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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 i…

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…

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. A…

> ... 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…

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 acces…

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 scr…

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 f…

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-tre…

"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 …

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 wi…