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...or why types and the lack of anonymous functions combine to make a language painful, ugly, and annoying.

Apple Corp. sucks as a member of society. As one of the wealthiest and most successful companies on earth they continue to play dirty by abusing the patent system for their advanta…

Great concept. This is kind of similar to an editor we've been talking about for Overtone. How about, * allow for render plugin functions so values can be rendered with images, ren…

You're right, and in Overtone we haven't really tried to mirror SCLang at all. The DSP core of scsynth is a great piece of software with many years of testing, debugging, and exten…

Actually, one of the initial motivations for creating Overtone was to experiment with automating "feel". I was getting into electronic music, and it seemed to me that many of the p…

It's not necessarily that SC is complicated, but it is a custom language that has to be learned to use a single application. Also, many musical ideas and projects extend beyond wha…

It's not necessarily that SC is complicated, but it is a custom language that has to be learned to use a single application. Also, many musical ideas and projects extend beyond wha…

He has to turn comments off on Daring Fireball or else he would be called out as an Apple fanboy/lobbyist after posts like this. Plenty of companies are willing to compete by creat…

They did, and using the manual improved performance considerably.

You make good points, but there are a few factors you have to think about. First, the built-in AI has been designed by people with great knowledge of the game and its strategy. The…

I was about to fix it, but using jekyll that breaks the link...

yeah, I screwed up on the date...

I very much agree with the sentiment. LaTeX works well and it produces the best technical documents of anything I've seen, but the world could really use a modernized replacement. …

Seriously, why does anyone care what this Apple fanboy thinks?

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life - Carl Zimmer * This was one of the best science books I've ever read. Zimmer uses e-coli as the primary actor a tour of genomics and…

Routing traffic to wikileaks would have been a perfect demonstration of this new system. Instead they decided to show how much they respect freedom of speech. And tptacek, yes we s…

I was pretty happy with my cybook before leaving it on an airplane. Don't go Kindle, unless you want to support them after dropping WikiLeaks, thus taking the freedom of the press …

Go for Clojure. It's a modernized common-lisp with access to the wealth of Java libraries. There are resources online, and you should be able to get up and running in a matter of m…

We had a blind classmate all through my undergraduate program in CS, and he was a very capable hacker. He lived inside emacs using emacspeak with a high speed synthesized reader vo…

I found it interesting that in the post he criticizes previous discussion of lock based concurrency, while not providing anything close to the level of analysis that he apparently …

I've had more eye opening experiences programming in Clojure than in any language I learned before it. (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, common lisp) It provides a fairly unique set of …

I am incredibly happy that this will never happen in software development. Elitist, protectionist mechanisms like this would dramatically limit the talent pool, slow down innovatio…

I'm interested in learning more about bio-tech research, genetics and synthetic biology. I hope to finish my doctorate in CS soon, and after that I'm going to take some time off to…

I'm using Clojure for my PhD thesis project, implementing a distributed computing framework for building P2P applications. I've also been creating an audio synthesis and musical li…

If you don't know what's fun about coding, then you should just find something else to do that you do enjoy. Everyone I know who really enjoys hacking has been into it since day on…