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計劃申請
參與機構
獲獎學人
2019/2020 獲獎學人
2009 論壇
司美恩
Jan STUART 司美恩
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 弗利爾與賽克勒藝術館
Presenting China in Western Museums
Museum professionals in North America and Europe often raise the questions "how can museums engage the visitor," "what should museum displays look like in the 21st century," and "how do we stay relevant?" These questions are a focus of directors, curators, educators, designers, public affairs specialists, and the like, all of whom play important roles in the success of the modern museum. The same questions apply equally whether an institution is an encyclopedic museum holding a collection that represent a wide breadth of human civilization, or is more specialized, holding a collection dedicated to a specific culture or time period, such as a museum of Asian art or a contemporary art museum. In all cases, museum professionals have similar goals, protocols, and needs-that is to attract and serve their audiences, including by offering enjoyment and education, and also to develop a sustainable plan to support the staffing needs and infrastructure of the museum building at a level to physically preserve the collection and extend the objects' lifecycle into the far distant future.
While care and preservation of the collection is the core responsibility of a museum, its heart lays in the power to use the collections to reach people, and hopefully to sometimes profoundly touch them. As the museum scholar, Stephen Weil puts it, "Museums matter only to the extent that they are perceived to provide communities they serve with something of value beyond their mere existence." (Stephen E. Weil. Making Museums Matter (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 2002), pp. 4, 5, 41). This paper will look at some of the implications of this view of museums. How do museums provide for a community, and specifically how do they do this in the context of holding collections of Chinese art, and how do museum staff work together to accomplish this large goal? The paper will in particular address the curatorial role with some specificity.
At the outset, it is worth noting that Weil's comment is widely accepted and represents a prevailing view in museum communities, but I it is also worthwhile to point out there may be a danger in his use of the words "matter only" if they provide beyond the importance of their physical existence, because this points to a shifting balance towards prioritizing community service over preserving the collections themselves. A view I find untenable. Preserving, and also researching the collections, are time consuming, expensive, and mostly behind-the-scenes endeavors that have enormous gravitas, but which are losing position to other concerns of the museum world. The hidden nature of preservation and research has perhaps made it hard for museum Directors to champion these aspects, but we must keep these as an unwavering goal of institutions. This paper explores the role of museum staff in upholding Weil's broader perspective for museums, but aims to also emphasize the importance of staff, primarily curators, who can serve as an active interface between the two sides of the museum-collection care and research and people-to-people engagement.
It is laudable, and in fact, obligatory, for museums to want to share their collections in ways to inspire interest and appreciation for the objects they hold and expand viewers' understanding of them, as well as to find new ways to engage visitors and make them feel actively engaged in the museum experience. Displays should connect and communicate with the viewer, and when a museum is successful at doing this, its builds its viewer base, which is necessary for income generation and sustainability. More visitors streaming through the door translates into greater profits from tickets and merchandise sales; and for museums with free admission, more visitors can translate into greater private or government support. In Western museums that have important collections of Chinese art, there is almost universal agreement among staff that the greatest wish is for visitors to leave the museum (or end a website visit) feeling enriched, finding themselves more interested or thoughtful about Chinese art, and possibly even thinking differently about China itself.
Using art to connect people with a better understanding of China in general is a goal that most museums today see as part of their relevance to modern society. This sounds good, and even obvious, but tensions can arise, since there are differences in opinion about what achieving relevance means. There are different points of view about whether historic art collections, or even contemporary art, should be used as a direct means to understand the modern political and cultural entity of China. For example, can a presentation of Ming/Qing imperial art be used to inform visitors about China today? The answer is perhaps a very guarded "yes", in the sense that when visitors who previously had no knowledge about historic China learn through seeing Chinese artefacts of the 15th and 18th century that have stylistic connections to Middle Eastern, Himalyan, or European cultures, they gain a greater understanding that China was not historically insular. This knowledge may be enlightening for them when looking at modern China's international position. But the danger is that increasingly some museum staff members are trying to use historic art to make direct connections to modern politics and life. Museums seem to be walking a tightrope-should they host programmes with political commentators, or is this perhaps an arena in which they should collaborate with other academic institutions, such as a college or think-tank like the Brookings Institutions. This paper will examine some of the approaches that museums are taking today to ensure that visitors in a Western society will feel attracted to displays of Chinese art.
What are some of the practicalities of how museums can accomplish this? Museums have always been, and are increasingly, reliant on teamwork to accomplish these goals as there mandate becomes broader. Therefore, there are inevitably questions about which individuals and which departments should be represented on which teams and who (if anyone) should lead each team, and how to communicate internally and externally. Different museums have different approaches to this complex question and a few prototypes will be examined.
One of the questions that always comes up in this type of discussion is what is the role of a curator, and can/should a curator be a project/team manager. Decades ago curators were likely to be the person-in-charge, beholden only to the Director's higher judgment, but today they are usually placed as just one of many highly regarded staff members. Institutional structures are nobly trying to nurture all types of staff and thus benefit from diverse and disparate talents. It has become common to talk about curators as "content providers," and value them in exhibition, and other, teams the same as the members of other departments. Much is gained by being certain to avoid a monopoly by curators, but it is worth questioning the validity of a now not uncommon view that holds that curators are generally removed from the public they serve, and are mostly ivory tower academics or even prima donna. While there may be the occasional curator of that nature, I would suggest that this a largely unfounded view that has spuriously come into play, perhaps partly as a kind imaginary foil to give other newer roles in the museum, such as interpretation officers, more validity and urgency. I propose the newer job roles are critically important to the success of the modern museum, but this in no way diminishes the key importance of the curator, nor should we should we collectively buy into the myth that curators are disconnected and disinterested in the public. Curators are invaluable not only in providing and shaping content and fact-checking content generated by others, but it often remains unsaid that curatorial passion (which is also knowledge-based) for the objects they study and care for can make the curators the most informed and energetic team leaders.
Without knowledge and passion, it easy for museum objects to become just "things". This paper takes a look at what curators can provide in the modern museum setting. Keeping in mind the comment by the famous Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, who said "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place," I will also address the practicalities of how curators can improve their communication with other museum staff, and will review the scenario in which a curator as team leader is paired with a project manager, whose role in entirely administrative, and can assist in team management. I will also address the issue of the size of committees, since there is a trend to increase the membership of committees, disregarding what many business leaders note that the smallest reasonable membership is strongly advised. Art collections are brought to life by the collective expertise and imagination of museum staff, as well as by close coordination with collaborators, who may include the museum visitors themselves, living artists, performance centers and academic institutions. In all this, the curator plays a critical role worth examining in some detail.
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Q: Adding cordova.js prevents geolocation (or any other) callback I created an Ionic project to convert an existing AngularJS webapp to a hybrid app. Works perfectly.
I added cordova-plugin-geolocation to get the geolocation working, which did, but I saw that the cordova.plugins.diagnostic has better support, so I added that. However, to get that working I had to add to index.html <script src="cordova.js"></script> which wasn't in before.
So, I now try to get the location authorization when the app loads as follows:
$ionicPlatform.ready(function() {
    if (window.cordova && window.cordova.plugins) {
        console.log('Cordova plugins ready');
        if (window.cordova.plugins.diagnostic) {
            console.log('Diagnostic plugin ready');
            window.cordova.plugins.diagnostic.getLocationAuthorizationStatus(evaluateGeolocationAuthorizationStatus, onGeolocationAuthorizationError);
        }
    }
});

When looking in the console I do see Diagnostic plugin ready, but nothing happens. When I run in the  chrome console window.cordova.plugins.diagnostic.getLocationAuthorizationStatus(function(status) {console.log('status: ' + status)}, function(error) {console.log (error)}); I get undefined.
When I try the classical window.navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError, options) I also get undefined.
When I remove <script src="cordova.js"></script> I don't have access to window.cordova, but now the callback of window.navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPositionworks again.
So, in short: adding <script src="cordova.js"></script> prevents these callbacks.
I already removed and added again the Android platform, but all stays the same. Can anyone help?
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cordova-android 8.1.0

my package.json file
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A: I had the same issue, and for me, the reason was quite difficult to track down.
Bascially the .js plugin was not able to talk with the host android plugin and the only error/warning message I was able to find was a cryptic Ignoring {action} from previous page load. But in the end, the root cause, in my case, was the fact that I've changed the Hostname's default value from localhost to my custom domain (e.g. fancy-app.com). And according to the ionic webview plugin documentation:

Hostname

Default value is localhost.
Example ionic://app on iOS, http://app on Android.
If you change it, you'll need to add a new allow-navigation entry in the config.xml for the configured url (i.e  if Hostname is set to app). This is only needed for the Android url when using http://, https:// or a custom scheme. All ionic:// urls are whitelisted by the plugin.

That explained also why the plugin worked on iOS (where by default the scheme is ionic:// but not on Adroid).
As as soon as I added <allow-navigation href="http://app/*"/> in my config.xml file it worked fine.

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Kumiko Watanabe (born 10 May 1936) is a Japanese diver. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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In the last number of years, there seems to be quite a lot of media attention on bad leaders. We hear a great deal about the ones who are corrupt, egotistical and motivated solely by their own gain and self-aggrandizement. Stories of employee disengagement, bullying by management and other articles around failures of leadership appear frequently. Despite our seemingly endless desire to hear about the bad leadership, most great leaders quietly giving their best for organizations and society. While not drawing attention to themselves and their achievements, these leaders are making a real positive difference with their staff, organizations and society.
Authentic leaders see their role as one of responsibility for bringing out the best in others and doing what is best for the organization within the context of serving their community. They resist entitlement and seeing themselves as special people ordained with special powers and privileges. While others give in to the urge to use their power, authentic leaders are in the habit of making themselves constantly aware of the responsibilities their position's place them in. They are truly grateful for the chance to serve others and are always looking for ways to help others advance.
Doing what is right, rather than what is popular, takes courage and a belief in oneself and one's abilities. Authentic leaders know that their decisions will not always be popular and they will be required at times to stand up and defend their beliefs and decisions. They are prepared to do this, believing it is more important to do what is right rather than what is easiest or the most popular. While they face fears and self-doubt like everyone else, they understand the need to push past them in order to grow.
The reason genuine leaders earn trust and respect is that everyone around them knows that what you see is what you get. The janitor is treated with the same respect as those they are doing business with and those that they report to. Their wives, husbands, families and friends see the same person as do all the people they work with. They are comfortable in their own skin and see no need for feigning or ego stroking.
Genuine leaders see others as struggling humans trying to do their best and are willing to give themselves leeway in their own journey of life. They are willing to admit their mistakes and are willing to accept they will never be perfect. Their aim to learn from their mistakes, take the lessons and move on. Those who report to genuine leaders will be more confident in pushing their own boundaries and making mistakes in the process. Creativity and innovation will flow in an organization in which leaders are making and acknowledging their own mistakes and encourage their followers to do the same.
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We all have preferences when dealing with others; some we like and others just seem to bring out the worst in us. Genuine leaders are aware enough to know when someone is pushing their triggers and attempt to treat everyone reasonably and respectfully. They make a real effort to treat everyone fairly regardless of their personal feelings towards them. They are never beyond sincerely apologizing to anyone if they realize later that they have acted rudely or disrespectfully towards them.
Whether it is flipping burgers at the company barbecue or coaching little league slow pitch, authentic leaders are the first ones to avail themselves to the service of their organization and community. They see themselves and their roles as part of the bigger picture and look for these opportunities to share their skills and knowledge with those around them. While some might view this as a burden, genuine leaders see recompensing as a privilege and an opportunity to give back as a form of gratitude for what they have received in life.


This range of recorders is of the descant style, the style most commonly used in classrooms and by music teachers. With a range of bright colours to choose from these recorders are very popular with young musicians. These recorders break up into 3 pieces to make them easy to transport and clean, and are sold together with a cleaning rod and a plastic pouch.


If you are still not sure of the freight broker to use for your shipping process, it is imperative to be very cautious any time you are looking for a freight broker that you can trust and depend on. This guide is very important to those how are doing the first shipment and to even those who have done several because it has tips that are instrumental to either of the persons. At such a time, you may be stuck whether to search for the freight broker online or even contact your friends so as to see whose services are they using. You may be there still not sure whether to engage a freight broker or to go direct to the carrier. This savvy guide highlights tips that you can use to engage the best freight broker.
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Home>Music> Quavo Confirms Soulja Boy's "Versace" Claims: "He's Speaking Facts"
"Soulja most definitely influenced a lot of everybody's work."
Quavo appeared to be unimpressed with Soulja Boy when Migos was asked about the "Crank Dat" rapper during an interview with The Breakfast Club. It seems like the entertainer has switched up his stance since dismissing Soulja's gripe against him. Quavo has come through with an endorsement of at least part of his rival's claims, which may give credibility to other parts of his ramblings.
Billboard asked, "Soulja Boy told The Breakfast Club that he gave you the 'Versace' beat, is that true?" His response is somewhat surprising. "Nah, he recorded on the 'Versace' beat. Zaytoven normally does this all the time where he sends the same beat out," he said. "Growing up, I think I heard the song, it was like an "OMG" song. Then we ended up doing a harder record with some harder lyrics. Soulja most definitely influenced a lot of everybody's work. He's speaking facts. He hasn't said anything wrong."
This comes after Quavo showed no sympathy or patience for Soulja Boy back in 2017."How do you stay out of the way of beef," Charlamagne asked Migos. "'Cause Soulja Boy had some words for you." Quavo took a breath before responding. "F*ck that n*gga," he said, seemingly aggravated.
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Hi there! How are you? Aren't you glad that the weekend is approaching?! Can't say I am looking forward to the weekend as hubby is out of town on a business trip, so it is just sonny boy and me at home.
I had expected to get a lot of crochet done as DH was away and sonny is happy with any one dish meal I can conjure up at the last minute. But sadly that did not happen, due to sundry aches and pains I had through out the week.
Never mind, I will share one of my lovely books with you today.
So, get ready for the tour of "Crochet Mesh". This is a lovely book by Ondori and I just loved it the moment I laid eyes on it. There was a slight hesitation to buy it due to the high cost, but I am the kind who will gladly sacrifice a new outfit for a gorgeous new book so now the book stands proudly on my book shelf. Have I mentioned earlier that books make my mouth water and that I get goose pimples whenever I turn the crisp pages of a new book, and oh... that lovely smell of a fresh book. Ok, ok I know, too much blah blah.....let's get on with it.
This doily is the first one I tried from the book. It looked deceptively simple but gosh it was quite complicated. The last few rows required a lot of fastening off and joining thread and if there is one thing I hate to do it is weaving in the ends. So I was relieved to complete this one.
Here is the end result. It has survived years of use and washing and now I don't even bother to block it, poor thing.
The next doily or should I say centerpiece is what I attempted next. Today when I see it, I can't imagine how I actually managed to complete it. You see I am notorious for accumulating WIPs and normally I have 6 to 7 projects going on at a time. Yeah... sometimes I do manage to get some of them done and sometimes I keep them pending just to remind myself that I am alive and I still have a lot to do!! Did that make any sense to you?
Ta da, here is my masterpiece. As usual, too lazy to block it. Do you think it looks like the original? I would love to hear your opinion.
Here are a few more pages from the book. Projects that I hope to make some time in the future, like these lovely cushions.
These cushions are lovely too, don't you think so?
This bedspread is one page that I love to open often and just stare at longingly. I wonder if one lifetime will be adequate to finish making it. Maybe a group effort with the ladies in the family might do the trick. Sadly, that is so not happening!
This runner with roses is definitely tempting.
Don't you just love the cats on the piano cover?
The next photo is not very clear but I added it anyway.
I hope you enjoyed the tour through Meshland. I do like filet crochet as it requires only chains and dcs and does not call for clusters, popcorns, pineapples or any other edibles!! But I think sometimes the designs are too subtle and do not stand out against the mesh. And in that sense I feel filet crochet can be tricky at times.
I hope I complete my Phd (Projects Half Done) soon and have something to share with you the next time.
Till then, lotsa luv. Have a great weekend and do write to me.
Had a heartyyyyyy laugh! You make PHD's sound so nice! In the sense, not feeling guilty about having half done projects. Thats how it should be cause the pleasure of crochet gets burnt because of the guilt. :) ain't it? And wonderful doilies that you have created. You must venture into bringing home the cats. Its too lovely. Buy a piano, if necessary. lol!
I hope you remember that our tea party is eagerly looked forward to. Don't forget.
OMG! I love these crochet projects! I love working with thread and making intricate patterns. New follower.
Always love to see beautiful doilies ! You have a master-piece indeed !


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Import of more than 300 thousand tons from the borders of Sistan and Baluchestan in 10 months
خانه Import of more than 300 thousand tons from the borders of Sistan and Baluchestan in 10 months
Imports of more than 300,000 tons from the borders of Sistan and Baluchestan in 10 months; Import of more than 300 thousand tons from the borders of Sistan and Baluchestan in 10 months. The supervisor of Sistan and Baluchestan customs said: frozen fish and paper are among the imported items of the province, which have been imported from other countries in the first ten months of this year.
Nader Mirshakar in an interview with Asrhamoon Economic Reporter added: "Imports through customs and border markets of the province, including the Chabahar Free Zone, weighing 346,951 tons and worth 614,874,739 dollars have been registered during the first 10 months of this year."
He continued: "Surveys show that imports, compared to the same period last year, have seen a 17 percent decrease in weight and a 10 percent increase in value."
He specified: Major imported items include edible rice, wheat, livestock, textiles, car spare parts, industrial and household goods, mango, sesame seeds, chickpeas, coolers, sugar, etc., and major imported countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, UAE , China, Turkey, Korea, Taiwan and other countries.
The official in charge of exports from the official borders of the province also said: during 10 months of this year, total exports from customs and border markets of the province with the same period last year increased by 29 percent in weight and 12 percent in value and this amount of exports during this period It has reached the weight of one million 417 thousand 459 thousand 179 dollars.
He stated that the main export items are construction materials (cement), bitumen, coriander seeds, chemical and industrial products, diesel, gas, tiles, apple trees, etc., noting that the main export countries of the province include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey. , Kuwait, UAE and other countries.
He said: "According to statistics, exports through bazaars have grown very well and about 54% of the province's exports have been done through this and has a significant export performance."
He said: "The main reasons for the increase in exports from the bazaars are easy access to the bazaars of neighboring countries, ease of the export process and less administrative bureaucracy of the bazaars compared to customs."
Mirshakar further stated that the border markets of the province had an export-oriented approach, which has led to the growth and prosperity of the region's economy and trade. More effective than the border markets in the past, which have a significant share in economic development and prosperity of non-oil exports, according to the performance of the Milk border market with a value of $ 150 million and 297 thousand and 568 dollars had the highest export volume compared to other markets. .
He said: "According to the targeted plan for the year 1995, according to the operational plans of the resistance economy, the amount of non-oil exports of the province is set at 522 million dollars, considering that in the first 10 months of this year, the province's exports were worth 417 million dollars." It can be said that about 80% of the total goal plan has been achieved and about 20% of it remains. It can even go beyond its plan and we will see good export growth this year.
Confirming the export and import statistics, the supervisor of Sistan and Baluchestan customs also said about domestic transit: during the ten months of this year, weighing 145,669 tons and worth 180 million and 49 thousand and 553 dollars, the province's customs has domestic transit, which is an increase of 24% compared to the same period It has seen a 2% increase in weight and value.
Tahereh Hamoon Nourd also stated about the main items of domestic balance: rice, sesame seeds, frozen fish, paper, mango, etc. are among these items.
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Philocrites: John Brown: The Transcendentalists' terrorist.
John Brown: The Transcendentalists' terrorist.
Brown was never arrested or tried for the Kansas killings, and when he came back East he found himself a hero—though not with the members of Garrison's abolitionist "establishment," who were firmly pacifist and consumed by their own sectarian squabbling. Instead, it was the high Transcendentalists, Thoreau and Emerson and Alcott first among them, who became Brown's fervent admirers and propagandists. Some of Reynolds's most illuminating pages are devoted to Brown's relationship to the Transcendentalists. The historical cliché has been that the Transcendentalists had their heads too far up in the clouds to see what was happening on the bloody earth below. Reynolds, however, following Stauffer, establishes that they were Brown's most important intellectual allies.
In a way, it was an early instance of radical chic: the Transcendentalists preferred a real man to a squabbling set of Mrs. Jellybys. But there was more to it. They shared a disdain for materialist Northern society—which Brown had bankrupted himself out of, and which the Transcendentalists viewed largely with baffled dismay. Whatever else Brown might be, he was not a trivial man, or a worldly one: he was not a merchant with a Sunday cause. He was a free man already in a state of liberty. In a way that recalls the idealization of Jean Genet by the French existentialists, it was his own freedom from constraints, as much as his urge to break the shackles of others, that drew the Transcendentalists to him.
He received the backing of a group of wealthy abolitionists who called themselves the Secret Six, though a less secret secret group is hard to imagine. They included Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man who was later Emily Dickinson's patron. (Reynolds has some fascinating speculative pages on traces of Brown's life in Dickinson's poetry, one essentially fanatic American imagination speaking to another.) From that time on, Brown was devoted to fund-raising and recruiting for his Southern invasion plan, which soon centered on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Parker grew convinced that there could be no wholly political solution to the slavery crisis. During the proto-civil war in Kansas territory, he raised money to buy weapons for the free state militias, and later became a member of the secret committee that helped finance and arm John Brown's failed attempt, in October 1859, to start a slave insurrection in Virginia. When Brown was arrested, Parker wrote a public letter defending Brown's actions and the right of slaves to kill their masters ( John Brown's Expedition Reviewed ).
By writing John Brown out as an oddity or sideshow, [Reynolds] insists, we miss the essential reality of the war: what was unthinkable and extremist in 1859—the armed descent of the North on the South to end slavery—had by 1864 become a mass movement, so that the war could be understood as what Lincoln called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Brown is the first mover in the American tragedy, the man who struck the bell and struck it hard.
I'm not sure I had very directly confronted the fact that the Transcendentalists knew they were funding a murderer and terrorist when they embraced John Brown's rebellion. (Loaded word? Sure, but it fits precisely, as Gopnik shows.) Brown and his supporters illustrate how clarity of purpose can justify violence, a tragic outcome of commitment — something I thought about when reading Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club , which also focuses on a handful of New Englanders in Emerson's orbit during the Civil War.
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I recently heard a story, told to me by a colleague, that at the moment John Brown was executed in Washington D.C., All Souls D.C. (was it named All Souls in 1859?) tolled their church bell in honor of him.
I've always thought the story of John Brown and the Transcendentalists should serve as a lesson and warning about the dangers of lending religious legitimacy to political radicalism. Obviously, it isn't enough to say we are called by our religion to do something, one must also question the ethics and effect of the call. Parker believed he was helping slaves by supporting John Brown, but the massacre actually resulted in "retributive" violence directed at slaves not involved with the uprising, making their condition worse. When I hear about a UU group raising money for Palestinians in the name of UUism, I wonder if we aren't making a similar mistake.
Meadville Lombard recently acquired a relic of John Brown, now on display outside the Wiggin Memorial Library.
This is a really good topic, glad to see it discussed here. The situation is even murkier than Matthew suggests, because Brown's actions (particularly in 1859) helped in part to start the Civil War. Does this mean that his terrorism did in fact contribute ultimately to the emancipation of the slaves?
Unitarian/Transcendentalist support for abolition was widespead and included all sorts of activites, from protecting fugitive slaves in the North (another activity the Secret Six were involved in) to funding abolitionist paramilitaries to enlistment in the War Between the States (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., etc). But that shouldn't imply there weren't plenty of copperheads among the Unitarians, or that their abolitionism was always about human rights (in some cases, it was about removing blacks--supposedly an inferior and dangerous race--from the United States).
Matthew, you warn about the dangers of lending religious legitimacy to political radicalism, but would you lump the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer plotting an assassination attempt against Hitler into the same category?
John Brown believed that people innocent of a particular sin should be punished even by death for simply being a member of what he considered a sinful society. He forced wives and children to listen while he killed their unarmed fathers and husbands because he believed he had a right to resort to violence when the law did not recognize his particular moral standpoint. It is not a coincidence that Timothy McVeigh considered him a hero--at least, not any more a coincidence than that John Brown considered Oliver Cromwell to be a hero. The fact that we happen to agree with a portion of Brown's moral position--that slavery is wrong--does not mean we must agree with the methods by which he sought to end slavery.
It sounds like you are well-informed about history perhaps even more so than I, a student, but I think it is a stretch to say that Unitarian and Universalist support for abolition was widespread. Parker's views were not in the mainstream of Unitarianism and he suffered for them. Unitarian Universalists have tended to selectively recall and celebrate abolitionists and other figures in the past who reflect modern values, while ignoring other people and groups who were just as much a part of their tradition and history and presumably just as motivated by their faith to work for temperance, phrenological research, and the eugenics movement--all of these being issues which had much more widespread support than abolition. There were many more Unitarians who were anti-slavery than abolitionist, and not only were there differences about how slavery should be ended in both groups, there were also some who were not convinced it should be ended. I even once ran across slaves for sale in an antebellum Universalist periodical! Even the abolitionists UUs celebrate today had problematical beliefs about race. Parker, for example, was very clear in his views that Negroes were, as a race, inferior to whites, and the best outcome he could imagine for them would be what many would now call genocide: the gradual disappearance of the race through intermarriage.
As to the question of whether terrorism contributed toward Emancipation: In the first place, I'm not sure I'm comfortable ever saying the ends justify the means. In the second place, the ends aren't so great. Frederick Douglass refused to have anything to with Brown's planned uprising because he believed it would result in violent retribution, even mass execution, of Negroes. He was right. Panic over the Harper's Ferry massacre spread through the south, fueling a lynch mob mentality that marred American culture long after Emancipation.
I am afraid of all idealists, whether or not I agree with their position, who are willing to become indifferent to human suffering in pursuit of their cause. Both Brown and Bonhoeffer were devoutly religious men who used their religion to legitimize religion. I find Bonhoeffer to be the more sympathetic personality of the two, but I don't approve of his plot any more than I approve of Brown's. After all, we cannot lay all the atrocities of WWII at the feet of one man. Hitler deserved to die but I do not believe Bonhoeffer deserved to be his judge.
Rather than foster an uncritical acceptance of well-meaning supporters of terrorism like Theodore Parker, I think Unitarian Universalists would be better served by looking at other, less romantic, perspectives on this issue, such as those presented by William Lloyd Garrison. Now when is the last time you heard a sermon about *him*?
Matthew- I guess I see the perspective that holds that all ends must be accomplished by pure and perfect means is a dangerous form of idealism unto itself.
I do not disagree with your concern about religiously legitimated violence but I share at least an equal if not greater concern about non-religious or religious ineffectiveness and inaction.
Matthew, I agree with your assessment of selective UU memory. Let me clarify that by widespread I didn't mean universal, or even that it was a majority opinion--just that it was far from uncommon and was found in many different types of manifestations during different periods and in different parts of the country. But you're right to call me out on conflating abolitionism with anti-slavery, which were not necessarily the same thing. In many cases the support of people like Parker had less to do with admiration for the capacities of black people and more to do with regional antagonisms toward the South based on cultural/economic differences. That's why the Fugitive Slave Act so angered them--it gave Southerners the right to come into the North and assert authority while tracking runaways. The Northerners felt their honor and sovereignty (so to speak) were besmirched.
I think maybe I'm leading this discussion astray. Going back to Unitarian support for apparant terrorist acts (and Universalist too, since they've now been added in), I have a hard time making up my mind on this one. Part of that is my training as a historian--since this is a time period I study I'm used to trying to take it as it was, suspending my judgments. But I also think Parker's assessment of the situation was right: there was no purely political solution to the problem of slavery. Without the bloodshed of the Civil War, I suspect blacks would be slaves right now.
In a way, this linkage of terrorism/murder to the end of slavery goes back even further. Nat Turner's 1831 uprising, wherein he and comrades killed 55 whites (including infants), helped inspire John Brown's actions, which helped to initiate the Civil War. As with Brown's actions, the backlash against the Turner Rebellion was viscious and resulted in the deaths of many blacks and severe restrictions (which, in their own way, also helped to provoke the war).
I don't think murder is right, and I don't think what Turner or Brown did was good. But in a way, it is understandable to me. I can imagine myself acting in similar ways in their positions, though I don't like to consider myself a potential killer (or a religious zealot, something both men were). There was a touch of insanity in both men, and I don't mean that as a way to dismiss or relativize them, it's just an observation (perfectly sane men also commit terrible crimes). Truthfully, if I was alive back then I would've been more likely to be one of their victims than a supporter, since my family were slaveholders. If I can forgive my ancestors for their crimes, I also feel a need to forgive those who did them harm for a cause I feel was just (for instance, the invading Yankees whose actions resulted in the death of my great-great grandfather, a true Confederate patriot).
RevThom: I hope I am not such a fool as to insist upon "pure and perfect means" but once we begin to abrogate not only the law, but the sanctity of life itself, for the sake of individual morality, where shall we end? It does no good to say that Brown (or any other zealous terrorist) was intent upon removing a great injustice if he deprives some people of life in order to improve the lives of others. Violating one's own principles in order to preserve them is the nonsensical temptation of the well-meaning doctrinaire. One may sympathize with Brown's principles while loathing his sense of proportion.
Besides, part of my argument is that Brown's action was not, in fact, effective. It is hard to see who benefited from the massacre. Certainly not Brown himself or the people who died with him--both his victims and the people he armed and led into a situation anyone not convinced by Brown's peculiar brand of millennialism would surely have seen was hopeless. Nor is it clear to me how the massacre improved the conditions of life for the slaves he wished to free. Quite the reverse, in fact. And, as I have pointed out, black leaders like Douglass didn't want Brown's kind of help.
Your concern, however, does not seem to be only about an historical debate. Neither is mine. I'm interested in the connection between terrorism and the Transcendentalists because I think it has something to tell us about the role of religion in public life today. "God told me to do it," is not, to my way of thinking, an adequate defense for breaking the law or violating the sanctity of life.
Matthew: You are right, in this particular discussion I am less interested in the history of John Brown than in the ethical and trans-ethical dimensions of religious experience, radicalism (violent or otherwise), and what happens when social norms and religious revelation find themselves at odds.
You are also quite right that this is a dangerous discussion that can lead to dark places. I will admit that I am using this discussion not to promote my own firm beliefs but to explore dangerous ideas. This is an exercise in intellectual testing, so I hope no one construes my posts as advocating violence, murder, or criminal acts.
Matthew writes, "Once we begin to abrogate... the law... for the sake of individual morality, where shall we end?" and "'God told me to do it,' is not, to my way of thinking, an adequate defense for breaking the law or violating the sanctity of life." I have two qualms with these statements. First, laws of the land are fallible. They have their limitations. You can understand laws as a covenantal guide to relations within a community or society. You can understand laws as a control mechanism instituted by the power elite. But laws and legal codes are particular rather than universal, created rather than absolute. (Some laws clearly do approximate ideas that are universal.) Of course, if you break a law, you should be willing to accept the penalty. That God tells me to steal your TV does not mean that I will not pay society's penalty for stealing TV's. (Note: God has suggested to me no such thing.) The point: it is conceivable that religious revelation can be at odds with society's legal codes.
The second point about the two lines I quoted is the reference to the singular individual. What if it is not a rogue individual but a community? Even John Brown, though praised by the Transcendentalists as a Liberated Man, did not act alone. He was funded by a community of discernment, supported by a religious/philosophical community. Does his connection to a community of ethical discourse make his actions more legitimate? Less?
My final concern is over the question of efficacy. I think we can separate, intellectually, the desired outcome from the actual outcome. In the case of John Brown, the jury is still out on whether he was effective. His actions had negative consequences, but did they also have positive ones? Is historical causation something we can know for sure? I've not fully thought out this part of the conversation yet.
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Why should I learn Lisp? [closed]
I really feel that I should learn Lisp and there are plenty of good resources out there to help me do it.
I'm not put off by the complicated syntax, but where in "traditional commercial programming" would I find places it would make sense to use it instead of a procedural language.
Is there a commercial killer-app out there that's been written in Lisp ?
functional-programming lisp
Hard to be put off by what isn't there. – Kaz Sep 5 '12 at 17:34
Read Philip Greenspun's resume. It is rife with real Lisp work. – Kaz Jun 18 '14 at 1:16
Also here. Greenspun worked on packet switched network simulation, DSP design, processor design, VLSI layout, mechanical engineering automation, automation of earth moving, and on and on, all using Lisp or involving Lisp. He helped design Hewlett Packard's PA-RISC architecture using tools developed on a Lisp machine. – Kaz Jun 18 '14 at 1:21
Here are some apps developed in Lisp - Emacs, G2, AutoCad, Igor Engraver and Yahoo Store – Arulx Z Nov 22 '15 at 3:01
One of the main uses for Lisp is in Artificial Intelligence. A friend of mine at college took a graduate AI course and for his main project he wrote a "Lights Out" solver in Lisp. Multiple versions of his program utilized slightly different AI routines and testing on 40 or so computers yielded some pretty neat results (I wish it was online somewhere for me to link to, but I don't think it is).
Two semesters ago I used Scheme (a language based on Lisp) to write an interactive program that simulated Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine. Input from the user was matched against some pretty complicated data structures (resembling maps in other languages, but much more flexible) to choose what an appropriate response would be. I also wrote a routine to solve a 3x3 slide puzzle (an algorithm which could easily be extended to larger slide puzzles).
In summary, learning Lisp (or Scheme) may not yield many practical applications beyond AI but it is an extremely valuable learning experience, as many others have stated. Programming in a functional language like Lisp will also help you think recursively (if you've had trouble with recursion in other languages, this could be a great help).
Justin Bennett
Why do you say Lisp is only good for AI? Also, it's a multi-paradigm language. Functional is only one of the several paradigms it enables. – Luís Oliveira Sep 18 '08 at 8:48
I didn't say its only used for AI, I said one of its main uses is AI. Did you read it? – Justin Bennett Sep 18 '08 at 12:11
"Please don't assume Common Lisp is only useful for Databases, Unit Test Frameworks, Spam Filters, ID3 Parsers, Web Programming, Shoutcast Servers, HTML Generation Interpreters, and HTML Generation Compilers just because these are the only things happened to be implemented in the book Practical CL" – Mikael Jansson Sep 20 '08 at 21:38
@JustinBennett yes you said it. Here: "In summary, learning Lisp (or Scheme) may not yield many practical applications beyond AI". I hate when people confrontate while being wrong. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 15 '11 at 12:21
Lisp is a large and complex language with a large and complex runtime to support it. For that reason, Lisp is best suited to large and complicated problems.
Now, a complex problem isn't the same as a complicated one. A complex problem is one with a lot of small details, but which isn't hard. Writing an airline booking system is a complex business, but with enough money and programmers it isn't hard. Get the difference?
A complicated problem is one which is convoluted, one where traditional divide and conquer doesn't work. Controlling a robot, or working with data that isn't tabular (languages, for example), or highly dynamic situations.
Lisp is really well suited to problems where the solution must be expandable; the classic example is the emacs text editor. It is fully programmable, and thus a programming environment in it's own right.
In his famous book PAIP, Norvig says that Lisp is ideal for exploratory programming. That is, programming a solution to a problem that isn't fully understood (as opposed to an on-line booking system). In other words: Complicated problems.
Furthermore, learning Lisp will remind you of something fundamental that has been forgotten: The difference between Von Neumann and Turing. As we know, Turing's model of computation is an interesting theoretical model, but useless as a model for designing computers. Von Neumann, on the other hand, designed a model of how computers and computation were to execute: The Von Neumann model. Central to the Von Neumann model is that you have but one memory, and store both your code and your data there. Notice carefully that a Java program (or C#, or whatever you like) is a manifestation of the Turing model. You set your program in concrete, once and for all. Then you hope you can deal with all data that gets thrown on it.
Lisp maintains the Von Neuman model; there is no sharp, pre-determined border between code and data. Programming in Lisp opens your mind to the power of the Von Neumann model. Programming in Lisp makes you see old concepts in a new light.
Finally, being interactive, you'll learn to interact with your programs as you develop them (as opposed to compile and run). This also change the way you program, and the way you view programming.
With this intro I can finally offer a reply to your question: Will you find places where it outshines "traditional" languages?
If you are an advanced programmer, you need advanced tools. And there is no tool more advanced than Lisp. Or, in other words: The answer is yes if your problems are hard. No otherwise.
"but with enough money and programmers it isn't hard" -- that said, given sufficiently many programmers it becomes impossible ;-) – Jonas Kölker Feb 26 '09 at 8:44
I've read about lisps' ability to generate code on the fly, but i've also read that it can be compiled.. are there implementations which can mix interpreted & compiled execution ? or which contain there own compiler ? – centaurian_slug Dec 5 '11 at 12:35
@centaurian_slug: Yes, absolutely. That's part of the power. Any version that hasn't been deliberately crippled will have its compiler/interpreter available at runtime. So, for example, a developer can log into a special connection on his web server, do some debugging, update some class and function definitions, and possibly recompile whatever was relying on those definitions if need be. All while the server's up and running. Probably not legal in an enterprise worried about SOX compliance, but that's one reason industries use braindead languages like Java and C# – James Mar 23 '12 at 14:05
In response to @lassevk:
Marcio Aguiar
complicated syntax??
The syntax for lisp is incredibly simple.
Killer app written in lisp: emacs. Lisp will allow you to extend emacs at will to do almost anything you can think of that an editor might do.
But, you should only learn lisp if you want to, and you may never get to use at work ever, but it is still awesome.
Also, I want to add: even if you find places where lisp will make sense, you will probably not convince anyone else that it should be used over java, c++, c#, python, ruby, etc.
Justin Standard
@Justin: It's probably worth noting that emacs core is written in C. But that's just nit-picking - all the commands are written in elisp. – Bernard Aug 7 '08 at 23:56
or rather -- the core syntax of common lisp is simple. defmacro allows extending the syntax, and some of the built in macros (such as defmacro) can get incredibly complicated; lambda lists, nested backquotes, etc. – Aaron Mar 26 '09 at 17:34
It's almost fair to say emacs's C part is glue code. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 15 '11 at 12:38
According to the Emacs reference manual, "Most of the editing commands in Emacs are written in Lisp; the few exceptions could have been written in Lisp but use C instead for efficiency." gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Intro – dpritch Aug 4 '18 at 15:45
I can't answer from first-hand experience but you should read what Paul Graham wrote on Lisp. As for the "killer-app" part, read Beating the averages.
Christian Lescuyer
+1. This answer should mention Yahoo Stores, the first web app, was partially written in lisp. Quoting Wikipedia: In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store. – Steven Lu Apr 4 '13 at 17:26
I programmed in Lisp professionally for about a year, and it is definitely worth learning. You will have unparalleled opportunity to remove redundancy from your code, by being able to replace all boilerplate code with functions where possible, and macros where not. You will also be able to access unparalleled flexibility at runtime, translating freely between code and data. Thus, situations where user actions can trigger the need to build complex structures dynamically is where Lisp truly shines. Popular airline flight schedulers are written in Lisp, and there is also a lot of CAD/CAM in Lisp.
John with waffle
Lisp is very useful for creating little DSLs. I've got a copy of Lisp in a Box running at work and I've written little DSLs to interrogate SQL server databases and generate data layers etc in C#. All my boiler plate code is now written in lisp macros that output to C#. I generate HTML, XML, all sorts of things with it. While I wish I could use Lisp for everyday coding, Lisp can bring practical benefits.
Phil Bennett
I use dotlisp.sourceforge.net/dotlisp.htm for this. – Mark Hurd May 21 '10 at 5:21
There's even a lisp environment, racket, designed to make DSLs – Lazerbeak12345 Aug 21 '20 at 15:59
If you like programming you should learn Lisp for the pure joy of it. XKCD perfectly expresses the intellectual enlightenment that ensues. Learning Lisp is for the programmer what meditation is for the Buddhist monk (and I meant this without any blasphemous connotation).
Any language looks a lot harder when one doesn't use the common indentation conventions of a language. When one follows them of Lisp, one sees how it expresses a syntax-tree structure quite readily (note, this isn't quite right because the preview lies a little; the r's should align with the fns in the recursive quicksort argument):
(defun quicksort (lis)
(if (null lis)
(let* ((x (car lis))
(r (cdr lis))
(fn (lambda (a)
(< a x))))
(append (quicksort (remove-if-not fn
r))
(list x)
(quicksort (remove-if fn
r))))))
I think there is a fair criticism in what you say. I only mean to say "it looks much harder as you've presented it, and looks much clearer as it is presented here". I think that you would have to agree that many languages look a lot more confusing if their indentation conventions are not followed. Further, if we compare the indentation of, say Java and Lisp, I would say they generally require about the same level of knowledge of the basic constructs of each language to indent them correctly. But, it's fair, although entirely subjective, to say it still looks hard. – John with waffle Feb 22 '10 at 17:27
To make it a bit simpler you could use the standard let and use a defun at the start of the function to define fn as it doesn't change. – Aaron Robson Aug 25 '12 at 21:12
@FerretallicA On what basis do you determine whether something is "easily human readable" or "self describing"? Similarity to English? Is Chinese "easily human readable"? What about mathematical notation? Is it "not easily human readable"? This sort of argument is annoying gibberish, because its hidden message is: "This doesn't look like the way I first learnt to reason." – user713516 Jun 15 '13 at 16:15
More like your 'rebuttal' sounds like "Whinge whinge". Try the programming language sniff test. Take someone who hasn't programmed before and show them a page of VB code and a page of Lisp code. I'll happily bet my left nut on which of the two the casual observer will be more easily able to draw meaningful observations from. – nathanchere Jun 17 '13 at 14:49
I wonder what a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Sumerian, Hindi or Arabic non-programmer would think of your rather brash desire to give up your testicle for a facile argument. – user713516 Dec 24 '13 at 22:03
I found that learning a new language, always influences your programming style in languages you already know. For me it always made me think in different ways to solve a problem in my primary language, which is Java. I think in general, it just widens your horizon in term of programming.
dlinsin
It's because you're a good programmer. Bad programmers, instead of influencing old skills with new knowledge, think in already known languages while writing in new ones. But why are you using Java after lisp? :) Java is hardest to use after Lisp, imo. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 15 '11 at 12:31
I took a "lisp class" in college back in the eighties. Despite grokking all the concepts presented in the class, I was left without any appreciation for what makes lisp great. I'm afraid that a lot of people look at lisp as just another programming language, which is what that course in college did for me so many years ago. If you see someone complaining about lisp syntax (or lack thereof), there's a good chance that they're one of those people who has failed to grasp lisp's greatness. I was one of those people for a very long time.
It wasn't until two decades later, when I rekindled my interest in lisp, that I began to "get" what makes lisp interesting--for me anyway. If you manage to learn lisp without having your mind blown by closures and lisp macros, you've probably missed the point.
fdesmet
I second that. I'm currently on my second foray in to Lisp, 5 years out of school. One term of Lisp when you're still green may not have adequate effect -- I remember focusing only on the metaprogramming, and didn't yet have appreciating for the metaprogramming and flexibility. – Aaron Dec 30 '08 at 5:20
Learning LISP/Scheme may not give you any increased application space, but it will help you get a better sense of functional programming, its rules, and its exceptions.
It's worth the time investment just to learn the difference in the beauty of six nested pure functions, and the nightmare of six nested functions with side effects.
J.T. Hurley
From http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html
One of the most commonly repeated myths about Lisp is that it's "dead." While it's true that Common Lisp isn't as widely used as, say, Visual Basic or Java, it seems strange to describe a language that continues to be used for new development and that continues to attract new users as "dead." Some recent Lisp success stories include Paul Graham's Viaweb, which became Yahoo Store when Yahoo bought his company; ITA Software's airfare pricing and shopping system, QPX, used by the online ticket seller Orbitz and others; Naughty Dog's game for the PlayStation 2, Jak and Daxter, which is largely written in a domain-specific Lisp dialect Naughty Dog invented called GOAL, whose compiler is itself written in Common Lisp; and the Roomba, the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner, whose software is written in L, a downwardly compatible subset of Common Lisp. Perhaps even more telling is the growth of the Common-Lisp.net Web site, which hosts open-source Common Lisp projects, and the number of local Lisp user groups that have sprung up in the past couple of years.
krdluzni
If you have to ask yourself if you should learn lisp, you probably don't need to.
I'd say the opposite: if you already understand lisp because you have experience with a similar language then it's probably not necessary. If you don't understand what lisp has to offer, then you could benefit from the exposure. – Mr Fooz Nov 26 '08 at 14:46
@MrFooz there is no similar languages that can remove the need to learn the lispy part of lisp. The main features of lisp are not found in any languages. Though most are. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 15 '11 at 12:36
Depending on your goals. If you want to die, you don't need to breath. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't. – mimoralea May 27 '14 at 0:03
Learning lisp will put Javascript in a completely different light! Lisp really forces you to grasp both recursion and the whole "functions as first class objects"-paradigm. See Crockfords excellent article on Scheme vs Javascript. Javascript is perhaps the most important language around today, so understanding it better is immensely useful!
Erlend Halvorsen
The most important language? I think not, sir. – TraumaPony Nov 29 '08 at 4:58
Well, it's available on pretty much any device that has a web browser (and probably a few that don't), so as far as languages for running end user applications go, it has probably the highest penetration of any programming language on the planet. Obviously you could have an entirely different opinion on what's important. Will it be used to cure cancer? Probably not. But, like it or not, it will be one of the corner stones of (web) application development for years to come. – Erlend Halvorsen Nov 15 '09 at 14:33
I went the same way! Although I was already using Javascript's functional and prototyping features, after learning Lisp Javascript was a new language nevertheless for me. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 15 '11 at 12:34
"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."
--Eric S. Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
eric.christensen
I agree that Lisp is one of those languages that you may never use in a commercial setting. But even if you don't get to, learning it will definitely expand your understanding of programming as a whole. For example, I learned Prolog in college and while I never used it after, I gave me a greater understanding of many programming concepts and (at times) a greater appreciation for the languages I do use.
But if you are going to learn it...by all means, read On Lisp
Adam Haile
Small note: On Lisp is not a suitable introduction to Lisp, read something else first. I recommend Practical Common Lisp. – Luís Oliveira Sep 18 '08 at 8:50
I also recommend How To Design Programs, for those wanting to learn from scratch. It's great for non-programmers. – Lazerbeak12345 Aug 21 '20 at 16:04
Complicated syntax? The beauty of lisp is that it has a ridiculously simple syntax. It's just a list, where each element of the list can be either another list or an elementary data type.
It's worth learning because of the way it enhances your coding ability to think about and use functions as just another data type. This will improve upon the way you code in an imperative and/or object-oriented language because it will allow you to be more mentally flexible with how your code is structured.
Antonio Haley
Gimp's Script-Fu is lipsish. That's a photoshop-killer app.
Okay, I might be weird but I really don't like Paul Graham's essays that much & on Lisp is a really rough going book if you don't have some grasp of Common Lisp already. Instead, I'd say go for Siebel's Practical Common Lisp. As for "killer-apps", Common Lisp seems to find its place in niche shops, like ITA, so while there isn't an app synonymous with CL the way Rails is for Ruby there are places in industry that use it if you do a little digging.
C Hogg
To add to the other answers:
Because the SICP course (the videos are available here) is awesome: teaches you Lisp and a lot more!
OysterD
Killer app? Franz Inc. has a long list of success stories, but this list only includes users of AllegroCL... There are probably others. My favourite is the story about Naughty Dog, since I was a big fan of the Crash Bandicoot games.
For learning Common Lisp, I'd recommend Practical Common Lisp. It has a hands-on approach that at least for me made it easier than other books I've looked at.
You could use Clojure today to write tests and scripts on top of the Java VM. While there are other Lisp languages implemented on the JVM, I think Clojure does the best job of integrating with Java.
There are times when the Java language itself gets in the way of writing tests for Java code (including "traditional commercial programming"). (I don't mean that as an indictment of Java -- other languages suffer from the same problem -- but it's a fact. Since the topic, not Java, I won't elaborate. Please feel free to start a new topic if someone wants to discuss it.) Clojure eliminates many of those hindrances.
Lisp can be used anywhere you use traditional programming. It's not that different, it's just more powerful. Writing a web app? you can do it on Lisp, writing a desktop application? you can do it on Lisp, whatever, you can probably do it on Lisp, or Python, or any other generic programming (there are a few languages that are suited for only one task).
The biggest obstacle will probably be acceptance of your boss, your peers or your customers. That's something you will have to work with them. Choosing a pragmatic solution like Clojure that can leverage the current install base of Java infrastructure, from the JVM to the libraries, might help you. Also, if you have a Java program, you may do a plug-in architecture and write Clojure plug-ins for it and end up writing half your code in Clojure.
Not a reason but (trivial) AutoCAD has LISP & DCL runtime support. It is a convenient way to write complex macros (including ActiveX automation) if you don't want to use VBA or their C++ or .NET SDKs, or if a DIESEL expression doesn't cut it.
A lot of AutoCAD's functions are actually LISP routines.
CAD bloke
This is a topic i myself have pondered for a while but I have not really come to a decision, as usual time is the main problem... ;)
And since I can´t find these links sofar in this post i add them for public interest:
Success and Failure story: Lisping at JPL
Really impressive success story: Lisp in use at the Orbitz corporation
Comparison and analysis of whether to use Lisp instead of Java: Lisp as an Alternative to Java
Syntax is irrelevant, readability is not!
Not saying this is a killer app but it looks like it could be cool http://code.google.com/p/plop/
Dan Malkinski
Killer app? The flight search engine by ITA Software is one.
As for "why", it will most probably make you a better developer and is extremnely unlikely to make you a worse one. It may, however, make you prefer lisp dialects to other languages.
Vatine
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Q: HTML5 mobile camera capture I would like to do the mobile camera capture by HTML5 like this
I have try to use below method but it needs to click somewhere for opening the camera that mean I could not preview the image in live.
<input id="fileselect" type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera">

I also found the other method which is used a function called "getUserMedia" but it is not support on IOS8.
So how can I implement the mobile camera capture with HTML5?
Please help.

A: Below is a simple example of use of HTML5 to put a video viewer on the screen that also allows you to capture still images.
It has been tested on Chrome Version 40.0.2214.93 or later.
It has been done in an MVC app. If your replace the markup in your Index.cshtml with this code it should run OK. The only other dependency is the jquery.
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}

    @*
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        <video id="basic-stream" class="videostream" autoplay></video>

<button id="capture-button">Capture video</button>

        <button id="SaveImageBtn" style="vertical-align:top; margin-top:100px; margin-right:20px;">Save -></button>
        <canvas id="outputCanvas" class="videostream"></canvas>

A: Try using some placeholder image.


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Updated: 12:14 PM PDT, April 7, 2020
The "True Detective" actor hosted the tournament for folks at Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living in Round Rock, Texas, over the weekend.
Residents of a Texas senior living facility received a much-needed surprise when Matthew McConaughey popped in virtually to hosted a Bingo.
The "True Detective" actor hosted the tournament for folks at Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living in Round Rock over the weekend.
The facility got in touch with the "Dallas Buyers Club" star in September to come in person to their weekly Bingo game, however, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, he opted for clever approach to host.
Appearing via video chat, McConaughey and his family, including his wife, their children, and his mom, read out the numbers to the seniors playing inside the facility.
When Bingo was called, the person who won was able to ask McConaughey any question they desired. Some of the questions asked were about his favorite drink and his family heritage.
"Our team members can't interact with the residents the way we normally do, so we have been doing everything possible to uplift them virtually. This was a wish come true!" Molly Davis Nedley, sales director at The Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living, said in a statement to CBS Austin. "The residents absolutely loved seeing Matthew and his family and enjoyed hearing him talk about what he's doing to get through this crisis. It gave them hope and was the boost that they needed to get through this lonely, challenging time."
The facility posted videos on their Facebook page after the event thanking the actor and his family.
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Vmware esxi 5 The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
I have an urgent problem I cant seem to fix.
I have 1 physical server with fibre SAN with mutiple VM's. VM's are located on the san but snapshots go to my NAS.
I found my NAS was disconnected from my vmware datastore and none of my VM's were running.
I had to recreate the NAS datastore which gave me a new UUID which i edited in each VM's .vmx workingdir line.
Now, some of my VM's run no problem but my Domain Controller has reverted to a old snapshot back in January so none of my other servers will authenticate, i get a trust relationship error.
The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. The content ID of the parent virtual disk does not match the corresponding parent content ID in the child.
uuid.location = "56 4d b4 46 75 dd ba 57-ae c9 16 c5 1a 63 b5 51"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 94 e2 a9 aa 4e 81-5a 00 99 3c 9f f4 53 b3"
vc.uuid = "52 d6 45 e1 fe 6f 81 8c-ce d9 88 bc 13 aa e8 00"
scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 62 a9 aa 4e 80"
Somehow, the Virtual Machine was powered-up without it knowing about the Snapshot attached to it.
Reason: The file specified is not a virtual disk.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4e5cdcdb-ad00a89f-db0d-00215ade566c/VM/DC1/DC1-000010.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
is it possible this file is damaged?
it is happening on ALL .vmdx files now, even the base file which i could boot off.
do you have a full backup you can restore?
is it possible just to add these members servers to the domain again?
when you state happening ON all VMDKs, what do you mean?
I don't have a copy of the vmdk file no. but don't think this is the issue as most of them are untouched and were working before i started playing with the configs of them and the vmx file.
ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9d 71 6a fc 09-dd d1 27 05 23 c0 bd 3d"
I am missing all the DDB stuff. Is there a way to repair this?
do you have any backups or copies of the files before you started editting?
only of the base "dc1.vmdk" version.
the quickest course of action now, would be STOP, and escalate to VMware Support, to see if they can force merge your snapshot chains and main parent, but the danger is the risk of corruption in AD.
I've tried but only problem is I can't get VMware support on Sunday here in Australia. I have to wait for a 'callback' on Monday.
but would strongly recommend making copies of what you have NOW, justbin case.
haha. thanks. i learnt my lesson. doing now and will let you know how i go.
I assume the contentID has to be unique?? can I just make one up for my others?


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