wingo

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by wingo 17y ago
The author misunderstands the performance impact of atomic operations.
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by wingo 17y ago
Obligatory: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg
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by wingo 17y ago
Oooh neat. Maybe I should claim that the parts of the ES3.1 standard I didn't implement were actually presaging ES5. Neat.
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by wingo 17y ago
It's not the sort of thing I like to read, but still, it makes me cringe in sympathy. /me does a git pull from his weblog
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A tale of two stacks(wingolog.org)
2 points by wingo 17y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 17y ago
That is a nice implementation indeed. It makes me want to be able to cdr '() in scheme.
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by wingo 17y ago
It looks like line noise. But it's funny though, I can read regexps better than I can read formal semantics. Having tried once this evening to read http://matt.might.net/papers/might2007diss.pdf , regexps are refreshing :)
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Informality sans Mysticism(alarmingdevelopment.org)
2 points by wingo 17y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 17y ago
Depends on your premises. Another logically consistent solution would be to have the government invest in research, and allow anyone to use the findings.
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Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity(physics.nyu.edu)
3 points by wingo 17y ago|3 comments
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by wingo 17y ago
"Open source" doesn't have much to do with it :) More substantially, "platform" usually implies centralization, even if your platform can federate. It's probably more useful to envision a radical solution (<i>to the root</i>
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by wingo 17y ago
> * Distributed File System (all data public, private data gets encrypted) > * Sandboxed Map Reduce > * Public keys as account identifiers Yes, my initial thoughts are almost exactly the same. I'm beginning to think it's a commo
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by wingo 17y ago
Thanks for the link, looks like good ideas. I'll see what possible engagement there is there. The thing about the GNU project now -- speaking for myself, not for the project -- is that we have a few hundred really good hackers, and we're do
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by wingo 17y ago
Very interesting. This very topic was hit a number of times at last week's GNU hacker's meeting in Göteborg. If we were to come onto the scene now, as it is, and re-found the GNU project, what would the biggest priority be? To a number of u
285.
by wingo 17y ago
I'm reading this now. It is the driest prose I have seen in 10 years.
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Case-Lambda in Guile(wingolog.org)
2 points by wingo 17y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 17y ago
I agree with you, but it is spelled "Lisp" these days :)
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by wingo 17y ago
You still want applicable objects, though, and closures don't quite cut it. (I say this as a schemer.) See http://www.r6rs.org/formal-comments/comment-6.txt , for example.
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by wingo 17y ago
I don't understand why those people that clamor for stack traces don't also clamor for full histories of their programs' execution. It's as if we do the loop: for (x=5; ; x--) y += 1/x; And when it throws an exception for div
290.
by wingo 17y ago
http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/12/reports-of-velibs-demi... I would be surprised if JCDecaux's PR department were not at least partially behind this. (I go to Paris frequently. The bikes mostly work fine, and everyone loves them. Here
291.
by wingo 17y ago
Tough crowd, eh.
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by wingo 17y ago
Only mine, http://wingolog.org/ . The blog server is Scheme with a git backend, documented at http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/ . The static bits of the site are generated from SXML.
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by wingo 17y ago
I really love web development in Scheme. Granted, that's only things on my site, which don't depend on money or anything -- but they were really fun to hack. But your comment regardin OAuth is poignant. I kinda wanted to implement it, saw t
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by wingo 17y ago
To Scheme.
295.
by wingo 17y ago
zlib security vulnerabilities, anyone? Or gecko, for that matter...
296.
by wingo 17y ago
I would like that language. (I say, as I work on getting compute-effective-method working in Guile...)
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by wingo 17y ago
It's not all that consistent, no. But for me what it cues is Perlis: "Algol is a blight. You can't have fun with Algol. Algol is a code that now belongs in a plumber's union. It helps you design correct structures that don't collapse, but i
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by wingo 17y ago
The initial Gosling quote gives me shivers of revulsion.
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by wingo 17y ago
I prefer the old-fashioned way, with an actual notebook. A good quality notebook makes things more pleasant. I rearrange things by writing them down again (in the new order). This also helps to refresh the memory.
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by wingo 17y ago
Apparently it takes 4 times for me to see anything, then ;)

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