andrewl

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by andrewl 10y ago
I like the built-in database functionality he describes. Wasn't that a feature of the BeOS file system?
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by andrewl 10y ago
And a Happy Hanukkah to you and everybody else!
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by andrewl 10y ago
A Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and general good holidays to everybody.
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China’s ‘Glass King’ Shatters Manufacturing Wisdom with Move to the US(scmp.com)
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PolyMath Science and Math Tools in Smalltalk(github.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
I agree, which is disappointing. MITRE has an interesting history, and they've done a lot of very advanced technical work since the 1950s.
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by andrewl 10y ago
I have no experience with them myself, but I know there's a good bit of interest in them for non-traditional uses. A Google search for shipping container homes will turn up a lot of interesting results. It still might give your inspe
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by andrewl 10y ago
I'm not sure if the coupon is good for just ebooks, but you do get ebook versions with the print. I just bought the print Land of Lisp at half price, and got a link to download PDF, Mobi, and ePub versions. I haven't read it y
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by andrewl 10y ago
I wonder if shipping containers could be the basis for a solution in this space.
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How Top U.S. Colleges Hooked Up with Controversial Chinese Companies(reuters.com)
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Inside Alphabet’s Jigsaw, the Tech Incubator That Could Reshape Geopolitics(qz.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
The article says that Clinton was probably unaware of the loss of the codes.
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by andrewl 10y ago
I've never seen an interview with Alan Kay that I did not find fascinating. I like Joe Armstrong, and he's brilliant of course, but he interrupted too much in places. But it seemed to be out of enthusiasm, so I can't really b
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by andrewl 10y ago
The most frightening part of this article concerns nuclear weapons: In August, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough reported that, during a private meeting with a “foreign policy expert,” Trump had asked the expert “three times, in an hour briefing, ‘W
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Professor Who Called Trump’s Win Predicts Trump Will Be Impeached(washingtonpost.com)
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Letter of Recommendation: ‘Pinky and the Brain’(nytimes.com)
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If You’re Besotted by the Victorian World, Beware the Era’s Reality(washingtonpost.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
Can you expand on that? Who are the good ones, and the bad ones?
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The Pennovation Center Is Officially Open(thedp.com)
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AnswerThePublic(answerthepublic.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
I read this one years ago, said of King Charles II: We have a pretty witty king, Whose word no man relies on, He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Charles is reported to have said it was true, because his words were his
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by andrewl 10y ago
It's about a lot of things, but a beautiful reading room is wonderful for sure. I used to study in the reading room of the architecture library at the University of Texas at Austin. I wasn't an architecture student, but it had hig
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by andrewl 10y ago
I remember him from when I used to by computer magazines, but I never knew anything about him beyond what he wrote about computers. I certainly didn't know this: After graduating, he taught school in Chicago and then at the Pine Ridge
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Rosemary and Time: Does This Italian Hamlet Have a Recipe for Long Life?(nytimes.com)
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How to Suppress the Apology Reflex(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
If you were interested in the feeling of being drunk , drinking all the liquor you could find was the right procedure. If you were interested in why people drink , I would suggest that you used the wrong procedure. The right procedure wou
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Easing the Pain of Automation(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
Richard Hamming said "Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our b
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by andrewl 10y ago
Thanks Andrew. I was just looking at the intro example on https://www.formingo.co/create-a-form and didn't dig deeper. I'm glad I asked. I'll give it a try.
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by andrewl 10y ago
Formingo looks good. But one thing I'd like is the ability to hide my email address so it doesn't get picked up by spammers. The current setup shows the address plainly in the page source. Could the action field take some sort of

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