Re: minimal Unix chat system

2002-02-21 Thread Kragen Sitaker
, and Common Lisp. The modern world progresses by an increase in the things that are successfully done ineptly. How old is this idea? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ We have always been quite clear that Win95 and Win98 are not the systems to use if you

Re: minimal Unix chat system

2002-02-24 Thread Kragen Sitaker
, and by decreasing the amount of money we have to spend on things we have to spend money on, but it does not therefore follow that we should try to have less money to spend. The civilization of which Whitehead speaks is a kind of frugality of mental power. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker

programming environments, C Lisp (was Re: minimal Unix chat system)

2002-02-24 Thread Kragen Sitaker
win; but the antecedent in this implication is false, so nothing can be concluded about the truth of the consequent. .NET's CLR is an attempt to change this; it remains to be seen how effective it will be. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ A good

Re: identifying texts with zlib

2002-02-27 Thread Kragen Sitaker
Markov model of the same size. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually. -- Tim Berners

Re: identifying texts with zlib

2002-02-27 Thread Kragen Sitaker
Markov model of the same size. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually. -- Tim Berners

Re: grep on RFC-822 headers and stuff

2002-04-04 Thread Kragen Sitaker
, and window dressing. The Emacs widget package replaces part of the forms package, but not all of it. Hyperbole doesn't have anything related at all. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ Operating personal computers now requires us to devote as much time to set-up

Re: dynamic calculation

2002-04-14 Thread Kragen Sitaker
if that's the right thing or something else entirely. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ Techno addiction. More expensive than crack, keeps you up longer than coke, makes you fatter than pot, but hey... it's legal. -- Tim Byars [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spam [Re: dynamic calculation]

2002-04-14 Thread Kragen Sitaker
commercial clout than we individual end users, anyway. Junk-mailers pay the USPS, and (so I've heard) pay most of its expenses; they don't pay ISPs, and quite the contrary, they cost ISPs quite a bit of money. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen

Re: cult software

2002-04-24 Thread Kragen Sitaker
didn't have 32-bit registers or scasd, just scasb and scasw.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ [around 1998-12-23], it is amazing to watch fear and loathing and greed at play with the more speculative Internet stocks. To call this a tulip craze would

Re: magic boxes and secret knocks

2002-06-25 Thread Kragen Sitaker
-frequency noise or (large p-t-p amplitude) low-frequency noise. It seems to be relatively easy to get false positives from fan noise on my laptop, unfortunately. What's ups[9] for? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ A well designed system must take people

Re: derivative games (at last)

2002-06-26 Thread Kragen Sitaker
goal is to keep that from happening for as long as possible; a new dot appears every five seconds, which should help you to keep track of time. I have made it to five balls a few times, but then I made the game harder. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen

Re: which is better, python or perl? And more importantly, why?

2002-06-26 Thread Kragen Sitaker
would have been a very good language if only it used braces for grouping rather than indentation, but absent something a bit more convincing than its better, I can only imagine it being a source of hard to track bugs. Thanks --sjg Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:52:15 -0400 From: Kragen Sitaker [EMAIL

Re: blogging via IRC

2002-11-20 Thread Kragen Sitaker
, social, reinvention of the command line. It's a little different; the things I blog are more like documents than like commands. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kragen Sitaker http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/ Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002. The world has lost a great man. See http

Re: [kra...@canonical.org: Re: PEGs]

2009-01-01 Thread Kragen Sitaker
Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch writes: A design that I'd like to try sometime would be to try an Elephant- like language, in which all values would, in principle, be recoverable from a logfile. This could eliminate GC, as frequently used values would tend to be instantiated in a cache,

Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2009-01-22 Thread Kragen Sitaker
If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world, the real power behind the so-called ''military-industrial complex'', the real maleficent power that has led this world to inexorable conflict, war, hatreds, destruction of real human values, morality, conscience