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by zachbeane 15y ago
It runs Linux, just not a Linux they want you to access.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Why bother? Lisp will never win.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
The project is named "CMUCL." Sorry you had trouble. I'm glad to say there are more libraries available now than in 2006, and the picture, both in terms of volume and quality, keeps improving.
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Is XBLA Past Its Prime?(2dboy.com)
5 points by zachbeane 15y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 15y ago
See also http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
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by zachbeane 15y ago
In English, it can make a big difference in meaning if something is a proper noun or not.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
The aversion is restricted to capitalizing the initial word of a sentence. It's easier to rearrange words in a sentence and join or split sentences in a paragraph if the first word of a sentence is not capitalized. Capitalizing the first wo
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by zachbeane 15y ago
No, about using the user identification cookie value as the "auth" parameter for voting. http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Are you concerned about using an old news.arc, with its somewhat-easy-to-steal auth token?
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Life Cycle of a Silver Bullet(crosstalkonline.org)
2 points by zachbeane 15y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I love seeing installation instructions made simple by Quicklisp.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
For what it's worth, I consider everything exported and documented in the QL-DIST package to be fair game for direct use. No need to do print-object scraping on the results of ql:system-list, you could use e.g. (mapcar #'ql-dist:name (ql-di
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Gene Michael Stover wrote about Common Lisp as someone who hardly ever looked at anyone else's idiomatic use of the language. I was pretty bummed that he got published in Dr. Dobbs with some pretty awful CL code.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
How is it related to the Ralph described by Mikel Evins at http://lispm.dyndns.org/news?ID=NEWS-2004-08-14-1 ?
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by zachbeane 15y ago
What to type is documented at www.quicklisp.org.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
byzanz-record with some manual cleanup in GIMP.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I normally use 7x14, but used 6x13 to get a slightly smaller terminal for the screencast.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Also, you can have it both ways: asdf-install is installable via Quicklisp.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
There are a number of ways I think Quicklisp improves on asdf-install. Here are a few: * Quicklisp centralizes metadata and project archives, so you don't have to rely on a world-writable wiki and 10 random servers on the internet to instal
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by zachbeane 15y ago
I was wrong about this; further along in the FAQ there's an entry about "deleting" the account. I stopped reading after the "disable" question, not realizing there was a difference.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Yes, that would be nice, instead of the current scheme, where you sign up, have to put money down, and then get reminded monthly that you should go spread that money around. I signed up to get paid, not pay.
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by zachbeane 15y ago
Another fun feature, from the FAQ: Can I disable/inactivate my account? - No. As long as there's money in your means account, these will be used each month. When they run out your account will be deactived until you
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Implementing a Syntax-Highlighting JavaScript Editor—In JavaScript(codemirror.net)
2 points by zachbeane 15y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 16y ago
It's not much work - and Common Lisp makes me 10 times more productive! I intend to publish more tools and set up more infrastructure to make collaboration and delegation easier, but it all takes time.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Quicklisp has a long way to go before it's comparable to something like CPAN, but you have to start somewhere, right?
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by zachbeane 16y ago
I loved delicious!
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Reminds me of Ed Catmull's talk about Pixar management at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc#t=21m50s -- "If you have a good idea and you give it to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good grou
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by zachbeane 16y ago
If you ignore a problem long enough, it will go away.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
The actual recommendations email is from 1999.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Notice how it's instantly [dead]? Same for anything on xach.com.

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