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5:24:37
beach
shka_: Yes, many of my comments should probably be converted to documentation strings.
5:25:39
beach
It's that it's hard to determine what information belongs where, and I also don't like the way documentation strings are currently written.
5:26:40
no-defun-allowed
Silly question, do you know when you wrote the article "Shared misery" <http://metamodular.com/Psychology/shared-misery.html>? I want to mention it in my book in passing, and to cite it properly I should probably have a year.
5:32:50
beach
Actually, the phenomenon in that essay is very close to behavior that we see in #lisp all the time.
5:45:13
shka_
at this point we should start enumerating lol books because little lol and big LOL won't be enough
5:45:40
no-defun-allowed
Well, it's a book Gnuxie 💜🐝 and I are working on, that consolidates some of the article ideas we never got around to writing.
5:54:29
no-defun-allowed
At some point, I wanted to write a second book about the design principles and the (short) history of Netfarm, but I never got around to that. Then we read some other articles and got into some discussions where we ended up saying the same things we would have put in that book, so I decided to collect those and use them to start writing the book.
6:00:30
no-defun-allowed
The main themes are relating dynamic/introspective environments to a social ecologist view of technology, how peer production and the Internet do (and could further) facilitate experimentation quite well, and how one could consider extensibility and moderation techniques to promote good social relations between the developer and client, and a user and another user, respectively.
6:01:06
no-defun-allowed
Not really, I was planning on providing it for free online, but physical copies would be nice.
14:04:58
beach
I changed the DEFMETHOD macro to expand to a call to ENSURE-METHOD, and I implemented a bootstrapping-specific version of ENSURE-METHOD for each of the main phases. There is currently a lot of code duplication that I will try to factor later when the bootstrapping procedure is stable.