eney

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RMS on the Death of Steve Jobs(stallman.org)
3 points by eney 15y ago|1 comments
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by eney 16y ago
Nonsense! The Free Software movement is a political movement informed by philosophical and ethical values.
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by eney 16y ago
Maybe one's preference depends on whether one uses speech or braille. Although I known of some blind programmers who won't learn Python because of the indentation, some like it. Some speech users use a piano scale to show indentation. Some
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by eney 16y ago
Ah yes! A foldable display with nanotech that could make tactile maps and such with different textures. That's what I want.
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by eney 16y ago
I've used Graphviz to make relationship diagrams to aid my communication with sighted people. There's an interesting Google Developer Podcast with T.V. Raman where he mentions programming directly in Postscript while he worked at Adobe. I'v
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by eney 16y ago
Most blind people use speech output. If braille displays were more affordable perhaps more people would use them. But with the cost of 80-cel displays being roughly double 40-cell displays, how could make an affordable multiline display?
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by eney 16y ago
I'd love to have a 80x25 braille display. I believe they've been made in the labs. The blocker is the expense.
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by eney 16y ago
I don't know APL and I'm not currently smart enough for Haskell. My current infatuation for learning is with Scala. When I first started programming in the mid-80's, I was hacking on a COBOL stock-control system on VMS; the braille display
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by eney 16y ago
I'm a blind programmer. I use a 80-character braille display which shows one line of text at a time. My preferred language is Python although some blind programmers dislike it for its syntactic use of indentation. I find that scrolling with