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Hi everyone, original author here. Thanks for all the feedback! My friend posted this before it was really ready for public consumption. My goal here was to learn how Lisp works at…

Yep, this is still very much a work in progress. Metacircular eval and macros are up next.

Does anyone else find it amusing that it seems to have become the norm nowadays that "Release Candidates" are "Released"?

Whoops, I downvoted you before I got the joke. Sorry about that!

First of all, congratulations! There will be a lot of ups and downs, so just remember to enjoy the good times and hang in there and be persistent through the bad. I have a couple s…

From the FAQ: wrpme is an ultra fast _persistent_ cache engine

Blippy's response: http://blippy.posterous.com/blippy-and-credit-card-numbers

Academia.edu is hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobs We're currently hacking a lot of cutting-edge technology like Node.js and Redis to scale the site up, and we're looking for som…

Thanks, dannyr. I wasn't aware they'd added that feature.

The problem with analyzing companies like this is that they don't really admit of a traditional value-based assessment. What is the value proposition of a service like Vidly, reall…

This is highly reminiscent of the broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

And Mountain View, CA (GoogleWifi).

This app is awesome. I'm a musical hobbyist, but today was the first time that anything has ever remotely made it sound like I can sing.

I use the following analogy, which seems to get the point across most of the time. Imagine you're catering an event, and you need to make 500 identical sandwiches. Now, the usual a…

Reminds me of this Feynman rant about honor groups: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119#...