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by cturner 11y ago
About 2004, I reached a stall state. I did some serious wilderness time and it took about six years to settle down into a new zone. This was the trigger for me: (1) I had a development career where I tried to build every application centred
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by cturner 11y ago
> No, because rc "lacks" features unix users are used to, such as command history. Hmm. You're right. The general problem remains. It's difficult to build momentum in a platform that operates as an all-or-no
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by cturner 11y ago
Had a wake-at-4am. The prop IBM arch wasn't EISA, it was Micro Channel. (thanks)
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by cturner 11y ago
This is very helpful, thank you. In particular thanks for the tip about not lining things up in rows, because that's just what I would have done. I could probably write a script so that I could design things in neat rows on a screen, a
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by cturner 11y ago
@beneater - if I wanted to wire-wrap my own system like this, what's a sensible way to think about managing the wires, and what sort of boards to get? These are naive questions - I've done some electronics theory but hardly anythi
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by cturner 11y ago
I think we generally agree as to the strengths of plan 9. > plan 9 to do unix things, and there is no benefit to that No - there is. Lots of benefit. Often when I'm thinking about approaches to an IPC problem, I'll go
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by cturner 11y ago
> Well, it locked up the PS/2 hardware with patents, so nobody could clone it. The "IBM Compatible" was already well-established though. PS2 architecture plays were an attempt for them to get relevant again, and
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by cturner 11y ago
That was amazing. Looking forward to your guide. :) Thanks.
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by cturner 11y ago
IBM's investment in Linux was political. For decades, IBM's identity was as a platform company. It was becoming a regular loser outside of its enterprise monopoly. It was late to the party on home computing. It created the PC but
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by cturner 11y ago
The UI does obscures the best of plan9. There are defenders of it. But, if we assume that the goal of Plan9 was to obsolete unix with something better by the late 90s, the UI is a big part of the failure. It scared people users. Your altern
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by cturner 11y ago
I was thinking about clefs recently. Why are we so fixed on two clefs? All that a clef needs to do is to indicate (a) where the G is and (b) which octave it is in. When I play with ideas I just put a 'x' on the G line with a super
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by cturner 11y ago
When people say devalue in the current context, it is a shorthand for the Iceland scenario. What they mean is: moving off the shared currency (EUR) and adopting a national currency. This generally means a one-off devaluation, because the co
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by cturner 11y ago
I had a cab driver a couple of weeks ago. We got talking, and I said I am a developer. He said he knew some c#. He seemed slow but I humoured him - asked how he got into it. He then started talking about machine code programming on the c64
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by cturner 11y ago
Your comment raises a solid use-case I hadn't mentioned: unix running underneath a single-user mobile device. You do need permission systems for that scenario. But they don't have to be in the OS. You could implement them in the a
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by cturner 11y ago
Unix permissions become increasingly complicated while usage moves in the other direction. Complex permissions were a must-have in the era of time-shared systems. You'll find some slow-moving multinationals that still have people shell
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by cturner 11y ago
Thanks - found one I was thinking of, addObjectToBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey
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by cturner 11y ago
Do you remember any of the the names of method calls that were created by converting the objective-c libs into java?
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by cturner 11y ago
The usage that would make devices like these attractive to me is if they allowed me to carry my data around, doing most of my work by ssh, but with ability to access/edit data while I was mobile. Then I wouldn't need to carry a ba
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by cturner 11y ago
There's a /great/ video to watch - Programming with Hand Tools by Ewald. The ending is a twist. It's actually not about IDEs. You expect it to be... but then there's a twist at the end and he talks about something c
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by cturner 11y ago
Thanks. Bizarre.
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by cturner 11y ago
Console interaction shines particularly for high-latency liks. Mainframe/mini interfaces were particularly strong - your buffer could get many characters ahead of the display, but you could have complete confidence that everything woul
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by cturner 11y ago
Could you be mixing this up? There was a heavil-used phrase, "OS/2 is a better Windows than Windows" during the Windows 3.0 era, because the OS/2 Windows subsystem was far more stable than Microsoft's Windows (and a
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by cturner 11y ago
> Who uses vi-mode in the shell? There's at least a dozen of us. It's my wishlist :) > Windows could do a lot better than curses by > providing easy means to pop MFC dialogs from > the shell to
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by cturner 11y ago
Fair. But I couldn't target my crappy roguelikes at cygwin - requires complicated third-party installs. I ran cygwin-with-ssh heavily for a while in 2003. It was a hell of a thing to get it going. Then I had trouble getting it to work
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by cturner 11y ago
For all Balmer's thing of dancing on a stage and chanting "developers", there was no point under Gates or he at which Microsoft felt like a pro-developer company. That has completely changed in the last eighteen months. Each
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by cturner 11y ago
"In Russia, they thought everyone should have bread. That was a decision made by those in power, and they then tried to make that happen, whether everyone wanted bread or not. This did not work so well, and there were shortages."
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by cturner 11y ago
This symptom can point to your translation being incompatible with the text stream the terminal is being presented with. That problem may be overcome by switching putty's 'character code' setting to UTF8. I wonder how much of
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by cturner 11y ago
What causes you to say that putty is pretty awful?
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by cturner 11y ago
> I am not arguing for communism, because we all know > how well that has worked in the past. We need another > solution. Do you have any ideas? Capitalism uses the market to allocate resources. Typically, when someone
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by cturner 11y ago
Thanks for your note. I should have mentioned in my original comment, I'm behind with my knowledge of Windows. The fact there's a competent PDF reader in Windows 8 highlights this. Thanks.

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