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Abhinav2000 on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:57AM
from the self-post dept.
The software world today is increasingly SaaS, user-hostile and rent-extracting.My most recent experience is Shutter Stock, a completely scam company that charges ridiculous amounts of money with no easy to unsubscribe.https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com- Microsoft has used its dominant position to charge for MS Office in perpetuity, breaking features and now trying to trick...
So cool! Thanks for sharing
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Abhinav2000 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:42PM
from the ashok-khanna.medium.com dept.
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Abhinav2000 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:14PM
from the lisp.substack.com dept.
A bit late to the party. I recommend SICP, On Lisp & Art of Metaobject Protocol. The last you can skip to some degree because its quite advanced so unless you want to stay in the Lisp world, not as useful IMO (but lovely from an intellectual perspective, its a masterpiece). SICP definitely IMO.
On Lisp is by Paul Graham and pretty good too, but again its kinda more Lisp focused. Actually try PAIP by Norvig, I heard that is really good and it should be more useful for non lispers (even though its a lisp based book, it teaches lots of good programming concepts)
Eh is the book GPL though :-/ Can somebody confirm
This part is really interesting:
> It is fast - our spatial classifier takes only milliseconds to come to a conclusion about a page (there is additional time prior to this step due to the OpenCV processing - but not too much) and identify it and doesn’t require expensive hardware. Most of our instances run on ARM-64, which at least at AWS, is 30% or so cheaper than x86-64. The s-expression structures align to document structures nicely and allow a nice representation that doesn’t lose fidelity to the original layouts and hierarchies.
The article also mentioned they have 3 programmers and 100k lines of code, that sounds impressive.
Can somebody elaborate what is Mezzano and how it compares to Linux?
Well Mahatma Gandhi, who literally pioneered the Non-Violence Movement, never won the Peace Prize so any of its credibility has long been gone. In fact its probably better /not/ to win it.
I would have thought governments would be more worried about China spying on everyone and the insane data collection from TikTok (yes it might have an American operator in the US, but I can imagine they found a way to still siphon all that data to the mainland)...its a pretty big security risk if one thinks about it
Posted by
Abhinav2000 on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:16PM
from the youtube.com dept.
Mostly text based mathematical analysis. I couldn't stick to Swift as it would rule out a large section of the potential audience (Linux / Win - although Kotlin, which is similar enough, could bridge the gap to some degree), so I'm going more down the Web App route. For now, most of my I/O is in Emacs and later I may plan to work on the GUI side (via Electron or Web App, maybe but very unlikely CAPI or some CFFI).
How about yourself? Do you still do programming in AI?
I _really_ don't know how you got that from this article.
Agree with you, and Swift is also such a great language. I went from it to Lisp, sometimes I ponder about returning back (however my use case currently is for Lisp).
I think this is a very valid viewpoint. Typically its better not to learn / use macros until one is sufficiently advanced, functions will do for 99.5% of the circumstances, to call a famous author ;-)
You should try it out. The book Common Lisp Recipes by Edi Weitz is really good and practical - you can get web servers up and running in minutes, and has many other practical uses (I have to check the contents again, but its about 750 pages long and covers stuff like interfacing with C and Java), highly recommended if you want to get productive in Lisp!
Ummmm sorry to burst your bubble, all those languages you mentioned are considered part of the lisp family (I'm not sure what Fennel is, so can't comment), so actually you interpreted Paul's statement incorrectly - he didn't say Common Lisp or Scheme in particular, he said Lisp so was referring to all of them.
For what its worth, he's writing his own Lisps (Bel, Arc), is highly proficient in Scheme (just check out the book On Lisp), and is a true lisp polygot. I can't speak for him obviously but I don't think he has a super strong affiliation _just_ to Common Lisp.
Macros let you construct expressions at compile time (not run time). So one can basically create their own programming language in macros, which at compile time expands into the standard language (e.g. lisp). In this way they are powerful for being expressive and also for being highly efficient (as its compile time, not run time).
There are many other nifty things you can do as a result, but I am myself not that great. Paul Graham actually wrote the book on macros ('On Lisp'), he's legit :-)
p.s. love you weekly Emacs blog, its such a joy to read. Thanks for doing that!
MathML, like other XML syntax languages, are more meant for computers to read & interpret - not for end users to write. I hope it becomes native across all browsers (as its the best chance of standardisation we currently have), as good as MathJax is, we shouldn't be having to rely on a JS polyfill to render maths in a browser...
Google Ads is the monetisation of all of the other services Google offers. Everything is a funnel of information to Google's Ad Analytics
Might be difficult but will have a look
There's definitely a market for it!