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by 505 9y ago
Sad day. I enjoyed the fiction and the Byte column, despite him being a jerk sometimes. Anyone interested in science fiction should read at least The Mote in God's Eye .
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The MotherWiki has been updated interestingly
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Kim Stanley Robinson re Ken Thompson
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by 505 9y ago
see also perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094196 and https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uota-nbr0817...
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by 505 9y ago
I see some of my favourites among other replies. I don't think I see these: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
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by 505 9y ago
My favourite bit of design advice is for when a program is about to delete a lot of user data. The program should require cognizant confirmation: Are you sure you want to destroy 5 days' work? Type DESTROY 5 DAYS' WORK to co
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by 505 9y ago
I tried to stick to (old) Apple interface guidelines for a long time. Eventually I realised, for instance, that only tiny numbers of people need to be taught how to use a mouse.
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by 505 9y ago
Thank you for scanning and posting this. I have a copy kicking about and keep meaning to share.
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by 505 9y ago
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a magical level of reliability.
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by 505 9y ago
Priest, like Aldiss, is a favourite writer of mine. I especially enjoyed reading Inverted World as a teenager.
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by 505 9y ago
Obituary by Christopher Priest. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/21/brian-aldiss-o... IIRC Priest and Aldiss were friends.
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by 505 9y ago
Upvoting your comment. I hope you won't minding me suggest you update the first line to read Clarke rather than Clark. Perhaps I'm tired, but it took me a minute to figure out who you meant.
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by 505 9y ago
I think he was pretty constructive about it, by HN standards.
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Modern Fortran Reference Card [pdf](michaelgoerz.net)
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Reproducing the link to the Ask HN from which the article was compiled. I didn't find it on the first read, though it's probably my own fault. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850 Thanks for the questio
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by 505 9y ago
On inspection of the examples, perhaps even Dickensian.
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by 505 9y ago
Retailers in Sydney are worried. Some of them at least. Apparently Amazon is coming soon.
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by 505 9y ago
I report bugs sometimes. I develop and test software for a living, and so my paying clients come first. This includes both software they are using and relevant tools that I am using in order to help the clients. After or alongside those c
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by 505 9y ago
Great idea for a wicked problem. Phone manufacturers will be against it, telcos, retailers, and many consumers. Maybe we could get Green movement groups on board?
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by 505 9y ago
By the way, the Mac I'm using now was bought in Australia and the keyboard has a rectangular Return key and the modifiers labeled using text rather than icons.
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by 505 9y ago
Historically the Macintosh distinguished between Enter and Return. IIRC on the Lisa the Return key was on the main part of the keyboard and the Enter key was on the numeric keypad. In many apps they did the same thing, but I think in Lisa
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by 505 9y ago
smh.com.au is the Sydney Morning Herald. It has some of the best news in Sydney but I hate the website. When I follow a link like this one and the article is interesting, I invariably forget to check the ads. When I get started reading,
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by 505 9y ago
Smell, or perhaps taste, is one of the first senses that evolved. Maybe it will be one of the first we get right in machines.
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by 505 9y ago
(I am pleased you brought up Stephen W, and also that you asked us not to. That's all you'll get from me.)
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by 505 9y ago
a review at http://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/ANKOS/Ankos.html
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by 505 10y ago
In decades of working with used Apple devices, I don't recall seeing this article until today. Turkey is alongside the state of California as places where I guess Apple has been forced to support products for longer. Surprisingly prese
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Vintage and Obsolete Products (Apple Support)(support.apple.com)
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by 505 10y ago
9 days, 8 hours, and 15 minutes
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by 505 10y ago
Challenged by What Is the Name of This Book but loved it. If Hofstadter hadn't changed my life forever, maybe Smullyan would have.
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by 505 10y ago
Circa 1983 I got hold of the paper FIG-Forth via snail mail. (Modems? none in my house those days.) I got a version going on my housemate's Apple ][+, which wasn't too hard as I'd learned 6502 assembly/machine languag

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