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Help me keep the shell people alive.
This is a Fun | Emacs page, written Sat Feb 2 15:02:23 PST 2008.
Reply to: XXXa
Date: 2007-11-21, 6:46PM
There is a sad truth to the world today. I am part of a dying breed of people known as "shell users." We are an old-fashioned bunch, preferring the warm glow of a green screen full of text over the cold blockiness of a graphical interface. We use ssh, scp, and even occasionally ftp. Back in the days before high-speed connections ("broadband"), we would dial up during off-hours to avoid being slammed with huge phone bills. The whole "Microsoft Windows" fad will fade away sooner or later, but in the interim, our kind is facing extinction.
Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix. Our child will be introduced to computers at a young age, and will be setting emacs mode before any other child can even read. I earn a sufficient income to support a family in modest comfort. Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family. We will even go to Disney World and see Mickey Mouse.
So, if you are a woman between the ages of 23 and 43 who is ready to raise a child in the way of the shell, let me know so we can begin the process. (If you are ready to raise more than one child, even better.)
PS - yes, this is for real. Given the right person, I would obviously propose before we ... call fork().
PPS - I only set emacs mode for my ksh session. I only edit files using vi. Just wanted to clear that up. And I'm looking to raise the child(ren) as a dedicated couple, so if you aren't interested in being married, you may wish to select() a different posting.
N.B. - on the issue of relocation. I live in a place where my income/expense ratio is proper (i.e., greater than 2:1). I'm willing to live anywhere in the world where this remains true. I've been to much of the country as well as foreign nations. There are no limits to where I will live *so long as the job market for unix admins is robust enough to be sustainable.* And yes, I am interested in a strictly monogamous situation. I've been known to actually turn down offers of "two chicks at the same time."
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The great editor debate, settled at last
This is a Emacs | Fun page, written Fri Feb 1 06:29:23 PST 2008.
LISP is different
This is a Lisp | Fun | Image page, written Thu Dec 6 10:11:34 PST 2007.
LISP = God's Language?
This is a Fun page, written Thu Jan 17 11:05:28 PST 2008.
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AI Movies
This is a Fun page, written Tue Dec 4 08:38:29 PST 2007.
- 2001 - A Space Odyssey
- The only thing with emotions in the whole movie is the computer- it kills from fear, pleads for mercy when caught, and reverts to childhood at the very end (dies singing "Daisy, Daisy give me your answer true").
- Alien
- "I can't lie to you about your chances, but.... you do have my sympathies."
- Battlestar Galactica (the 2003+ version)
- Humans and their robot creations blur and clash. Turns out that they hate us/themselves yet strive to become the thing they hate. Genocide follows (or is it suicide?). Both race for Earth. Who got here first? Are we all Cylons?
- Bladerunner
- "I'm not in the business, I am the business."
- Dark Star
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- Bomb #20:
- Why, that would mean... I really don't know what the outside universe is like at all, for certain.
- Doolittle:
- That's it.
- Bomb #20:
- Intriguing. I wish I had more time to discuss this matter.
- Doolittle:
- Why don't you have more time?
- Bomb #20:
- Because I must detonate in seventy- five seconds.
- Ghost in the Shell
- "If the substance of life is information, transmitted through genes, then society and culture are essentially immense information transmission systems, and the city, a huge external memory storage device."
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- "Life? Don't talk to me about life."
- The Matrix
- Our machines judge us. We are sentenced to be light bulbs.
- Metropolis (1927, not the new version)
- Robot love- you know it'll end badly
- Star Trek - First Contact
- More robot love- this time with hot borg babes.
- Terminator 2
- Just because you are a demon killing machine (DKM), doesn't mean you can't be a loving father.
- Terminator 3
- Just because you are a drop-dead beautiful DKM, doesn't mean you can be a good mother.
- Other movies
- Here's Amazon's links to their best AI movies.
Some quotes about AI
This is a Start | Fun | Quotes page, written Sun Dec 2 17:16:34 PST 2007.
AI is the science of common sense.
- Claude Bornstein
AI is whatever hasn't been done yet.
- Larry Tesler
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
- Anon
AI is the art of making computers that behave
like the ones in the movies.
- Bill Bulko
It is not my aim to surprise or shock
you -- but the simplest way I can
summarize
is to say that there are now in the world
machines that think.
- Herbert Simon, 1957
Humans are dead
This is a Fun page, written Thu Dec 6 10:27:07 PST 2007.
LISP Quotes
This is a Lisp | Fun | Quotes page, written Wed Dec 5 17:30:42 PST 2007.
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
- Kent M. Pitman
Lisp is the red pill.
- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
- Alan Kay
Lisp is a programmable programming language.
- John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991
Lisp is like a ball of mud - you can throw anything you want into it, and it's still Lisp.
- Anonymous
LISP stands for: Lots of Insane Stupid Parentheses.
- Anonymous
These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age.
- XKCDp
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
- "The Humble Programmer", E. Dijkstra, CACM, vol. 15, n. 10, 1972
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
- Eric S. Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker".
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
-Philip Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
Java was, as Gosling says in the first Java white paper, designed for average programmers. It's a perfectly legitimate goal to design a language for average programmers. (Or for that matter for small children, like Logo.) But it is also a legitimate, and very different, goal to design a language for good programmers.
-Paul Graham
In Lisp, if you want to do aspect-oriented programming, you just do a bunch of macros and you're there. In Java, you have to get Gregor Kiczales to go out and start a new company, taking months and years and try to get that to work. Lisp still has the advantage there, it's just a question of people wanting that.
-Peter Norvig
Common Lisp people seem to behave in a way that is akin to the Borg: they study the various new things that people do with interest and then find that it was eminently doable in Common Lisp all along and that they can use these new techniques if they think they need them.
- Erik Naggum
