Jordan was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and with this speech, became the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address to the DNC on July 12. This speech remains one of the most lauded speeches in modern history, speaking to the common good and building a national community.
Amazing speech. The context was not long after Watergate, but is incredibly relevant today. And she was 40 at the time!
Even if hardware progress drives software progress, he could not accept what he viewed as the lazy approach of using hardware power as an excuse for sloppy design. I suspect that was the reasoning behind the one-compilation-pass stance: sure, our computers now enable us to use several passes, but if we can do the compilation in one pass we should since it is simpler and leaner.
Schulman said he got the idea for the phone after noticing a neglected, nonworking pay phone in town. He wondered if he could turn it into something appealing.
“As a sound person, I’ve always loved pay phones,” he said. “I really like the old technology of just picking up a receiver, pressing one button and having something happen.”
I followed this thread personally with Dream Dial and I’m still fascinated by it.
Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things like Ethernet ports in each room. However, there was one part of my apartment that was too new and too smart for me.
Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 20 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.