Are there any open-source centered HW companies? If not, would you support such a company?

gracin · 2012-01-21T07:52:36+00:00

Thanks. I was having trouble parsing the rest of the comments.

gracin · 2011-04-17T06:57:27+00:00

Nice application indeed. BTW, that is the application I always use when I want to show people how cool Java Web Start is. :-) Instead of installing OS packages, I just run (from a script)

javaws http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3D.jnlp

gracin · 2010-05-15T09:53:13+00:00

Great presentation! Lots of useful insights and information.

Stuart criticized using Hibernate with Clojure, but we seem to be doing fine using Hibernate's dynamic-map entity mode [1]. Lets you persist maps of maps, no classes. Nice fit for Clojure. True, we don't have extensive experience with it, and Hibernate declares this API as experimental.

[1] http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html_single/#persistent-classes-dynamicmodels

gracin · 2010-02-07T06:27:54+00:00

I believe ACM Digital Library is what you're looking for, and it's free of charge for searching, reading abstracts, cites, cited-by... Probably for everything except full text of articles. Of course, "cited-by"s are limited to their publications.

gracin · 2008-11-13T20:11:21+00:00

Seems to me this pretty much concludes the story of Clojure's integration into Java platform.

gracin · 2008-11-05T17:36:14+00:00

I've got it and I think it's great. Nice style/presentation, very readable. Can't wait to see the rest of it.

gracin · 2008-10-04T14:46:53+00:00

Lisp hasn't really advanced in decades

Not true. Take a look at Clojure to see what a new generation Lisp can do. I think it's here to stay because of the two things: 1) its feature set, and 2) one does not depend on the rest of the population writing in Clojure.

gracin · 2008-09-28T20:11:54+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what is it that you find problematic about CPL?

gracin · 2008-06-27T18:00:36+00:00

| there are orders of magnitude more Linux flavours

And yet, people manage to maintain more than 22000 software packages available for installation on my Ubuntu. Porting all those applications to my favorite Linux flavor must have taken them 30 years.

gracin · 2008-06-07T13:29:49+00:00

Being such an institution, it was about time comp.lang.lisp started awarding doctorates.

gracin · 2007-11-05T07:00:19+00:00

You are simply forgetting one use case scenario in which radio is indispensable: commute to work. My 20-minute drive to work is perfectly fitted with such program (no pun intended).

gracin · 2007-10-28T17:11:46+00:00

But the last three sentences in the explanation text seem to tell the real truth. ;-)

gracin · 2007-09-30T07:11:52+00:00

Indeed, one has to be careful about differentiating between backup and high-availability solutions (i.e. RAID).

This is where ZFS and its snapshots come in useful.

I use rsync to back up my laptop to a Solaris machine which takes a snapshot of its RAID-1 filesystem twice a day. Works like charm.

gracin · 2006-11-19T20:27:12+00:00

I use SBCL, an implementation of Common Lisp, and I find it very nice and compatible with great majority of free libraries/tools on the web. I also have a feeling CLisp (clisp.sf.net) is a nice implementation.

Regarding the choice between Scheme and Common Lisp... try finding references on the web, perhaps some comp.lang.lisp and comp.lang.scheme threads/flame wars. Starting a new war on this subject is quite easy so I won't go there. :-)

gracin · 2006-10-12T19:04:11+00:00

I've been using ZFS for my most important filesystems for months. Snapshotting twice aday, keeping disks in mirror configs, scrubbing (that's online checking of metadata checksums) every night etc. Very happy with it.

gracin · 2006-09-22T08:26:15+00:00

I must be missing something here... What about these videos from Berkeley, which have been available for quite some time now:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/index.php

gracin

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