I've long noticed that the focus of a gaze, the a propos of a smirk, can distinguish the aware and open-minded from the fools and the fanatical. Just peek at random people in the street, compare to pictures of random researchers on the Internet, or to pictures of random religious fanatics also on the net. There's a lot you can tell -- or maybe you ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce the availability of Exscribe, a document authoring tool programmed and programmable in Common Lisp. It currently only targets the web, but it's extensible, so who knows?
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You may remember that I am looking for a solution to the SNAIL problem, which will have to be based on epistemic monotonic logic. Well, monotone offers half of the solution, monotonic logic. And that is also the more useful half to me, considering that the instantaneous latency of my SNAIL networks is actually low: when my computers are connected ( Read more... )

I am glad to announce my latest piece of semi-useful software, CL-Launch, an infrastructure to easily make your Common Lisp software launchable from a Unix command line.
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At the request of an Indian student, I have worked out a formal document containing my term project proposals for students completing a Masters in Computer Science, specializing in Distributed Systems: http://fare.tunes.org/computing/term-project-proposal.html.

For a long time, I've considered it an awful practice ( Read more... )

Here are a few things I'd like to say about dynamic software development, after I've just had the opportunity to test first hand with CTO what I had been studying in theory and through the experiences of other people.
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Now is a good time to announce that the software behind Cliki.Tunes.Org, aka CTO, has been noticeably improved.
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The Linux framebuffer console for the Jornada820 and other machines does not heed all the cursor controls that it has on the x86 console. Therefore, many programs that try to reprogram the cursor, including the login program and emacs, end up making the cursor invisible. A correct escape sequence to make the cursor appear, as per the Framebuffer- ( Read more... )

Since I'm beginning to get seriously interested in SNAIL, that is, Slow Networking with Atrocious Interchange Latency, I've done a bit of research as to decentralized replacements for CVS. After a liminary consultation of my pineal gland, here is what I've found, thanks notably to Rick Moene: There is indeed a package based on monotonic logic ( Read more... )

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