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by zachbeane 17y ago
As opposed to Hemlock, the open-source, real-time Common Lisp Emacs from http://www.cons.org/cmucl/hemlock/
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Being too successful is one of life's biggest risks (2004)(groups.google.com)
69 points by zachbeane 17y ago|19 comments
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Being able to build something cool is not good enough. Neither is fast performance.(groups.google.com)
56 points by zachbeane 17y ago|17 comments
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by zachbeane 18y ago
That's weird. I just pulled it down and built it fine on MacOS X 10.5 on SBCL as well. An error message would help me figure out why it works for me but not you.
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by zachbeane 18y ago
Sorry to hear that. As a test, I just did a from-scratch ASDF-Install of ZS3 (Drakma has updated since the last ZS3 release) and everything just worked. I'm using Linux. What broke for you? Maybe it's something I can help fix.
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by zachbeane 18y ago
CL-SQS looks cool. If you're using Drakma, you're already pulling in one or more portable string-to-octets conversion routine (via flexi-streams or babel), so there's no real need to use SBCL- or AllegroCL-specific routines.
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by zachbeane 18y ago
When I was younger, I never understood why, say, day-glo colors didn't show up in the spectrum. Jim King's color science tutorial at http://home.comcast.net/~jk05/presentations/color.html helped me understand.
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by zachbeane 18y ago
http://wigflip.com is probably the best-known and highest-traffic Lisp success story!
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by zachbeane 18y ago
I thought Harmonix was responsible for Guitar Hero's creation. This article credits RedOctane.
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by zachbeane 18y ago
Check out http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/reading... for notes on where Graham's lisp style is notably weird. It also helps to keep in mind that ANSI Common Lisp is not really about ANSI Common Lisp, but an ideal Lisp
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Visualization: Web traffic patterns for Reddit, Hacker News, Digg effects(xach.com)
3 points by zachbeane 18y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 18y ago
I just redid the charts with the Digg effect: http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/reddit-and-digg.html
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Reddit vs Hacker News traffic(xach.com)
84 points by zachbeane 18y ago|20 comments
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by zachbeane 18y ago
I wish that was the only thing it was missing! If I did this in, say, Flash or SVG from the start, I think I could make many more things visible on mouseover. The PNG tools are the closest at hand, though. I also wish it was easy to search
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by zachbeane 19y ago
For the curious, this is Common Lisp from end to end. Web serving by Hunchentoot. TrueType font parsing/loading by ZPB-TTF. Curve rasterization by Vecto (which uses CL-VECTORS). GIF animation by Skippy. Geometry and layout are application-s
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by zachbeane 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87846
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Three persuasion tips(xach.livejournal.com)
3 points by zachbeane 19y ago|0 comments
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by zachbeane 19y ago
No. Network activity is often graphed in kilobits per second, but is polled rather less frequently than once per second.
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by zachbeane 19y ago
I am polling the server every 30 minutes.
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How active is Hacker News?(xach.com)
18 points by zachbeane 19y ago|7 comments
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Why did Symbolics fail?(dlweinreb.wordpress.com)
31 points by zachbeane 19y ago|13 comments
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by zachbeane 19y ago
Older versions of hunchentoot (named TBNL) used mod_lisp and mod_lisp2 to communicate requests to the Lisp side in a simplified form (similar to FastCGI). Since Hunchentoot can speak HTTP directly now, mod_proxy is effectively the same as m
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by zachbeane 19y ago
Hunchentoot is fast enough for many purposes. http://wigflip.com/ has been #1 on delicious a few times without straining my hunchentoot instance. Comparing it to a Python webserver is not all that useful, since Hunchentoot is typically co