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Hofstadter on Lisp

In the mid-80s, while reading through my roommate's collection of Scientific American back issues, I encountered this introduction to Lisp written by Douglas Hofstadter. I found it very charming at the time, and provide it here (somewhat illegally) for the edification of a new generation of Lispers.

In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

(defalias 'plus #'+)
(defalias 'quotient #'/)
(defalias 'times #'*)
(defalias 'difference #'-)

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jlin on github.
• I am jlin (https://keybase.io/jlin) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is B90F EDFD 2012 4621 9FC4 B714 3F39 C768 3D49 BBB6

To claim this, I am signing this object:

jlin

*This Gist has been updated to work with Catalina 10.15. Everything works as usual, except for the need to get the 10.11 SDK and unzip it to the correct place, then a line in mozconfig to tell the build system where the SDK is.

*Using mozconfig (not the dotfile) throughout so that we don't have to deal with trying to troubleshoot a hidden dot file with the Mac Finder

Set Up

• Install macOS
• Update macOS + run dinobuildr.sh (enable filevault and let filevault encryption complete)
• install homebrew (Command Line Tools installation will be prompted as part of homebrew installation)
• https://brew.sh/

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(jlin)

The house wasn't the same to her any more. Physically, not many changes were made by the new owners. The roof still had that deep shade of red, but some shingles have been replaced with black ones, marring the uniformity. The porch was still dusty as usual. "Can't keep that wind blowing the factory soot into houses," she thought to herself. She looked around at the windows on the second floor, wondering if the tree branches were still in the same place as when she was younger. She could just climb in. No luck. The oak had been cut down, the only remaining feature a dark weathered stump to the left of the house.

She hoped that nobody was at home. She just needed to get into the basement, if there still was a basement. It had been popular to fill in basements with cement to stop people like her from taking advantage of people's houses. The government called them tunnelers - experts in geo-engineering who dug their way into the palace and held up

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Ported from https://gist.github.com/jlin/f60a7a6c0b75c2c9aee9

Have the following tools handy:

1. MicroUSB cable

Important Links:

http://downloads.geeksphone.com/

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Have the following tools handy:

1. MicroUSB cable
2. ADB working from command line
3. fastboot working from command line
4. up to date clone of B2G-flash-tool (https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool) - this tool is updated every couple of weeks
5. Mozilla/Mozilla Foundation ldap account - the binary builds that will be downloaded in this procedure contain private files

Both 2 and 3 can be installed from http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jlin on github.
• I am jlin (https://keybase.io/jlin) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is DA32 9C69 E557 8E65 CD93 C7E9 C140 B35F DBF7 B9EC

To claim this, I am signing this object:

jlin

the beginning

You arrive at a plain, unadorned room, just snug enough in physical dimensions to fit two of your arm-lengths.

You sit cross-legged on the beachwood floor, and before you are a tape casette and a black skeleton key.

Some Common objects:

• tea cup
• hair tie

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she slumbers beside me, the rhythmic ebb and flow of her breathing marks the passing of the night 

tech inspired writing techniques
use of scm to track and branch plot lines

the reality distortion field