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Another issue is old books. I recently got value out of PAIP and On Lisp, and I still see people recommend A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Stepping beyond CL for a s…

I think another factor is that while the primitives for modifying readtables made it into the standard, an interface for using them in a way that limits the changes to the code you…

I agree with you and lispm about the complexity of code walking in CL. For your specific example of replacing calls to foo with another bit of code you may be able to get away with…

The MIT 2005 Introduction to Algorithms course is available. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

> we’re also applying similar ideas directly to our algorithms, such as tuning the accuracy of when our query broadening search improvements trigger As you are doing this, please k…

I found that one to be powerful, but double edged. It's unpleasant to remember that ad when researching a serious situation that is likely to have a negative outcome.

>Past polls show that a substantial portion of readers (me included) think the points are very useful. They draw our attention to the best comments. That is not the primary reason …

Thanks for the quick response, and thanks for adding the note to the documentation. (As to the quicklisp version being a bit stale, it looks like the last CFFI tagged release is 13…

I'm looking forward to playing with this. If you run into the following while installing: "Unknown Grovel syntax: CFFI-GROVEL::BITFIELD" You may need to download the git version of…

Thank you for that; I recently tried to find out how he implemented his 30 second distraction-delay but I had misattributed the quote and so my search was unsuccessful. I think tha…

Keep in mind that the 1% margin of error applies to the measurements of the conversion rates. The 29% has a significantly higher margin of error.

There is a "dead" answer in this thread that you might be interested in too. (You can activate showdead in your profile.)

I've noticed an increase in posts reiterating each other: it seems that the wrong kind of post is being used as a substitute good for the wrong kind of upvote. For that reason I wo…

I think the lack of timeless* articles in content streams -- HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. -- is a serious problem. I'm imagining a middle-ground between a subreddit and a longform.org…

Someone (sorry for not noting your name) suggested dimming/graying the parentheses in lisp modes and gave this elisp snippet to do it. I find that I prefer reading lisp with dimmed…

Agreed. It appears that she was averaging a $4k+/day bill -- it shouldn't take 4 months to notice that something is wrong with that.

Removing comment scores seems to have increased the amount of mediocre/poor comments around contested topics: I am noticing more more brother/sister comments that are basically rei…

One consequence of the parenthesis and prefix notation is that n-ary operators are idiomatic in lisps. So, the above example would more likely be written: (print (++ a " " b " " c …

If my junior high and high school curriculum didn't even make it through precalculus after the typical six years of dedicated math courses, often featuring nightly homework, I woul…

Emacs could be a stumbling block, but you don't need to learn lisp to use org mode. I initially ran into the same problem of getting to the point where I could follow a tutorial, s…

One morning I noticed that stories had been coming in at over one per minute for an hour, so that the front two new pages only contained about 30 minutes worth of submissions each.…

I don't think that the goal here is to degrade public education; one of the main attractions with this incubator is that it has connections to get your product into public schools.…

Didip replied to you but his reply is "dead." I think his first word might have caused his post to get caught by a filter so I've reposted what he said but changed that word. >Didi…

This is from the same Erann Gat (aka Ron Garret) who wrote the popular lisp at the JPL essay[1], and it covers some of the same ground. His last point, that lisp can and should be …