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For longer documents, I haven't written in raw html for quite some time. I use Markdown instead, and had assumed that most everyone (except maybe some web designers) uses some form…

He writes in raw HTML? Hm.

Please, let us know how it goes!

> Wake me up when they get serious about supporting Python. Looks like Allison will be giving a talk on Pynie at PyCon: http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/88/ And, …

Looks like the carpalx software (mentioned above) can be tuned to find you a layout that doesn't work the pinkies so much.

> It's unfortunate that they never hit their original 5x performance boost. Give 'em a chance. They're only just out of the gate. :)

> but I don't understand why they believe this could be "blessed" by inclusion into the repository. Google is, of course, a big company with lots of very smart people, and they rel…

> I didn't know languages education was voluntary in the US. It's mandatory, but you get to choose which language to study. Choice is generally either Spanish, French, or German (a…

Interesting. Sounds like you run, step into, and then modify this big blob of binary data (from the inside!) until you've shaped it into what you want. Weird. :)

> The simplest way to understand this is to realize that you are basically living "inside" the running exe that you're writing. Ah. Given what I already know, it sounds a lot like …

> LispWorks comes a huge image that ... > In LispWorks you start the image and type to the listener. I'm very new to Lisp (but not C, C++, Java, Python, and some other similar lang…

I think Bazaar would be more useful if they tightened up their docs to be more concise, while also splitting up the tutorial to have each of the pieces more closely focus on one pa…

This is pretty amazing news. Last I heard, I thought that UnladenSwallow was 2.x-only. Now it turns out that it's going into 3.x and there will be no 2.x Unladen. Wow. Really great…

I think "T"'s comments on the Python community are depressingly close to the truth. It is very easy to find pythonistas on python-list who are eager to tell you how wrong you are, …

I hate to say this, but if you actually have to ask the developer for some simple docs on something basic like this, that's a big red flag to me.

This is what I was going to suggest. 1. choose a canned forum package, 2. install and configure it, 3. find some moderators; show them how to admin the site and make backups I've n…

Thanks for the reply, lispm. > Lisp Machines from Symbolics, LMI and TI were later based on the hardware and software from the MIT, but they used new processors and the OS was exte…

Why would he do that, given that Guile is GNU's flavor of Scheme?

I didn't understand that part of the post, but also don't know much of the history here. Was Genera + Dynamic Windows running on these so-called "Lisp Machines", or was it in compe…

In the article, the author seems to be switching their use of trailing slashes. At the top, (paraphrasing) it's rsync -arvuz /src/foo /dest/foo/ but at the bottom it's rsync -arvuz…

Aw, son of a ... And I can't go back and fix it either! s/gnomes/hobbits/ Well, let's hope no hobbits read this website.