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The Social Network of a Word

Posted on 2012-06-03 by jcs

I ran across an interesting interview question the other day: Given a base word and a list of other words, use the Levenshtein distance to find the social network of the base word in the list of other words. More … Continue reading →

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Scrolling with Lion, Redux

Posted on 2012-06-02 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, my laptop recently had major surgery. That appears to have gone well but when I got the machine back I noticed that it had Snow Leopard installed instead of Lion. I knew they were going to … Continue reading →

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Back!

Posted on 2012-06-01 by jcs

Annnnnd, I’m back. For the one or two of you who may have wondered were I’ve been, here’s the story. Last month, between the fifteenth and twentieth, I was in New York. I didn’t have to a chance to queue … Continue reading →

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Using Quickproject

Posted on 2012-05-10 by jcs

Earlier this week I wrote about Using Quicklisp and mentioned another Xach project, Quickproject (the link takes you to Github, but the best way to get it is with Quicklisp). What quickproject does is to initialize a project.asd, package.lisp, project.lisp, … Continue reading →

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John Gruber On The Latest DVD Silliness

Posted on 2012-05-09 by jcs

ars technica is reporting that DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings. These warnings—the usual nonsense about going to hell and jail if you copy the DVD/Blue-ray—will be shown back-to-back for 10 seconds each and will be … Continue reading →

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cl-test-grid

Posted on 2012-05-08 by jcs

Vladimir Sedach has a post up that describes the cl-test-grid project. The idea is that Quicklisp users download the cl-test-grid, tell it what CL implementations are available, and run the test. It runs tests against many of the libraries in … Continue reading →

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Scheme and Common Lisp

Posted on 2012-05-07 by jcs

I’ve been using Scheme and Common Lisp almost exclusively for over 10 years. During that time, I tended to favor Scheme because I liked its clean design and simplicity, the named let, continuations, and the simplicity that being a Lisp-1 … Continue reading →

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Using Quicklisp

Posted on 2012-05-06 by jcs

Back in March I wrote that I had loaded and starting using Zach Beane’s Quicklisp. Since then I have used it with several small projects and I really like it. It does two things for me: Makes it super easy … Continue reading →

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A Message From The EFF

Posted on 2012-05-05 by jcs
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Solution to the Two Challenges

Posted on 2012-05-04 by jcs

The other day, I presented two Elisp coding challenges. I specified Elisp because Irreal readers tend to like Emacs related posts. The down side of that is that several of you worried about bignums and other Emacs limitations. That wasn’t … Continue reading →

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