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by boffinAudio 5y ago
See also: ClockworkPi, DevTerm, GameShell / OpenPyra, etc. Seems to be an emerging successful model: take the revenues from a game/software product and use it to bootstrap a hardware company.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Panics' language is definitely designed to be friendly to non-native speakers, who you seem to be discounting as unworthy of such treatment. But I would say this is probably a bigger market than you seem willing to accommodate in your
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
You had me at "amorphous pile of crap", but lost me at 'actually find the content'... ;) Meanwhile, I've got a single directory full of PDF files (over 60,000+) which I routinely "ls -alF | grep <search term
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Cool! This is only a hobby for me, as a technical documentation writer I find that a properly formed glossary/dictionary is key to the effort - but I'm very interested in the technology around this subject, so I'd be quite
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
I have skirted around wordnets, because I'm not really a linguist - more of a technical documentation writer - but I will check it out now that I have a clue what to search for. Do you have any pointers to functional software tools fo
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Thanks very much for the link to dictmaker, I will spend my weekend playing with it and see how I get along. Much appreciated! EDIT: after visiting your site, somehow my browser language has been switched to Kannada and I'm now findin
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Thanks - that is indeed very interesting, and I will spend my weekend checking it out. >I think this would be how you would gauge success of the model. Yes, exactly. I think there would definitely be edge-cases, but the general rule is
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
I've always wanted a program or set of tools that I can use to generate my own dictionaries - not just a glossary, but real dictionaries with multiple definitions for words, derivations, example sentences, and so on. And, one other ver
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Every week, I encounter a user - just like I did in the 80's - who cannot explain the difference between a file and a folder. "What do I use a folder for?", they ask, in the same breath that they request "some way to o
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
+++ATH
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Always keep the human in mind, whatever software you are righting. Its turtles all the way up to the human.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Either option is fine, as long as your user agrees.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
You could say that, but my cat thinks you'd be wrong. However, I'm yet to see my cat boot up the computer.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
See you in 30+ years! :P
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
It may be computers all the way down, but at the bottom there is a human. Somewhere. Poor thing.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Even if YOU are the only user, you're still writing software for a human. Hopefully.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
For whom does the computer do work?
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Sure, but that doesn't make it any less useful as a fact - especially when you are working with other developers who choose to try to ignore/avoid it as a maxim. Please don't tell me you've never met such a developer ..
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Well, all economy is human economy, so yeah .. okay. You can learn from the fact that its a social service by actively NOT resisting the truth of this fact. Incorporate it into your thinking with every commit you make and you will become
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
40+ years of experience here, and I'll tell you the #1 thing I've learned: * Software is a social service. Its for other humans. Incredibly, it doesn't matter how educated the developer, they still seem to have to l
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
She really is a marvelous hacker! Great to see how far she's taken IceStorm, but my favourite project of hers is still OpenSCAD .. some kind of madness went on there, that turned beautiful.
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
As a very happy Zynthian user: YES TO THIS! I will get a Turing Pi ASAP to play with just this. It should be noted however that even the bare bones Zynthian system is capable of doing a LOT of voices. Plus, you don't have to go with
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Because the Nord Stage 3 won't allow you to easily add your own code to the device for experimenting with new synthesis techniques?
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by boffinAudio 5y ago
Self-taught programmer checking in, 40+ years and still going strong. I have worked all over the globe, and there are still millions of people using software I've developed over the decades - creative stuff, life-protecting stuff, edu