bobochan

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by bobochan 8y ago
Yeah, but don't rub it in... I'm a Montreal supporter. Allez, allez allez, allez Montréal!
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by bobochan 8y ago
Absolutely true. What it really drives home for me though is how we are not following through with the promise of the personal computer revolution and empowering everyone to be able to write code. I remember trying to raise money years ago
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by bobochan 8y ago
I do not know where thom got data, but I have used soccer data from Opta (optasports.com) and it was pretty amazing to use. They have made some data available at different times, and they seem very helpful to work with if you are doing rese
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by bobochan 8y ago
I work at a university and most of the time I am either doing research or teaching, but once in a while I get a call from a medical school or hospital asking if I can volunteer programming time for a project. I wrote some very simple code a
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by bobochan 9y ago
This is my memory of it, albeit from a long time ago. The retail market for personal computers was very different in the mid to late 80s. I remember going to Ferranti-Dege, a camera store in Harvard Square, to buy an Apple ][+ when they fir
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by bobochan 9y ago
Well, after doing a little more research it seems that if they had any overlap, it would have been exceedingly brief. Hubble was working on his first paper at Yerkes in 1915 just at a time when a number of older astronomers, including my gr
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by bobochan 9y ago
Yes, he must have been! I didn't think of that. He was there from 1897 to 1914, so they must have overlapped.
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by bobochan 9y ago
That is a shame. My great-grandfather was an astronomer there when it opened in 1897. It has a long history of important research.
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by bobochan 9y ago
I think you are exactly right, that are really adaptations the we make both learn and make over time in different climates. I lived in central Africa for four years after growing up in New England. Adjusting to the climate was partly just a
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by bobochan 9y ago
Perl6. I have been using perl5 forever and I remember going to the second Perl Conference in 1998 and coming home feeling so cool showing off my new Perl Mongers t-shirt. The amount of new perl that I write has steadily dropped over the yea
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by bobochan 9y ago
He premieres a series every year at Dartmouth. There is a scene in Baseball: The 10th Inning when he cuts to a closeup of Dave Roberts on base in the 2004 ALC series between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Instantly the whole crowd jumped to
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by bobochan 9y ago
The Winds of Winter finally get released (extra points if it is done concurrently with the second season of Firefly ).
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by bobochan 9y ago
The game day only sale of bleacher tickets for $2 was a gift from the Baseball Gods to the City of Boston. Our boys are three sport athletes in high school and it still takes serious bribes to get them to watch any sporting event with me. T
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by bobochan 9y ago
I coached youth baseball for a long time and every year I would ask for a quick show of hands for how many kids had actually been to a major league game, and then how many kids had watched baseball on TV. The numbers for both dropped every
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by bobochan 9y ago
My son is very interested in attending uOttawa because of the bilingual atmosphere of the campus and the city. We are Americans, but the mix of languages and cultures in Ottawa really make it an interesting and cosmopolitan environment, whi
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by bobochan 9y ago
I use the original Prompt from Panic and the Apple bluetooth keyboard. I also have the charging stand which keeps the iPad in portrait mode. I would have preferred landscape for emacs, etc., but it is certainly usable.
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by bobochan 9y ago
I'm not sure I'm the age of your parents, but even as an over-50 tech nerd, I am quite happy with my iPad 1. I use it as a reader, an alarm clock, and a terminal emulator on a daily basis. The battery still keeps its charge and it
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by bobochan 9y ago
I did not see anything when I started putting it together, but I already had a number of datasets that I put together for illustrating specific points. My favorite is a list of pairs of airport codes and the distances between them. This is
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by bobochan 9y ago
This looks very interesting. I recently had to teach a series of workshops on SQL and I was trying to figure out the best system to allow students to independently work with small datasets without having to install any software. I found Alo
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by bobochan 9y ago
Amazing planes. Bombardier used one to ship a locomotive to Ireland a few years back. If I remember correctly they were a little behind on the order, but they needed to get at least one locomotive delivered so that crews could start trainin
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by bobochan 10y ago
I had a copy that I found on an old floppy about 15 years ago and I tried to see if I could use it in a Windows command window, but unfortunately it did not seem to work at all. Now that you mention a virtual machine though, I regret that I
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by bobochan 10y ago
I would not say that I use it regularly, but I have a somewhat working version of what I remember to be the Norton Editor in C++ / ncurses. It was 100% motivated by seeing antirez's artistic triumph, and my effort is sadly lacking
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by bobochan 10y ago
Excellent point. WSL is certainly a step in the right direction.
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by bobochan 10y ago
I'm glad. MS has made a lot of good programming tools. I really like Visual Studio and was a huge fan of QuickBasic 4.5 back in the day. Turbo Pascal was the killer app that first enticed me to the PC world. It still befuddles me why s
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by bobochan 10y ago
Notepad??? OS X has shipped with both emacs and vim since Day 1. I'm sorry, but you seem quite unfamiliar with Macs. You are correct, I would never suggest anyone have an FTP client; I have that service turned off on every machine I ad
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by bobochan 10y ago
What baffles me is that it is 2017 and Windows comes with less than it did decades ago. At least prior to Win2000 there was QBasic and edit.com, but now starting to work on a Windows machine means downloading and installing basic tools. Nee
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by bobochan 10y ago
I am disappointed too. This looks like a very interesting book and there would be plenty of room on my bookshelf among the many Scheme, Common Lisp, and Clojure books that I have paid for and refer to frequently. Good documentation is hard
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by bobochan 10y ago
I live in Vermont and love the new brewery and Heady Topper, but OH MY GOODNESS their stout, Beezlebub, is The Chosen One. It is the perfect libation, absolutely without flaw. The brewery is over an hour a way and I will happily jump in t
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by bobochan 10y ago
Because then people say, "I stopped by your office and you were not there!" It is a big campus so there is a benefit to people being able to track me down.
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by bobochan 10y ago
I have a traditional office, but every day part of me misses being back in the giant cube farm that I used to work in. I still remember counting six rows down, then three blocks over, to get to the section of identical grey cubes where I sa

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