wingo

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   by wingo 17y ago

   Regardless of whether it's working or not, it's not a particularly anarchist sentiment.
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   by wingo 17y ago

   I was recently given a collection of Einstein's writings ( http://www.alphadecay.org/libro/la-mentalidad-militar ) and was quite perturbed to find that he thought that a "supranational" world government was the answer to the threat of atomi
3. 243.▲
   by wingo 17y ago

   Yes I enjoyed that as well. Nice hack!
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   by wingo 17y ago

   It's a remarkable study in the power of marketing: people hear "unladen swallow, llvm" and they think "fast"; but the reality is not that simple.
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   by wingo 17y ago

   If Perlis was right when he said that Lispers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing, this bug proves the counterpoint: of Fortran-derived languages knowing the cost of everything but the value of, um, most things but not some
6. 246.▲
   by wingo 17y ago

   At some point the message that "web 2.0 is sharecropping" will sink in, one way or the other.
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   by wingo 17y ago

   As a counterpoint, if you take something hard and profound, and make a turd out of it, people that avoided the hard problem will probably beat you. (GNU Guile maintainer speaking. No, we don't have fexprs any more. Yes, we are finally getti
8. 248.▲
   by wingo 17y ago

   Dunno about you, but I'm just as interested in Hacker Olds as Hacker News :) For me, marking dates in the titles doesn't really add to the discussion.
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   by wingo 17y ago

   Replacing eval with alert/echo is a nice technique, one I hadn't thought of. Thankfully I haven't had to think of it in years; their conclusions (basically, more logging and keeping up-to-date) would be valid if it weren't Wordpress itself
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    by wingo 17y ago

    There is also the possibility that if your program has an aliasing bug, the bug may only cause failure at -O2 but not at -O0 or -O1. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35653 , for example.
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    by wingo 17y ago

    I seem to recall hearing (from the GNU Smalltalk author) that the text representation of Smalltalk isn't even standard. See http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Synta... , for example.
12. 252.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    My point is that there's quite enough work already for such a corps. Weaponizeable (also sp?) or not, the idea of producing waste of such longevity and claiming that it is actually a solution is mind-bogglingly arrogant.
13. 253.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    There is demand from industry, but not from students. In my class at NCSU I was the only one; the years before and after there were less than 10.
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    by wingo 17y ago

    This is crazy. No one is doing anything about the commercial waste, and this fellow wants to bring military-trained engineers in to create more waste? To this date there are tanks full of liquid waste at military sites that people are conce
15. 255.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    Remarkable clarity, and excellent diagrams.
16. 256.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    Much respect for their work, but the FSF really needs to tone down the puns. "iPad is iBad"? Really?
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    by wingo 17y ago

    There are counterexamples too. I feel like my C has gotten worse in some ways (and not for lack of practice) because of Lisp -- I tend to make more expressions and assign fewer temporary values. C code often benefits in clarity from named t
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    by wingo 17y ago

    I was about to raise the point that "release early, release often" is a phrase from free software, and wonder at its appropriation by commerce, but it turns out it's from ESR. Perhaps it is appropriate, then. (The majority of my hack is not
19. 259.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    Whenever Z-Bo writes I feel like there is a thought there, screaming to get out, but muffled by a blanket of words. I wish he would be more concise.
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    by wingo 17y ago

    http://valhenson.livejournal.com/3580.html
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    by wingo 17y ago

    I don't think Andre said that abstractions are useless. I agree with most of your other points, but it's difficult to get past the confrontational tone. Be more charitable :)
22. 262.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    S-expressions solve this problem in a consistent way that is intuitive at least to some people.
23. 263.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    It really seems like the Azul boxes are the new Lisp machines. it's inspiring to see solid technical work being done with this amount of integration (hardware to software).
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    by wingo 17y ago

    Replacement engineers as well :)
25. 265.▲
    by wingo 17y ago

    Why? SBCL has a great compiler. Using LLVM is giving up their freedom.
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    by wingo 17y ago

    A nice article for the solstice, thank you :)
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    by wingo 17y ago

    I do self-identify as a functional programmer, and when I have to write an OO solution to a problem, I often get it wrong. Less wrong when I'm working with a more common idiom (like a tree of widgets), more wrong when I'm striking out into
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    by wingo 17y ago

    I feel good about all of these questions except the OO design one. I would rather declare types and write functions that operate on those types; granted it's the same, semantically, but if I focus on nouns personally I start coding stupid s
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    by wingo 17y ago

    Thanks for the link, I always like an excuse to read what Cliff writes.
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    by wingo 17y ago

    This is what I meant, yes. Note that you incur the cost on immutable data structures as well as mutable ones. You really trash your caches this way.