mcn

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by mcn 13y ago
Another issue is old books. I recently got value out of PAIP and On Lisp, and I still see people recommend A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Stepping beyond CL for a second, car and cdr have even deeper roots; for example if so
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by mcn 13y ago
I think another factor is that while the primitives for modifying readtables made it into the standard, an interface for using them in a way that limits the changes to the code you own (and not, say, additional libraries you load) is someth
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by mcn 15y ago
I agree with you and lispm about the complexity of code walking in CL. For your specific example of replacing calls to foo with another bit of code you may be able to get away with macrolet. (Example: http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/gues
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by mcn 15y ago
The MIT 2005 Introduction to Algorithms course is available. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by mcn 15y ago
> we’re also applying similar ideas directly to our algorithms, such as tuning the accuracy of when our query broadening search improvements trigger As you are doing this, please keep in mind that when you incorrectly broaden my query,
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by mcn 15y ago
I found that one to be powerful, but double edged. It's unpleasant to remember that ad when researching a serious situation that is likely to have a negative outcome.
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by mcn 15y ago
>Past polls show that a substantial portion of readers (me included) think the points are very useful. They draw our attention to the best comments. That is not the primary reason that I want points back. I believe that allowing people
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by mcn 15y ago
Thanks for the quick response, and thanks for adding the note to the documentation. (As to the quicklisp version being a bit stale, it looks like the last CFFI tagged release is 13 months old. I updated my above post to point to the officia
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by mcn 15y ago
I'm looking forward to playing with this. If you run into the following while installing: "Unknown Grovel syntax: CFFI-GROVEL::BITFIELD" You may need to download the git version of CFFI[1]. The 0.10.6 CFFI release doesn't have bitfield grov
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by mcn 15y ago
Thank you for that; I recently tried to find out how he implemented his 30 second distraction-delay but I had misattributed the quote and so my search was unsuccessful. I think that the delay is a powerful idea. The approach I'm experimenti
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by mcn 15y ago
Keep in mind that the 1% margin of error applies to the measurements of the conversion rates. The 29% has a significantly higher margin of error.
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by mcn 15y ago
There is a "dead" answer in this thread that you might be interested in too. (You can activate showdead in your profile.)
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by mcn 15y ago
I've noticed an increase in posts reiterating each other: it seems that the wrong kind of post is being used as a substitute good for the wrong kind of upvote. For that reason I would like to see voting made public again.
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by mcn 15y ago
I think the lack of timeless* articles in content streams -- HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. -- is a serious problem. I'm imagining a middle-ground between a subreddit and a longform.org for the topics I'm interested in, and think that would be a
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by mcn 15y ago
Someone (sorry for not noting your name) suggested dimming/graying the parentheses in lisp modes and gave this elisp snippet to do it. I find that I prefer reading lisp with dimmed parentheses. (defface paren-face '((((class color) (backg
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by mcn 15y ago
Agreed. It appears that she was averaging a $4k+/day bill -- it shouldn't take 4 months to notice that something is wrong with that.
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by mcn 15y ago
Removing comment scores seems to have increased the amount of mediocre/poor comments around contested topics: I am noticing more more brother/sister comments that are basically reiterating each other and more debates that veer to uncontrol
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by mcn 15y ago
One consequence of the parenthesis and prefix notation is that n-ary operators are idiomatic in lisps. So, the above example would more likely be written: (print (++ a " " b " " c " "))
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by mcn 15y ago
If my junior high and high school curriculum didn't even make it through precalculus after the typical six years of dedicated math courses, often featuring nightly homework, I would probably wretch at the mention of math too. I suspect th
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by mcn 15y ago
Emacs could be a stumbling block, but you don't need to learn lisp to use org mode. I initially ran into the same problem of getting to the point where I could follow a tutorial, so here's a 2 minute quick start. The next paragraph guides y
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by mcn 15y ago
One morning I noticed that stories had been coming in at over one per minute for an hour, so that the front two new pages only contained about 30 minutes worth of submissions each. The great majority of them had not been voted on. The stori
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by mcn 16y ago
I don't think that the goal here is to degrade public education; one of the main attractions with this incubator is that it has connections to get your product into public schools.
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by mcn 16y ago
Didip replied to you but his reply is "dead." I think his first word might have caused his post to get caught by a filter so I've reposted what he said but changed that word. >Didip said: [500 error solved]. I knew that 3am new feature
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by mcn 16y ago
This is from the same Erann Gat (aka Ron Garret) who wrote the popular lisp at the JPL essay[1], and it covers some of the same ground. His last point, that lisp can and should be improved, is one that he makes periodically. There's a barri
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by mcn 16y ago
You can find his more data-focused writing here -- http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=7387...
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by mcn 16y ago
IANAL, but the DMCA includes a ban on circumventing access controls. Recently exceptions to this ban were issued, allowing people to jailbreak their iphones. Unfortunately the broadest exceptions were limited to "telephone handsets." The su
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by mcn 16y ago
I like it. I would love to see the comments without having to click through to hacker news or stack overflow.
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by mcn 16y ago
Their two day class, right? I'm a fan of that also; it quickly gets you to a level where you can do basic things and lookup slightly more complex things. http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...
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by mcn 16y ago
My strongly preferred solution to this problem is to search for the desired media by using a keyword, like "!images cat". I'm not aware of a way to do this from within google, which creates an odd situation: setting my default search to duc
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by mcn 16y ago
If you want to argue that policies which reduce income inequality should be repealed it could be an interesting essay. Arguing against a "goal of total [income] equality" wouldn't be as interesting though: pushing for total income equality

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