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by zachbeane 16y ago
Sometimes I make fun of Paul Graham.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
I'd submit http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3208226254834485@naggum.... if my site wasn't blacklisted. "What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community"
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by zachbeane 16y ago
See also http://idlewords.com/
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by zachbeane 16y ago
I'm surprised no font snob has brought up the lack of VAG Rounded yet.
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Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be rebooted often enough(clozure.com)
127 points by zachbeane 16y ago|70 comments
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by zachbeane 16y ago
This guide refers to outdated and obsolete concepts from CLtL1. I'd recommend reading http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/programming-in-the-large-pac... from Practical Common Lisp or just the relevant portions of the spec at http://l1sp.org
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by zachbeane 16y ago
This rant would be more effective and persuasive if also directed at the Google engineers who made this hashbang style pervasive in Google Groups. I didn't think it would be possible to get deep links to old articles even worse than befor
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Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch(2dboy.com)
63 points by zachbeane 16y ago|7 comments
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Robert Maas is mentally ill.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
I saw people make that mistake a lot with Philip "Don't Call Me Phil" Greenspun, aka philg@mit.edu.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Why wasn't it called "The http server written in Arc challenge" at http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html ?
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Maybe they use Arc, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile
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by zachbeane 16y ago
[insert Arc joke here]
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by zachbeane 16y ago
You have to parse Lisp programs that are stored in a string or a file. You can make new Lisp programs from objects that have never been in a file.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
C'mon: (map 'string #'code-char '(119 ...))
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Are you familiar with Vecto? I used it to draw http://xach.com/moviecharts/2010.html
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by zachbeane 16y ago
That's a little funny, since the LispWorks IDE editor is an Emacs written in Common Lisp.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6e91e20f2... has some good advice for making life easier when hacking Lisp regardless of the editor involved.
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A short history of photo.net(philip.greenspun.com)
1 points by zachbeane 16y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 16y ago
"It is obviously irrelevant whether any of this is true or not. Arguments like that are not _true_, they are arbitrary." http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3232434814758067@naggum....
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Sorry. I make money selling it, and don't want to give it away. Many of the libraries involved are available from http://xach.com/lisp/ and https://github.com/xach/ though.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Hey, cool, they used my Lisp program to make it. http://wigflip.com/roflbot/
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by zachbeane 16y ago
You could try Peter's route and ask Richard Gabriel for it.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Uses a version of news.arc vulnerable to the identity stealing problem described in http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html That's still the latest version of news.arc publicly available, though.
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Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.(thunk.org)
88 points by zachbeane 16y ago|54 comments
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Functions are good. Defining them at runtime with (setf (fdefinition ...) ...) is rarely good.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Maybe http://l1sp.org/search/designator will teach you a few more tricks and save you some time...
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by zachbeane 16y ago
You should learn about WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING. (string-downcase (string thing)) should be written (string-downcase thing) The fdefinition trick is not a good one. Define the functions at compile-time, not at runtime.
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by zachbeane 16y ago
Marijn also won the js1k demo contest. Multi-talented.
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JavaScript as an extension language for Common Lisp(marijnhaverbeke.nl)
6 points by zachbeane 16y ago|1 comments

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