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SEEKING WORK | Remote or Honolulu, HI | shiro@acm.org SaaS back-end dev, database engine, compiler/interpreter/DSL. Most productive with Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme, Go, C, C++. P…

Unless you're dealing with contemporary pieces, atonal or with wild harmony, modifiers are largely the result of tonality, mode and chord progression, aren't they? I hardly need to…

Don't confuse lisp-as-an-executable-device-to-think-meta and lisp-as-one-of-programming-language-choices. Alan is talking the former. The idea---not just to think about programs pe…

> Lisp let’s you build the language you want to use, and have it interoperate for the rest of the ecosystem. I suspect this strength of Lisp could have undermined improvement of Li…

It depends on each individual, but having looked at how my wife breastfed my son, I wouldn't say "just offer her breast". Creating milk in women's breast isn't free. They must prep…

Not significantly, but in the Hiragana page there are some interesting differences from standard Romanization. Most notable one is conflation of vowel [イ] and [エ]. Often both are d…

I'm not sure what source you derive from about the particularity of "sitting still". You imply that not being distracted from the given task? Or the physicality of sitting still ha…

I guess it depends on each child. My son is diagnosed ADHD and even when I'm teaching him 1-on-1 he keeps moving some part of his body or change his posture frequently. It bothered…

My knowledge of Japanese grammar is in Japanese, so I'm not certain about the English term of 主語, to be honest. We use the same term to describe 'subject' in English grammar. I use…

Your third example isn't valid. It needs a bit of tweak. Tarou ga Noriko wo mita toshokan The particle "ga" and "wa" both introduce a topic. But in a phrase to explain a noun, we u…

I took that the author didn't assume that experience (which seemed to be assumed in the article to be positively correlated to the length of career) was the only factor---lack of p…

Yup. Shifting to streaming then content creation does make sense, yet the fact that they've successfully steered such shift in this scale is amazing.

Agreed. They're even different symbols (manji for temples is left-facing "sauwastika", while Hakenkreuz is right-facing); although both have the same origin.

Isn't betting on it risky? I'm afraid that you may get rejected reentry next time if USCIS notices your overstay, unless you never leave the country, of course, but you never know,…

Just note here so that people unfamiliar of tsunamis won't get misconception. 50cm of tsunami is enough to wash people away . It's totally different from 50cm-high wave[1]. 1m of t…

Not all problems are equal. Most problems can be compensated in some way or another, using abstractions. Problems that limits abstraction are grave, for it puts a glass ceiling tha…

"If someone else is dictating your craft"---I see what you're at, but the line isn't that clear. I'm an actor, and I have to follow the script and directions to convey their ideas.…

Doesn't defunct language count? There was C* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C*

"Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent", my music teachers say.

Earth doesn't need to "fight back"---it only lets species that can cope with the changed environment take over. Once, oxygen was toxic to most of the species on earth, when some al…

It's a big deal since it's not really about optimization, but more about the overall coding style and thought process. With TCO, you start seeing functions as composable code block…

A kind of nitpick, but the use of dynamic-wind with custodian in the slides bothers me. Dynamic-wind shouldn't directly be used to ensure cleanup, since a continuation captured in …

Maybe not as many as programming languages, but new notations do appear time to time. It's just that none has ever got as popular as the traditional notation, I guess.

I started music with classical piano and only recently started transposing instrument (bamboo flute), and am trying to get used to movable do solfege. I'm still easily confused whe…

"In order to avoid jams" is a popular story but it's credibility has been challenged [1]. It may be worth noted that Qwerty was made before people used all fingers and touch-typed-…