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xach.livejournal.com is a personal blog at xach.livejournal.com about programming. Since 2007, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Lisp Usenet Classics II”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Zach Beane's blog on Common Lisp, Quicklisp and Lisp history. HN commenters link his posts on Lisp tooling, beginner resources, Lisp machines and security notes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Lisp Usenet Classics II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-10-05
- SBCL leadership change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-28
- The Other Other Road Ahead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-01
- Faking votes on Hacker News2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-16
- Lisp in Small Pieces for Small Prices (less than $4!)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-09
- /221433.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-21
- /225634.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-18
- Making a small Lisp project with quickproject and Quicklisp2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-31
What Hacker News says?
I always liked this poster: http://www.xach.com/img/doing-it-wrong.jpg (from http://xach.livejournal.com/170311.html )
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on “John McCarthy Has Died”Submitted Faking votes on Hacker News as a story · 66 points
HN discussionITA has a big problem: their follow on to the QPX product that everyone has been talking about is a airline reservation, management etc. system called RES. This is desperately needed since pretty much everyone is running these systems on expensive mainframes with ugly old code bases. Dan Wienreb did a very interesting talk, "Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing" that covered it and a bit on the future of…
Comment linking /225634.html
on “Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million”Submitted The Other Other Road Ahead as a story · 15 points
HN discussion>I think, because it leads directly to the Question of Why Lisp Failed. Lisp isn't a failure. You're commenting on a server that is powered by a Lisp. >Why did Lisp fail? Many people say, because it couldn't be standardized properly. There was a very good idea about how to standardize Common Lisp back in 1982. It divided documentation into 4 different parts, or 4 different "colored pages". It was eventually abandone…
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on “Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS”Submitted Practical Lisp 2008 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionUses a version of news.arc vulnerable to the identity stealing problem described in http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html That's still the latest version of news.arc publicly available, though.
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on “Bitly News”Submitted Developing Flash games with Common Lisp as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHeh. I did something like that: https://xach.livejournal.com/227751.html
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on “Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains”Submitted Lisp Usenet classics as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNo, about using the user identification cookie value as the "auth" parameter for voting. http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html
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on “UseTheSource: a job board for hackers”Submitted Making a small Lisp project with quickproject and Quicklisp as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe plan for Common Lisp originally was to have a "core" and a standard library. From Daniel Weinreb's blog post "Complaints I’m Seeing About Common Lisp": It’s just too big. Actually, the real problem is that the core of the language is not cleanly separated from the built-in libraries. The Common Lisp designers had originally intended to do this separation, but there wasn’t time enough. https://web.archive.org/web…
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on “The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, Or, Why Large Languages Explode”Submitted Edi Weitz, Common Lisp Lifetime Achiever, releases CL-UNICODE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn mid-2007, Amazon.ca listed Lisp in Small Pieces, an $85 textbook, for $3.95. A guy I know ordered it at that price and it was fulfilled without incident, so I posted it to my blog at http://xach.livejournal.com/133661.html - it quickly became the #1 seller on Amazon.ca for the day. Amazon cancelled the orders and gave everyone a $10 credit.
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on “6pm.com's 1.6 million dollar pricing mistake”Submitted SBCL leadership change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNaughty Dog used Allegro Common Lisp for their development environment - to implement some kind of Scheme dialect for the Playstation II. Then they got bought by Sony and for the Playstation III they used C++. As I understand they wanted to share code and technology with other parts of Sony working on games - and those were not using Lisp, but C++, like most of the industry. From reading some of their latest present…
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on “Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp”Submitted Three persuasion tips as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a list of Common Lisp resources on Xach's blog [1] that includes communities, which remains relevant despite being an old post. Also, contacting one of the people associated with a blog listed on Planet Lisp [2] would ensure that it appears there and might be seen by a wide yet relevant audience. [1] https://xach.livejournal.com/325276.html [2] https://planet.lisp.org/
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on “State of Common Lisp Survey 2020”Submitted Making a Small Common Lisp Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPractical Common Lisp [0] is a really great (free) book that will help you understand the language better quickly. I read through that with three other guys at Linode in an informal book club and it went well. All of Zach Beane's blog posts are great for starting out with quicklisp, but here is a good one [1]. [0] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ [1] http://xach.livejournal.com/278047.html
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on “Ask HN: Learning Lisp, and I have some questions”Submitted SBCL leadership change (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionit seems that his friends are taking care of the issue: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.html?thread=515833#t51583...
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on “Erik Naggum, R.I.P.”Submitted mod_lisp is not like mod_otherlanguages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSounds a bit like how Smalltalk was banished from Viaweb: http://xach.livejournal.com/146281.html
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on “Google in talks to buy ITA”Submitted Lisp Usenet Classics II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBy way of Zach Beane: http://xach.livejournal.com/238408.html
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on “Novice CL user writes mysql access in CL as an exercise”Submitted To CHANGE-CLASS or not to CHANGE-CLASS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA fine overview is over at zach's journal: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.htm
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on “Erik Naggum (1965-2009) RIP”Submitted Lisp in Small Pieces for Small Prices (less than $4!) as a story · 1 points
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