TomMasz

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by TomMasz 6y ago
I worked at Xerox for over 20 years and never heard this story. Not surprising, though, there were lots of little groups working on things they never spoke of.
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I've used MuseScore on and off, mostly because it's UI frustrates me and gets in the way. It's powerful, but it needs a way to make simple notation easy. If they're truly going to make it better for casual users, I'
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I'm currently adjunct faculty in a software engineering program. I have no expectation of future work beyond the end of this semester as my school has announced massive cutbacks across the board. I'm "lucky" in that I do
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by TomMasz 7y ago
When my last espresso machine died I switched to the AeroPress as a temporary replacement. It didn't take long before I realized I didn't need to buy another espresso machine.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I have the RTL-SDR and use it mostly for monitoring VHF/UHF, and it works just fine. There's nothing interesting in my area above 900 MHz so the frequency limitation above 1 GHz isn't an issue for me. It's a great way to
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I did my Master's (1994) work with Smalltalk (specifically Little Smalltalk) and I still play around with Squeak when I have some free time. Not exactly producing production code, obviously, but you can build things for yourself and th
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I joined Xerox in the mid-90s, past the era when they were creating their own processors and programming languages but they still couldn't resist building one last operating system for a new digital printer/copier. The product was
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by TomMasz 7y ago
Same here. I may hit Google at most once a month when I'm looking for something really unusual.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I run Plan 9 in a VM now and then which means I've never gotten that far into it. It seems very much like a solution to a problem that I've never had and as such doesn't do much for me. The article's author is a writer b
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I hear you but Facebook, for better or worse, is the social networking site everyone you know is on. It has a tremendous advantage over any upstart for that reason. Lots of geeky folks flocked to Google+ in its early days but that wasn&#x27
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I was amazed by Usenet when I first encountered it. Communicating with people around the globe really seemed like the future had arrived. The company I worked for would connect to the University of Rochester via a Telebit Trailblazer modem
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by TomMasz 7y ago
It's great stuff and supports a seemingly endless number of scanners old and new.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
AllStarLink ( https://www.allstarlink.org/about/about.php ) is software for linking ham radio repeaters that's based on Asterisk.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
So many of these people I knew by name but had no idea what they looked like or at best hadn't seen a photo of them in 20+ years (which is effectively the same thing). As a photographer, it's always nice to see black&white pho
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by TomMasz 7y ago
In other words, Google needs captcha and the data it provides.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
As a Mac user looking to avoid Illustrator, this is a gift from the gods. XQuartz has issues with mouse movement, making it difficult to keep the drawing on the screen. Now it looks and acts like you'd expect.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
This is definitely a good start and I look forward to seeing it grow. The example photos section is nice, it tells you more than the spec sheet can about how it will look.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
My dad worked for Western Electric (part of AT&T) and he showed me how to do this when we were wiring a model train layout.
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I've got a Zero running my PedalPi guitar pedal from ElectroSmash and a 3 running with a USB dongle as a digital radio hotspot (soon to be upgraded to an MMDVM board with PiStar).
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by TomMasz 7y ago
Almost all of my posts on G+ were autoposted from my blog. This was true for most of the people I followed as well. It was just another checkbox for promoting content hosted elsewhere. Interaction occurred in comments on my blog or on Faceb
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by TomMasz 7y ago
My last job was managing product security for a company that has customers worldwide. The first and last things every single day I did was check my email on my phone, weekends and holidays. When I got out of the job my health greatly improv
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by TomMasz 7y ago
I had to convert the .img file to a .dmg using hdiutil on OS X to get to the stack. Diskcopy under OS 9 w/Sheepshaver complained of -39 unexpected end of file otherwise.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I certainly did not. But a sample size of 1 is insignificant, so there's that.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
It took 6 minutes to compile a 47-line Fortran program.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
Yay, I'm superelderly!
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I worked at Xerox from 1995-2017 and had the opportunity to tour their archived hardware more than once. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to see an Alto or Star actually running. But I did get a chance to use GlobalView, their implementa
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I run Haiku in a VM. Can I upgrade it from within Haiku or do I have to nuke what I have and start over? I haven't done a lot of customization but enough to make it a pain to do over.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I'm surprised Pascal wasn't mentioned. Its syntax is very similar to Algol and Wirth was part of the Algol X development team. His (rejected) proposals were the genesis of Pascal.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
Their office was just down the street from me. It closed sometime last year although their website still seems to be active. From what I understand the company may just be Andrew Welch at this point.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I'm an IEEE Computer Society member, not a full member. It's a line on my resume but has never provided a lot of value for me or my career. I was once also a member of the ACM, but since I worked in the embedded computing field (w

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