justbaker

I wonder how much they reused GOAL or this Racket impl. on the Crash Trilogy remake. It has always been my favorite "Lisp" game..

Akka.net is rather good.. Also akka is heavily inspired by the core facets of Erlangs actor model. It is certainly a parallel if not more.

Thank you for informing us.

Article on GOAL/creating Crash Bandicoot by creator, Andy Gavin: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...

Certainly my favorite Lisp game.

Nice! That gives me faith for using it for my personal projects. I enjoyed erlang when I programmed in it in my fledgling days and I like the tenseness of the prolog-influenced languages. Having a very easy way to port to a platform(or off, sometimes) is certainly a valid concern of mine when choosing my tooling. Merry Christmas to you as well :)

This is a really great answer, thank you.

I tried swipl prolog and enjoyed it but poor PostgreSQL support scared me away. Any prolog developers have any advice? I really like prolog but need an implementation with good db support for specifically Postgres but haven’t found anything.

The Elixir core oddly was my first taste of an Erlang project. I'm amazed at how the ecosystem and language has expanded since 2011. Jose Valim is a very personable person and thriving code ecosystems are built around individuals like that.

I do know about headless browsers. The comment above mine mentioned a manual process, no scripts or headless browsers. a combo of Curl, wkhtmltopdf(or other html to pdf) and a for loop can perform this in a bash 1-liner.

> People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it There are more slaves now than ever and most of them are children. How is that ended?

> "How is this different/better than taking <random web browser> and hitting "print"

If you have to repeat this process 2000 times, it becomes time consuming. It doesn't scale for a single user needing 2000 pdfs to do the process manually.

“Excuse me but this Apple already has a bite taken out of it!”

`pwd` -- "where am i...?"

Actually, its an IDE for modern “Smalltalk” development. Pharo has a few extensions vs Smalltalk-80.

I’m starting to use Google Keep more and more for this. Seems to be better organized (for me) for digital jotpads. However it is much more limited in the text editing/word processing ability. However, I really don’t need that for quick notes.

Play framework has support for this via akka and it works quite well from my experience ^^

Gotcha, so in other words, it needs the previous spin to help decide what’s next? (It doesn’t have self-perspective)

That's how I solve a partially solved cube when I pick them up -- just look at where it is and what's next, don't worry about how it got there.

That’s what they do, yes, as well as with Cyrus.

Seriously? I complain about not having windows to let natural light in and the fluorescent lights and people look at me like I’m crazy for being sensitive to artificial light.

>Then you GET to code in Tcl ! I don't care about Tcl but your enthusiasm is golden. Sort of why I write silly stuff in bash or in an esoteric manner; "Why" "Cause we can!!"

>Eagerness won. It makes me happy to see a passionate programmer.

Heh. This is rather interesting when translated.

> His first attempt at doing the AI book using Java was a failure because it's verbosity and lack of features. Students found the Python version much easier to comprehend than the Lisp one.

Sigh. Is that the nature of the beast in lisp? To me, it has always been a difficult language to sell to more "traditional" minded devs.

+1 clojure/closurescript are both very nice.

>but could (like many crawlers) easily be modified by thoughtless or malicious people to impose a heavy burden on sites. Because of this I’ve decided to postpone (possibly indefinitely) releasing the code.

I came here to state just this. What would code for the crawler in the article do that premade DDoS bots don't already do? (already does that task better too) Even in 2012 when the article was published, there were plenty of open source crawlers AND tools designed specifically for "burdening websites with traffic" that were available.

How well does it handle merging PDFs? I’ve not found an efficient way for merging many small PDFs in pdfbox/itext without cranking up memory settings.

They couldn’t hack it..

> I have heard anecdotal tales about ADHD medications as revelations bordering on spirituality, people crying after taking their first dose at age 30 and realizing how much more "normal" it might make them.

It really does whenever you have ADHD and you feel like your restless mind is finally at rest. It's absolutely infuriating to be unable to concentrate throughout most of my days.

I would recommend it. It is definitely an enjoyable language to use.