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The whole phone just seems so overloaded. Everything is bursting with functionality, but I don’t feel like discovering any of it. http://jacksonfish.com/2014/05/22/a-user-experience-designer-switches…
Rutils ?
I was excited to try this out when I came across it ... but it looks like (today!) the github repo is not in a compilable state, at least on Allegro CL. CL-USER(44): (ql:quickload 'rutils) To loa…
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… when a computer program beats a grandmaster at chess, the two are not using even remotely similar algorithms. The grandmaster can explain why it seemed worth sacrificing the knight for strategic adv…
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I do most of that work with a tool called Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails does for web developers what a toilet-installing robot would do for plumbers. (Web development is more like plumbing than any of…
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BotWorld -> BotVerse
I came across this paper (actually a literate haskell document, pretty cool!) from MIRI. (What's MIRI ? I suppose someone finally convinced the "Singularity Institute" they had a terribl…
Mental atrophy in the valley
I feel like I can totally relate to this guy !! (from http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1803) A half a decade ago, I could dive with you to the penetralia of convergence theorems of hypergeometric series…
On static/dynamic typing
From http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1495 I now realise that there are several issues conflated into a false dichotomy of static/dynamic. 1. type expressivity (ML, Haskell, and Scala even more so) 2.…
Defstruct and Defclass as macros
The SBCL version (macroexpand-1 '(defstruct spoint (x y))) (PROGN (SB-KERNEL:WITH-SINGLE-PACKAGE-LOCKED-ERROR (:SYMBOL 'SPOINT "defining ~…
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C and C++ are firmly stuck in the early 80’s as far as processor design is concerned. Common Lisp never was stuck anywhere in the first place, which means it has had a hard time sticking to something…
Fixing a SLIME/Swank version problem
Installing a bunch of packages willy-nilly resulted in this configuration problem for me: starting slime resulted in this frustrating error message: Versions differ (2014...) slime vs (2009...) swank…
Capitalizing words; the flexible format directive
From an exercise in the second chapter of PAIP. This takes a list of words and prints them in a list, with the first one capitalized. (defun print-words (wordlist) (format t "~&~@(~A~) &…