Comments for What's In Peter's Head http://www.pchristensen.com/blog Peter Christensen's Blog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 Comment on Bootstrapping: Weapons of Mass Reconstruction by More Reviews Of Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction | Sramana Mitra on Strategy http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/bootstrapping-weapons-of-mass-reconstruction/comment-page-1/#comment-1176 More Reviews Of Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction | Sramana Mitra on Strategy Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:09 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1176 [...] July 2, 2009 | No comments Peter Christensen of GeekStack reviews EJ2 on his blog: “I was very excited to hear about [Sramana’s] new book Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass [...] [...] July 2, 2009 | No comments Peter Christensen of GeekStack reviews EJ2 on his blog: “I was very excited to hear about [Sramana’s] new book Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass [...]

]]> Comment on Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by liult http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-clisp-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-1175 liult Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:21:37 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=237#comment-1175 It is so cool. THANKS A LOT! It is so cool. THANKS A LOT!

]]> Comment on Polyphasic Sleep Experiment Background by Cato http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/polyphasic-sleep-experiment-background/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Cato Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:02:17 +0000 http://pchristensen.textdriven.com/blog/2007/04/13/polyphasic-sleep-experiment-background/#comment-1174 Hi! I havent yet come to Steve`s posts but I have read another one who has something like the same contents that you have - just not in a more day-by-day method of writing. Your conditions seems to be very much alike mine, so it will be interesting to see whether I can go through with it or not, as I am too, very fascinated by the ideas. Best regards! Cato Hi!

I havent yet come to Steve`s posts but I have read another one who has something like the same contents that you have – just not in a more day-by-day method of writing.

Your conditions seems to be very much alike mine, so it will be interesting to see whether I can go through with it or not, as I am too, very fascinated by the ideas.

Best regards!
Cato

]]> Comment on How To Learn Lisp by Niels Olson http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Niels Olson Thu, 21 May 2009 15:21:15 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/#comment-1172 I'm on page 24 of the Little Schemer right now. I would say the first stumbling block is that most people are going to start with PLT Scheme or MIT Scheme, and the key to using ANY of the examples is the first footnote of the first example in the first chapter: you have to make sure to use the ==> ' <== notation. Pay attention to that. Because every example assumes your figured out that notational convention. There's a lot of this that I can skip over, but that screwed me up. I’m on page 24 of the Little Schemer right now. I would say the first stumbling block is that most people are going to start with PLT Scheme or MIT Scheme, and the key to using ANY of the examples is the first footnote of the first example in the first chapter: you have to make sure to use the ==> ‘ <== notation. Pay attention to that. Because every example assumes your figured out that notational convention. There’s a lot of this that I can skip over, but that screwed me up.

]]> Comment on How To Learn Lisp by John http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 John Tue, 05 May 2009 12:42:31 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/#comment-1171 I was looking at learning lisp and was thinking about using clojure as this would mean not having to re-learn lots of libraries. Also I code in eclipse anyway and there seems to be plenty of support for doing project euler using clojure. Can anyone enlighten me about advantages / disadvantages over using common lisp Thanks I was looking at learning lisp and was thinking about using clojure as this would mean not having to re-learn lots of libraries. Also I code in eclipse anyway and there seems to be plenty of support for doing project euler using clojure.

Can anyone enlighten me about advantages / disadvantages over using common lisp

Thanks

]]> Comment on What Happens When You Oversleep During Polyphasic Sleep? by Dave http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/what-happens-when-you-oversleep-during-polyphasic-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 Dave Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:29:04 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/what-happens-when-you-oversleep-during-polyphasic-sleep/#comment-1168 I've been on a polyphasic schedule for about a month and a half and it's going great. I have a 2hr "bedtime" from 4a-6a and two 1hr naps spaced throughout the day. There are some tough times forcing myself out of bed, but no worse than waking up to any early-morning alarm. Loving the extra time to work/study. I’ve been on a polyphasic schedule for about a month and a half and it’s going great. I have a 2hr “bedtime” from 4a-6a and two 1hr naps spaced throughout the day. There are some tough times forcing myself out of bed, but no worse than waking up to any early-morning alarm. Loving the extra time to work/study.

]]> Comment on Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Carl http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-clisp-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Carl Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:31:15 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=237#comment-1166 Whoops! I just thought my installation was correct. Emacs and slime are new to me but I coded lisp in the dark ages of punched cards and teletypes. After a few days of enjoying lisp I had a simple little program that seemed like a good vehicle for learning slime. At this point I realized I'd been working from the inferior-lisp repl not the slime-repl. A long evening of googling and guessing led to: http://www.cliki.net/SLIME-HOWTO and finally http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/8129 The second link offered: The REPL moved to a contrib. Instead of (slime-setup), place (slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf)) into your ~/.emacs. I'm not far enough along to know asdf and apparently don't have it installed so I ended up using: (slime-setup '(slime-fancy)) which properly started slime. I don't understand these "incantations" but perhaps others will find them useful. Carl Whoops! I just thought my installation was correct.

Emacs and slime are new to me but I coded lisp in the dark ages of punched cards and teletypes. After a few days of enjoying lisp I had a simple little program that seemed like a good vehicle for learning slime. At this point I realized I’d been working from the inferior-lisp repl not the slime-repl.

A long evening of googling and guessing led to:

http://www.cliki.net/SLIME-HOWTO and finally
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/8129

The second link offered:

The REPL moved to a contrib. Instead of (slime-setup), place
(slime-setup ‘(slime-fancy slime-asdf)) into your ~/.emacs.

I’m not far enough along to know asdf and apparently don’t have it installed so I ended up using:

(slime-setup ‘(slime-fancy)) which properly started slime.

I don’t understand these “incantations” but perhaps others will find them useful.

Carl

]]> Comment on Public Beta Open For “Ultimate N00b SLIME/Emacs Cheat Sheet” by Hugh S. Myers http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/public-beta-open-for-ultimate-n00b-slimeemacs-cheat-sheet/comment-page-1/#comment-1164 Hugh S. Myers Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:00:32 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/public-beta-open-for-ultimate-n00b-slimeemacs-cheat-sheet/#comment-1164 Along with the other improvements, you might want to correct C-c C-t which you have as clear entire buffer. It won't; it is bound to slime-toggle-trace-fdefinition. What you want is C-c M-o which is bound to slime-repl-clear-buffer. Other than that, lots of gold in this hoard! Along with the other improvements, you might want to correct C-c C-t which you have as clear entire buffer. It won’t; it is bound to slime-toggle-trace-fdefinition. What you want is C-c M-o which is bound to slime-repl-clear-buffer. Other than that, lots of gold in this hoard!

]]> Comment on Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Carl http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-clisp-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-1163 Carl Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:39:06 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=237#comment-1163 Peter, Just a note to let you know the links are still active and the installation remains relatively painless in March '09. Thanks for these instructions. I continue to enjoy your posts. Regards Peter,

Just a note to let you know the links are still active and the installation remains relatively painless in March ‘09.

Thanks for these instructions. I continue to enjoy your posts.

Regards

]]> Comment on How To Learn Lisp by alphard http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 alphard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:29:20 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/how-to-learn-lisp/#comment-1162 shishir, I am C/C++ programmer too. OnLisp by Paul Graham is good alternative (available online), especially if you experienced in C++ STL and templates techniques. Also GISC (see above) maybe what you need - it is easy to read and relatively cheap. PAIP book is too general, but PAIP video lections are great - many unobvious lisp idioms + good style guide at the same time. shishir, I am C/C++ programmer too. OnLisp by Paul Graham is good alternative (available online), especially if you experienced in C++ STL and templates techniques. Also GISC (see above) maybe what you need – it is easy to read and relatively cheap.
PAIP book is too general, but PAIP video lections are great – many unobvious lisp idioms + good style guide at the same time.

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