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Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest

Occupy Wall Street has an IT department. The movement’s technologists, like their park-squatting counterparts, are a decentralized group. But they’ve independently started hackathons this weekend in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

via mashable.com

I was quoted on Mashable!

Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever

We decided to exploit this scale, together with Node’s high I/O performance, to build a large-scale distributed computing project that people could join just by visiting a web page. Searching for aliens was quickly eliminated as we didn’t have our own antenna array available at the time. So we went with a somewhat easier problem: Chess.

via sylvainzimmer.com

I'm really not a fan of Node.js, as anyone who knows me knows, but this is awesome regardless of the underlying tech.

Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful—I actually wish they went one step further and took out the word "Cryptography."

The future of Lisp | 8th Light

If you haven't already heard about it, Lisp is a neat little family of languages; its extremely minimal syntax lets us think in nearly-pure algorithms, un-muddled by crufty syntax or obligatory boilerplate.

via blog.8thlight.com

This guy is smoking crack.

There's Racket, and then there are all sorts of other platforms which a Lisp could be written on or for that would be beneficial. EdgeLisp runs on top of V8, which is an insanely fast JavaScript engine. What about a Lisp to Lua-jit or Lua in general?

While I agree that Clojure is probably the best shot we've got right now at a mainstream Lisp, there's definitely more than enough room for a new Lisp to emerge and steal away some eyeballs.

[Note: The quote above doesn't really have any connection to my point]

[Note2: says the guy writing another lisp in his spare time]

kinectfusion

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Pretty much everything has just changed. Let's hope there's no patent applied for, which stifles new innovation from it. I'm guessing it's publicly funded, so we're probably safe. Phew. That was close.

Recursivity - One Night With Clojure Makes a Scala Guy Humble

At first, the LISP syntax of Clojure looks bewildering to say the least for someone originating from a non-Lisp background. However, once you get your head around the basics and the basic forms, it is actually both very simple and compact at the same time. My guesstimate is that it would be a lot quicker to master Clojure than it would be to master Scala if you started today.

via blog.recursivity.com

First of all, when will people stop calling it LISP? Second of all, truly "master"-ing a Lisp takes years, so this is just horseshit.

4chan BBS - The C Paradox

In the end, you'll leave C, not because you want something better, but because you can't handle the intensity. C says "I'm gonna live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," but you know that C can never die, not so long as C is still the fastest thing on the road.

via dis.4chan.org

Something thoughtful.

Every Language Fixes Something

Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way.

via www.solipsys.co.uk

Bash on Balls

This is a fully-featured web platform for everyone's favorite scripting language: bash. Because, you know, we can.

via github.com

I still like Cobol on Cogs better, but this isn't a joke!

Class method differences in Python: bound, unbound and static