Comments for What's In Peter's Head

Comment on Hacker vs Engineer – Know The Difference! by ankush

ankush — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:52 +0000

i say that both are the same in terms of knowledge as in a hacker and engineer both know the same things programing both can do both its just which path u take and both are necessary
engineers make software
hackers find faults
and both these tasks are equally hard so u cannot say that either one is more skilled

Comment on Everybody Hates Jason, or Why We’ll Never Have Robot Cars by Kahlil Lechelt

Kahlil Lechelt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:02:59 +0000

Great post. I agree.

Comment on Why You Should Watch TWiST (and what’s so special about episode 13) by Jason the Rat, or Why We’ll Never Have Robot Cars » What’s In Peter’s Head

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:45:57 +0000

[...] he emailed me back within 2 hours with an introduction. I’ve written before about why I think it’s useful for tech entrepreneurs to listen to Jason Calacanis. It’s only people that know of him that hate him (I’m sure there are people that know [...]

Comment on Hey Language Snobs: Don’t Pinch Pennies by Language snobbery revisited | LispCast

Language snobbery revisited | LispCast — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:26:16 +0000

[...] I would like to respond to Peter Christensen’s recent post about the inability of “language snobs” to finish anything. [...]

Comment on Recap of Intro to Lisp Workshop by LispCast videos | LispCast

LispCast videos | LispCast — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:25:39 +0000

[...] just learned that my LispCast videos were chosen to put on a DVD created to teach Lisp. It makes me proud to see my little babies growing up! [...]

Comment on Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:56:46 +0000

I am taking a Junior year programming course at my college and they only use MAC OSs at the school, whereas I’ve been using Windows since I could speak. Having to learn *nix while learning something as jaw-droppingly obscure (compared to C, C++, Java, etc) as LISP seemed like a pipedream to me. Six hours of website digging and I find this beautiful masterpiece. I cannot thank you enough; my grades cannot thank you enough. Now I can actually program in the bloody language without freaking out over how to even get to use it. This is a godsend. A godsend.

Comment on Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:49:27 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, it really helped.

However, I find that I can’t get this to work with CLISP 2.48, even with the change Ryan mentioned (when I try to start SLIME I get a “process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 53″). It does work perfectly with 2.47 though. Strange. Anyone have any idea why?

Comment on Pumping Startup Iron: Be an Arnold, Not a Lou by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:57:40 +0000

Yeah watch the extras for pumping iron,
most of the drama was staged for the documentary.
i.e. the breakfast with lou.
im not even a fan and i know that.

Comment on Internet Business Mastery QuickTip Index by Someone

Someone — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:24:22 +0000

I, for one, could send you, Mark, IBM’s first 40 podcasts! … if you could send me #42 to #50 in exchange.

Can you, or anyone else?

: )

Comment on Build Your Own Mentor (or Why One Hour of Mixergy Isn’t Enough) by Giang Biscan

Giang Biscan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:06:29 +0000

Peter, absolutely in agreement with you here, particularly about the compounded benefit of listening to many instead of just one or few of Mixergy interviews. Andrew does amazing work and I can’t stop talking about him to anyone that I run into.