Xah Programing Blog 2019-02

this is a wild ride. On razer keyboard, optical switch, lisp machines, lisp, richard stallman, esr, ewd, Guy Steele, larry wall, Guido, Paul graham, Anders Hejlsberg, UNIX Philosophy, worse is better. #emacs #perl #python

this is a wild ride

• 0:35 razer keyboard,
• 1:16 beat headphone
• 5:27 optical switch
• 7:30 lisp machines, keyboard, lisp lang
• 12:37 razer keyboard
• 14:20 richard stallman
• 24:48 windows key, menu key
• 28:10 Maple vs Mathematica
• 37:20 larry wall, esr, martin fowler
• 48:02 UNIX Philosophy
• 49:32 cult and religion
• 50:16 Anders Hejlsberg
• 53:03 Guy Steele
• 1:15:15 John Carmack
• 1:16:35 Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Worse Is Better.
• 1:21:10 Guido van Rossum
• and also ewd, Paul graham, Donald Knuth somewhere.

• The TeX Pestilence (Why TeX/LaTeX Sucks)
• Language Design: Should Array Index Start at 0 or 1?

Microsoft ditched sha1. What's the git's situation?

answer:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt

confused by sha-1, cryptography hash function? see Public-Key Cryptography for Beginner

HTML6, JSON SXML Simplified

old article

Xah Talk Show. 2019-02-22. Programing Languages, Lisp, Homoiconicity, Haskell, Syntax, Semantics, Formal Language

itching to do a video stream. gosh i really need to get vid going daily. like this if you like to see more. So many topics i can talk non stop. emacs, programing, hacker cult, to other thing such as chinese, linguistics, philosophy...

and always be yourself, because, being yourself, gives you the most power, most performance.

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todo Why Python Sucks

todo Python 3 Tutorial

Python 2 and Python 3 Difference

old blog posts

pages with div.main_38046,#disqus_thread,footer{margin-left:0px} removed.

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1. Apple Censorship
2. Clojure Books
3. CoffeeScript or JavaScript?
4. The State of Affairs of DVD Rippers
5. Death of Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy
6. The Day Steve Jobs Died, Apple, Google Website Screenshots
7. Erik Meijer on Xtreme Programing and Agile
8. Software Freedom is Free Speech or Free Beer?
9. F Sharp, OCaml Books and History of OCaml
10. Lisp at JPL, by Ron Garret 📺
11. Luhn Algorithm
12. Mathematica Version 3 to Version 7 Conversion Notes
13. Neal Stephenson at Google Talk 📺
14. MacOS Extended Attribute, At sign @ in ls
15. Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon 📺
16. Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs's Death
17. Ryan Dahl, on History of Node.js 📺
18. Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl on Software Complexity
19. Second Life, the Worst Hack in Universe
20. Sergey Brin Talk on China, Wikipedia, Search Engines, … 📺
21. Theodore Gray: Future of Text Book, iPad, Education 📺
22. TypeScript Will Kill CoffeeScript and Dart!
23. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics?
24. OCaml Use in Industry: Janestreet Talk by Yaron Minsky 📺
25. Adaptive Sampling, Plotting Math Curve
26. AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS, by Bill Gates
27. Best Video Codec for Screencast or Line Animation
28. BlackBerry PlayBook: Force Reset, Security Wipe, Connect to Linux Via USB
29. Clojure Leiningen Crap
30. ASCII Jam Problem: HTML Entities
31. Complexity and Tedium of Software Engineering
32. How to Convert HTML to PDF
33. ctags etags gtags: How to Find Where a Function is Defined or Called?
34. Unix tools on Windows: Cygwin vs VirtualBox
35. Database Tech 2012
36. Dell i7559 Linux Boot Problem
37. 3D Visualization Design
38. Programing: Design Patterns Your Mom
39. eXtreme Programing and Agile Voodoo
40. Emacs + Cygwin, gunzip not found?
41. Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Confusion Ball
42. Programing: the Expression Problem
43. Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Speak Chinese 📺
44. Font Articles Index
45. FSF Spread FUD on Microsoft
46. Ruby Creator Cooks Python; Matz and GitCafe
47. How Does a Unicode Character Get Mapped to a Glyph in a Font?
48. How Much You'll Get for Writing a Programing Book?
49. In-place Algorithm for Reversing a List in Perl, Python, Lisp, Mathematica
50. The Strengths of the Academic Enterprise
51. Invisible Character from Twitter
52. Is Math Important for Programers?
53. What's Philosophy and Paul Graham: Qi Lisp Creator Mark Tarver on Is Philosophy Useful?
54. is programing math?
55. JavaScript Array Speed vs C Array
56. LAND OF LISP (Book and Comics)
57. Laptops 2012 Comparison: ASUS Zenbook Prime vs Apple MacBook Pro
58. Computer Hacking: Lulz Security Farewell Note
59. The Landscape of Instant Messaging and the Mac 2006
60. Unix/Linux Dot File Problems: .svn .htaccess .DS_Store …
61. Mouse Speed Too Slow in Mac OS X?
62. Model-View-Controller Observer Observable — A[n] Incoherence Rambling
63. Moto G5 Plus
64. Internet History, Netscape, Dot Com, Code Rush 📺
65. The NoSQL Movement
66. NSA Mass Surveillance
67. The Sad Story of OAuth 2.0 and Open Standards, IETF
68. The Pain of Ampersand in HTML
69. Parallel Programing Problem: asciify-string
70. Encryption: What's Perfect Forward Secrecy?
71. Perl One-Liner Screw
72. PHP + MySQL Documentation Redux, 2012
73. Picasa Pains: Using Picasa Web as Backup; Sync All Folders
74. Programer Salary
75. Programer Simple Living Shanty Town Squatter
76. Programers Refuse to Change 📺
77. Programing: Decimalize Latitude Longitude
78. Programing Language Popularity 2017
79. Python Tech 2012: django, CherryPy, unittest, nose, celery, decorator
80. Python Libs for Scientists
81. Xah Regular Expression Articles Index
82. Programing Challenge: Replace String Pairs
83. Ruby Rails Mongrel, Zed Shaw: Rails Is A Ghetto
84. Ruby RVM Complexity
85. Safari “.webloc” File is Using Mac Resource Fork
86. Screenshot Tracking Watermark
87. Sessions, and Token Based Auth
88. Skype Chat Encryption and Screen Sharing
89. Software Dependency Complexity: Fink, Unison
90. web tech 2012: blackbox/whitebox testing, Jenkins, Puppet, Selenium
91. Software Skin Cancer
92. How Fast is Running Perl in Cygwin or Using NTFS on Linux? (The Price You Pay for Layers and Emulations)
93. A Syntax Highlighting Language?
94. quick random jot-downs, on TCP/IP, on Tech Writing
95. What's the Difference Between Hacker and Tech Geeker?
96. X No Chord Keyboard
97. Unicode RIGHTWARDS BLACK ARROW and BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROW Problem ⬅ ➡ ⮕
98. Unicode BOM Byte Order Mark Hack
99. Syntax Design: Use of Unicode Matching Brackets as Specialized Delimiters
100. Semantic of Symbol: Unicode Ellipsis Symbol vs Dot Dot Dot
101. Unicode for Programers, Index
102. Unicode Semantics: the ∀ in Turn A Gundam
103. Unicode Symbol for “e.g.” (exempli gratia)
104. Semantics and Symbols: Examples of Unicode Symbols Usage
105. Linux Hacker Propaganda on UTF-8 Encoding
106. UNIX Tar Problem: File Length Truncation, Unicode Name Support
107. Linux Shell Util uniq Unicode Bug
108. Programing Exercise, Validate Matching Brackets
109. Ubuntu Linux: vim Location and Versions
110. What's Apache Ant, Apache Maven, What's the Difference?
111. What's Docker?
112. Why is Array Access Constant Time
113. Why PDF Sucks
114. It's Not You, It's Them: Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach 📺
115. Xah Language Design
116. Xah Linux

Python 3 Adoption added more articles.

fuck python. fuck easy_install pip mess. fuck python2 python3. fuck passive aggressive semi-formal i-know-comp-sci Guido. Fuck python comp sci Я us inflexible priests tower community fuck.

Here's collection rants i've written. They go way back to 2006. Why Python Sucks

Python: What's PyPi, pip, easy_install, setuptools?

djsumdog @djsumdog@hitchhiker.social 2019-02-18 wrote:

@xahlee Never use sudo pip or sudo easy_install . I don't know why it's in all the manuals. Always use: pip install --user ← that USER is super important. You should never let pip or cargo or any other language manager ever touch your system packages. gem also has a gem install --user which you should use to. You can always wipe/reset your home directory. The system is much more difficult.

this is a new python distro, suggested to me https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/

old stuff. temp here.

Python Surpassed Perl In Popularity

• The X-Windows Disaster
• “Buffer Overflow” Security Problems
• On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity
• Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad
• UNIX Philosophy, Fast Food the UNIX way
• A Example of Expressiveness in Computer Language
• rsync Symptom
• “Free” Software Morality, Richard Stallman, Paperwork Bureaucracy
• Mathematica 7 Released
• Richard Stallman's Abuse of the Word “Freedom”
• Death of Newsgroups
• comp.lang.lisp is 95% Spam
• Programer Celebrities; Styles and Tack
• Computer Languages
• The Unix Pestilence
• Free Software, Communism, Ideologies, Policies
• Purpose of Logo and Principle of Logo Design
• Mac OS X Misc Command Line Tips
• Mac OS X “.dmg” File and Command Line Tutorial
• Programing: GNU Make (gmake) Tutorial
• Voodoos of Software Engineering
• Something about Unicode
• Python Snake Becometh Dragon in China 蛇变龙!
• rsync Windows to unix File Permissions

Linux: Download Website: wget, curl (updated)

Lisp Needs a Logo (old article. checked links.)

Python: Find Replace in a Dir

full featured find/replace code in python.

Unicode Screenshots

Unicode Stars ★

and much other update on unicode pages. Removed screenshot from each page, because that doesn't seem to be what people want.

Linux: Compare Files or Directory: diff (minor update)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

updated.

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Unicode Hand Gestures 👍 added screenshots

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Ugliness of Software Tech (repost)

URL Percent Encoding and Unicode (major update.)

new nav box.

Python: GET Webpage Content (minor update)

Computer Network Tutorial (new nav box)

Why Python Doc Sucks (new nav box)

new nav box.

new nav box. some are still pending review.

Python Syntax Problem: Comment and Backslash (repost)

Pretty Girl on AlphaZero Chess

watch this girl Anna Rudolf, explains chess of AlphaZero. There exist such amazing and beautiful people in this world.