vram22

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   Ask HN: What organizations' blogs do you read?

   3 points by vram22 8y ago|1 comments
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   by vram22 8y ago

   I was somewhat speculating, hence the 2 question marks in my comment. But to make it more clear: I don't think that it needs to be only either a consultant or a co-founder. I was thinking (maybe an unconventional approach, I know) of a
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   by vram22 8y ago

   Startup opportunity? Grind as a Service? (GaaS). Not kidding, although the acronym might make it seem so. I mean, paying a middleman (the GaaSer) to do something better / more cost-effectively than you (aka any SaaS startup founder) c
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   by vram22 8y ago

   Neat, didn't know of those, thanks.
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   by vram22 8y ago

   Getting it now, thanks for the info and links. I guess then that's where the term compiler passes (strides, per the etymonline link) over source code came from too :)
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   by vram22 8y ago

   This reminds me of the Ooty toy train. Despite the name, it's not a toy, but a meter gauge train that goes between the plains and the hill station of Ooty / Udhagamandalam, in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. Moves quite slowly
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   by vram22 8y ago

   Just checked it in Google Translate, for English, Spanish and German: col passo del contadino (IT) with the pace of the farmer (EN) con el ritmo del granjero (ES) mit dem Tempo des Bauern (DE) Nice.
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   by vram22 8y ago

   >"col passo del contadino" Great saying. Will look it up in Google Translate. I know a little Spanish, and Italian is somewhat similar, I guess. But didn't know those words, except can guess / figure out meaning of pa
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   by vram22 8y ago

   >Here is a good biography if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/14... . Thanks, will check it.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    >These anti-prime numbers were studied first by Ramanujan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Speaking of factorials, this post I had written a few years ago may be of interest: Permutation facts: https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/10/by-vasudev-ram-nicomachus... It mentions many kinds of factorials and other
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    by vram22 8y ago

    And distances (on land and maybe sea too) were long ago measured in interesting units like maybe an arrow shot (distance an arrow can travel) and such like (from my memory of reading legends as a kid, both Indian and probably Western or oth
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    by vram22 8y ago

    I know you're joking, but I hope not, actually. Although it's fun to divide by different numbers like 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, etc., on the whole, I prefer the decimal system, because it is much easier (and hence faster) to calculate thing
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Thanks, sounds good, will check those out.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Not the OP, but farmers tend to get up really early and have long working hours to boot. (I worked on and managed a dairy farm for a few years early in my career, plus have read about farmer life, is how I know.) As an aside, I remember and
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Wow, that's interesting, thanks for sharing. I've always wondered why date, time and even other units of measure were not calibrated in the decimal system from the beginning. I had read about the controversy when Britain adopted t
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Peter Krumins has a post about pv (Pipe Viewer, which others here have mentioned) on his blog: A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/
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    by vram22 8y ago

    I had recently written a Python program (called watch.py) somewhat like the GNU watch [1] command (which user kjeetgill mentioned in another comment here). [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/watch.1.html
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Good info, thanks.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Interesting points. >It's more remarkable with Allegro since they charge royalties on top of the licensing with customers still buying their stuff. Do you mean that (apart from the licensing) they also charge a percentage of the rev
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Right, good point. Sort of a chicken-or-egg situation. Also, this reminds me of Paul Graham's famous essay, Beating the Averages [1], about why and how he and his co-founders used Lisp at their startup Viaweb, which was later acquired
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Thanks, will check it out.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Don't have the link handy, but I think I read somewhere that someone calculated the number of characters or punctation (things like parens vs. braces, etc.) for some code using Lisp vs. C-style languages, and showed that (at least for
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    by vram22 8y ago

    >First, syntax. "But it's easy! In fact, it's the easiest!" you reply. But for the vast majority of programmers, Lisp syntax is not easy. You could argue that they just need to be trained. But the syntax is different
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    by vram22 8y ago

    >Also quite important, 8 and 16 bit home computers were not yet able to deal with the hardware requirements of Lisp enviroments. There was a Lisp called XLisp for PCs early on, but it was buggy, IIRC. Had tried it out a bit. Just googled
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Is Discord built using Electron? I think I read something like this recently.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    >If you thinking of moving here, just do it. Everyone here is from somewhere else and came to chase a dream that they feel that SF can fulfill. And its true, dreams do come true in SF if you work hard enough towards your goals. This remi
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    by vram22 8y ago

    I seem to remember "Frisco" being used in Western novels I read as a kid, though.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Cool, thanks.
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    by vram22 8y ago

    Is there any official (other than any ANSI standard site) or quasi-official or unofficial main site for Lisp or Common Lisp? I had seen a couple of other sites which seemed like they might be that earlier, like https://common-