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by aag 4y ago
For a tiny personal project (delivering alarms for calendar entries to my Light Phone 2), I used Twilio for several years. I was always impressed by how easy and cheap they made it to implement SMS delivery, even for a hobbyist. Late last
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by aag 4y ago
It does. I'm a happy Blendle customer. https://blendle.com/
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by aag 4y ago
I have used Blogtrottr since Google Reader went away, and I love it. It's great not having to check yet another app for updates, and all the filtering and labeling tools of modern email clients can be used.
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by aag 4y ago
What I don't like are the pop-ups asking me to sign up for a mailing list where the choices are "Sign me up" and "No thanks." Don't put words in my mouth. I am most not definitely not thankful for the opportu
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by aag 4y ago
Termite Scheme did something like this for Scheme programs. It combines Erlang-style concurrency with process migration. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/GermainFeeleyMonn...
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by aag 8y ago
Free market? How is it a free market if you can't even find out the price before you pay? The Republicans are no help, but not because they purport to believe in free markets.
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by aag 8y ago
Given this idea, I can't figure out how to deal with the fact that fonts are finite and, even with ligatures, relatively quickly enumerable. User interfaces, on the other hand, often require drawing arbitrary pictures. As I understan
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by aag 8y ago
Thank you very much. That is a lot of food for thought.
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by aag 8y ago
I am fascinated by this idea despite the fact that I don't actually understand it. Ever since I read your comment, I've been trying to think what it would mean to build a GUI this way. It has been thought-provoking, and has caus
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by aag 9y ago
I'm very happy with Blogtrottr, which turns feeds into email. It has flexible delivery options, e.g. digests, plain text vs. HTML, and sort order. Best of all, receiving posts via email means I don't have to check yet another ap
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by aag 9y ago
Videographer here. Amateur videographer, that is. I apologize for the sound quality. I'm still learning how to do this stuff, and one thing I forgot to check is whether the final audio sounded good in headphones. On my laptop's
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by aag 9y ago
I am a huge fan of Blendle, the news micropayments system, which meets the first four of these criteria. The last two depend on the underlying news organization.
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by aag 9y ago
They must have trouble recruiting volunteers.
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by aag 9y ago
This reminds me of a demo a friend once gave me on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. He turned the garbage collector off, then ran a program that allocated memory like mad. After a while, a message popped up saying something like "you are ab
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by aag 10y ago
Missing Scheme Requests for Implementation (SRFI). We do standards work for the many Scheme implementations in public using 151 Github repos and counting. The home page is at srfi.schemers.org.
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by aag 11y ago
OP here. Since this is a video, I'll post the abstract, etc.: by Ron Garret The lambda calculus is widely known but also widely misunderstood. It it considered by most coders to be nothing more than a theoretical curiosity and not re
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The Lambda Calculus for Fun and Factorials [video](youtube.com)
7 points by aag 11y ago|1 comments