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by dugmartin 2y ago
Pragprog just published a new book this month with SNOBOL in it: Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks https://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven/seven-obscure-languages-...
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Yes, for instance in 1100AD Cahokia Mounds had a larger population than London. https://cahokiamounds.org/
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by dugmartin 2y ago
If you are looking for a great blog post describing how to build a native full text search engine in Elixir that you can drop into your app: https://culttt.com/2023/03/22/building-a-full-text-search-en... (I’
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I believe this was the reason the warrant officer rank was created.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Yes - the sound on the video reminded me of waiting for my homework to print out in the 80s.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
We lost our local family owned department store a few years when the CEO retired. Walking around in there was like stepping back in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%27s_(department_store)
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by dugmartin 2y ago
A friend in high school that worked at a steak house chain called it “floor spice”. He said it was often intentionally applied when rude customers demanded their steak be cooked more. Never send back food.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It might not be as much as one would think. I just looked at their export page and you can only get 6 months of project history data out of their system - I'm guessing that means comments.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
US ZIP codes are what I always have issue with during imports. They start with 0 in New England and the zero always gets removed.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Early in my career (mid-90s) I worked for a defense contractor working on avionics for the F-22 and for GE working on a real-time automation OS. Both used waterfall exclusively. The defense contractor had a multi-year plan with monthly de
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by dugmartin 2y ago
And the crazy thing is they were denied access to the GI Bill after WW2 and didn’t get veteran status until 60 years later.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
My dad told me stories from early in his career at GTE about replacing barb wire phone lines in the 1950s and 1960s in rural southern Illinois. Most of those systems were hooked up to wooden hand crank phones mounted on the wall in houses a
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Good tip about blocking the intake/exhaust (I'll do that this year). I normally just hand pump out the gas until there is just a little left and then start it up and let it run dry. I then do an oil change and tape a note over t
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I owned two separate small sized Nissan trucks and they were great for hauling. When I needed to haul full 4'x8' sheets of stuff I used a little box frame I made from 2"x6" lumber that I put near the tailgate so that sh
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Good to know, but it does seem to me that anemoia is perfectly cromulent.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
If you are having nostalgia or anemoia for payphones, looking at those images brought back a memory of having to use a payphone in Manhattan in 1992. I picked it up and put it to my face and realized somehow, someone had managed to both pe
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It was an extension to ES4 called E4X - it allowed inline xml along with a new xml data type. More info here: https://evertpot.com/ecmascript-4-the-missing-version/
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by dugmartin 2y ago
You can also click on the little “flex” icon next to the display: flex property and bring up a ui that has all the flex properties (if, like me you can’t remember what property does what)
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The way we've (my wife and I) have been budgeting for years is to have a set of fixed monthly expenses, mostly recurring but some one time, and then have a pot of money for variable daily expenses. We then divide that into the number
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by dugmartin 2y ago
We had to get printouts from the mainframe for my freshman CS class and they came out of a chain printer. It was in the next room separated by a set of cubbyholes for the printouts and it sounded terrifying when it was printing, even 20 fe
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Print Shop and BannerMania were my two goto printing apps in the 80s. BannerMania had a "transmogrify" feature that iterated through a bunch of design options automatically which was great for me as I sucked at design. https:&#x
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Look at the MRR graph in the post and I think you'll see why most projects are abandoned before they find a market and become a success - the "long, slow, saas ramp of death".
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Yes it is very similar and as you say the notation lets you define really complex concurrent logic.
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I used to work on GE's programmable logic controller product on the realtime OS side. PLCs are primarily programmed in ladder logic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic ) and we had a full graphical UI to d
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by dugmartin 2y ago
In the shareware days I made pretty good money for a college student with a graphical Netware login utility called "vgalogin" (great name I know). It put the graphics card in VGA mode and integrated a screensaver and quote of the
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by dugmartin 2y ago
When I had a commercial building mortgage it was on a 30-year note that rate adjusted every 5-years. Landlord's whose mortgages are adjusting this year are going to have to increase rents to keep their cash flow in place as rates are
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by dugmartin 2y ago
There is currently a HumbleBundle running with a bunch of Elixir books from PragProg. I won't share the link as I don't want to spam.
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A Theory of Everything(theoryofeverything.fyi)
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Lots of German ones too. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_surnames_from...
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In a just world Nathan Myhrvold will be on his deathbed and a simple device could save his life but it can't be turned on because it violates IVs patent on power buttons.

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