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by diskzero 5y ago
Thanks. That is helpful. I would like to be able to be more informed if I am told that a software stack is reactive because it is using React.js.
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Are there any examples of this manifesto being implemented in a holistic way? I am trying to understand the bigger pictures as most of what I understand as reactive show up as user interface libraries.
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There have been various efforts over the years to improve the user experience for "desktop" linux users. I was deeply involved in one at Eazel over twenty years ago. Before I make suggestions, I would like to turn the question bac
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I think it could be useful if you aggressively curated your follows and filtered out all the noise and stressful interactions. It didn't work for me, as I just didn't have the energy to do the filtering. HN is an already filtered
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No. I stopped actively using Twitter a few years ago. HN provides a higher level of discourse and posting and replying on HN is not part of someones branding and promotion strategy. Even as I attempted to refine who I was following on Twitt
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Is there any correlation between a perceptron and a neuron? When I first encountered the concept of a perceptron, I was told Minsky and Papert modeled the perceptron on the biology of a neuron. Is this correct? If so, how has this initial m
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Mina Hsiang appointed USDS administrator(fedscoop.com)
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Nice write up. We set up a very similar system using, Serverless instead of SAM, and our costs are about the same. I need to take a good look at MJML. Our templates our stored in S3 and editing them is somewhat primitive.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Yes. Saving to an image, loading the image, modifying the image while the program is running and seeing the program update without recompilation is part of the magic of programming in a good Lisp IDE. Smalltalk was influenced by how Lisp us
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Just don't start criticizing vi next. Then you will be in real trouble!
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A lot of Lisp lovers have found comfortable and profitable niches to practice their trade and aren't interested in forming companies or consultancies to crush the competition. Some Lisp lovers survived the AI winter of the 80s and have
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It is a good question and one with many nuances. There are large software applications out there written in Lisp and other "fringe" languages that intersect with everyday life but they are hidden away in various corporate infrastr
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Ah yes, "Dark Patterns". I recently came across this twitter feed from @darkpatterns where some of these atrocities are being reported. https://www.darkpatterns.org/hall-of-shame
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There are some survivors out there from the era of the internet before Facebook and Reddit came along and wiped out a lot of the interesting discussion boards and special interest sites. The recently renamed GearSpace [1] is a good place to
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This is a very broad question and it would help if you could follow up with your definition of infrastructure. At Amazon, we would use a variety of solutions to document the build process, how to set up internal accounts, how to respond to
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by diskzero 5y ago
Sure. At least General Magic shipped several devices and helped influence what would later became both iOS and Android. The company employed a lot of people who would go on to have a huge impact on mobile computing. It was more than just va
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I have no inside knowledge, although I did work with Imran at Apple and he is a very talented and thoughtful designer. At one point it looked like they were going to build some type of camera device running Android. It is my dream that they
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by diskzero 5y ago
Can someone help clarify why you might use alisp as opposed to ECL [1]? ECL is LGPL and I can't figure out what the license of alisp is by looking at the source code. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_C
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I'm into it. Just checked out the page and sent an invite request. Any info on your release plans?
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We have known that the ISS has been approaching end of life and attempts are being made to extend usability, but there is only a certain amount of effort that can be made before key components start to fail. While the Russians (specifically
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Lilypond and MusicXML would both be nice export options. I think there would have to be quite a bit of thought put into configuring what the export would be. Would you map the audio plugins you are using to instruments then represented as s
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by diskzero 5y ago
Very good point. I can only assume that their resources are so constrained that they don't have the ability to provide the level of training and support truly needed. There is a chasm that has developed, perhaps dating back to when man
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It is hard for me to want to work on an open source Lisp IDE, when I can pay a relatively small amount of money in return for a professional and well-maintained commercial product. It just doesn't make sense for me. If all of the comme
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by diskzero 5y ago
My issue with Lisp in VSCode is that it isn't really Lisp. Yes, you are coding in Lisp, but the language is just one element. I have tried the various plugins and they have a long ways to go. Unless you have tried an integrated Lisp en
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by diskzero 5y ago
It sounds like you have found a solution that works well for you. I don't like to tinker around with my coding environment, which is why I pay someone to do that for me. The primary purpose of my software development efforts is to ship
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Good point. LispWorks has licenses for non-commercial usage that are a third of the price of the enterprise licenses. I wish the non-commericial licenses cost less, just to bring more users to the platform, but once again, maintaining a via
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I understand your point of view, but absurdly expensive is a very relative term. When I do a cost benefit analysis, I see that the cost for my use case is quite cheap. I have the benefit of only having to convince myself. That being said,
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by diskzero 5y ago
Racket and DrRacket are great, but Racket has a ways to go if you want to package and ship desktop and mobile applications. It can be done with a lot of work, but the result isn't great. Racket continues to improve. I would love to see
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by diskzero 5y ago
There exists a product that meets most of the suggestions in this article called LispWorks. It has an IDE runs on multiple platform and has the features that a majority of Lisp programmers would consider mandatory. There is a listener, edit
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We all need more blink tags in our lives.

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