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Comment on Why Transit Used to be Profitable and Isn’t Now by Last Week's Links: First Edition « Gateway Streets

Last Week's Links: First Edition « Gateway Streets — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:25:29 +0000

[...] According to Peter Christensen, Basically, any city that’s building a light rail or subway line and not dramatically increasing the zoning around it is throwing money away. (What’s In Peter’s Head) [...]

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

isa — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:57:23 +0000

I used cygwin’s setup.exe to install CLISP.
The recipe in the article did not work for me, I got this error message:
/usr/bin/clisp: P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48/full/base/lisp.exe: No such file or directory

That was easy to fix, the paths in my case must be:
-B P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48
-M P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48/base/lispinit.mem

To discover them, I used
strace.exe clisp.exe | grep lispinit
CTRL+D

Comment on Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Matus

Matus — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:30:15 +0000

Thanks. It works on Windows 7.

Greetings,
Matus

Comment on Lisp Companies by Leo Utskot

Leo Utskot — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:15:09 +0000

Copyleft Solutions, based in Oslo, Norway and Mexico City uses Lisp extensivly to create web applications.

Comment on Can YCombinator Be Beaten At Its Own Game? by YC Clone in Singapore? – WoonZai

YC Clone in Singapore? – WoonZai — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:42:17 +0000

[...] Can YCombinator Be Beaten At Its Own Game? » What’s In Peter’s Head The other discussion was about selecting founders to fund. I summarize YCombinator’s selection criteria as: “Young, Smart, Cheap, Determined, Acquirable”. This fits in with Paul Graham’s philosophy and worldview, and by focusing on these kind of founders, they deliberately pass on many other ideas and founders. Are there any other investment niches in the space ignored by YCombinator? Of course, but it will take another creative individual to come up with that business model. Here are some ideas: [...]

Comment on Lisp Companies by Andreas Fuchs

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:40:02 +0000

Bay area-based Franz inc use their cl system to build a really nice graph database system – allegrograph.

(disclosure: I work on that (-:)

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

Draufwalker — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:13:29 +0000

I don’t have got a M-Key. for they who can’t run the

M-x eval-buffer

Command ->
Use the ESC or ALT-Key instead (on a german Keyboard)

Thanks for this Great Tutorial
I think Lisp is quite a freaky language after 6 years of C++ Java Basic and Assembler^^ freaky but great

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

Spike — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:47:45 +0000

Thanks a lot.

I had to change

(setq inferior-lisp-program “[HOME]/bin/clisp/full/lisp.exe
-B [HOME]/bin/clisp/full
-M [HOME]/bin/clisp/full/lispinit.mem
-ansi -q”)

into

(setq inferior-lisp-program “clisp”)

to pass “Spawning child process: invalid argument” when typing M-x slime

Comment on Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:23:37 +0000

Hi Peter
just to thank you as well, found it relatively easy to set up.. Was using Lisp in a box a few years ago, but that has suffered from bit rot. Am using vista 64 bit, I used the msi installer for SBCL and it went into the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steel Bank Common Lisp\1.0.48> directory. Everything now working fine.
regards
Paul H

Comment on What Would A Chicago-style YCombinator Look Like? by JoeHack

JoeHack — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:15:49 +0000

Looks like this thread needs to be revisited. How much things have changed in just over a year!