 24 i think (lost count) + almost electronics engineering BS + 100k debt. just dandy ^_^ i'm looking to return for physic
7. 607.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   i think this IS negative press. fining a random person who correctly chose not to pay exorbitant prices for music some $200,000 doesn't look so good
8. 608.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   i think you should promote the fact that it's free on the front page
9. 609.▲
   by tokipin 19y ago

   i think knowing a system by playing with it gives a much better perspective than simply theorizing about it. generally, if you "know" the system, you don't have to do much theorization -- the solutions are obvious unfortunately, not everyo
10. 610.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    bugs: if i click on a picture and go back before it's finished loading, a page shows up momentarily, saying "The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." nice formal english there btw the button onclick action triggers
11. 611.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    can't say i'm convinced of the web-based future of applications myself. the idea strikes me as very mainframey. i'm sure the potential is there, but a rebirth of some sort might be necessary in particular, i don't see the benefit of web-b
12. 612.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    great page, thanks
13. 613.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    content issues like namespaces wouldn't be unique to s-exp's -- XML had to deal with them. i'm not sure about the readability. i would say XML wins because angle brackets delimit things clearlier, especially by the fact that they're dupli
14. 614.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    lisp syntax is a lot simpler than XML. a basic lisp _interpreter_ would take maybe a night or three in any language, a mere parser much less. but why you don't see many such parsers is a different issue, not closely related to s-exp's them
15. 615.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    LOL. great stuff
16. 616.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    i'm not sure what you're asking. s-exp's already represent trees: (html (head (title "hi" ) ) (body (h1 "hello" ) ) ) then (defmacro html ... ) to transform it. so lisp already has the syntax, the parsers, and the generators
17. 617.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    i bought mine when i was a student, and it cost me a hundred or two bucks. if i had the money -- yes, i would pay for the non-student version. i don't know of a more multiparadigmy language, and it's more or less the most powerful computa
18. 618.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    In Adobe Reader, Go to File -> Properties and click on the "Fonts" tab. It should be one of those. Looks like a bunch of CMsomethingsomethings. The best programming font I've found is Andale Mono, which is part of the "Core Fonts for
19. 619.▲
    by tokipin 19y ago

    maybe Arc 2...