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   Robin Hood hashing: backward shift deletion (2013)(codecapsule.com)

   6 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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   Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work (1983) [pdf](aaaipress.org)

   27 points by tonyg 11y ago|5 comments
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   Anecdotes about Lenat's EURISKO(pasterack.org)

   2 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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   by tonyg 12y ago

   Nice article. One thing that people are doing these days is using the #lang mechanism to easily turn a Redex [0] model into a quick-and-dirty prototype implementation of a new language, integrated with the Racket tooling (IDE etc.). [0] ht
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   The Internet of Obnoxious Things(listbox.com)

   3 points by tonyg 12y ago|0 comments
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   by tonyg 12y ago

   Good point! Hooray for avoidance of software monocultures. On the other hand, I shall now work hard to stop worrying about undiscovered vulnerabilities in uclibc.
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   by tonyg 12y ago

   All those home routers. All those home routers running Linux. All those home routers that are difficult to upgrade. All those home routers that will soon be part of some botnet or other?
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   by tonyg 12y ago

   Does anyone have any insight into how Orleans handles failure? The only mentions I found in the documentation suggest that "grains cannot fail", which seems fairly odd to me. What about exceptions? Can grain state become corrupted
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   Monads in Dynamically-Typed Languages(eighty-twenty.org)

   45 points by tonyg 12y ago|2 comments
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    List of investment trends, or Black Mirror bingo card?
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    Artist/architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser had some similar ideas about burying highways and using parkland to absorb some of their emissions, both chemical and auditory - his "invisible, inaudible Green Motorway": * http:
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    The Weaknesses of Smalltalk Are the Strengths of Erlang (2011)(eighty-twenty.org)

    2 points by tonyg 12y ago|0 comments
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    SimpleSSH: A Basic Interoperability Profile for the SSH Protocol (2009)(cs.auckland.ac.nz)

    2 points by tonyg 12y ago|0 comments
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    Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript(peter.michaux.ca)

    67 points by tonyg 12y ago|20 comments
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    Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript(peter.michaux.ca)

    7 points by tonyg 12y ago|0 comments
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    > I'm not even sure what the result of a looping expression should be This is one of the reasons I like having proper tail calls be part of a language specification, incidentally :-) Reason being that loops are then simple derived c
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    I like the idea very much, and the brevity and clarity of the implementation is pleasant. However, there are a few problems with it: \\/"- \_/ wren v0.0.0 > var F = new Fn { | x | F.call(x + 1) } > IO.print
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    Thanks. The noise issue sounds pretty frustrating.
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    When you say that there are drivers missing, does this go as far as GPL violations? Or is it not quite as toxic as that? Also, what is the situation like with regard to figuring out what has been changed in a vendor-supplied kernel vs. a ge
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    To those downvoting: it's a reference to a META tag that Olin put in the HTML: <meta name="keywords" content="Scheme, programming language, list processing, SRFI, underage lesbian sluts">
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    I like the visualizations of the stack behaviour.
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    By transclusion. You'd cache the big, reusable chunks of content, and serve up a fresh transient little document that transcluded both the larger content chunks and the dynamically-included advertisements.
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    I'm guessing you were linking to http://www.squeaksource.com/Net.html - Seaside uses non-persistent URLs by default, leading to problems like this...
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    The new "plumber" mechanism is useful for things like flushing buffers, doing clean disconnects from network services, committing or rolling-back transactions, and releasing kernel resources. For example, you might be using a buff
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    The only times I've hit my head on the ground as an adult have been coming off my bike. (Not that often, but still, three times is more than the zero for all other causes combined.) In each of those three times, I've been profound
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    Erlang does quite nicely as a multi-process architecture. Low context switch overhead, low per-process overhead, built for redundancy and fault-tolerance (implying multiple execution units), tool support. There's more than one way to d
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    I find it interesting that red and violet are almost an octave apart.
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    The Origins of Flow Control and Acknowledgements (2011)(eighty-twenty.org)

    7 points by tonyg 12y ago|0 comments
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    > if the programming language is your operating system then you're doing it wrong because programming languages are fundamentally verbs to express computation, not to express resource management. But then how do you express mechanis
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    by tonyg 12y ago

    His omission of RFC 6901 is especially remarkable considering he is listed by name in that RFC's acknowledgements section as having contributed to the specification!