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Nice! Very minor nit: Half-diminished chord should be written as m7b5 - not M7b5.

So you're saying there's a chance for ice-nine?

ISTR SkipLists being used by the NCBI toolkit for DNA/AA sequence data way back in the day. Of course now I can't find any reference to it, but did find this paper on SkipLists in multiple alignments from 2003:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521198/

That's great! Thanks for the pointer. And after he watches the class I can dust off my copy of AMOP that's sitting on the shelf in my office and try to teach the kid about metaclasses :)

Interesting. I'm scarred from spending years learning how to sharpen axes and shave yaks. Maybe the kids today don't need to do nearly as much of that anymore.

Yeah, that's a good idea. He's pretty handy with blender and those skills might come in handy here.

Then again maybe this addresses the inheritance tax issue. Instead of debating how much money goes to heirs vs the state, folks net worth could just "evaporate" on death, thereby slightly (presumably) reducing the supply of whatever currency was held at the time of death.

Lincoln was definitely one of the behind-the-scenes heroes for many years. I haven't been watching the perl space for many years now. Did the GUI tools ever get any better? It's a shame that so many interesting languages end up in the same kinds of backwaters were it's nigh on impossible to create attractive (native-ish) GUI applications.

Hell, if it's good enough for Chad...

Hoist up the John B sail!

The new phone books are here!!

I liked the way coalton built a statically typed lisp-1 in CL.

Undoubtedly there are some issues I haven't thought through, and I'm too lazy to actually try to implement it, but I've always thought one should be able to make "CL1" (or some such) that's basically common lisp but with a single namespace for functions and variables.

Wasn't there some news about a $100M BTC transaction yesterday? Coincidence?

Hmm... first molecule I got is in pubchem as cpd 5216868. I guess the space of possible molecules with under, say, 25 heavy atoms, while large, is much smaller than that of possible faces.

Was lucky enough to take Serge's class when he was visiting UC Berkeley back in the 90's. And yet I'm still writing SQL :( Curious to know what the state in the art in solving the then-thornier theoretical problems (negation mostly) is.

But that would be a nice project for a hacker looking to learn CLIM internals, no?

Let's make this happen.

I'm reminded of the famous quote by George Best: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

Props for the Lapierre Morgon!

I thought you wrote "fruitflies" R&D and was thinking 1) why are they hating and drosophila and 2) I don't think flies are really a comon model for Nucs BICBW. But then I reread the word...

Sand is cheap too. What's the price of a Xeon E3? Cheap to make each chip. Those fabs tho...

Actually only 19 of the 20 standard amino acids are chiral. Glycine is achiral.

Of course every equestrian (or parent of one) would know that a sentence like "the course is jumping well" is totally legit.

I have long desired being able to run clojure code directly in my Common Lisp environment. Interop between clojure code and CL code would be much more interesting to me than the clojure/java interop. Yes, there's ABCL which does the CL/Java interop (and of course vanilla clojure has that built in), but I'm a big fan of the idea.

And ruricolist has written (and maintained/forked) some nice libraries. In particular his FXML is the modern successor to cxml and plays nice with xpath, etc...

Presumably MZLA is not a 501(c)(3) organization (a Delaware C Corp perhaps?) and can do things that a 501(c)(3) can't, even if the corporation (MZLA) is owned by the 501(c)(3) (Mozilla foundation, in this case).

Hopefully this doesn't mean we end up with pocket on our thunderbird home screens.

Maybe now we know who bought that $1B BTC the other day.

Here I was thinking the author was suggesting bringing back the Macintosh SE, but with, oh, a retina display, 12 cores, 4 TB of SSD, powerful mini-speakers, and ... a small drink-refrigerator or maybe a place to hold a potted plant. That would have been cool.

SBCL is a great Common Lisp implementation -- and continues to be improved, with version 1.5.5 just released this weekend.

The various web/xml/xpath/database libraries for Common Lisp are well supported by SBCL (or vice versa) and make for a great programming experience for web things, in my opinion.

McCLIM also continues to improve and is an interesting, if not fully ready-for-prime-time, choice for interactive applications.

They weren't my words, so I'm not repeating myself. Just agreeing with the point that the term "brick" is subjective. Requiring one to go to heroic measures to render their device useful would make me consider the device "bricked" for all intents and purposes. Folks more technically skilled than I might be able to recover my device, but if I can't get it back, it's all bricked to me. But this is a silly argument.

It's almost like the author of the above comment (zaroth) didn't read the parent comment. Put another way, bricking is in the eye of the beholder.