npsimons
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Previously a programmer in the DoD world, now a solo software developer. Before that, I used to hack on RTLinux until FSMLabs couldn't afford to pay me any more. My personal interests include search and rescue and musical groups. Also tried my hand at consulting around 2000-2001, failed; tried another startup based on a GPS logger concept that never got off the ground. Would like to contribute to open source, but the aforementioned extra-curricular activities get in the way. Run my own email/web for personal stuff at hardcorehackers.com; can be reached at the usual (RFC) addresses there.
I despise Apple fanboys and Microsoft shills, but I'm getting better (mostly by laughing at the former and ignoring the latter).
I used to be what I considered a master of C++; nowadays I'm an unabashed Lisp elitist, but mainly I putter along working on personal projects. Not currently looking for work, but if your project is interesting enough . . .
Still of the opinion that Emacs is the last edi...
> Also, serious off-topic question to the motorcycle enthusiasts here: how do you cope with the fact that your weekend leisure ride is often a massive noise disturbance for hundreds of people and animals? AFAICT, the…
Holy crap! It's the "Loving Common Lisp" author! Haven't had a chance to finish it yet, but it's awesome and I really appreciate the updates!
> a cruise, but a cruise with ~30 other people, not ~6000. This is the sort of thing that tempts me - an enchanting vision, like something out of "Death on the Nile", only minus the death. Just a small floating hotel…
Sounds like a very expensive way to do nothing. I can do nothing at home virtually for free.
> An embedded Lisp that supports a true REPL would be a god-send. I might be misunderstanding your requirements; "embedded" can mean so many things these days. But what do you think of ECL…
> I don't want half finished changes forever committed to history. This is exactly why I hew to squash+rebase. As I like to put it "I don't care about every little sneeze a developer had." Git has spoiled me with this,…
> Most definitely sharp edges, and your bevels, matter when you are really pushing it, especially if you are racing, and most especially if you are on extremely hard or even water-injected snow. I have to ask, as…
> So what people do is instead of carving perfectly, they deliberately slip to create some friction and slow themselves down. As an amateur alpine tourist who is deathly afraid of that feeling of "loss of control" from…
> I think interesting take on the same idea I saw lately was "Every Dead Body on Mt. Everest Was Once a Highly Motivated Person". It seems not that new but still. I mean, everyone dies. Not that I'm elevating Mt.…
Forget the up-arrow, C-r is a life-saver for us Emacsers who have to go to CLI for whatever reason.
It's not short, but I was introduced to the concept in a video series on FLOSS Linux audio tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPPPeq82hw&list=PLf_MTToSAx... Specifically, you can play with it yourself with a tool…
Honestly, for public facing read-only websites, it's perfectly fine to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. There's just too many cases where you aren't going to get everyone to put "https://" on the front of URIs when they put them…
> Show me a program that has no bugs and I'll show you a program that does nothing at all! "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce…
> I find some people just give feedback poorly and equate that to others not taking feedback. Too true! I find it helps if I think of it as an engineering problem: "what can I say that will make these people not commit…
> you just don't see how Always, always assume this is the case - it might frustrate you to no end, but until you have conclusive evidence something is "wrong", it's best to ignore it and toodle along with whatever…
> "I'll think about it" Unless you're being totally earnest, this one reads like "I'll take it under advisement"[0] [0] - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed82da6b-db48-49aa-a105-f190e63...
To play Devil's advocate, I'd like to point out that many of these egotistical assholes are "trying" to "help" - by "trying" I mean their communication skills are poor, and by "help" I mean they are trying to encourage…
This is awesome! While I'm nowhere near being able to leverage this right now, I am currently going through the painful process of "databasing" raw documents into SQL, and I can tell you that perhaps the hardest part is…
> it sounds like you're describing the possibility of calculating his expected weight gain based on how much he ate and how much he exercised, and I don't think that's possible. This is a joke right? This is exactly how…
> Remarkable the hand waving people go through to excuse dishonesty because they want to believe it so badly. What I find remarkable is how badly people want to ignore just how bad fast food is for you. They'll use…
> It read like a ban to me. Then you need to increase your reading comprehension. I nowhere said or implied "ban". Or you need to examine your biases; are you perchance a libertarian? Or really right-leaning in any way.…
> I haven't tried those, but surely it is easier to overeat on fries and hamburgers compared to a salad? This reads like someone who might not have been in America much. Friend, let me introduce you to ranch "dressing":…
> But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it. That's one of the few things I still remember from it, and the takeaway I had…
The simple fact is that no amount of alcohol is good for you. Same goes for smoking anything, marijuana included. Also, processed meats are definitely carcinogens. Yeah, cancer can "just happen" to anyone, but there are…
> i guess that means you can't write security bugs in lisp, right? I know this is sarcasm, but there's a reason Greenspun's tenth rule holds true.