Readit NewsImagine how it would look if they wrote "no pushovers or girly-girls, please"
I would really like to meet Conrad Barski and give him a great hug. And invite him a good beer.
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Now, to be honest, a quicker or more practical introduction to Lisp would be the "Practical Common Lisp" book which is also superb. However, Land of Lisp is a charming book that makes you smile and feel like a nerdy (in a good way) 12 years old kid in 1982 who just got as a birthday present a brand new Commodore-64 and is eager to read the manuals!
However, once AIs can design and implement their own successors all bets are off.
I would also be concerned about the development of non-theraputic neural implants and the ability of an AI to surreptitiously influence human behavior through them. Thankfully that is likely to to be further off than when we start bumping into the AI singularity.
As a side note, we make up ~10 percent of all users. If you design to the thumb reach of right handed users by default, you're fucking over a lot of people.
Add on that ~19 percent of the population has some form of disability, and a solid chunk of that involves hand/limb usages, making the head-up-ass assumption that a right handed thumb map is the "ideal" approach is... well you've shoved your head up your ass.
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edit: I want to add, I'm not attacking you so much as the general premise of the article. I come off as fairly hostile on this since it's such a common day to day inconvenience for a broad swath of the population.
But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.
If I would be theoreticaly buying latte each day, it would be either because I would love latte so much or because of some social reason (collegues I want to talk with are going there so I have to join etc).
Compared product is usually not needed socially and is no more appealing then daily latte I am not buying.
Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.
You can make the argument "well most actors never make it as a broadway actor". While true, do most software developers make it as a Google developer? And how likely is it that someone whose talent lies in acting is also talented enough to do well at software development? Sometimes, you should play to your strengths, even if the relative bargaining power of your strengths are not as strong as someone else's strengths. That doesn't mean you're not following the best path to "have a better life".
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While we definitely will always have culture battles to fight between both parties, the reality is the Republican Party was essentially “captured” by the Koch Brothers starting in the 1980’s, and it made it drastically shift to the right on corporate issues. The Tea Party, which in the end is a force for good (really shocked me to write that), was able to internally destroy the Republican Party and thus undo most of it’s absurd corporate agenda, but by that time Citizen’s United has passed and perhaps half of the corporate shills or so fled to the Democratic Party, which is now also captured.
In conclusion, it will be the extreme wings of both parties, Tea Party on the right and Socialists on the left, that will save the economic system, but this solution wasn’t ideal and there could have been a better way.
It's one of those words I thought I understood just from its contsruction, but the more I see it used by others, the more confused I get.