On the relationship between the "Black Hole Theory of Design" and "Greenspun's tenth Rule of Programming".
Great look at varnish and concerns around putting a front-end reverse proxy cache in place.
"John McCarthy, better known to many as the originator of the LISP computer language, called me up to say he would be leading the fight at Stanford to reverse the ban." - Could the man possibly be any more credentialed amongst hackers?
"So the CLD lisp process uptime experiment is now over and I will move the CLD to a better place than a simple server in my basement."
"Between 1988 and 1991 I worked on the research program that led to the Mars Pathfinder rover [...] All three of [the prototypes] were programmed not in Lisp, but in little mini-languages whose compilers were written in Lisp."
I know! Seriously.
"Paul Graham can divide by zero -- and the answer is 'Paul Graham'" ... "Paul Graham invented Al Gore" ... "Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments."
"Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it."
Ranks programmers by who they consider themselves superior to. Comedy.
So I'm considering automating my del.icio.us to just automatically add links with "statistically infrequent" words as tags to all Steve Yegge's posts...
All roads lead to Lisp.... eventually... we think. :)
It's a shame Java doesn't have higher order functions and it's a good thing Java doesn't higher order functions.
Why Java developers should buy "Practical Common Lisp".
Coolest language tutorial I've ever seen.
The story of Worse is Better.
Paul Prescod rebuttal to Paul Graham on the Python/Lisp connection. Good stuff...
timeless..
Looks like a lot of real-world stuff in here and is also very recent.
Goddam this is more shit than could ever possibly fit in my brain.
