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I can’t speak for others but for myself I love that the techniques described are very unconventional.

Rereading that sentence I can see how it could be read as applying to Fisher’s book but it was the world passed through a neoliberal filter that I attempted to describe.

I can elaborate. I used to do a lot of C++ early in my career -- pre-Boost days. I recently explored the post-Boost landscape to see if there was something worth pursuing (for me) and decided that I wasn't satisfied with that as an option.

I'm glad that you find the joys of 18XX games through my list. I had a regular game group pre-pandemic and spent a lot of time with them. There's nothing like them in tabletop gaming.

Your insight about Weird Studies is spot on. In hindsight I should have a Favorite Podcasts section too since I've spent more time listening to them in the past year than ever. WS would definitely be at the top.

https://www.weirdstudies.com

My first Goban.

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/EKPVOJLYCbMpRvtHBFTepA__imagepa...

As mentioned, JS does have Symbols and I started the language using them but moved away. At the moment symbols are encoded as "'foo" but I may change the prefix to something less confusing at a glance.

> What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability.

I do remember that kind of discussion amongst the fringe OSdever crowd but honestly I always found Terry's work motivational and technically solid. I think a lot of the criticism for him was bourn from the fact that he had a complete hand-made kernel, OS, and toolchain and almost everyone else had a copy-pasted bootloader -- and only half of those even enabled the a20 line.

> “Air fryer” is a better choice in terms of capacity and time.

These are exactly the features that make it so effective for me. I love convection ovens but the air fryer is almost always more convenient with better results for the kinds of foods I'm cooking with it.

I had credited Conway but made sure that credit was given in the body of the commentary too. Thanks for the input.

"'Back in the day', early Clojure adopters would ask one to read SICP before asking questions."

I was in the Clojure usenet from very early on and do not recall this happening. That's not to say that it never happened but it was certainly not a common response to questions. Instead, I remember early adopters like Chris Houser, Chas Emerick, Phil Hagelberg, and many others taking a lot of time to help people who had questions with the language.

I haven't kept up with the ALR 6x6 movement since 2002-03 but a the time only Windows (NT AFAICR) would properly utilize all six of the cores. That may still be the case.

From your original comment I got the impression that there was a Forth collective somewhere on a commune in Wyoming. I was VERY interested in that but will settle for the wisdom of the Forth luminaries.

> I think everyone should know about it

I would love to! Any further links to the life/work-style of said group?

I wrote both of these functions and conjoin and disjoin were definitely considered but were ultimately dismissed to avoid confusion with `conj` and `disj`. The chosen names were meant to echo `some?` and `every?`.

> I find audiobooks are a better medium for consuming fiction. By doing so, you also save your time.

There should be a YMMV attached to this sentence because it's certainly not the case for me. The best that I get and retain comprehensibility of audio is 1.75x speed and that's still a lot slower than I can read the same text. Maybe the author meant that it saves time because you can do it in the car, whilst jogging/walking-dog, cleaning the house, etc. But in that case it's running on a background process (or at best time-sharing) which thwarts comprehensibility. YMMV

I think that the story is that CLIPS was inspired by ART's rule syntax, but developed independently and without access to its source.

Thanks for the sentiment. The post is meant as a "living document" and will be updated with links and footnotes from now until I die (even if it kills me).

Fixed now. Thanks!

For those of you still interested in this story, the author of the original memo David Craig commented with clarifications, corrections, and further information. It's a truly epic comment.

http://blog.fogus.me/2017/07/20/pascal-at-apple/#comment-808...

"Thinking Forth" by Leo Brodie --> http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

"How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" by Stewart Brand --> http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/watch-stewart-brands-6-pa...

"Programmer's Guide to the 1802" by Tom Swan --> http://www.tomswan.com/store/

I for one would love to see the 'etc' expanded, but in any case I do appreciate you taking the time to respond. Thanks!

I can think of no better person to ask than Alan Kay:

What are the best books relevant to programming that have nothing to do with programming? (e.g. How Buildings Learn, Living Systems, etc.)?

It seems I've missed the boat on this discussion, but I wanted to say that I appreciate the context in which the list was created and the choices in that light. In other words, this list is a thoughtful attempt to educate people of a certain bent via "constrained breath" -- not the greatest term, but the best one that comes to mind. I've been trying to put together a list in the same spirit for some time aimed at programmers, systems thinkers, etc. with varying degrees of success. The current list can be described as "books for programming that are not about programming" containing such gems as How Buildings Learn, Pattern Recognition, Living System, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, and others.

I suspect Dr. kay would have a lot to say about (and perhaps add to) such a list.

You can call it whatever you want, but it's still truth. Many people do things that you can't imagine I suspect.

Instead of watching TV, playing video games, surfing Facebook, and solving Sudoku puzzles I read. There's really nothing else to it.

I'm almost certain that I've heard his music before, but this was the first year that I actively listened if you catch my meaning.

> easy to spend an hour on 1 page of a math text.

Absolutely true! I don't read much math, but I have and my reading rate was much slower. There have been a few books over the past year that took me months to get through whereas most others took a matter of days. I read a few books in parallel though.

> I think reading 100/year would require > reading books instead of watching TV nearly > every night.

That's about right. I spend about 2-hours per week on television (depending on the season I spend zero) and I haven't played a video game in 5 years. There have been many times that I've wanted to see certain shows (Supergirl looked fun) but when the time comes reading wins out almost every time. I can only read this much because I love reading more than any other form of entertainment. It would be impossible otherwise. It does kinda stink to never be able to engage in conversations about games and shows though. Maybe there's a market for semi-annual books about current media. ;)

Maybe you shouldn't. The post is a description of one person's method and should not be taken as prescriptive.

> without being dependent on Himera

It horrifies me that anyone would have been dependent on Himera to do real work. While I'm proud that it filled a gap for a few years and consider it a successful experiment, I'm happy to know that it's effectively unnecessary now.