Ethan Herdrick

"* any future increase in demand for labor will only be supplied by increasing wages * Heavens, not that! Look, less available labor means higher wages. That's a good thing." - Ethan Herdrick

"Please note that this is from 2004 and the configuration stuff is way out of date. You should probably just start at 7:30." - Ethan Herdrick

"Really? Henry Luce was raised by protestant missionaries." - Ethan Herdrick

"Should have used sparklines. Also, all that variation over only 18 months doesn't inspire confidence." - Ethan Herdrick

"I like the choice. I love to see people using lisps but some of the path to that choice makes me cringe. Like this: I probably could have written a ‘bare-bones’ implementation of the site’s back-end in Rails in a week instead of two weeks, but I would rather ‘waste’ that one week up front to have more flexibility later. YAGNI. Speed kills (the competition)." - Ethan Herdrick

"* Few years ago you couldn't just download a random lisp library and expect it to work * Yeah, that was my painful experience as a noob. Now dependency libraries get downloaded behind the scenes. You mean ASDF takes care of dependencies for you?" - Ethan Herdrick

"Really? What has improved in Common Lisp in the past two years? Thanks for this comment." - Ethan Herdrick

"Q: The most powerful and communicative shape in art and design is the: A: TriangleReally? It's the triangle, period? Just like that, huh? The one with the answer "a strong grid" seemed the same way." - Ethan Herdrick

"It's interesting to read along and see what was cut for the version on the website." - Ethan Herdrick

"Silly. Gold is amazing stuff. It never decays nor oxidizes. From Wikipedia: "Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become translucent." So I didn't bother past the first paragraph. Did I miss anything?" - Ethan Herdrick

Really good tool - actually does reverse lookup of chords, too - Ethan Herdrick

some dicussion about programming in MATLAB - Ethan Herdrick

machine learning toolkits and libs - Ethan Herdrick

Good - Ethan Herdrick

Looks like another good ML class - Ethan Herdrick