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It has been hypothesized that whatever intelligence is (and we obviously have not been able to fully define it so far), it is a multidimensional thing. Natural human intelligence appears to be multifa…
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Comments are explanations to the future maintainers of the code. Even if you’re the only person who will ever see and touch the code, even if you’re either immortal and never going to quit, or unconce…
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Note that this does not make Lisp “mainstream” for others, but it does make Lisp “mainstream” for yourself, and I think anybody who wants to make a change needs to start with himself. it is also very…
Minor changes to the setup
As a followup to my initial getting started post: * I later replaced the Clozure App with the command-line version, obtained by `svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/release/1.9/darwinx86…
On the evolution of GUIs
From 1998 [http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3115189096274592@naggum.no.html] Today’s GUI’s are generally built out of hard-coded event handlers. A language that could describe the display and the eve…
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people don’t just do what they would like to do instead of this depressing shit – how can they stand it themselves? http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3115134207843330@naggum.no.html…
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I’m getting somewhat peeved with the repetitive claims that C is so fast. It isn’t. it never was. It’s just that the language is fairly transparent down to the machine level so when you change somet…
Getting Started on OSX
Here's what I did, though perhaps a better order of steps exists: * Downloaded Emacs for OSX * Downloaded ClozureCL from the Mac App Store. * Downloaded Quicklisp * Ran ClozureCL, then "…
On type systems
From this thread, a perspective on types: My conclusion is that less strongly typed (i.e., dynamically typed) systems are the ultimate type systems, because they allow growth and change, while preser…
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NETSCAPISM /net-‘sca-,pi-z*m/ n (1995): habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from the realization that the Internet was built by and for someone…
Flaming Posts
Replace “usenet” with the “internet”, and this is (even more!) true today … Between two debaters, nothing may appear to change, but as soon as you consider the “lurkers”, and consider the e-mail that…