I told my son I would disown him if he worked for Facebook, for the reasons stated above. Then he took a contracting gig for Meta. His rationalization was that the project was an ill-specified prototype that would never…
Lemons do happen with Apple Silicon. I had a Mac Studio that would kernel panic on a semi-weekly basis. Apple Care put me through the reinstall OS / remove all external devices tap-dance for weeks, insisting that…
LOOPS, on the other hand, is an object-oriented programming environment in Interlisp-D, and one of the predecessors to CLOS.
Only partially. As long as the third-party doctrine is valid in the US, they can claim that they're just integrating data from private companies with existing government records. And those third party companies can, if…
> ... a practical tip is to eat only those things that people of his grandmother's generation would have recognized as food. So, Lisp?
I worked as part of a distributed team from 1989-1994. I was on the US east coast, one guy was in Ohio, two guys were in California, and two were in Japan. I worked at the end of a Telebit Trailblazer, so I had a 19200…
I'm on the fringes of this project, trying to shake enough free time loose to contribute to coding - I'm still employed beating code into submission for NASA. What we have is access to the source code for the D-machine…
The only good thing about the ST mouse was that you could use it in confined spaces. It was possible to lift the mouse a bit, twist your wrist, and scuff the pointer across the screen - I called it "ballistic mousing".…
Any thoughts on applying this article to... programming languages defined by a single portable implementation?
Did not see it mentioned in the article, but I believe Quintus Prolog was the base for Prolog on the Xerox Lisp machine line. They went to the effort of writing special microcode for the unifier, which meant the…
A lot of paper in the US ends up in landfills. Paper in a landfill is sequestered carbon, since it basically does not decompose once it’s buried. So, if you subscribe to a dead-tree newspaper, it might be better for the…
"3 years in SF will not only have been an amazing experience you’ll always remember; they’ll pay dividends for your whole life." I lived in Mountain View in the 1980's, and I have found this to be true. My wife and I…
I was looking forward to an article about a 3-D printer that created objects out of tungsten.
From 1986-88, I worked for Xerox AI Systems, the group that commercialized Interlisp-D. We (my personal contribution was relatively small) added Common Lisp to the system, along with SEdit, a friendlier-than-DEdit…
I told my son I would disown him if he worked for Facebook, for the reasons stated above. Then he took a contracting gig for Meta. His rationalization was that the project was an ill-specified prototype that would never…
Lemons do happen with Apple Silicon. I had a Mac Studio that would kernel panic on a semi-weekly basis. Apple Care put me through the reinstall OS / remove all external devices tap-dance for weeks, insisting that…
LOOPS, on the other hand, is an object-oriented programming environment in Interlisp-D, and one of the predecessors to CLOS.
Only partially. As long as the third-party doctrine is valid in the US, they can claim that they're just integrating data from private companies with existing government records. And those third party companies can, if…
> ... a practical tip is to eat only those things that people of his grandmother's generation would have recognized as food. So, Lisp?
I worked as part of a distributed team from 1989-1994. I was on the US east coast, one guy was in Ohio, two guys were in California, and two were in Japan. I worked at the end of a Telebit Trailblazer, so I had a 19200…
I'm on the fringes of this project, trying to shake enough free time loose to contribute to coding - I'm still employed beating code into submission for NASA. What we have is access to the source code for the D-machine…
The only good thing about the ST mouse was that you could use it in confined spaces. It was possible to lift the mouse a bit, twist your wrist, and scuff the pointer across the screen - I called it "ballistic mousing".…
Any thoughts on applying this article to... programming languages defined by a single portable implementation?
Did not see it mentioned in the article, but I believe Quintus Prolog was the base for Prolog on the Xerox Lisp machine line. They went to the effort of writing special microcode for the unifier, which meant the…
A lot of paper in the US ends up in landfills. Paper in a landfill is sequestered carbon, since it basically does not decompose once it’s buried. So, if you subscribe to a dead-tree newspaper, it might be better for the…
"3 years in SF will not only have been an amazing experience you’ll always remember; they’ll pay dividends for your whole life." I lived in Mountain View in the 1980's, and I have found this to be true. My wife and I…
I was looking forward to an article about a 3-D printer that created objects out of tungsten.
From 1986-88, I worked for Xerox AI Systems, the group that commercialized Interlisp-D. We (my personal contribution was relatively small) added Common Lisp to the system, along with SEdit, a friendlier-than-DEdit…