Don't you Linux geeks and freaks think it's time to step into the current century and adjust your announcements so they don't look like some geek listserv crap circa 1985?
Try a blog.... Assuming you freaks even know what one is. Geeze, you loons are the poster children for why average citizens should avoid Linux. On 9 Sep 2013 19:00:38 -0400, secret...@lxny.org wrote: > <blockquote > what="almost official Lisp NYC announcement" > > see="http://lispnyc.org/ > http://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/96126262/"; > > and="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-06.pdf > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin > [page was last modified on 4 September 2013 at 02:04] > > > http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQoykhNoBbY > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=277389.0;all"; > > > also="http://nylogic.org/talks/welcome-to-the-homotopy-type-theory-reading-group"; > > edits="address now specifies which borough of New York City > the meeting is in; some material removed; > some paragraphs reformatted by Emacs"> > > Subject: New York City Lisp User Group: Erlang by Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya > X-URL: http://lispnyc.org/ > > corner New York City > Lisp Group LispNYC.org meetings blogs news home > > ( front-page ) > > 2013 Summer Programming Contest > > We're proud to announce our contest Lisp in Summer Projects , over $5000 > of prizes and anyone can join in on the fun. > > Upcoming related events: > * Jun 1 Lisp in Summer Projects signup begins, everywhere. > * Jun 1-4, European Lisp Symposium 2013 - ELS'13 in Madrid, Spain > * Jun 2, European Common Lisp Meeting - single day conference in > Madrid, Spain > * Jun 9-12, "30 Years of Smalltalk" the Smalltalk Industry Conference - > STIC'13 in Phoenix, Arizona > * Jun 24 Lisp in Small Projects coding starts! > * Jul 8-10, Lambda Jam: A conference for functional programmers in > Chicago, Illinois > * Sept 18-20, Strange Loop in St. Louis, Missouri > * Sept 25-27, ICFP 2013 in Boston, Massachussetts > * Nov 14-16, Clojure/Conf in Alexandria, Virginia (Washington DC) > > ( meeting - Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 PM - Erlang by Mahesh > Paolini-Subramanya ) > > People get so caught up in the syntactical sugar of languages > that they never actually grok the semantics, let alone the > context and philosophy underlying the whole environment. It > doesn't really matter whether we're talking about something > 'old' like Java/Python/Ruby, or 'new' like Dart/Go/F# - any > discussion about the merits tends to boil down to either > simplistic stuff like "The syntax sucks! Hrrr!", or > something"advanced" like "Garbage collection <redacted>". > > In the case of Erlang - theres the bit about concurrency and > scaling, and functional programming and actors and stuff, but > what most people don't get is that it is really very simple > > Erlang begins and ends with Fault Tolerance. > > Fault Tolerance is - formally! - baked into the very genes of > Erlang/OTP - something that ends up being amazingly useful > when you are building any kind of system. Remember, your > clients (and co-workers!) will find new ways to break things, > ways that you could never have imagined in your wildest > dreams. > > This, this is the reason to use Erlang. Once you get it, it > completely changes the way you approach development, and you > will find yourself writing "erlang" in whatever language you > happen to be using (Mind you, writing tail-recursive code in > java is a recipe for disaster, but thats another story...) > > In this talk, I'll get into this buddha-nature of Erlang/OTP, > pointing out how the various features of the language tie > together into one seamless Fault Tolerant whole. It'll > probably run 45 minutes or so, not counting questions... > > Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya is the V.P. of R&D at Ubiquiti > Networks - a manufacturer of disruptive technology platforms > for emerging markets. He has been involved in `Internet > Stuff' since Day Zero (remember Gopher?), and has spent the > recent past building out Erlang-based massively concurrent > Cloud Services and VoIP platforms. > > He has the - dubious -honor of being involved in creating the > first web/e-commerce system, the first Java based financial > services platform, as well as the first Erlang-based cloud > PBX, three products he may never live down. > > He was previously the CTO of Vocalocity after its merger with > Aptela (where he was a founder and CTO). Before that, he was > V.P. of Development at Neoglyphics Inc, and CTO of Proxicom > where he also led the Technology practice. He holds a B. Tech > from the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, and an > M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre > Dame. > > > Location: > Meetup HQ, 9th Floor > 632 Broadway > on the Island of the Manahattoes > > < ... /> > > ( functional development ) > > LispNYC is a community devoted to the advocacy and advancement of > Lisp-based functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, > Scheme and Clojure. > > We focus on education, outreach, regular monthly meetings, mailing lists > and development projects. > > Monthly meetings are held every second Tuesday, are free and open to all. > > Providing parentheses to NYC since 2002 > > ( member services ) > > mailing list Lispnyc Bloggers Meetup Google+ Facebook Linked In Twitter > > ( contact ) > > contact lisp merchandise > > [shop-lisp.png] > > bottom corner > "Lisp is a language for doing what you've been told is impossible." - > Kent Pitman > about this site > > </blockquote> > > > Distributed poC TINC: > > Jay Sulzberger <secret...@lxny.org> > Corresponding Secretary LXNY > LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. > http://www.lxny.org -- flatfish+++ Thinking of trying Linux? 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