bromagosa

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by bromagosa 13y ago
> Well, you ought to know that Smalltalk is focused on relatively small snippets of code, held together in consistent OO structures. There's hardly any point in fancy text-editing features when your methods are generally 8-12 lines
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Yes. And seriously, when I saw the first Light Table demo and everyone was so amazed with it I thought "man, that's how we code every day in Smalltalk... what's so new about it?"
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by bromagosa 13y ago
I've worked with Smalltalk for four years now, and for what you write, I guess you haven't been keeping up with our progresses. Take a look at: http://amber-lang.net http://www.redline.st/ http:/
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by bromagosa 13y ago
The Spanish translation is terrible! They translated "due" as "during"...
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by bromagosa 13y ago
I guess it needs a better training DB, it returns {"gender": null} for not-so-common names in languages other than English... http://api.genderize.io/?name=eloi&language_id=ca http://api.genderize.i
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by bromagosa 13y ago
I think it does. From the very beginning they wanted to sell computers to people by making them think they work like home appliances. If people knew computers are actually universal machines, then they wouldn't be as willing to pay mor
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Not really, it actually comes from long before that. I remember being a very little kid and buying shareware games with their "PC-Compatible" labels. At the time, that sticker actually meant "DOS Compatible", and being I
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by bromagosa 13y ago
There used to be a very powerful one ran by Google, but they shut it down last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
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by bromagosa 13y ago
This has nothing to do with prescriptivism whatsoever. This is like calling the blue "e" icon in your desktop "The Internet". It's just plain wrong naming. In tech, things should be called by their name, or you risk
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Yep, and I hate it when they use "PC" as a synonym for Microsoft Windows. I do have a PC!
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by bromagosa 13y ago
By the number of people that are pissed off about webdev and still don't success at changing it, and by the amount of "Oh Brand New Automagic Solution for Everything (TM)" coming up every month and still failing at fixing the
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Not only that, but the client is only available for a proprietary OS... so much for open :(
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Drawing a house ten years ago by abusing CSS borders(designdetector.com)
1 points by bromagosa 13y ago|0 comments
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by bromagosa 13y ago
A bit too much of a patronizing tone in this article... it even felt quite sexist at some points.
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Hardware? Child's play with S4A - Scratch for Arduino(s4a.cat)
4 points by bromagosa 13y ago|0 comments
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by bromagosa 13y ago
What? 17.42 units of water to 1 unit of coffee? This is not perfect coffee, this is slightly flavoured water!
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The Old Reader back online(status.theoldreader.com)
2 points by bromagosa 13y ago|0 comments
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The Amazing FishCam, since 1994(fishcam.com)
2 points by bromagosa 13y ago|0 comments
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by bromagosa 13y ago
There are basically three kinds of people I follow: people from the Smalltalk world (or closely related tech guys), people from my musical background, and friends and acquaintances from my town. From the Smalltalk world, I'm pretty muc
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by bromagosa 13y ago
I started using twitter as it comes, then when it became unmanageable I started using TweetDeck, but notifications were annoying and the client was way too heavy for my machine. The tab kept freezing all the time. That was a long time ago,
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by bromagosa 13y ago
I remember a distro called something like LiveFirefox (can't remember the name exactly) which came with RatPoison and Firefox only. The .ratpoisonrc file disabled all key bindings, and somehow they managed to disable all text ttys, so
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Someone who enlisted in the US army and trained to go to the Iraq war to shoot people down is not exactly what I call a pacifist.
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by bromagosa 13y ago
«Write a song about the company and send them a video of you singing or rapping it. Like to bake? Send them a homemade cake decorated with the company’s name and your contact info. Love to run? Use a phone GPS running app to draw your route
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by bromagosa 13y ago
For new authors, I follow recommendations by friends whose taste I trust, or reviews from people who have similar standards. For old authors it's much easier, especially for the ones born more than 500 years ago ;)
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Which one of my words is it, I wonder, that led you to to think I was taking about happiness and fulfilment and not simply about the way I choose which books I want to read? :P
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Not quite fitting into the literature category, but I've read the Bible out of curiosity and interest for the origins of our culture.
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by bromagosa 13y ago
If you were asking sincerely whether I was planning on living 500 years, you've read way too much Harry Potter.
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by bromagosa 13y ago
If you had read my words, you would know I obviously "plan" to live around 85 years, and the verb «think» would have suggested to you that I don't have an infallible way to know what the people of the future will enjoy readin
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by bromagosa 13y ago
Well, I don't have an actual list, but I usually choose books I think will still be read 500 years from now.
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by bromagosa 13y ago
If I was reading more than 12 books a year, I wouldn't be so concerned to optimize my reading experience ;) Anyway, that was just an average, and I was just talking about literature, I wasn't including essays or technical books.

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