Hacker News: typedweb

New comment by typedweb in "Incudine – Real-Time Audio/DSP Programming in Common Lisp"

typedweb — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:49:44 +0000

It's a git repo and it's GPL so I might move it over to GitHub when I get a chance.

New comment by typedweb in "Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence?"

typedweb — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:36:09 +0000

> humans are the stupidest possible creatures that can build a civilization

Many insects have quite elaborate 'civilizations' or at least colonies, and it's doubtful that each individual bug is very intelligent.

New comment by typedweb in "Incudine – Real-Time Audio/DSP Programming in Common Lisp"

typedweb — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:47:42 +0000

Here's a quick (ambient) sample I did with it last night with abridged source code in the song comment:

    https://soundcloud.com/kruhft/incudine1

Incudine – Real-Time Audio/DSP Programming in Common Lisp

typedweb — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:46:22 +0000

Article URL: http://incudine.sourceforge.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9858548

Points: 38

# Comments: 5

New comment by typedweb in "Scheme 9 interpreter ported to Plan 9 (again)"

typedweb — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 16:29:05 +0000

A file is an object that supports the methods open(), read(), write(), and a few others. That's about a generic as you can get.

Kruhft – microsound [2015, music]

typedweb — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:22 +0000

Article URL: https://soundcloud.com/kruhft/sets/microsound-2015

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799680

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by typedweb in "Atom 1.0"

typedweb — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:16:26 +0000

Both emacs keybinding emulation packages are sub-optimal. One misses C-p, the other misses C-e, both basic editor movement commands. Not impressed.

New comment by typedweb in "Palaver – Idle Random Chat"

typedweb — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 04:53:52 +0000

New URL: palaverchat.herokuapp.com

New comment by typedweb in "Palaver – Idle Random Chat"

typedweb — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 17:36:06 +0000

No, just one on one for now. I was thinking of adding an option to pull in another random stranger, but that'll have to wait til tonite/tomorrow if I have the time.

New comment by typedweb in "Palaver – Idle Random Chat"

typedweb — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:51:00 +0000

Hi, author here. I made this site as and alternative to Omegle, correct. I was interested in finding some way of meeting new people and making connections, which seems to getting even more difficult in this short attention span, information overloaded world. So far, as an experiment, it's worked for me and a lot of interesting users have come online and I've had some really great conversations. If you have any questions about the site's motivation, just ask.

Oh, and I made it in node and jquery and about 2 hours.

Palaver – Idle Random Chat

typedweb — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 05:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://warm-ridge-8132.herokuapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749084

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

Twitter CEO Steps Down, Stock Goes Up

typedweb — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:57:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/06/11/twitter-ceo-steps-down-stock-goes-up

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708488

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by typedweb in "Bond crash across the world as deflation trade goes wrong"

typedweb — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:20:32 +0000

People are less willing to borrow money to buy stocks at higher interest rates.

Show HN: My first Android Game – "X+1" [2D Action]

typedweb — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notapplicable.xplus1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659457

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by typedweb in "Toronto Condos: Should you rent or buy?"

typedweb — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:26:29 +0000

Canada has a First Home Buyer tax credit of $5000, AFAIK.

New comment by typedweb in "Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers"

typedweb — Fri, 29 May 2015 03:13:24 +0000

Vanadnium Dioxide: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-vanadium-dioxide-smart-glass-bl...

New comment by typedweb in "Where is the Modelling Software for 3D Printing?"

typedweb — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:16:02 +0000

AutoDesk has 123D Modeler[1]. I'm not sure which printers it works with, but it probably uses the Spark platform[2] for the actual print drivers.

    [1] http://www.123dapp.com/design
    [2] https://spark.autodesk.com/

The FSF Is Hiring a Web Developer

typedweb — Fri, 08 May 2015 01:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fsf.org/news/the-fsf-is-hiring-seeking-a-full-time-web-developer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9509447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by typedweb in "Why Lisp?"

typedweb — Thu, 07 May 2015 21:59:58 +0000

I'm not quite sure how being able to extend syntax is a theoretical problem. It was just a basic example for brevity.

There are many more examples of macros that solve real world problems, such as writing a compiler for an embedded DSL that is tuned to solving your real problem that allows expressivity and brevity that you would never see without the use of macros.

New comment by typedweb in "Why Lisp?"

typedweb — Thu, 07 May 2015 20:47:08 +0000

How about syntactic extensions:

    (defmacro unless (test &body body)
      `(if (not ,test) ,@body))