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"Nice slides, but the course seems misnamed. It deals entirely with lisp and its details, which don't really translate to other functional languages. *setq* is introduced in lecture 2. This isn't functional programming even if it's programming using higher-order functions." - Kartik Agaram

"Perhaps it's fairer to say we're talking past each other. I clearly don't care about standards, and they're clearly quite precious to you." - Kartik Agaram

"After a few days of hindsight it's clear there was stupid phrasing all around. I apologize for my part in that. It's hard to react gracefully to being called dishonest. > For racket to add the mythical "lots of functionality", it has to provide it itself, outside of the standard. Random_lisper called that "bells and whistles". A standard isn't some magic powder I can sprinkle over my code; common lisp implementations have to build the 'lots of functionality' of the spec LoC by laborious LoC, just like racket. SBCL on mac os doesn't support multithreading like it does on linux, so if your program relies on that feature of SBCL, it's stuck to the 'niche' of 'not mac os'. When I need to run a program I don't care whether it's compliant to a standard or not. I care whether it runs on my platform. Racket seems to run on all the platforms I care about and then some. I can run it on my desktop, on my laptop, on my netbook, on my headless AWS servers. I can use to write graphics, to build..." - Kartik Agaram

"Waitaminnit, is this your final answer? You call racket a 'niche' just because it doesn't run on JVM, and you insinuate that that's just the tip of the iceberg with phrases like 'for instance'. Common lisp has features, but racket has 'bells and whistles'. And *I* am dishonest for correcting a typo?" - Kartik Agaram

"Relax. My original was "Yeah I haven't." which was ambiguous. I edited it to reflect what I meant. Sorry that wasn't clear." - Kartik Agaram

"Ok, Racket doesn't run on the JVM. What's another limitation? Of course I'm still missing the point. I *said* I'm missing the point." - Kartik Agaram

"Yeah I haven't. Why don't you elaborate? What do you think 'niche' means? And what *are* Racket's limitations to a newbie?" - Kartik Agaram

"The question mark is in the wrong place in the title." - Kartik Agaram

"I've dabbled with lisp for years, but what really got me into it was arc: https://sites.google.com/site.... There's something about writing programs with the source code of the compiler open in another window (it fits in a single file) that is hard to beat. Over time as I ran up against arc's limitations I ended up hacking more on Racket and gradually picking it up. But arc was the gateway drug." - Kartik Agaram

"You haven't looked at Racket recently." - Kartik Agaram

"[This](http://www.reddit.com/r...) is the current state of affairs. I could swear I've seen this problem with Eterm in the past, but so far it's been flawless (apart from not having the fonts I want :). xterm is also working fine. Assuming it's gnome-terminal's fault, I'm toying with building it from source and trying to track down the problem. At least confirm that there's something going on that's not related to the network." - Kartik Agaram

"But you can be aware of the owner and not know that they've failed to work on funded KickStarter projects." - Kartik Agaram

"*Update* I've been using Eterm for a couple of days now without a whiff of a problem. I could swear I saw it before, but for now I'm going to give up on gnome-terminal." - Kartik Agaram

"That's a good question. If it's a one-off then there's no foul. Even so, I think being able to downvote someone would relieve (irrational) ill-feeling among backers." - Kartik Agaram

"Your suggestion is 'better' for some shopping site, not for Kickstarter. It's partly Kickstarter's fault. They need to make the swag more symbolic. Like a t-shirt, or a sticker. That way it's crystal clear you aren't paying for the swag. You're supporting a cause. You're helping bring something into the world. Here, let me suggest a way to make it better on the other side of the fence: allow people to provide feedback on backers, and let projects reject backers. Say guys like this: http://www.kickstarter.com/profile... (see his comments on http://www.kickstarter.com/project...). Investing in a project shouldn't be something any random guy with 20 bucks can do. It needs to be taken more seriously. On both sides. *Edit*: not sure why you're getting downvoted so much. It's a reasonable thing to try. Need to get used to reddit once more.." - Kartik Agaram

"Kickstarter seems to forget about projects when their deadline passes. I think that is wrong. I don't want a refund when a project I funded is abandoned. Like grauenwolf said, it's patronage. But I *do* want to be able to see abandonment or time reflected on people's profiles. If you take money for projects and deliver (or fail to deliver), that should affect your reputation." - Kartik Agaram

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"Done, thanks :)" - Kartik Agaram

"Interesting! Could you point me at the bug? However, I always run my terminal windows maximized." - Kartik Agaram

"Agh, after having this issue for months it just went away. So I guess it's intermittent. Thanks for the tips, though. I'll try script the next time I run into this and report back." - Kartik Agaram

"As usual once I actually start talking about it the problem goes away on both Eterm and xterm and gnome-terminal. Argh! To answer your question, I could *swear* I tried different terminals a few months ago. But I'll respond again if it comes back." - Kartik Agaram

"That seems unlikely since it goes away if I use a text-mode console." - Kartik Agaram

"Thanks for the tip! Gives me a direction to look. To answer your questions: * No, only ssh. I can't detect latency over the browser being bad, but that's hard to judge. And I don't think I use any other internet apps. * Only GUI terminals. That was what I was trying to say with 'textmode console' -- ctrl-alt-f1 and the issue goes away completely. * Currently gnome-terminal. I got me a new thinkpad t420s over the holidays and it's been having this problem a lot. But like I said I also faced this back in '06 when I last had a linux box running X. And I think I was running Eterm then. Just tried Eterm, and it's the same." - Kartik Agaram

"I'm referring to non-X connections (NX is always slower)." - Kartik Agaram

"Pressing any key causes all previous keystrokes to instantly show on screen." - Kartik Agaram

"I just ran ping and it's like 100ms. Pretty normal." - Kartik Agaram

"'Next keystroke' can be anything, even just pressing 'Alt' or 'Ctrl'. I gather none of you have seen this? Could you try ssh over a textmode terminal and see if it feels faster? It shouldn't, except maybe for scrolling which needs to refresh the entire screen." - Kartik Agaram

"But I pointed out that it's faster in text mode. And that pressing any key, even ctrl or alt, magically makes the 'network' faster by causing *previous* keystrokes to instantly show up." - Kartik Agaram

"Interesting. But doesn't rainbow highlighting just encourage temporary variables? Personally all I need syntax highlighting for is literals (numbers, strings) and comments. --- I've thought this for a while; typing out this comment has gotten me to actually try disabling most syntax highlighting. Surprisingly, all I need to do in vim (with a dark background) is: hi Statement ctermfg=white cterm=none hi Type ctermfg=white cterm=none All that seems to leave is literals, comments and preprocessor directives." - Kartik Agaram