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See https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/VM.md

Like the article says, it was renamed to Visa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc .

The standup is still daily though, right?

Also, the “great wheel” in his Helliconia books (which takes this idea to rather extreme levels).

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant that most people I know seem to shower for >>2 minutes, so I doubted the credibility of the comparison. Clearly, if you are fairly consistently sti…

Shower flow rates are somewhere of the order of 10L/min -- potentially rather more if you're talking about power showers -- so the showers-are-more-efficient-than-baths thing is on…

Have you ever tried an APL-family programming language? If so, I’d be curious how you found it.

Clojure has got pretty nice tools for web development (both backend and — with Clojurescript — frontend). It’s definitely out there in some places.

Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623562

One correction: it was only acquired by Cisco in 2011. Great that they open-sourced it though. There’s quite a lot of pre-Cisco history in this paper: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~d…

It’s not quite the same thing as Recurse, but some of the previous instances of Iverson College look absolutely idyllic. http://iversoncollege.com/

I hadn't realised he'd ended up at Intel! Will be interesting to see how much impact he has there.

Also a guide to how to usr all that to interpret medical nonclemature of mutations, like c.345G>E would be handy Those mutation descriptions are called HGVS (Human Genome Variation…

Reminds me of: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear... (Slightly startled to learn that was published nearly a decade ago!)

Do it! I've not actually tried gin myself, but vodka infused with rhubarb for a couple of weeks (and a bit of sugar to taste) definitely works well.

What's the main driver for excluding exercise? Being outside on my own is pretty good in general. Walking or cycling are the defaults, but maybe count as exercise? I've recently st…

Those were pretty much the only reasons I continued to admire Google for as long as I did. They gave hope that the company might one day have a meaningful consumer revenue stream t…

It's not the 100k hours. It's the very large odds they will have been for nothing, and picking up whatever is left of your life after. That's an interesting take. But my experience…

I realise that your numbers are only meant to be illustrative, but it's worth realising that this is "only" 65 hours a week for 40 years. A lot? Yes. More then I'd be willing to wo…

Definitely try some different things and see what you like, but if you're looking for mission and impact I wouldn't completely dismiss web development. The web browser is a stupend…

Cyclomatic complexity might be a textbook example of Goodhart's law. Of course few-paths code is easier to read, but that's often because it's doing something that's fundamentally …

Ken Liu wrote an enjoyable short story ("Real Artists") about exactly that. Just looked it up and it was published in 2011. One of those unusual bits of SF that becomes, if anythin…

Apple phones are relatively standard hardware with good software and a (unjustifiably?) high price tag. In some ways, I wish this were the case. But my reading is that Apple's cust…