mrfabbri's comments

mrfabbri | 11 years ago | on: Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code

1750 lines of fascinating C [encompassing an garbage collector and user-level implementations of user-defined types and structures, single-dispatch object-oriented "messaging", and generic "multimethods"]

mrfabbri | 11 years ago | on: Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code

Another interesting book on implementing Lisp (from a C perspective) is http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/.

Also, Lithp from fogus http://fogus.me/fun/lithp/ is a nice and brief exploration of implementing Lisp in Python and good example of literate programming.

mrfabbri | 11 years ago | on: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

"It's Satoshi all the way down"

mrfabbri | 11 years ago | on: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

Another option could be transmission daemon web ui (forwarded over ssh)

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Vivek Wadha: "You learn little by writing code."

Yep, you learn little by "writing code", you learn a lot by developing an ass kicking product/service in a very constrained environment, working with great people and pushing yourself to the limit. It's about the people, the [human] experience not just the code.

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Essential JavaScript design patterns

The code above doesn't provide a Singleton implementation, you can test it by using the expression mySingleton() == mySingleton() which should evaluate to true, while it evaluates to false. The problem is that the function returns an object literal but every time the function is called it creates a new one (i.e. {} == {} evaluates to false). You can find a sound definition of a Singleton in JavaScript which makes use of the (quite tricky) Lazy Function Definition here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1895635/javascript-single... . EDIT: Took a deeper look at the "book" and the singleton section and I think it somewhat misuses the term Singleton (or it uses in a "broad" sense): the example you reported provides some information hiding but no single instantiation restriction, which it is instead provided by the final example/iteration.

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: The Next Big Language

he definitely meant Rhino, as in Rhino on Rails http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Readability and Naming Things

for what concerns capital letters, from the essay I cited before [http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle]: "I eschew embedded capital letters in names; to my prose-oriented eyes, they are too awkward to read comfortably. They jangle like bad typography". As Pike acknowledges this is just a matter of taste.

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Readability and Naming Things

It reminds me of Rob Pike's "Notes on Programming in C", where Pike takes frequency into account as guideline, i.e. "A global variable rarely used may deserve a long name, maxphysaddr say" [http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle - Variable names paragraph - a nice and suggested read].

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software do you use for your startup?

- E-mail/calendar/docs: Google Apps standard edition

- Hosting: DreamHost

- Analytics: Google Analytics

- Project management: Email (lots of), Google Spreadsheets

- File-sharing: WebDAV, Dropbox

- Version control: Mercurial

- Backups: rsync

- Istant messaging: GTalk, Skype

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Apple Magic Trackpad

This mirrors my macbook setup [which I enjoy pretty much] with the external monitor: [mouse][keyobard][macbook trackpad] :-)

mrfabbri | 15 years ago | on: Alter-ego - A Reactive AI Library

It's a "weak AI" approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI (i.e. demonstrate intelligence) but it's definitely fair to call this an AI library. Subsumption architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture is the cognitive architecture underlying reactive AI.

mrfabbri | 16 years ago | on: Google Buzz

Accessing http://m.google.com/app/buzz from an iPhone works whether or not you see the buzz label in gmail. You can use Firefox with the "User-Agent Switcher" add-on set on iPhone to try it out.