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if you are in the sf bay area & interested in lisp/smalltalk/fp and/or parallel/distributed computing please considering giving a ~5 minute educational lightning talk at the lisp meetup "revival" this saturday at the blackbox startup mansion in atherton

http://www.meetup.com/balisp/events/48872022/ http://balisp.org/

ahem cough cough ...free beer...

nick_aon Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby

Hey guys

This seems like it would be perfect stuff for an educational lightning talk

If any of you are in the SF Bay Area, please consider doing a ~5 min presentation on your lisp-in-x implementation at the lisp meetup "revival" this saturday at the blackbox mansion in Atherton

...free beer... ;-)

http://www.meetup.com/balisp/events/48872022/ http://balisp.org/

nick_aon 100 oldest .com domains

8 of the 10 oldest domains can be tied to lisp... and to keven bacon...

1. symbolics.com: made Lisp machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics

2. bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html...

3. think.com: homepage of Thinking Machines Incorporated, the company that made lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp

4. ...

5. dec.com: Digital Equipment Corporation (which got bought by compaq, which was bought by HP) made PDP microcomputers. The first interactive lisp was implemented on the PDP-1 in 1963 by Peter Deutsch http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html

6. northrop.com: northrop is still using lisp http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.h...

7. xerox.com: xerox made the Xerox Lisp Machines http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/

8. sri.com: SRI is still using lisp http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri...

9. hp.com: HP can be tied to lisp... but more strongly to keven bacon... http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html

10. ...

nick_a on Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a designer somewhere in central europe?

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/lispm-faq-and-his...

nick_a on Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a designer somewhere in central europe?

hypothetically I've worked with them before and know all of them. and hypothetically they didn't go belly up as a group, they belonged to different parts of a large company that died because of... stuff that happened in japan... :-)

nick_a on Mayor Bloomberg Unveils New York City Venture Fund (NYC Seed)

their application looks suspiciously like the y-comb app ;-)
http://www.nycseed.com/nycseed%20application.pdf

nick_a on Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?

practicing a musical instrument also helps, similar to running...

nick_a on Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?

for me: start programing in the morning and don't check my email or any "leisure" websites (like hacker news) until after lunch. I've found that I only have about 5 hours of hard-core coding in me in a day, so I try to use that up in one block in the morning and work on non-coding B.S. afterwards...
I agree with pg: coding is like writing. I use the same strategies trying to stay productive as a coder that I did fighting writer's block while working as a technical writer...
managing a running server, on the other hand, is not like writing...
it's a %$#%ing nightmare ;-)

nick_a on Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascript?

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

nick_a on How popular can Lisp documentation be?

I have this in my .emacs file so I can easily search lispdoc from within emacs
http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846

nick_a on How popular can Lisp documentation be?

hey bill :-)
"I've been putting some more effort into it recently. I'd be interested to know if people here have suggestions for what I could improve. Please feel free to consider no nit too small to pick."
cltl2?
lispdoc is a great resource, btw