b-man

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• Historical Reflections: Artificial Intelligence Then and Now

  by b-man on 10/23/2025, 1:37 PM with 0 comments

• The long slow death of UML

  by b-man on 10/22/2025, 1:31 PM with 4 comments

• Dealing with GPT Results, Or, Pots, Kettles and Hallucinations

  by b-man on 10/18/2025, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• In depth analysis of database workloads and benchmarks

  by b-man on 10/14/2025, 1:23 AM with 0 comments

• AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance

  by b-man on 10/11/2025, 2:47 AM with 0 comments

• Evolution and Artificial Intelligence Face the Same Basic Problem

  by b-man on 10/8/2025, 1:42 PM with 0 comments

• Clips a Tool for Building Expert Systems

  by b-man on 9/19/2025, 12:37 AM with 0 comments

• Picat: A Logic-based Multi-paradigm Language (2014) [pdf]

  by b-man on 9/8/2025, 1:04 PM with 6 comments

• Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

  by b-man on 9/5/2025, 3:25 PM with 307 comments

• Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded (2023)

  by b-man on 9/4/2025, 3:40 AM with 0 comments

• The GenAI Divide State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf]

  by b-man on 8/21/2025, 12:57 PM with 0 comments

• The Java type system is broken (2018)

  by b-man on 8/18/2025, 9:43 PM with 5 comments

• What is mathematics? A classification based on universals

  by b-man on 8/18/2025, 2:58 AM with 0 comments

• Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective [pdf]

  by b-man on 8/16/2025, 8:04 PM with 0 comments

• Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions: findings from real world transactions

  by b-man on 8/14/2025, 3:08 AM with 0 comments

• Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

  by b-man on 8/9/2025, 5:13 PM with 47 comments

• AI and ML AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

  by b-man on 7/26/2025, 12:42 AM with 0 comments

• PostgreSQL Schema Management via Source Files

  by b-man on 7/19/2025, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• Interview with Alan Kay

  by b-man on 7/14/2025, 1:26 AM with 2 comments

• by b-man on 7/14/2025, 1:20 AM with comments

• So why don't we pick the optimal query plan?

  by b-man on 7/11/2025, 2:27 AM with 0 comments

• Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)

  by b-man on 7/9/2025, 12:03 AM with 32 comments

• RelaX – Relational Algebra Calculator

  by b-man on 6/30/2025, 9:45 PM with 0 comments

• Google Cloud's outage wasn't a testing failure but a design flaw

  by b-man on 6/23/2025, 12:01 AM with 4 comments

• The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there

  by b-man on 5/19/2025, 2:58 AM with 121 comments

• Why do we need Q#?

  by b-man on 4/19/2025, 3:12 AM with 1 comments

• Comparing LLMs with Neuro-Symbolic on Arithmetic Relations in Abstract Reasoning

  by b-man on 4/18/2025, 12:40 AM with 0 comments

• Theory in Practice: Why Treating Metadata as Relations Pays Off

  by b-man on 4/14/2025, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• Using relational views for decoupling [video]

  by b-man on 4/9/2025, 3:23 AM with 0 comments

• How to Replace LeetCode with Something That Works

  by b-man on 4/5/2025, 1:33 AM with 0 comments

• First Rung Leaders: How to Unleash the Hidden Force Multipliers

  by b-man on 3/19/2025, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• Was there a tech-hiring bubble?

  by b-man on 3/19/2025, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0

  by b-man on 3/18/2025, 4:27 PM with 0 comments

• The Long, Painful History of Time (1999)

  by b-man on 12/30/2024, 12:59 PM with 7 comments

• How to have decoupled systems without setting your company on fire

  by b-man on 12/19/2024, 1:20 AM with 0 comments

• Nullable Reference Types in F# 9

  by b-man on 11/21/2024, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Recruitment and Selection of high performing programmers

  by b-man on 10/28/2024, 1:18 AM with 0 comments

• Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models (LLMs) [video]

  by b-man on 10/24/2024, 3:06 PM with 0 comments

• How to unlock motivation for high performance in your team

  by b-man on 10/23/2024, 7:50 PM with 2 comments

• Essentials of Standard ML Modules [pdf]

  by b-man on 10/22/2024, 1:28 AM with 0 comments

• Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?

  by b-man on 10/10/2024, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• List of Mathematics Books Using Array Languages

  by b-man on 9/26/2024, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Why is F# code robust and reliable?

  by b-man on 9/24/2024, 12:47 AM with 85 comments

• A simple way to deal with the principal threat to scalability

  by b-man on 9/23/2024, 2:57 AM with 0 comments

• Debunking Event Sourcing

  by b-man on 8/23/2024, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Are you considering Event Sourcing? Think again

  by b-man on 8/16/2024, 8:43 PM with 8 comments

• CrowdStrike's outage should not have happened

  by b-man on 8/8/2024, 12:46 AM with 93 comments

• Call for papers for PGConf Brazil 2024

  by b-man on 8/5/2024, 12:38 PM with 1 comments

• How to avoid frustration with software architecture

  by b-man on 7/19/2024, 1:24 AM with 0 comments

• How to avoid cognitive dissonance, a common career pitfall?

  by b-man on 7/2/2024, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• Integrity Constraints and Business Value

  by b-man on 7/1/2024, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• How to (not) lock yourself into architectural drawbacks

  by b-man on 5/5/2024, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

• How to justify your technology choices, illustrated using PostgreSQL

  by b-man on 2/11/2022, 4:43 PM with 0 comments

• How to manage the Motivation, Performance, and Effectiveness of your tech teams

  by b-man on 12/28/2021, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• How to manage the Motivation, Performance, and Effectiveness of your tech teams

  by b-man on 12/16/2021, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Functional Programming as a Competitive Advantage – A Real-World Use-Case

  by b-man on 12/15/2021, 12:24 PM with 5 comments

• Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

  by b-man on 2/3/2021, 12:05 AM with 44 comments

• A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming by prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra

  by b-man on 7/17/2014, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

  by b-man on 3/14/2014, 10:10 PM with 0 comments

• Some thoughts about writing, by Thomas Sowell

  by b-man on 3/20/2013, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• China’s Black Market City

  by b-man on 12/28/2012, 2:00 PM with 0 comments

• Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?

  by b-man on 11/10/2012, 3:22 AM with 2 comments

• My experience with Typed Racket

  by b-man on 11/6/2012, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way

  by b-man on 9/20/2012, 5:01 PM with 0 comments

• The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

  by b-man on 9/11/2012, 3:59 AM with 0 comments

• Duff's device

  by b-man on 8/20/2012, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Static Vs. Dynamic Typing

  by b-man on 8/16/2012, 8:49 PM with 0 comments

• Papert's Ideas: Mainly from Mindstorms (1991)

  by b-man on 7/30/2012, 12:38 PM with 0 comments

• Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

  by b-man on 6/28/2012, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• "I Was a Slumlord…" [1972]

  by b-man on 6/28/2012, 2:04 PM with 0 comments

• Skyscrapers and business cycles

  by b-man on 6/26/2012, 2:33 AM with 0 comments

• What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

  by b-man on 6/25/2012, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• In defence of the euro: an Austrian perspective

  by b-man on 6/15/2012, 11:37 PM with 1 comments

• Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor

  by b-man on 6/12/2012, 3:32 AM with 0 comments

• The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures

  by b-man on 5/30/2012, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life

  by b-man on 5/16/2012, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden

  by b-man on 5/16/2012, 3:30 AM with 0 comments

• The valve manifesto

  by b-man on 5/15/2012, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• John Carmack on Functional programming in C++

  by b-man on 5/2/2012, 2:34 PM with 3 comments

• FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt

  by b-man on 4/23/2012, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• TSA waste map

  by b-man on 4/9/2012, 1:37 PM with 2 comments

• S-99: Ninety-Nine Scala Problems

  by b-man on 3/29/2012, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Interview: The Making Of Dwarf Fortress

  by b-man on 3/27/2012, 3:13 AM with 1 comments

• Unix for Poets

  by b-man on 3/22/2012, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• C++ and Lisp

  by b-man on 3/7/2012, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

  by b-man on 2/3/2012, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada

  by b-man on 1/23/2012, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• A to Z of programming languages: Smalltalk-80, a talk with Alan Kay

  by b-man on 1/20/2012, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• The Essentials of Message-Oriented Programming with Smalltalk

  by b-man on 1/7/2012, 8:32 PM with 0 comments

• Snipers - Cowardly assassins, or surgical soldiers?

  by b-man on 1/6/2012, 1:02 PM with 0 comments

• Learning Smalltalk

  by b-man on 1/5/2012, 2:02 AM with 0 comments

• Learn Austrian Economics

  by b-man on 12/15/2011, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• Noir, The Clojure web framework

  by b-man on 12/1/2011, 9:24 PM with 0 comments

• Battle of the Clipper Chip

  by b-man on 11/18/2011, 12:32 AM with 1 comments

• How to Program Racket

  by b-man on 9/29/2011, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• The Political Compass

  by b-man on 9/21/2011, 1:13 PM with 0 comments

• Alain Robert - With Bare Hands

  by b-man on 9/16/2011, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• How to Write Computer Programs

  by b-man on 8/31/2011, 11:01 PM with 0 comments

• Copywrongs

  by b-man on 8/10/2011, 1:26 AM with -1 comments

• Open-source cell phone network could cut costs to $2 per month

  by b-man on 8/2/2011, 8:06 PM with 6 comments

• Making a small Lisp project with quickproject and Quicklisp

  by b-man on 7/29/2011, 9:55 PM with -1 comments

• Language may shape human thought

  by b-man on 7/27/2011, 1:27 PM with 25 comments

• Learn Faster using VLC and Youtube

  by b-man on 6/22/2011, 7:13 PM with 0 comments

• Metaclasses in Smalltalk

  by b-man on 5/23/2011, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• Dirty Looking Hygiene

  by b-man on 5/17/2011, 3:30 AM with 0 comments

• SqueakNOS -- Only squeak, no OS

  by b-man on 4/29/2011, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• The Last Question by Isaac Asimov -- 1956

  by b-man on 4/20/2011, 6:15 PM with 5 comments

• A Rape in Cyberspace

  by b-man on 4/14/2011, 1:37 PM with 0 comments

• Lush, an object-oriented lisp for large-scale numerical and graphic applications

  by b-man on 4/4/2011, 1:33 PM with 20 comments

• Concurrency in Erlang & Scala: The Actor Model

  by b-man on 3/30/2011, 8:16 PM with 0 comments

• by b-man on 3/30/2011, 8:16 PM with comments

• How Lisp works and how to build a Lisp interpreter

  by b-man on 3/30/2011, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• The history of Ovrimos, a Web-enabled SQL Server built in Greece

  by b-man on 3/22/2011, 2:36 PM with 0 comments

• Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications

  by b-man on 3/16/2011, 12:12 PM with 12 comments

• Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk—and much more.

  by b-man on 3/15/2011, 3:11 PM with 1 comments

• SPACEWAR Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

  by b-man on 3/10/2011, 10:27 PM with 1 comments

• Simula and Smalltalk: A Social and Political History

  by b-man on 3/10/2011, 2:51 PM with 1 comments

• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

  by b-man on 3/3/2011, 4:59 PM with 78 comments

• DNS has grown into an enormously complex system

  by b-man on 3/2/2011, 12:04 PM with 18 comments

• Teaching People Power

  by b-man on 2/27/2011, 2:52 PM with 0 comments

• Is Seasteading the Future?

  by b-man on 2/17/2011, 11:30 PM with 0 comments

• Ghost in the Machine: How Computers Fundamentally Change Learning

  by b-man on 2/15/2011, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• Programming-in-the large versus programming-in-the-small

  by b-man on 2/9/2011, 12:00 PM with 0 comments

• Why Alto? Butler Lampson's Historic 1972 Memo

  by b-man on 2/7/2011, 2:42 PM with 3 comments

• Autarchy Versus Anarchy

  by b-man on 1/31/2011, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Inconsolata -- a humanist sans design free programmmer font

  by b-man on 1/28/2011, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Erlang, the next Java

  by b-man on 1/21/2011, 3:10 PM with 15 comments

• C++ Discussion with Bjarne Stroustrup

  by b-man on 1/19/2011, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• The 90 Minute Scheme to C compiler

  by b-man on 1/6/2011, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• OS as automobiles : mgbs, tanks, and batmobiles by neal stepheson

  by b-man on 12/6/2010, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• Alan Kay on Computer Software

  by b-man on 12/3/2010, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Kinect Hacking 101: Hack a Powershot A540 for Infrared Sensitivity.

  by b-man on 12/2/2010, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• A Web of Scheme

  by b-man on 11/29/2010, 9:48 PM with 0 comments

• AOP and Dynamic Languages: Contradiction in Terms or Match Made in Heaven?

  by b-man on 11/29/2010, 5:10 PM with 1 comments

• Lisp Games Development Blog

  by b-man on 11/28/2010, 10:48 PM with 0 comments

• Wherever you look in the information age, The Godfather was there first.

  by b-man on 11/26/2010, 1:10 PM with 0 comments

• Introduction to computer programming

  by b-man on 11/24/2010, 2:48 PM with 0 comments

• Best card trick I've seen [video]

  by b-man on 11/23/2010, 1:13 PM with 0 comments

• Writing Hygienic Macros in Scheme with Syntax-Case [pdf]

  by b-man on 11/22/2010, 12:40 PM with 0 comments

• 50 in 50 by Richard P. Gabriel and Guy L. Steele[video]

  by b-man on 11/19/2010, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Anders Hejlsberg - Where are programming languages going? [video]

  by b-man on 11/18/2010, 10:05 PM with 6 comments

• The disease called "Perfection"

  by b-man on 11/15/2010, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Elegance and entropy: An interview with Ellen Ullman.

  by b-man on 11/12/2010, 2:04 PM with 0 comments

• PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook

  by b-man on 11/9/2010, 3:01 PM with 0 comments

• The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)

  by b-man on 11/6/2010, 2:57 PM with 31 comments

• Invisible Revolution, a web documentary about Doug Engelbart

  by b-man on 11/5/2010, 11:49 AM with 0 comments

• Innovation Happens Elsewhere -- Open Source as Business Strategy

  by b-man on 10/26/2010, 1:10 PM with 0 comments

• Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

  by b-man on 10/22/2010, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Programming in the Age of Concurrency: Software Transactional Memory [video]

  by b-man on 10/20/2010, 12:46 PM with 0 comments

• The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith

  by b-man on 10/15/2010, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• McLuhan's Laws of Media

  by b-man on 10/10/2010, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• Art or Sport?

  by b-man on 10/8/2010, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• "The C Programming Language" -- Answers to Exercises

  by b-man on 10/7/2010, 1:12 PM with 1 comments

• The Development of Chez Scheme [pdf]

  by b-man on 10/4/2010, 1:14 PM with 5 comments

• No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe

  by b-man on 10/2/2010, 8:11 PM with 50 comments

• Some notes on game design in Fluxus

  by b-man on 10/1/2010, 12:46 PM with 0 comments

• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

  by b-man on 10/1/2010, 12:26 PM with 2 comments

• Sorting Algorithm Animations, Code, Analysis, and Discussion

  by b-man on 9/27/2010, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• Papert's ideas: mainly from mindstorms

  by b-man on 9/27/2010, 10:40 PM with 0 comments

• Predicting The Future By Alan C. Kay

  by b-man on 9/23/2010, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Swearing and Consulting [video]

  by b-man on 9/21/2010, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• Syntactic Extensions in the Programming Language Lisp [pdf]

  by b-man on 9/21/2010, 2:55 AM with 0 comments

• Startup samba -- ten reasons to invest in brazilian startups

  by b-man on 9/18/2010, 9:49 PM with 0 comments

• The Git Community Book

  by b-man on 9/17/2010, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Practical web programming with PLT Scheme

  by b-man on 9/15/2010, 12:51 AM with 0 comments

• What is (functional) reactive programming?

  by b-man on 9/13/2010, 10:14 PM with 0 comments

• Exploring Lisp on the JVM

  by b-man on 9/10/2010, 12:26 PM with 9 comments

• Seymour Papert's Vision for Early Childhood Education?

  by b-man on 9/9/2010, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Bill Moyers Rewind: Isaac Asimov World of Ideas

  by b-man on 9/8/2010, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Lazy programming and lazy evaluation

  by b-man on 9/6/2010, 11:02 PM with 0 comments

• Books that influenced Clojure

  by b-man on 9/2/2010, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Python Slithers into Systems

  by b-man on 8/31/2010, 9:01 PM with 0 comments

• Container Choice

  by b-man on 8/25/2010, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• Getting to grips with LaTeX

  by b-man on 8/20/2010, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• The Lisp Before the End of My Lifetime

  by b-man on 8/18/2010, 1:27 AM with 3 comments

• Interview with DCT, a MPack developer

  by b-man on 8/13/2010, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

  by b-man on 8/13/2010, 3:09 PM with 0 comments

• Democritus, the 'laughing philosopher' and grandfather of science

  by b-man on 8/11/2010, 2:11 PM with 0 comments

• Introduction to Information Retrieval

  by b-man on 8/9/2010, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Feature Injection and handling technical stories

  by b-man on 8/2/2010, 10:14 PM with 0 comments

• A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory

  by b-man on 8/1/2010, 8:27 PM with 50 comments

• Ruby On Rails Security Guide

  by b-man on 7/28/2010, 10:41 PM with 5 comments

• Art's Bold New Direction

  by b-man on 7/24/2010, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Birds on the wires [video]

  by b-man on 7/23/2010, 8:28 PM with 0 comments

• Pumping Startup Iron: Be an Arnold, Not a Lou

  by b-man on 7/20/2010, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?

  by b-man on 7/14/2010, 5:14 PM with 36 comments

• Perestroika and Epistemological Politics

  by b-man on 7/13/2010, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• The King is Dead? Long live... Scala? Clojure?

  by b-man on 7/12/2010, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Al Jazari, live coding in your browser

  by b-man on 7/9/2010, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• SQL Best Practices in less than 20 minutes [video]

  by b-man on 7/7/2010, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Return on Investment, a novel chapter by nmap's creator

  by b-man on 7/7/2010, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained

  by b-man on 7/5/2010, 9:22 PM with 0 comments

• The Poetry of Programming

  by b-man on 7/5/2010, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Why Functional Programming Matters [pdf]

  by b-man on 7/3/2010, 12:00 AM with 3 comments

• Haskell vs Ada vs C++ vs. Awk vs... An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity

  by b-man on 7/1/2010, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Unskilled and Unaware of It, the problems of one's own incompetence

  by b-man on 6/29/2010, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• The website of the world's first-ever web server

  by b-man on 6/28/2010, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming

  by b-man on 6/28/2010, 1:28 PM with 0 comments

• Free to choose, by Milton Friedman

  by b-man on 6/22/2010, 1:09 PM with 0 comments

• Applications of Continuations by Daniel Friedman [pdf]

  by b-man on 6/20/2010, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• Educational Computing: How Are We Doing?

  by b-man on 6/18/2010, 9:05 PM with 0 comments

• Tour de Babel or The whirlwind languages tour

  by b-man on 6/15/2010, 3:22 PM with 0 comments

• LSD — My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann

  by b-man on 6/13/2010, 8:10 PM with 1 comments

• Why CouchDB?

  by b-man on 6/10/2010, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• Part Artist, Part Hacker And Full-Time Programmer (1996)

  by b-man on 6/10/2010, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• Noam Chomsky On Anarchism

  by b-man on 6/7/2010, 3:12 AM with 1 comments

• A Conversation with Alan Kay

  by b-man on 6/5/2010, 6:30 PM with 4 comments

• Academic turns city into a social experiment

  by b-man on 6/2/2010, 2:29 PM with 1 comments

• Paul Dirac Anecdotes

  by b-man on 6/1/2010, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion & Survival

  by b-man on 6/1/2010, 3:33 AM with 0 comments

• Web programming in Scheme with LAML

  by b-man on 5/31/2010, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Enter the "i of the vortex" with neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás[video]

  by b-man on 5/31/2010, 1:49 AM with 0 comments

• Could Gambling Save Science?

  by b-man on 5/28/2010, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right

  by b-man on 5/28/2010, 12:15 AM with 0 comments

• On vim vs emacs

  by b-man on 5/24/2010, 3:59 PM with 28 comments

• Syntactic extensions, or macros

  by b-man on 5/23/2010, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• SLIME-like Lisp and Clojure REPL inside Vim with Profiling, Hyperspec, Paredit

  by b-man on 5/21/2010, 6:17 PM with 0 comments

• Peace on Earth? Increasingly, Yes.

  by b-man on 5/21/2010, 2:55 PM with 0 comments

• The science of climate change -- The clouds of unknowing

  by b-man on 5/19/2010, 7:42 PM with 0 comments

• Why Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers

  by b-man on 5/19/2010, 2:06 PM with 2 comments

• Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video]

  by b-man on 5/18/2010, 1:13 PM with 0 comments

• The Craft of Research

  by b-man on 5/17/2010, 7:23 PM with 1 comments

• NANOTECHNOLOGY: Debate between Drexler and Smalley

  by b-man on 5/17/2010, 1:13 PM with 0 comments

• The Tragedy of the Commons

  by b-man on 5/17/2010, 3:12 AM with 1 comments

• Great interviews@NerdTV

  by b-man on 5/13/2010, 2:22 PM with 0 comments

• John Maeda: Question Everything, But Nail Those Deliverables

  by b-man on 5/12/2010, 2:43 AM with 0 comments

• On the Economics of Anonymity [pdf]

  by b-man on 5/11/2010, 1:03 PM with 0 comments

• Causes [video]

  by b-man on 5/8/2010, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding fexprs versus macros (versus functions)

  by b-man on 5/5/2010, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• A Scheme Syntax-Rules Primer

  by b-man on 5/5/2010, 2:29 PM with 0 comments

• Effects of Moderate-Intensity Endurance and High-Intensity Intermittent Training

  by b-man on 5/5/2010, 2:43 AM with 1 comments

• The Nature of Lisp (2006)

  by b-man on 5/4/2010, 7:32 PM with 33 comments

• The secret life of toys

  by b-man on 5/3/2010, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Early History of Smalltalk

  by b-man on 5/1/2010, 9:36 PM with 17 comments

• Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet. 1997 [video]

  by b-man on 4/30/2010, 11:19 PM with 1 comments

• Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software

  by b-man on 4/29/2010, 7:50 PM with 19 comments

• Programmers At Work

  by b-man on 4/28/2010, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• Chomsky on Haiti

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