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Don't you think web crawling (for users with archival accounts, where the full text + associated images/resources for each bookmark is stored and indexed on Pinboard's servers) is …

Yes. I have to admit that this behavior confused me too when I was first learning Javascript. My only previous experience with lexical scope was in Common Lisp, which of course wor…

" http://evilsite.com#/about ">About " There is absolutely no reason to build links with your own hostname in them in the first place. Why on earth would you make a link like this …

It's certainly technically extremely impressive. The user experience, though, is not great, and certainly not worth the effort it must have involved. Why reimplement draggable, mod…

I use Dean Edwards's base2. I like it because it is very simple, and because it adheres to standards; that is, rather than creating a map and a forEach of its own, with its own sem…

If you want speed, why not Common Lisp? Nice, high-level, a pleasure to work in, fast and compiled out of the box, with the ability to optimize the hell out of specific critical pa…

Why are you building, instead of downloading the binary?

http://www.sbcl.org -> "Downloads" -> Linux/x86 (or your architecture/OS of choice). Hold on a second, I need to lie down for a moment after all that hard work there. OK. Yes, ther…

Now that's just cold.

What's Common Lisp? I'm thinking either Barry Goldwater or Eugene McCarthy, kind of a toss-up.

No, I backup my home directory and some web directories.

I use http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ to backup to Amazon S3 (it has support for various other backends). It encrypts with GnuPG. S3 charges a few cents per GB of transfer and a few c…

"We now have technologies that effectively mix web and desktop technologies, something I like to call 'webtop clients', manifest in Adobe Flash Player, Java Applets, and Microsoft …

I am reminded of Borges's "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ( http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html ) (and what do you know, Borges even slips George Boole into…

And calling a place nicer than a shopping mall is like saying that my squalid, decomposing first apartment was nicer than a prison cell; true, and irrelevant.

Jesus Christ, I just watched a video of Ken Tilton ranting on a beach (!?) and agreed with almost everything he said. That can't be a good sign at all. (Hey smanek, this is eli)

I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering…

Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements. I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals. http://scratch.flyov…

Vecto ( http://www.xach.com/lisp/vecto/ ) in Common Lisp is excellent for this sort of thing (see http://common-lisp.net/project/adw-charting/ , which uses it).

They call 'em session beers for a reason. (He says, surrounded by empty cans of Old Style ($5.99 the 12-pack) and the husks of half-written late-night defuns.)

"It didn’t try to pay for reviews, as some sites have." It certainly did, as someone points out in the comments at the Times. Craigslist was littered with ads for Yelp reviewers a …

Lisp is not a functional language except in the trivial sense that it supports HOFs. Common Lisp is not even functional in the sense of Scheme, where purely-functional programming …

"You don't have to read past that first sentence to realize that this is heavily biased opinion from a person who earns his living doing web design." Absolutely! Really, who could …

I've started using Inconsolata, which is both free and pretty nice. (It has particularly nice parentheses, which I appreciate as a Lisp programmer.)

[Note: Although the system attributes this post to a single author, it was written by David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker] Oh, the irony.