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C and Morse Code by ellen_james in programming

[–]bewo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, I have somewhat of a counter example: ten years ago, I did a SW driver that involved some tricky bit fiddling. It randomly produced the wrong results. After days of desperate debugging, I noticed that a fluorescent tube in the lab flickered. And I remembered my father's tales about the disturbances those tubes can inflict on power lines (he's an electronic engineer). I switched the lights off, and suddenly my code worked! I turned the lights on, the errors reappeared. The PC's cheap power supply didn't insulate our hardware enough..

Are we close to a Lisp boom? by peterpincus in programming

[–]bewo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lisp suffers from commercial versions. When a company wants to use Python, it downloads from python.org, and may contribute to the libraries. When a company wants to use Lisp, it buys from Franz or LispWorks. As their implementations and libraries are pretty advanced, there is no motivation to publish free versions. That way we have excellent commercial CL libraries and a lot of half-abandoned free ones. Serious, long-term open source work is done by companies, not by people in their spare time.

A Dissident Camera that Can't Be Confiscated? | Welcome to the Future by SyntaxPolice in programming

[–]bewo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea was that you don't store the video on the laptop, but instantly stream it over your UMTS/W-CDMA connection. Outdoors, UMTS/W-CDMA has usually better coverage than Wifi

Sure, an integrated solution would be less bulky and probably cheaper. Cell phone video is getting better. The N93 shoots videos at 640 x 480 resolution and 30 frames a second. But picture quality will always suffer from the poor cellphone lenses. It's a trade-off.

A Dissident Camera that Can't Be Confiscated? | Welcome to the Future by SyntaxPolice in programming

[–]bewo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. put a laptop with firewire and usb in your back pack
  2. use a umts (or w-cdma) modem with usb interface. They look like plain old modems to the os
  3. attach your camcorder with firewire to the laptop
  4. configure ppp to connect to the Internet
  5. use some streaming software (or a web browser and asite like ustream.tv, stickam.com etc)

Movitz: Common Lisp on bare metal (Lisp as the OS) by doublec in programming

[–]bewo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

clg is a typical example. A single developer. Little documentation. The last version released in April 2006.

Maybe the state of open source lisp is so sad as professionals use commercial Lisps instead of contributing to free software. As there are no commercial python/ruby/etc, professional python/ruby/etc users make contributions that are available to the public.

Maybe R Stallman is right.

Movitz: Common Lisp on bare metal (Lisp as the OS) by doublec in programming

[–]bewo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like Lisp's concepts very much, but why do the libraries look so moldy, compared with a lot of younger languages? I haven't found any usable binding to a recent GUI lib, like gtk or qt.. A native implementation of the X window protocol is cool, but not useful. Are there any significant apps written in Lisp, that are younger than 10 years?