robert-brown

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by robert-brown 9mo ago
Photoshop was ported to IRIX using Latitude, Quorum Software's implementation of Mac OS System 7. Apple later acquired the Quorum's code and it became part of Carbon.
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by robert-brown 11mo ago
Common Lisp
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by robert-brown 11mo ago
The best book I know on subject of how to best display computer programs is: Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Ronald-M-Baecker/dp/0201107457
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by robert-brown 11mo ago
The best book I know on subject of how to best display computer programs is: Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Ronald-M-Baecker/dp/0201107457
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by robert-brown 1y ago
Folks on the #clschool, #commonlisp, and #sbcl IRC channels can answer your questions.
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by robert-brown 1y ago
One big problem is that Python's semantics make it difficult to implement the language efficiently. When I translate the sieve code into safe Common Lisp, I get a speedup of 15. After adding a few declarations, making the code as uns
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by robert-brown 2y ago
There's a big difference between the complexity of setting up Bazel and the experience of using Bazel at a company where Bazel has been set up for you. As a user I love Bazel. When working with Java, I use the java_binary and java_li
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by robert-brown 2y ago
Fortunately, you can continue to use proto2, if you decide it's superior, or use a more recent version of proto3 that supports field presence.
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by robert-brown 2y ago
A good book about this general topic is: https://books.google.com/books/about/Human_Factors_and_Typog...
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by robert-brown 3y ago
The best way to acquire a quality sofa is to purchase a used one made by a furniture maker known to create high quality pieces. It requires a bit of research. You need to figure out which builders around you produced excellent furniture 5
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by robert-brown 3y ago
SBCL has been ported to RISC-V, so it has an assembler for that architecture.
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by robert-brown 4y ago
When I was about ten, Chi Corp., which was associated with Case Western, had an open house. I keypunched my name on a card and fed it to a Univac 1108, which output a large image of my name on a line printer. I think an image of Snoopy wa
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by robert-brown 4y ago
Having broken a couple of kingpins at high speed on roller skates, it's definitely no fun. Unfortunately, the kingpins are under a lot of stress and they're threaded. Invariably, the break occurs on the threads. Titanium kingpin
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by robert-brown 4y ago
A couple more details ... Good quality roller skate truck pivot pins end in a spherical ball and the pivot pin cup on the truck is also spherically machined. There's no bushing in the cup.
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by robert-brown 4y ago
One more thing ... Good quality skates have pivot pins whose length is adjustable. I don't know if skateboard trucks generally have this feature. You tighten and loosen the pressure on the kingpin rubber bushings by shortening and len
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by robert-brown 4y ago
Roller skating plate trucks are similar to skateboard trucks. Kingpin angle affects cornering ability. Kingpins at higher angle from vertical corner more sharply, so skaters doing figures tend to prefer more vertical kingpins than dance sk
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by robert-brown 5y ago
I code my personal projects in Common Lisp because I like the language and because the code I write today will likely execute without modification 20 years from now.
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by robert-brown 5y ago
The end of this post explains why Common Lisp can run much faster than Python. https://markmail.org/message/dp56i26zhpf4fehb#query:+page:1+...
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by robert-brown 5y ago
Yes. At the end of the following Usenet post, the developer of a Python implementation compares the language features of Common Lisp to those of Python in order to explain why Lisp code can be compiled to run much much faster than Python.
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by robert-brown 5y ago
Google tech talk by the book author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NO83wZVT0A&t=79s
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by robert-brown 5y ago
Neither.
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by robert-brown 5y ago
Keyword highlighting is explicitly called out as an antipattern in the book Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, which I highly recommend.
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by robert-brown 5y ago
Anyone interested in syntax highlighting should read the book Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs. The majority of the book is devoted to non-color techniques, but they do present some ideas for how to effectively use c
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by robert-brown 6y ago
Common Lisp handles negative zero quite well.
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by robert-brown 6y ago
I saw the film with two women who had essentially the same reaction, hating both Craig and the film. What exactly was he suffering from? Perhaps we're supposed to have unbounded sympathy for every 50-ish male?
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by robert-brown 8y ago
The Lisp Style Guide actually predates Google's acquisition of ITA. Common Lisp was used to develop some machine learning code. After the acquisition of ITA, the guide was extensively updated.
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by robert-brown 8y ago
Yes, that's what you do. And you commit the change when all the tests pass.
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by robert-brown 8y ago
I'm quite happy with my Chuwi 12.3 LapBook on which I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It cost me less than $300 -- display is really nice, comes with 6 GB RAM. I upgraded the 64 GB of storage with a 256 GB m.2 card, which cost about anot
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by robert-brown 9y ago
For a complete history of the falls, including many more obscure stories and details of the de-watering and reconstruction, see Ginger Strand's book: http://gingerstrand.com/niagara_book.htm
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The real-life weather warriors behind Kurt Vonnegut's fiction(sciencefriday.com)
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