Aaron Feng comments

"Bringing in the New Year with a New Blog" by Giulia Relation

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:57:40 -0500

the new blog is very nice! congrats

"define-symbol-macro" by Aaron Feng

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:19:14 -0600

Good catch Leslie.

"define-symbol-macro" by Leslie P. Polzer

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:14:26 -0600

There's a teensy glitch when you say "(assuming setf is not defined)":

SETF is always defined as soon as you use the CL package, so it must be something like "assuming (SETF FUN) is not defined". :)

Leslie

"Data recovery part 1: Freeze the dead hard drive" by Ryan

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:17:10 -0600

Just plop some dry on top of it and it'll go for hours.

"Learning from io" by Leslie P. Polzer

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:37:54 -0500

In Common Lisp you could just add a method specialized on NIL (or write a macro that does this automatically).

An alternative would be using the MOP for this.

"Learning from io" by Jonathan Tran

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:05:41 -0500

So what you're saying is... you implemented the Maybe monad in Ruby.

"Closure Fun" by Andrew Gwozdziewycz

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:44:44 -0500

It retains state because it modifies the original string in place. This is a very bad thing. You should make a copy of the string before using it. I believe the creators of C had qualms about including it in the standard library.

"Data recovery part 1: Freeze the dead hard drive" by Todd

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:42:05 -0500

Yeah we've been spoiled by HDDs these days, almost never failing. And so we grow lax with our backups.

I'm going to do some backing up when I get home.

"Data recovery part 1: Freeze the dead hard drive" by rotts

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:20:19 -0500

man, seems you have had luck on the Apple front! at least with your macbook. sorry to hear about the data loss, but yeah you should be backing up data that you love :)

usb/firewire drives are so cheap these days.

"Data recovery part 1: Freeze the dead hard drive" by Aaron Feng

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:21:17 -0500

I'm pretty sure there is something physically wrong with the drive itself.