Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food
Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals to the Pisan mercantile class. Mea…
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci, written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
Or Windows CE.
I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZSCHEME=mzscheme.exe ; :run ;…
M-x dissociated-press
There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly…
Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
Gambit is a Scheme-to-C compiler; Objective-C is a superset of C. Hence all the iPhone sees is a regular subset of Objective-C. http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...
APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users must enter APL characters by hunt and…
Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To…
... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exultation instead of terror.…
On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!
vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....
The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow analysis in higher-order programs. So…
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README).
If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ . The…
A lucky hole in our current series of rainstorms gave me horizon-wide clear skies, and the moon was not yet risen. I saw a lovely show, about 2 per minute. (rural West Coast, USA) Thank you very much for the alert.
Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were increasing the rate at which symbols…
"Strips of old tire" (from your cited article) would be thicker than the soles of my Fivefinger Sprints. All of my running surfaces are rocky or gravelly, and the Sprints do not provide enough protection for me against…
Neurotic indeed. The author was born in 1964 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deresiewicz), which makes him the same age as me. Thus we probably attended Yale as undergraduates at the same time. Yet I…
Not only are fingers very low-resolution input devices, but they're opaque and attached to a big meaty human hand, obscuring your view of whatever you're manipulating. The visibility problem worsens with multiple touch,…
I do a little of this, using a Dell D630 ATG (reasonable review: http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_dell_ATG630.html) to supply screen visibility in full sunlight. Programming while out of doors may not be as…
Amen. This book is wonderfully quantitative, and in my experience discusses rye doughs like no other. I am also very fond of Emily Buehler's "Bread Science" (http://www.twobluebooks.com/book.php), particularly as a gift…
Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food
Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals to the Pisan mercantile class. Mea…
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci, written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
Or Windows CE.
I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZSCHEME=mzscheme.exe ; :run ;…
M-x dissociated-press
There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly…
Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
Gambit is a Scheme-to-C compiler; Objective-C is a superset of C. Hence all the iPhone sees is a regular subset of Objective-C. http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...
APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users must enter APL characters by hunt and…
Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To…
... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exultation instead of terror.…
On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!
vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....
The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow analysis in higher-order programs. So…
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README).
If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ . The…
A lucky hole in our current series of rainstorms gave me horizon-wide clear skies, and the moon was not yet risen. I saw a lovely show, about 2 per minute. (rural West Coast, USA) Thank you very much for the alert.
Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were increasing the rate at which symbols…
"Strips of old tire" (from your cited article) would be thicker than the soles of my Fivefinger Sprints. All of my running surfaces are rocky or gravelly, and the Sprints do not provide enough protection for me against…
Neurotic indeed. The author was born in 1964 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deresiewicz), which makes him the same age as me. Thus we probably attended Yale as undergraduates at the same time. Yet I…
Not only are fingers very low-resolution input devices, but they're opaque and attached to a big meaty human hand, obscuring your view of whatever you're manipulating. The visibility problem worsens with multiple touch,…
I do a little of this, using a Dell D630 ATG (reasonable review: http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_dell_ATG630.html) to supply screen visibility in full sunlight. Programming while out of doors may not be as…
Amen. This book is wonderfully quantitative, and in my experience discusses rye doughs like no other. I am also very fond of Emily Buehler's "Bread Science" (http://www.twobluebooks.com/book.php), particularly as a gift…