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When I heard John McCarthy had died I decided to write some Lisp. This is something I've wanted for a while. A pure EmacsLisp parser for Creole. This is not finished. But it's most…

bad leadership?

as previously discussed here, threads are coming to emacs. there is a long standing effort to introduce them, here's the branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/concurrency/fi…

ok. interesting you think that. I do extensive team development with gnu screen but there are still times when I am trapped in my X window and behind my firewall and bringing someo…

I believe someone is working on an emacs in guile. That's the right approach. I don't believe it's necessary or sensible myself. I like Scheme a lot. But Emacs resembles CommonLISP…

It has. One of the things that prompted me to do this is that all the other attempts seem constrained in ways that were not really useful to me. An HTTP based tool will never offer…

And that's exactly what I'm working on right now. It won't quite be an etherpad because doing constant diff is not a trivial thing... but bi-directional "live" editing session over…

emacs already has lexical scope. https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode/blob/master/elnode.el#L... that's how you turn it on. you need a fairly recent version. My bitbucket repo is h…

nah. what can be done will be done. besides... it has it's uses. of course, I would say that.

brilliant article very clearly illustrated.

so the thing in the screencast is not a message from a user, nor does it claim to be. It's actually an experiment with a 3rd party to see if an automated response system converts p…

I didn't say you fabricated the story, I am taking issue with you claiming they are fake users, made by us. They are not, they're real users of the site. Could be there was a lot o…

that's not a message from a user.

I can't say there aren't spammers using our site. that problem waxes and wanes and we try to deal with it as best we can. The user quoted is most definitely a spammer and I'll look…

we do not.

right. I'm the CTO. I'm not sure what I can do to combat the perception that I sell snake oil. I don't sell snake oil. I help people meet each other. If you really WANT snake oil I…

I don't know what he received so I can't say. But our tools promote real users interacting with real users. Maybe Robin could talk to us if he has a problem. Horses for courses not…

for the record, robin wauters didn't approach us to verify anything in the story and the accusations are untrue and misleading. we focus very hard on getting people to talk to each…

devops makes so much sense to me because it's what I've been doing my whole career. The trouble is with the devops movement, as the blog says, the old tools and processes are somet…

What strikes me right now, that the devops community, at least the bits I am meeting seems to be full of devs believing their bringing a revolution to the poor unwashed sysadmin ma…

WooMe.com is looking for devops or webops people and people good with django and python and postgresql. Lot's of different types of work available, quite a few positions. See http:…