skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want the opposite extreme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_communication
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I was excited until I saw the licence...
PostIt notes. They're hard to manage but they give me so much creative freedom!!

http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/postit-notes/
I'm saying that all they do is point out logical fallacies, and that eventually they point out ones that are merely their own inference, and were not actually part of what you said. It becomes an endless meta-argument about how to argue.
The comment was

there is no canonical Lisp implementation like there is for Python and Ruby

True. But still, try to find a link anywhere on lisp.org (let alone the front page) to any implementation of lisp. The shortest path I could find to downloading any kind of implementation was to click "ALU Wiki" -> Implementations -> wherever. That's at least 4 clicks to actually get Lisp and the first link takes you away from lisp.org. That's too many clicks, and too indirect (if you are a newbie looking to download Lisp, why would you click on a link with the text "ALU Wiki"?).

The very first paragraph on lisp.org should be a terse explanation that there are many implementations of lisp, Common Lisp is the most widely used, and to get started, you probably want one of <list the 3 most popular ones here> with the text linked directly to the download page for that implementation.

There's no reason that someone trying to get started should have to read "The Rich History of Lisp" or anything else so abstruse, or anything that has so little to do with programming Lisp (like most of the ALU stuff). Someone should convince the ALU that lisp.org should be for Lisp and that the first view links should not be:

ALU

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Sponsors

Membership

Contact Us
They are talking about Android as compared to the iphone, but isn't Android simply the OS framework? Isn't this like comparing Windows OS to say, a piece of hardware? Aren't they two different things? Android will never kill the iphone unless a hardware manufacturer designs the hardware to run it on well.
Definitions that are (1) in common use; and (2) not hidden behind a paywall are going to win out. The OED could learn a few things from the Economist.
It all depends on your perspective. I found the article very interesting. Take it as what it is: anecdotal at best.
Gates created and sustained an industry and changed our lives in the process. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that.

Zuckerberg has created something that may amount to a trend, has yet to make a dime, and is still playing catch up to MySpace in many ways. Hell, Zuckerberg isn't smarter than Murdoch.
Michael Crichton predicted Mass Media's current fate in 1993
I agree, charging even for non-commercial use is a bit disappointing.
I once took a similar, but much simpler test consisting of choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic, and scored near evenly in each category.

I was told that it was because I was a super-rare type of person, who was essentially capable of exhibiting whichever type of personality suited me at the time.

I think it was because I gamed the test.

While I can see the value in attempting to define the traits of certain people, I don't think that a set 4, 16, or even 200 categories will help you understand someone as well as spending a week with them will.
"Can you learn an industry without working in it"

Why would you want to?

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I write software to enable me to do other things, not just for the sake of writing software (although that's pretty cool, too).

I've worked in many different industries and the software needs are astounding. Between what you will witness and what people tell you, you will never lack for ideas or opportunities. I can't imagine sitting in some ivory tower (or cubicle farm) trying to come up with ideas and building solutions. I have to get out there and see what's happening.

Make no mistake about it, I do enjoy sitting and hacking, but only as a means to fulfill much greater ambitions. I can't wait to get out there and implement. For me, that's way more fun than writing the code.

If you wrote code and no one ever used it, would you still be happy? For me, that's a resounding "no". Probably because I've spent so much time in "industry" that I realize there's still so much more to do.

Ask a different question: Where can I find a place in an industry that would give me a better chance to blossom?
[[x]] looks like Tcl to me :-)
The Android team still doesn't get it. If I have to customize the interface to get it usable out of the box, I'm sticking with the iPhone.

Give an Android phone to your mother and see how often she calls for help (if she can figure out how!)
I'd add that the publisher should have a syndication option for the comments. In other words, the publisher should get a non-exclusive, free right to syndicate all the comments along with the original blog post. A conversation and the corresponding blog post should always be able to go hand in hand.
Actually there is, it's just not where you expect it :-)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/
Ok. Nobody is allowed to bitch about Twitter anymore until you have given food, electricity, water, and a computer to a small third world family so they can bitch about Twitter along with you. :)
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* Sand Hill Rd., Palo Alto

* Google HQ, Mountain View

* Apple HQ, Cupertino

* Watch Meetup.com and Upcoming.org for meetups

* Drive around Palo Alto, Mtn View, Sunnyvale, you'll see a lot of tech company buildings (I loved doing that the first time I was in the valley)

* Check with Stanford BASES if there's any interesting talk for you to attend
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Then maybe this should be the first of 3-4 links on lisp.org. A newbie is not likely to find this (I know I didn't know anything about Lispbox when I first started, although to be fair, I'm not sure it was out at the time).
I dislike it. Generic in a bad way.
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perl.com is not the Perl home page.
I use Google docs.

A separate doc for each idea and a master doc with each idea being a quick one line summary. It sounds like a lot of work about it allows you to quickly scan your ideas, looking for patterns or possible solutions to problems. And it really doesn't take that much maintenance
I've always tested as right on the border of INTP and ENTP with a slight lean towards the former.
A touchscreen Jitterbug phone based on Android would be pretty cool. You can make even bigger buttons, text and UI elements than the current model and eliminate almost all unnecessary functions.
http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
My mom is certified to deliver one of the official versions of the test. When I first took it in Middle School (well, used to be called Jr. High) I scored 1 point in the E column which is the courtesy point you get for being male. Therefore, the only way I could become more introverted would be to have been born a woman.
But but but 37 Signals says it's okay to charge for software !?! I'm confused.

/tongue firmly in cheek
If people don't know about the different varieties of Lisp, what are they going to do once they download one? If you don't know what programming language you're trying to download, you probably don't know how to program in it.
While the OED may be considered the definitive source for the vast majority of words, many entries reflect the last print publication in 1989, and are not as in-step with modern usages. Language is continually evolving, and as always, it is best to consult a variety of sources.
This is not a Lisp thing, everyone on IRC does this. "Step back. Explain what you are trying to achieve." is the cute catchphrase.
Sooo what's the story here? Big corporation hires progressive ad agency which in turn makes a racy ad that gets pulled when the corp doesn't like the product

...am I missing something? Oh that's right they mentioned YouTube.
Relax and network.

Do your homework on companies that are interesting to you and then try to interact with the employees or go straight for the hr dept.
Highest scores go to the NT's - ENTJ (20 points right now), ENTP (24), INTG (64) and INTP (71) together represent 76% of the total sample (179/235).
It's not surprising though that hackers and entrepreneurs tend to be intuitives and thinkers.
INTJ myself.
As someone who tried to go from noob to SICP, I can attest to this.

I was really like looking forward to learning lisp after reading pg's essays, but when the time came to install the environment, I hit a brick wall.

Pg does mention a noob should get a tech-savvy friend to help him get started. Unfortunately, all the hackers I knew were in the Bay Area, but I was in South America.

Installing Lisp on a mac took me two months, working full time (between macports and other false starts, like trying to install linux). I still can't get slime on emacs; I have to run clisp in the terminal.

So, yeah, not exactly user friendly, or accessible to beginners.
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([E|I][S|N][F|T][J|P]) Doesn't matter. Go write Code!
Go to any page that you created, and select "Insert" --> "More..." Then search for 'Remember the Milk' Hit insert and if you are already logged in it will show your list of tasks. Pretty rad.
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http://www.sbcl.org -> "Downloads" -> Linux/x86 (or your architecture/OS of choice).

Hold on a second, I need to lie down for a moment after all that hard work there.

OK. Yes, there's not one Lisp implementation that is canonical and called "Lisp" and which lives at lisp.com. Life is pain.
See my link to Lispbox below.
The display technology used in this effect is known as "Peppers' ghost" and it's been used since the 19 hundreds.
Back in my frat-boy college days, the best prank ever happened to me.

We were having a serious prank war. Then we had a dance marathon, which effectively left my room unguarded for 24 hours.

So the prankster removed all of my furniture, removed my carpet, and put my furniture back exactly where it was.

http://i28.tinypic.com/2ec17w1.jpg

So me and my friend come back, exhausted, and walk in to no carpet. We were too tired to be pissed.

He's now working for State Farm. Soon I will save up some money to rent a billboard in Tallahassee to make fun of him.

Soon, the day will be mine.
I got INTJ

Introverted:	44

Intuitive:	62

Thinking:	62

Judging: 11
Good question. Actually I'm not sure - I'm just repeating the advice my mother gave me when I asked her. She's a certified proctor for these sorts of things.
Android is an OS and the iphone is hardware and software right? Don't see how you can compare them 1:1.
Here's the funny thing! I have been reading Erik Benson(Buster McLeod)'s blog from '04. I do't know what he started off as, but now he is a "ENTP" MEANING shit happens people change.
You forgot Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In my case I didn't work in the industry that I'm trying to serve now, but instead realized that a solution from an industry I did have experience in could be applied to another one.

The problem is that you're guaranteed to get it wrong at first, simply because you don't fully understand what people in that industry need or want.

What we did was build something, show it to some people, get feedback, improve, repeat the process. We're in our third iteration now, and I believe that we're closing in on a real solution.
Of course, if it was a solution for the software industry, we could have been there much earlier...
Are you kidding me?

Look, I know that this makes marketing sense for Disqus. "A commenters rights: to post their comments on a system like Disqus!"

But, as co-proprietor of a fairly popular blog (for the space we're in), this seems exactly ass backwards to me. Blogging isn't about making 1000 little Slashdots. If your comments mean that much to you, they shouldn't be comments.

Get a blog.

Don't get me wrong. I love comments. The comments on our blog are very often better than our blog posts. I LOVE our commenters. But the market solves this problem nicely. People also read us for the comments. We have every incentive to publish every non-spam comment, and that is in fact our policy.

If you want rights, if you want archival access to your work, if you want an edit workflow, what you want is your own blog, and you should have one: more people should be blogging.

Note also: Hacker News fails some of these proposed tests.
Old news, but still true.
I'd say go ahead and proceed with your idea (of course, I'm not a lawyer). People with patents, don't care about you until you have money (confirmed this with a patent troll I met recently at a convention). At that point you can either work around the patent or negotiate a license agreement.

Also (and this is mentioned everywhere in these circles), what you actually launch with may be entirely different than your idea right now anyway.

Don't worry about problems you don't have yet. Good to know about the up coming problems, but focus on making progress, otherwise it's just mental entertainment.
He's also quite obviously a self-centered braggart: sure sounds like blaming their best users, and very specifically, me, since I’m the only user with more than 20,000 followers that behaves this way.

Yep. It's all about you...
"Meanwhile, older programmers are seen as dinosaurs with out-of-date skills."

So here's the thing: which languages are "hot"? C and C++ are still in the TIOBE top 10, but there's Java, VB, PHP... all languages with very low barriers to entry. So we are seeing a misleading picture of the market right now. If (and admittedly this is a complete unknown) the industry shifts in favour of languages with a higher barrier to entry then the game changes radically. Without wanting to step on anyone's toes, a (good) C++ programmer can probably hold their own in any language with a little lead time to get up to speed. A VB or PHP type might never get enough of a grasp on C++ to make it as a professional.

There was another article on HN recently about how hard it is to hire parallel programmers. See where I'm going with this...?
Who's to say studying the personality types before taking the test won't influence your answers? For many there is quite a disconnect between who you are and who you _think_ you are. The difference is even greater between who you are and who you want to be. I'd bet people who read the prose before taking the test would alter their answers (even if subconsciously) to conform to who they want to be.

Tests like these can help you gain valuable insight into your personality and may help you get a handle on others with whom you don't click. If you game the test, you totally miss out on any knowledge it may provide.
That's the whole point - they know they want "Lisp" because of something they heard someone say, or because of something they read. That's all they know. Expecting someone to understand the Lisp ecosystem before getting started is unreasonable.

Lispbox would be a great way to get started, and you don't need to know anything about the different varieties of Lisp until you start trying to make something you'll redistribute (which isn't what newbies are doing at first anyway).
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Should I wait to contact the patent holder until I am successful or just contact him now and ask him if we can make a deal?
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’m actually rewriting this post that I had on an old blog of mine and I originally wrote it in response to an article I read on securityfocus a long while ago. The topic was about Linux and the fact that most of the major distributions are still vulnerable to this type of attack with a default installation.
I think the idea is choice. A device maker could make a dumbed down version for mom and a power user version for you. The iPhone is somewhere inbetween.
ahhh ... no it doesn't. perhaps with a third party monitor utility ...
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This is what business partners are for.

I've considered entering the medical billing industry on several occasions...because my sister owns a medical billing firm with several small to mid-sized clients in Atlanta (large clients have in-house billing departments). And the software in the field is atrocious and expensive. But I wouldn't consider it, if I didn't know just the right person to partner up with that would allow the software to be used immediately for real work with real clients.

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I have it working on my Mac (OS 10.4 then 10.5) no problems, which Lisp did you choose?
Cynic's interpretation: big corporation hires progressive ad agency which creates "controversy" by pulling its own ad for being too "racy".
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Yeah the link I supplied actually had a few people selling used copies. I got a first edition of it a while back and I still love to pull it out and go through the problems to freshen up my brain. :)
That's a bit like going up to a police officer and asking him for advice on the best way to rob someone without getting caught.

Remember: if a patent holder can show that you've knowingly infringed on a patent, it's much worse than the alternative. Keep your mouth shut until you're absolutely positive that you've got a problem. How do you know? You talk to an attorney.
He doesn't explain how he got rich though... "I joined a VC" ... "I was lucky!"

I'd be interested in hearing a lot more about his past and how he forced his way into the VC industry with no experience.
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yeah... didnt't notice till now =/
They don't force anyone to work for low rates. They give designers/developers without the ability to develop business relationships or standard business a way to find clients. I see a lot of jobs on the programmer sites that end up going for less than $5 an hour. It doesn't mean I'm not charging a lot more than that per hour anymore. I can because I've developed relationships with people who will pay more.
Well the questions can help you reflect on yourself as well as people in general.

Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you something doesn't it?
But you didn't tell us what you decided on! Those of us who did well have to be able to brag! ;)
Dont forget, triple damages if they can show you knew about their patent if they sue.
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I scored INTJ in high school and I just took the web test and scored INTJ again. So the test at least seems to have some kind of consistency.
Someone port this to jQuery
I use a secured installation of tikiwiki off of my normal site for security reasons. I move computers too much to save everything on one machine, and it's more secure as I have backup jobs setup for replication.
It would be a pretty easy argument to suggest that some blogs became bona-fide news outlets when people started to use them as their primary source of news.

I don't read newspapers anymore. I get 90% of my news from blogs.

TechCrunch has a presence that suggests they are a reputable source of information, and most of the articles there suggest the same. But every once in a while, Michael Arrington throws a strange, opinionated and arguably unprofessional article into the mix.
There is actually some (relatively) good software out there for public school teachers though. Some are even web-based, SaaS models.