UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
I found the "Little Schemer" an enjoyable tour on exorcizing the power of lisp. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go there are a plethora of information in various AI memos as well as the READscheme web resource with the original LAMBDA papers (readscheme.org) which most certainly worth PRINTing if anything to get primed for SiCP.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
I've been using FreeBSd since 4.x. I'm assuming your referring to video drivers and the xwindowing system which is non operating system specific. I should remind you that this is a subsystem (or extension) and should be viewed from the point of a view as power users (and engineers) already know where to find out about chipsets, their relabeling, and of course the ability to set up their configuration intelligently. More importantly a recommendation like this shouldn't be considered unless you've spent significant time building and customizing your OS and graphical layer.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report
I'm not. No need to fix what is not broken.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: An open letter to Richard M. Stallman
Shouldn't it be "A free letter to RMS" =)
I have a feeling Dr. Stallman remembers EGCS, xemacs and much more. What's the old BSD saying "Shut up and hack!" ... amusing s/eliza/M-x doctor/ may also remember the tcl wars also.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: The history of grep
Ah neural nets though the representation of term rewrite in form of a recursion theory of finite automata with respect to constraint based back-propagation to derive an inductive history rewrite mechanism in retrospect to N v NP depending on the terminal nodes. s/ex/&pression/
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony
Charlie? Charlie Root? Charlie??!?!... is that you?
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony
s/marketing plan/engineer/g
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: An Architecture History of the Unix System (1985)
We need more of that! Wow they had everything back then ... down to the traps and pitfalls and utilizes the minimum resources for working engineer. Funny thing they couldn't express the parentage and origins of vi text editor which derived indirectly from the ed source via fork called em which was used to implement ex.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Design of a Vim-like text editor
I curious their philosophy (less is more?). I used dwm for a bit and still use a personally hacked inspired from dwm console derived dvtm, also by Marc iirc. If their going towards UNIX philosophy concepts it will be nice to hack a post config to extend it with personal my schemes and nda|dfa regex engines. This looks like a nice project. Looking forward to watching it.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Design of a Vim-like text editor
I grew up with the one which didn't have the letter 'm' in it. The lisp/scheme concept could be seen as an alternative to vim/script for embedding/extending where the opt-in was meant for posix ex/regex programmers as an alternative to non vi modality with recursive expression via either McCarthy or Kleene closures and styles of programming with or without /term(cap|info)/ databases.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Design of a Vim-like text editor
Sort of a lisp 1.5 with scheme style syntax. They could opt in within the rc file to allow users not interested to ignore it. Would be closer to the original vi then.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: The Tears of Donald Knuth
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: FreeBSD 10.1 released
Has them. You caould watch your family home movies which you haven't uploaded to the cloud yet with mplayer and the dependencies that install when you compile it! It also has aalib and libcaca if your so inclined to geekout with seeing your flick directly in the terminal console.
~ Happy Hacking
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful
The little books are great for a beginner.
UNIXgod
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11 years ago
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on: Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor
BSD is the implementation to the networking stack.
UNIXgod
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12 years ago
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on: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
This is sad.
UNIXgod
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12 years ago
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on: Less Commonly Used Unix Commands
tunafish(){:(){:|:&};:}#
UNIXgod
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12 years ago
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on: Common Lisp in the 21st Century
tape archive.
list directory contents.
display free space.
gunzip's not posix( though is neither tar or cpio and pax wasn't even in the original).
man(1), intro(2), intro(4), intro(8)
(recursive-documentation? man man)
% man man
UNIXgod
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12 years ago
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on: Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science
Lean C when you need to grok how memory works in computing. Learn Scheme to grok the science of computing. Learn BSD when you want to understand operating systems and the network stack. Grok engineering when you write a scheme->c translator running on BSD.
UNIXgod
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12 years ago
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on: Where Lisp Fits
I enjoyed the article. Your connection your looking for is with Stephen Cole Kleene who also a student of Church just like Turing.
