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lugus35on Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back

Don't worry, they have collected enough little trees during the Olympic games opening ceremony.

lugus35on Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

Practical Common Lisp http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Filter spam, Parse binary files, catalog MP3s, stream MP3s over a network, and provide a Web interface for the MP3 catalog and server.

lugus35on Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

Do you know you could have a X230t for 160$ on ebay ?

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/lenovo-x230t

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230t...

lugus35on GitHub is down

Can you provide stats of the best services availability ?

lugus35on GitHub is down

This is just the end of the World...

lugus35on Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust

Why use a GPL license ? This kind of port could have been the occasion to get rid of this type of license.

Why port Emacs to Rust ?, it adds no value to users. Why not develop a modern GUI like Intellij IDEA with a Common Lisp implementation underneath like SBCL ?

lugus35on A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand

I don't understand when Chris Wellons find the time to write all those fine blog posts.

lugus35on Compulab Airtop – Natural Airflow Desktop

It reminds me of Amstrad PC1512 in 1986 [1]:

> "Whereas IBM's PC (and almost all PC compatibles) had a power supply in a corner of the main case, the PC1512's power supply was integrated with that of its monitor. The monitor had sufficient venting to cool itself by convection, instead of needing a fan. The PC1512 was therefore quieter than other PCs. Rumours circulated that an Amstrad PC would overheat, and while existing owners would note that this did not happen, new buyers were discouraged. As a result, later models had a cooling fan integrated into the main case."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512

lugus35on Show HN: Chartify – simple and lightweight charts for React.js

Do not mistake "simple" for "simplistic".

lugus35on I don’t like computers

I was in the same mood. Now I 've stopped coding for a living (you can try management, presales,...) and at home I do what I like (exploring data structures and algorithms) with the tools (Emacs) and languages I like (Common Lisp)

lugus35on Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (2006)

Open Source tools are way behind commercial software. Just look at PolySpace Code Prover for example:

https://mathworks.com/products/polyspace-code-prover/

ou PolySpace bug finder :

https://mathworks.com/products/polyspace-bug-finder/

lugus35on “Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)

Design is a kind of Constraints Satisfaction Problem (CSP).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_prob...

lugus35on Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else

It's just classic sovereignty.

lugus35on The Beauty of Roots (2011)

I just see a donut.

lugus35on Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors

> "Do pair programming with an employee"

If you are a 100% manager, then you will not be able to pair program for a long time as your programming/technologies competences will fade away quite rapidely.

lugus35on After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable

As a french, being enslaved by a german kaiser is not what I call a "petty dispute"

lugus35on OpenBSD 6.0, to be released September 1

Why sept 1st ? Why not november ?

lugus35on OpenBSD 6.0, to be released September 1

The end of the vax platform !

lugus35on Ask HN: What is stopping PyPy from being the de facto Python?

TL,DR : Guido.

When Guido Van Rossum will tell Python 2.7 is now PyPy or when he will say "we don't support python2 anymore", then pypy will become the python2 de facto standard.

lugus35on Cron checker

It would be nice to have the inverse: write in plain english what you want and it gives you the crontab line.

lugus35on Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)

It's a problem of speed of changes, old people can't have a true discussion to young people anymore.

lugus35on Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)

French is one of those dying tongues. In France we don't speak french anymore, we speak franglais, a mix of french and english words.

lugus35on Coding without Google

> "I think every developer should get to a point, at least once in their life, where they're just sitting in front of the computer with no external distractions"

Well, that's why I use Emacs in full screen mode, without menu bar or tool bar, with a very minimal .emacs configuration and only reference documentation inside Emacs in info format.

lugus35on A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)

The author forgot to mention the most used Lisp dialect: Emacs Lisp.

lugus35on Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago

And Pascal invented the calculator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator

lugus35on “Ask 'why' five times about every matter”

The rule should be "Ask 'why' at least five times" !

lugus35on Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?

Well, as an autocad replacement you have:

https://www.onshape.com/

and as a Photoshop replacement, you have things like :

https://pixlr.com/

And yes, there are people using these online tools.

lugus35on VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report

Volvo, Renault, Mercedes, Jeep, Hyundai, Citroen, BMW, Mazda, Fiat, Ford and Peugeot have not used fraud to pass the tests. You are citing studies using different test conditions than the official test.

lugus35on VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report

Please, don't call it 'dieselgate' as it is only a VW group fraud.

lugus35on Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

"Be publicly available" you mean available to everybody on earth even though they have not funded it ?