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by yarrel 12y ago
In the case of Lisp those things, from the 1950s to the 1990s, have rationales. Updating the names to 2010s fashions just means we'll have something that people can't understand in the 2020s and that they can't check the hist
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by yarrel 12y ago
It wasn't something new, it was their same tired old strategy of copying Apple without any understanding of what they were copying and with level after level of managerial air-brakes on doing anything right. The user experience of 8 is
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by yarrel 12y ago
No, Microsoft are the new Lotus.
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by yarrel 12y ago
I'm typing this on my Debian X200. Suspend works just fine.
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by yarrel 12y ago
The cargo-culting continues.
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by yarrel 12y ago
How much energy do ATMs, banking mainframes, security trucks, HFT, chip & pin machines, accounting PCs, minting etc. consume? Let's compare like to like.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Iterated Prisoners dilemma is less clearly stacked in favour of defecting, although I assume that the actors' memories would fall under "communication": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#T
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by yarrel 12y ago
Looks interesting but it's non-free software.
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by yarrel 12y ago
The Apple team added overlapping windows because they misunderstood what they'd seen at PARC. (Source: Insanely Great, iirc.) QuickDraw was completely awesome, whatever its inspiration.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Spending all day on social media and writing for clickbait sites about how evil games and gamers are is a particularly tragic addiction.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Rebuilding those dynamic libraries requires external build system and compiler invocation. In Lisp you just use the REPL.
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by yarrel 12y ago
It didn't, and didn't even have the co-operative multitasking that was introduced later. You could simulate threads like GUSI did, by passing control on (simulated) UNIX system calls.
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by yarrel 12y ago
No that's how it started. Get the story right, people!
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by yarrel 12y ago
I know. XCode really doesn't compare in terms of usability, stability, range of available options, and documentation. Sad really.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Users are not free to study and modify it to suit their purposes and fix bugs. See here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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by yarrel 12y ago
> If I take a piece of software and keep my changes to myself, it would be fair to say that I'm antisocial and selfish, but overall I have not negatively impacted anything -- I've simply refused to reciprocate the benefit I&#x2
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by yarrel 12y ago
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Because he hasn't used MFS. ;-)
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by yarrel 12y ago
Prolog is one of those languages that's worthwhile to learn even if you never use it. Try the Zebra problem, Towers of Hanoi or a family tree example to get a feel for what it's like.
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by yarrel 12y ago
> Atheism too speaks of something that can't be measured: the certain non-existence of the thing every human culture has sensed, longed for, believed in some form or another since the beginning of humanity. Not at all. It simply sta
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by yarrel 12y ago
1. I stop working on them when they aren't fun, interesting or rewarding. 2. I structure them in sprints. 3. I have a clear life cycle for them (plan, implement, promote, evaluate) that feeds into 1 and 2 . This means that it always fe
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by yarrel 12y ago
Speculative fiction is a cast-iron sign of where society is heading. [Sent from my slide rule via martian rocket post.]
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by yarrel 12y ago
That's totally the only things this will ever be used for.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Sonitus post hoc ergo sonitus propter hoc.
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by yarrel 12y ago
> You choose to use the package collection maintained by said developers, which means that you trust their technical decisions This does not however mean that I must silently accept their bad choices. If they were about to step out in fr
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by yarrel 12y ago
The link is in the article - https://github.com/nytlabs/hive
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by yarrel 12y ago
They are saying that, and they are acting like that. Asking people to agree that they are not is simply a shibboleth.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Oh you're learning to be a chef? That's awesome! What are you cooking? Rat poison a la bleach? That's awesome! Let me know if I can help you with that at all! If only there was a middle way between denigrating and patronising
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by yarrel 12y ago
I can understand why he didn't. He'd reveal himself as a free rider by doing so.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Guile is awesome. I wrote a graphics editor that uses it.

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