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I asked Claude to blog once (and only once); and it actually signed its named at the bottom in a beautiful act of self-attribution! Was so proud; couldn't bring myself to do the vi…

Dijkstra's advocating a Sapir–Whorf[1] of programming languages, which I long suspected to be true; but haven't been able to rigorously prove or disprove. [1] http://en.wikipedia.o…

Another advantage of vanilla LaTeX is as a litmus test: if your interviewer recognizes Computer Modern, you know they're legit.

What Erik describes in this paragraph is painfully apparent to me whenever I see someone interact with such a stacked desktop: "[W]indowing was to emulate the familiar, comforting …

That sort of thing might be similar to stochastic methods like simulated annealing, where one accepts temporarily suboptimal states in case a more optimal one is around the corner.…

Hear, hear; I've been using Chicken for commercial and personal projects for about five years now. It keeps getting better. Occasionally, Racket has a package that I'd like to port…

I lost an entire hard-drive to btrfs' nascent repair-tools; I've since switch to the less sexy (but possibly more dependable) ext4.

I decided to abandon bullet-based decks a few years ago for images and narratives (even when dealing with programming), followed by a live-coding demonstration; anecdotally, the re…

"Pithatician" is a novel use of πείθειν, "to persuade;" it reminds me of pithiatism, which is supposed to be a form of hysteria curable by persuasive suggestion.

Looking back at Linus' original email, I find it interesting that there's a "Summary" header in addition to "Subject:" > Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? > Summar…

Bizarrely: I, too, had to strain to read the page; which I attributed, however, to the weight of the font: so thin that it won't render without artifacts.

Chicken feels like a local optimum of pragmatism and flexibility to me; Racket is larger, to be sure, but somehow overwhelming.

easyffi has been superseded by bind [1], apparently. [1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/bind

> Do the contracts specify any language requirements . . . They did; and, in some cases, I risked losing my job by writing in Scheme. I eventually prevailed, however; and, in one c…

I delivered a bizarre product for PSYOP [1] that involves crafting "lines of persuasion" for target audiences; another that prescribes chemotherapy regimens based on genetic profil…

Org-mode [1], actually; it has various mechanisms for embedding source code fragments in documents. The fragments can be evaluated when exporting to PDF, for instance; listed; or "…

I've been using Chicken for five years to fulfill contracts for military, biotech and publishing clients. While I set out at first to disprove the axiom that "Scheme is not commerc…

How do you infer that "[SICP] was about 'hard' math" from "some of the math [in SICP] was hard," by the way? You qualified your inference with a conditional (to be fair); but I sti…

Looks like they're using a message-passing dispatcher similar to SICP 2.1.3 [1]; it's only a shame that the article predates the formalization of eval [2], though, which leads to a…

For Scheme, I find that fcgi[1] does the trick: not only is it supported by Apache, lighttpd, etc., but you get state-preservation between requests; which is touted, for instance, …

I find this sort of reductio ad pundenda dehumanizing: it betrays a pathological contempt for subtlety; and an autistic insensibility to humanity.

"+ x + = - ... would be to heap absurdity upon absurdity ." Perversely, "+ x + = -" is valid Scheme: #;1> (= (- (+) (*) (+))) #t

I find this trend disturbing; but am at a loss as to how to formulate a politically blameless response. Suffice to say, the converse is inconceivable; and I fail to see how limitin…