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> You're at a party talking to a member of the attractive sex. For some, there can be more than one attractive sex.

And Ubuntu LTS.

Local hackerspace draws an eclectic crowd. Hardly like-minded in most ways, but always interesting. ( http://tangleball.org.nz ) Networking through it also often leads to people fr…

That sounds useful, but I'm unfamiliar with iTunes and its store, and would rather not register with them or use their software. Is there some easier way to do it?

Web version: http://clojure.org/cheatsheet

It's unnecessarily ugly. There's a lot of unnecessary state, where refs are initialized to nil, then only updated to a fixed value. There's side effects in transactions (mostly aro…

I've added a note at the top disambiguating the term too. Thanks for the feedback. :-)

The nomenclature goes something like this. The common noun "lisp" refers to the family of languages; the proper noun "Lisp" refers to Common Lisp; and "LISP" refers to obsolete lis…

There are at least five links on the first page of results searching Google for "common lisp download": http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html http://clisp.cons.org/ http:…

Perhaps it's the function shorthand syntax that resembles Perl. This is closer to your macro's surface syntax: (Σ (fn [i] (* (p i) (log (p i)))) x) The tradeoff with your macro ver…

You can. For instance, SBCL introduced support for it around version 0.8 or so (years ago).

It looks like standard behaviour defined by event cancelation and default actions in the W3C DOM2 Events spec. Whether this is cross-browser or not isn't obvious. Suppressing defau…