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by diskzero 4y ago
The QuickDraw code (LISA_OS/LIBS/LIBQD) is just glorious. While reading it, I am overcome by the creative genius of Bill Atkinson. [1]. Bill went on to become quite accomplished at cooking lunch for the team at General Magic. [2]
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by diskzero 4y ago
It was pretty rosey for me, even with all the challenges, emotions and anxiety. I have experienced similar challenges, emotions and anxiety in jobs that were much less satisfying. I think the moments are out there still; you just have to se
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by diskzero 4y ago
Sonic Pi is really neat, especially the work that has been done using Erlang in the playback scheduler.
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by diskzero 4y ago
The author mentions using OpusModus, noting that it is similar in the spirit of Symbolic Composer. OpusModus is primarily the work of Janusz Podrazik, who also happened to be one of the main authors of Symbolic Composer. Janus is also the c
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by diskzero 4y ago
I have been a happy user of OpusModus for a while. The latest version is based on LispWorks. OpusModus used to be based on CCL, but sadly CCL does not have a clear path forward to run on M-based Macs. It would be great for CCL to get some t
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by diskzero 4y ago
The summary under the reference article above states this: About a minute in, he talks about the work he did at Western Technologies, programming VCS/2600 Raft Rider and Q bert. He also mentions WT getting the contract to make home ver
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by diskzero 4y ago
Dave Hampton, also well-known for his work on Q-Bert.[1] You can watch a Computer History Museum interview with him here. [2] [1] http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/qbert/qbert.htm [2] https:/&#x2
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by diskzero 4y ago
In the early 90s, my company developed a video game that was ported to the NEC PC-98. We got a few units to develop on and I found the industrial design to be pretty nice compared to the generic PC clones we had around. The PC-98 re-entered
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by diskzero 4y ago
These types of text metrics bugs show up in my code over and over and over and over again. I keep making them! When I was working on the icon view in Finder, icon layout, multi-line icon labels, additional info text and anything else using
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by diskzero 4y ago
As a former aircraft owner, I immediately began to calculate the costs of doing on overhaul on those props. My three bladed props would need an overhaul at least every 2000 hours. There is also a time minimum as well if you don't reach
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by diskzero 4y ago
She has been using Desmos, which is pretty good. I'll tell her about Geogebra. Creating interactive demonstrations can be very helpful. Sequences and series seem to be the latest topic students are having difficulties with. The underly
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by diskzero 4y ago
This is really neat. Can you share what inspired you to create these components? My significant other is an educator and she is always looking for fun and inspiring ways to introduce mathematical concepts to her student. Are you approaching
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by diskzero 4y ago
I'll be reaching five years myself in April. It is nice to have some time in sobriety, but it is still one day at a time for me.
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by diskzero 4y ago
Many Be employees, including myself, ended up at Apple; some after a brief time at Eazel and others later on. They had, and continue to, make great contributions. As a former Be employee and lover of BeOS, I can say that Apple acquiring Be
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by diskzero 4y ago
I prototyped several user OSX user interface animations using Quartz Composer during my time at Apple. It was a great tool for rapid iterations. We would demo to Steve, get feedback and quickly make changes. Before Quartz Composer, Bas Ordi
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by diskzero 4y ago
I am a current LispWorks customer using the product for new product development. I wouldn’t consider my usage niche, but then again, I am not sure what you may consider to be niche or not.
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by diskzero 4y ago
The new MuseSound data files seem to be the result of the StaffPad aquisition. I haven't done an exhaustive comparison, but the sounds are the same SFZ-format, Opus compressed sounds that StaffPad uses. I don't know if the new Mus
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by diskzero 4y ago
During my time at PDI/DreamWorks, all idle desktop machines would be incorporated into the render farm as well. I don't know if this is the case anymore with so many features of the renderer and simulations software depending on t
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by diskzero 4y ago
Quibi [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibi
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by diskzero 4y ago
It has been 14 months since my wife passed after thirty years of marriage. There is a lot of good advice here. All I can say is things can get better. Grief is a process. Be kind to yourself. Seek out the company others if you can remotely
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by diskzero 4y ago
I implimented a BSP renderer in my somewhat unremarkable CDROM game Dark Fiber [1] in 1995 or so. I also remember seeing the algorithm in Foley and Van Dam, but it wasn't until a conversation with John at some conference/tradeshow
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by diskzero 4y ago
We actually had an Intel build of most of OSX from the beginning. Various parts would go stale and then a motivated engineer would dive in and get it running again on some specific set of audio and video hardware. At some point the existenc
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by diskzero 4y ago
Yes, it is legal. There is no state in the US where it is completely illegal. Colorado and Utah limit the amount you can collect.
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by diskzero 4y ago
Colorado and Utah are last remainining states with such agressive policies. All other states allow the collection of water for domestic use. Additional permits are needed if you want to drink the water or use it commercially. Some states en
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by diskzero 4y ago
Tucson resident here. It did make me feel a bit better setting up my harvesting system. I collect about 10,000 gallons that I use to irrigate my thirsty grapefruit and lemon tree. If I didn't have to collected water, it would cost me a
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by diskzero 4y ago
Thanks for the super informative reply. I am hoping as there is more activity on the space station, that more information will be coming out. It would be nice to be able to see something similar to the ESA, NASA and even Roscosmos launch fe
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by diskzero 4y ago
I suppose it could lead to a race to build a new generation of heavy lift vehicles or other propulsion systems. Maybe a return to the NERVA[1] engine! That technology was an interesting story point in the "For All Mankind" series
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by diskzero 4y ago
Space stations and exploration can be a difficult proposition to justify to any economic system; democratic, socialist, communist, etc. For China to want to "beat" us, building bigger and better space stations would somehow have t
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by diskzero 4y ago
Does anyone know to what extent China has advanced the state of the Soviet technology that they have (I assume) licensed? I have been to the Russian Star City training facility, Baikonur Cosmodrome and been in the full-size Mir training mod
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by diskzero 4y ago
I'll agree with you that there are still techniques to be discovered. I also agree that most humans manage to drive in challenging conditions, but their margins for error become slimmer and slimmer. I personally want my autonomous robo

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