jjs

— Lisp compiler (ambitiously, an Arc/GOAL inspired dialect for games/multimedia, initially to target a Lua-like niche)

— TIGsource "Assemblee" game competition entry

— Client-side Javascript/canvas pixel art editor

— Playing with Adobe's Flex SDK

— Productivity application (as you may have guessed, it involves methods for keeping track of multiple parallel projects ;)

— Actual holiday stuff

— Clearing some of my backlog of video games I've been meaning to play. Top of the list is Uncharted 2.

2 weeks, tops.

Why can't scope be resolved at compile-time?

I realize that things like window.x can be added at runtime, but local scopes ought to be simple to rule out.... as long as there are no calls to eval() .....

eval(), which can introduce local bindings at runtime from arbitrary, runtime-constructed strings....

Ugh.

And since aliases to eval can also be created, in any scope, from other dynamically eval()'d code strings, you can't even be sure that any nonlocal symbol won't resolve to eval.

So the only way you can be sure that a level of scope can be skipped in the lookup chain is if there are no function calls made on any redefinable nonlocal symbols.

If there were a subset of javascript where eval was a keyword instead of an identifier, then this would be easier.

> The disposable income in Scandinavia doesn't need to cover any healthcare, education and other public services.

If the study's honest, those should already be factored into "cost of living", not "disposable income".

I believe it.

Scientists at least have the advantage that, even if they can't see any practical application of their research, other people can (and do!).

> Perhaps you don't believe that things like critical literary analysis are providing us any actual benefit, but I disagree and I'm sure that any humanities professor would disagree too.

What they'll profess in public and what they'll admit "off the record" aren't always the same thing.

Remember also that during the time that ITA would have made that decision, SBCL and SLIME were both evolving rapidly.

Can you recursively mug a mug.gd link?

> The Scheme code deals with position evaluation, alpha-beta pruning, transposition tables, move legality, different strategies and so on.

For some reason, those sound like compiler optimizations instead of game calculations...

Bookseller group should do its homework:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/business/worldbusiness/28i...

> If you took the Lehman job, by now you'd have to accept the fact that you would probably never get the chance to start a business again.

No, they probably still would have gone bankrupt, even despite swombat's valiant efforts.

Careful, that's a load-bearing wall...

The diminishing marginal utility of money leads me to prefer Forrest Gump's philosophy on the matter:

"So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing."

Preparing in what way?

(Saving up seed capital? Cutting down expenditures? Courting co-founders? Market research? Product development?)

> You can take part in this as well

Except for the free money part.

Intelligent behavior seems more likely to evolve if you provided a complex, usefully manipulable environment that could vary significantly and unpredictably during the lifetime of the individual.

All right, I hereby declare it illegal.

(Did it work?)

A corollary: most ostensible rules aren't the real rules.

Knowing the difference is a form of power.

... and, technically, is. ;)

That's the best idea in the history of conscious thought!

The author appears to conflate feature-bloat with "rich" web UI platforms. This doesn't have to be the case.

When I'm making something using Flash, AJAX, scripted SVG, or <canvas>, I like to think in terms of which UI elements can be simplified or eliminated by having a more expressive interface.

For example, AJAXified controls can eliminate the need for a "save" button in some forms, drag-and-drop can simplify moving and reordering operations, scripted SVG can bring sanity to working with tree-structured data, AJAX polling or Comet streaming can eliminate UI actions like page reload or manually checking for updates, etc.

> PS: Ok, I did just start working on an iPhone app, but that's mostly because I stopped coding at work.

Aha!

It appears that they've disabled RSS feeds for custom searches (pretty much any search that sets url query keywords), but they used to accidentally have a pretty sweet REST api.

I admire the amazing people I know, the ones who make me think, if I try just a little harder, I can be like them.

Then their effective definition was "that which is measured by the thermometer".

> You can't measure a person's intelligence using a test.

Well, you could, but first you must define it! ;)

> nginx relies heavily on system calls at the expense of portability.

Nonsense; Unix is quite portable.

These are some excellent ponies.

> I might charge a reasonable amount to power users.

Fixed your typo. ;)

> That's why I have serious respect for anybody that makes it work more than once, those are the real entrepreneurs. For the rest it really is mostly luck.

See the recent article on survivor bias:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768297