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by cicero 7y ago
Cool. The WATFIV (Waterloo FORTRAN IV) was what I used in my first college programming class, on a pair of Amdahl 470 (IBM 370 compatible) mainframes, but as a high school kid I had taught myself BASIC and Pascal on the Apple II. At the tim
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by cicero 7y ago
We had one of these when I was a kid in the late 1970s. My dad built what was essentially a modem and used it to connect the teletype to an old Motorola single channel radio with a crystal tuned to the amateur radio (Ham radio) teletype rep
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by cicero 8y ago
This principle was used in medieval disputation. The Summa Theologiae [1] of Thomas Aquinas is broken down into "articles" that examine every aspect of a particular broader "question". Each article begins with a series o
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by cicero 8y ago
That's the problem with democracy that ignores the existence of divine authority, or at least natural law.
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by cicero 8y ago
Are you primarily targeting Microsoft platforms? If so, then C# might have the edge. Otherwise, you might prefer Java.
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by cicero 8y ago
Maybe you should learn some serious theology rather than a caricature and then you would see what justice has to do with it. I would suggest St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas.
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by cicero 8y ago
Jesus says that if you seek, you will find.
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by cicero 8y ago
The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this: that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever ... The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar
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by cicero 8y ago
> 10. Connect with nature and the universe at large... 18. Choose love. Even better, seek the creator of the universe and the source of love. Many people come to the conclusion that since science has enabled us to understand so much abou
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by cicero 8y ago
This is why Aristotle said that the intellect cannot be material. The human intellect is able to receive and understand abstractions. However, whenever you try to represent an abstraction as a physical object or in a physical medium, it is
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by cicero 8y ago
The article is about Mars One, which was about sending humans to Mars.
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by cicero 8y ago
The dashboard lighting in my Mini Cooper turns red/orange when it gets dark outside, and I set the accent lighting color to orange. I think it helps a lot.
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by cicero 8y ago
I think what you're saying is correct when it comes to perception with our senses, the kind of knowledge we share with the other higher animals. However, there is a higher level of knowledge that is unique to humans, which is rational
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by cicero 8y ago
Yes they were. Thanks.
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by cicero 8y ago
Yes, it was. I don't know what happened that year, if my dad got a promotion, won the lottery (just kidding, there was no lottery then), or what, but we hadn't had a Christmas like that before.
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by cicero 8y ago
Christmas 1976 my parents gave me an Arp Axxe, which was a simpler, less-expensive version of the much more famous Odyssey [1]. It was great for a kid to learn about electronic music because the controls were laid out to where you could vis
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by cicero 8y ago
In 1991-92 I was doing Unix programming by accessing the host using a terminal emulator on a 80286 PC with MS-DOS. I usually edited my code using vi, but when I compiled and got errors, I would correct minor errors using ed because it didn&
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by cicero 8y ago
I have used Keypass for years. It is not as convenient as some of the alternatives, but I trust it more.
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by cicero 8y ago
Time does filter out the bad books, and most books that are written fall into that category, but the books that endure the test of time are really good.
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by cicero 8y ago
I look forward to reading this article when I have the time because I am a Go newbie, so a well explained example program will be useful to me. Also, I find language implementation interesting, and I've always admired the AWK language.
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by cicero 8y ago
The ratio between the the gap in their ages and their ages is larger when they are younger. This is why age difference in a couple becomes less significant as they both grow older. Five years is a big difference between teenagers but not be
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by cicero 8y ago
I remember Pournelle was a big fan of S-100 based systems because you could upgrade them. His motto was something like "silicon is cheaper than iron," meaning that you could replace boards in an S-100 system rather than buying a w
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by cicero 8y ago
Okay, Apple caved to save their bread and butter; I'm not nominating Apple for corporate sainthood. However, they are not building a business model based on exploiting our data. They should get credit for that and be allowed to point o
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by cicero 8y ago
I've been thinking along the same lines. I currently use Python for relatively small projects, but even then, I wish I had type declarations when I come back to code I haven't looked at in a while. What is your favorite language w
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by cicero 8y ago
I had success with that design as a kid. It was called "the bishop's hat" in the book I had.
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by cicero 8y ago
Although I'm not yet retired, I have been thinking about something similar. When I was younger, I loved learning new languages. Now I find I'm less able to learn so quickly, and I'm more interested in getting things done. I&#
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by cicero 8y ago
There is a great documentary [1] about the Grande Chartreuse, available on DVD [2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence 2: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Great-Silence-Two-Disc-Set/dp&
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by cicero 8y ago
Even if you disagree with that, there are many other goals in life that are aided by being physically healthy.
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by cicero 8y ago
Markdown is supported, but is it required? I know lots of Messenger and Skype users that have never heard of Markdown.
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by cicero 8y ago
If I remember correctly, that's what Google said when Chrome was introduced. Browsers at that time did not adequately support their services, so they made their own browser.

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