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by zachbeane 12y ago
I suspect it's more a lack of resources (time, energy, interest) than maturity. CLISP has bugs. Some bugs are fixed in version control. It would be nice to have a new release.
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by zachbeane 12y ago
One of SBCL's claims to fame is that it doesn't necessarily require a previous copy of itself to bootstrap; it can in theory use CLISP or Clozure CL. (In practice it isn't always tested and working, and I don't know if i
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Demo of Lucid's advanced C/C++ programming system (1993)(youtube.com)
3 points by zachbeane 12y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 12y ago
See also http://idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm , by HN-banned author and entrepreneur Maciej Cegłowski.
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by zachbeane 12y ago
Yeah, Hugin does that for you. It's pretty neat. I've had two problems with it: - Alignment errors, where objects don't match up with each other across different shots - Missing coverage, where I left a hole from missi
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by zachbeane 12y ago
I'm not sure; I suspect you could go CLI-only. The GUI seems like a pretty thin layer over the GUI in most places. Some of the perspective/projection interface elements seem like they would be difficult to do from the command line
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by zachbeane 12y ago
I've been pretty happy using Hugin for making Brenizer method panoramas, e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/xach/10301052666/in/set-721576... The UI is not great, but it's better than nothing,
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by zachbeane 13y ago
There's a readable copy on http://planet.lisp.org/
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by zachbeane 13y ago
http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm is a nice overview as well.
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by zachbeane 13y ago
Take some more time off for Lisp hacking!
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by zachbeane 13y ago
I ran out of tips! I've been collecting a few more to post in the future, but my bag of tricks has been mostly laid bare on the site.
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by zachbeane 13y ago
Bummer. A breakdown of how to run a website with CMUCL on Heroku would be pretty interesting.
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by zachbeane 13y ago
I asked Apane if there was a Lisp connection. Apparently, the site runs on CMUCL. Why CMUCL? Because that's what Apane's mentor/teacher pg knows like the back of his hand. Wonder who the marketing mentor/teacher is.
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by zachbeane 13y ago
"Apane" has resorted to spamming #lisp on IRC to get upvotes on this submission.
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by zachbeane 14y ago
The wikipedia edit doesn't cite any sources, but I've heard it from his coworkers at ITA and from https://twitter.com/CommonAngels/status/244137900336361472 Very sad to hear it. I really enjoyed hearing Dan's stories from his early days a
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by zachbeane 14y ago
Here's what I use: Add the post-by-email email address to your contact list, then use the Send To button in Mobile Safari, type "p-i" and touch the pinboard completion.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
The legal issues are not as simple outside of Canada.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Well, it's not like that any more. There are portable ways to work with threads, there are multiple XML libraries, some of which do not read the whole document in memory, and all implementations support UTF-8. These things happened because
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I don't really know what he meant, with the references to managed code and assembly language in relation to Lisp, but what he actually wrote is wrong when it comes to Common Lisp.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Common Lisp has type checking.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I don't know. There are still a lot of things for which CL has no well-tested, widely-used, out-of-the-box solution, and someone looking for a reason to use another system can pretty easily find it. The situation is improving, though, and w
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Things are a bit different now. SBCL works great nearly everywhere, Clozure CL does too, and there are more libraries that are easier to install than ever before.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Nice press hit.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I primarily use the HyperSpec. CLtL2 is more amusing but less rigorous. Since the prose is more fun, and since it's a physical book, it's easier to read cover-to-cover, but I would not recommend it as a reference. I'd love to make a new phy
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by zachbeane 15y ago
It's good to have a quick reference and this is the best one available for CL. For a CL hacker, it's also invaluable to learn how to parse the full CL spec.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
http://chrisdone.com/posts/2012-03-11-fsf-stallman-interview... has a recent take on it.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
People mistake me ("Xach") for Xah all the time. Pretty annoying.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Nice press hit.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
In response to astrology criticism, Giles suggested people read up on what astrology experts had to say on the topic before dismissing it. Apparently this is not something he self-applies when it comes to Lisp or JavaScript criticism.
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Startup mania, oh how I hate thee(positech.co.uk)
1 points by zachbeane 15y ago|0 comments

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