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by diskzero 5y ago
I also have concerns about the quality of the mentorship based on my earlier experiences. There are high quality mentors to be found, but I agree with you that the ratios are way off compared to the private sector.
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by diskzero 5y ago
The initial hires at the US Digital Service all came in at GS-15, level 10. At least, that is what I was offered. It was the only way they could be remotely competitive. I notice that this new program is using only new grads and boot camp g
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by diskzero 5y ago
This seems like a good idea, but an initial cohort of only thirty? I suppose some is better than none, but that is much smaller number than I would expect.
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by diskzero 5y ago
They are very old and have accrued quite a bit of legacy By release 2.0 of any project, some amount of "legacy" will have been achieved. "Quite a bit of legacy" can be seen as an indicator of platform success. Is the l
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by diskzero 5y ago
I think we need a lookup table of marketing speech to real-world performance metrics. Blazingly fast has been showing up a lot lately. The cynical side of me wants to know what features and safety checks a "blazingly fast" tool ha
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by diskzero 5y ago
Yeah, sometimes that will happen in countries where people have strong English language skills. I'll respect their wish to speak in the language they want to communicate in.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Your app looks interesting. I'll check it out! I learned conversational French, German, Russian and Spanish as an adult. The method that worked best for me is similar to what you mentioned. I watched as many shows as I could in the var
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by diskzero 5y ago
This was a great article and makes me want to dig in to some of my own ancient software. Could these tools and techniques be used on older PowerPC Mac executables? I have some old software that was protected by ADB dongles. I own the softwa
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by diskzero 5y ago
I hear you. I wish there were more places to dig through sketchy crates! All of my favorite used record stores have vanished and the joy of finding a rare item in a crate is harder and harder to find. I'll keep digging!
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by diskzero 5y ago
You make a good point. If you come into an appreciation of certain genres of film or music, and the items you want are out of print, your options are to find the content on the secondary market or acquire pirated copies. I am always more th
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by diskzero 5y ago
Was it because National Mutual supplied a computer for your father to work on at home or did they have a relationship with a manufacturer?
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by diskzero 5y ago
Our school had them too, but no one had one at home. We had Apple IIs, Vic-20s, TI-99/4As, etc. Was Tandy just really good at selling into the education channel?
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by diskzero 5y ago
Could you share more about Glow? I am also curious as to why Facebook would make this technology open source. I am happy to be able to benefit from the open source work large corporations do, but am not always clear why they do it.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Apple will make exceptions for education apps that can execute code, but I think your observation is good about iPads/tablets in general. They are not great devices for keyboard-driven programming apps, unless you have a keyboard attac
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by diskzero 5y ago
That is a good observation. I am the primary care-giver for a sick spouse, so I have also seen the luxury of time spent on programming diminish. I am glad you pointed this out. Now that I am older, and perhaps wiser, I can look back at some
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by diskzero 5y ago
You have learned a good skill, which is knowing how and when to stop. That is something I have a very, very hard time with.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Fowler states: I’ve long known that when you’re doing very creative work, such as writing or programming, the useful hours you can do in a day is rather less than the accepted industrial eight. I don't want to disagree with him as th
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by diskzero 5y ago
As an outsider, I have always respected the Japanese tradition of leaders accepting blame and making apologies. It seems that this would short-circuit the outrage driven media cycles that thrive in America. Is this the case in Japan? Do the
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by diskzero 5y ago
I realize that the American justice system is adversarial. Whether or not you should take responsibility for your misdeeds is a philosophical question that doesn't mesh well with that system. If you are driving drunk and receive a cita
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by diskzero 5y ago
The author states: Prior to joining the Snap! project, I had spent 20 years teaching computer science using the best computer science book ever written, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). I have also taught high-sch
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by diskzero 5y ago
Google has created a competing rival to Apple in the mobile market called Android. Am I not understandng your question?
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by diskzero 5y ago
I am not medical professional, or a trained social worker, but I have no doubt that Holmes has a diagnosable personality disorder and was the victim of some sort of abuse and manipulation. I also believe that she was totally aware that sh
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by diskzero 5y ago
The Monino Airfield [1], north of Moscow, has a Tu-144 [2] on display. You can walk right up to it, but can't physically get in it. Monino is one of the more amazing aviation museums I have seen. There are some extremely rare aircraft
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by diskzero 5y ago
Reading this was a ton of fun. It captured the joy and sense of discovery that comes with figuring out how to do something you really weren't meant to do.
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by diskzero 5y ago
I don't want to vigorously defend the organization of the git repo, but browsing the source code of Smalltalks is always an issue. The source code is closely tied to the "browser" and for the longest time this was the only wa
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by diskzero 5y ago
I can only point you to the doc, which you may have already seen: https://www.bracha.org/newspeak-modules.pdf It is worth asking on the forum to see if there is some exisiting code to show this in practice.
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by diskzero 5y ago
The forum will get a response from Gilad or others: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/newspeaklanguage A simple example of Newspeak and literate programming: https://newspeaklanguage.org/samp
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by diskzero 5y ago
The most active Smalltalk inspired community seems to be Pharo. https://pharo.org I have avoided calling Pharo "Smalltalk" as it has evolved from the original fork of Squeak and the project is evolving and modifying fr
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by diskzero 5y ago
Has too much time passed for FirefoxOS to become viable again? The latest moves by Apple seems to be changing public sentiment .
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by diskzero 5y ago
It is hard to comprehend how many of the space-related feats of engineering were accomplished by the Soviet Union. On a trip to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, I was stunned by the size of the test stand for the Energia rocket. It is massive, with

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