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by cc101 4y ago
Creative writing and maybe essays. I learned to program in the 1960's. It's been an enjoyable career, but it has left me with nothing lasting.
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I wrote a tool to help students organized and sustain academic projects. It took me 5 years and 13,000 lines. I worked hours on it almost every day. The reason I could sustain such an effort was I once had to withdraw from Stanford becau
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by cc101 4y ago
A more general aphorism is "Highly intelligent people tend to underestimate their own intelligence. The opposite is also true."
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I'm facing a bitter conflict with Mac App Review. I feel so poorly about this that I can't sleep, and my mind is in turmoil. After 37 years writing Mac software, I'm wondering if there is anything left of the Mac and of the
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by cc101 4y ago
I believe that we learn by applying and adapting the models implicit in things we already know to new situations. The older we get the more models we have for forming the foundations for new ideas. Beginning a new learning project might b
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by cc101 4y ago
Online/offline communities for special problems are very difficult to find. Ideas for finding them would be a useful answer to this question.
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Try a written question and answer session with yourself. Begin with questions like: "What is the problem" and "Why is that a problem." Keep asking questions about your answers and writing out your answers in full. Wri
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I'm 76. Have declining cognitive function. Have been taking D3 for over a decade. Damn! I don't know what to do other than to experiment with not taking D3.
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by cc101 4y ago
Sounds like a cover for weaponizing the moon so they can dominate the Earth.
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I remember when the Commodore 64 came out. "64K RAM?", I thought, "What could anyone do with so much RAM?" Power to do something new always generates new things to do with it.
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Toleration of extremism by main-stream Americans allowed extremist attitudes in America to grow to the point where they threaten democracy. Expressing a negative opinion of others is not necessarily bad. It can be helpful and sometimes ne
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by cc101 4y ago
They used an art technique called fullest aspect (I think). Many of ancient Egypt's figures flatten both the front and the side views into the same figure. I think that is what you are referring to.
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binoculars with integral digital camera
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Epiphany Workflow for the Mac is much like Scrivener. Where as Scrivener is a took kit, E is a workflow. Otherwise they are very similar.
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If you are going to write on Mac software, at least use a web page that can fit on a 15" MacBook Pro without using a tiny font.
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When offered the cork by the wine steward, I tried to eat it.
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I've dealt with ADHD for 76 years. There are two practices that work for me. 1)Short-term (hours scale): Some tasks are helped by frequent changing focus, for example writing or painting. They permit non-linear work flow. Your progr
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by cc101 4y ago
Barnacles are arthropods. Free-floating youth secrete a powerful adhesive to attach themselves to objects head-first. They extend their feet from their case and use them to filter food from the water then pass it towards their mouth. They
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Looking back over 54 years of programming, I can say I never made an explicit choice. I followed the opportunities. Opportunities were hard to come by. The word career and careen are similar for a good reason. My career was like a canon
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Personally, I think that Oprah Winfrey would make an outstanding spokesperson for the Democrats. What's more, that could lead to national office. She's a dynamic person that reminds me of JFK.
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These are all worthy engineering-related accomplishments. That's sort of the problem. Apple has lost touch with the Mac user. The Mac user is a sophisticated creative or professional who strongly relates to the spirit of quality tha
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by cc101 4y ago
Been programing Mac since 1985. Apple today is so messed up, I give up.
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Back in the Dark Ages (1968) we had pre-written JCl scripts. I don't think many people knew JCL. We just appended a script to the front of our Fortran card decks. A DD card was the final card. After the frustrating work of finally
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Apple's HyperCard.
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What would it mean to flow in reverse? The idea implies some time-like reference from which to observe its motion. Without some time-like reference, time simply exists.
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It's not a matter of motivation. Programmers reduce the verbal understanding of their work to non-verbal symbolism. That's necessary to work efficiently in long complex projects where many ideas have to be manipulated. It is ve
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naïveté
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Intelligence is the ability to review and correct one's own thinking in real time.
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I remember when this came out. It was utterly ridiculous. No one in his right mind would want to give up goto. Boy was I wrong!
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by cc101 5y ago
I made a mac tool to do this for both web pages and files. Every time I mention it's name on HN, my account gets deleted. Sigh!

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