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by garyrob 5y ago
"Mendix, Betty Blocks, Outsystems" Interesting. I've never even heard of any of those products. They must be in some completely different space than I'm operating in. In 1980 I was a database consultant, with a long-term
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by garyrob 5y ago
I agree. I read his books, especially that one, to each of my kids, and still have very fond memories
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by garyrob 5y ago
This brand-new book on using Python (via Transcrypt) in the browser to build a React app may be helpful in that regard: https://pyreact.com . Just started reading it. Seems very good so far.
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by garyrob 5y ago
I agree, the cheatsheets are great. As a Python developer. the python sheet makes me file like I could dive write in and write a gleam program by having python in mind mind and looking up the gleam equivalent for each line of code. But wher
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by garyrob 5y ago
Yeah, my programming OS was CP/M
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by garyrob 5y ago
Personally I use jstar (a configuration of Joe) because in the 80's I used WordStar and I like using the same key combos. :) But that's for small editing tasks. For coding I use VSCode or a JetBrains product.
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by garyrob 5y ago
" Freezes don’t appear to work - they usually say that I don’t have an active freeze whenever I go to lift one. Or their website is down entirely. Or they won’t let me get to the freeze section without clicking no on their paid monitor
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by garyrob 5y ago
I like it and, to tell the truth, I may end up reading it rather than subscribing to Motor Trend, the way I no longer feel a need to get science magazines because of r/Science!
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by garyrob 6y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120150728.h...
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I tried to explain NFTs to a non-techie artist I know(garyrobinson.net)
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HBO special says Ron Watkins is Q(hbo.com)
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How they're protecting the hard drive containing Trump's tax records
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by garyrob 6y ago
Here's an old song of mine. My main claim to fame as a songwriter is that before Suzanne Vega became famous, I was in a weekly songwriter's workshop that she was involved with (and co-founded); she liked this song when I presented
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by garyrob 6y ago
For the last 8 years I have been engaged in actual Zen practice, working on actual Zen koans with an actual Zen teacher in an actual Zen lineage that can be accurately traced back for a millennium or so. I will say that Aaronsen's &quo
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by garyrob 6y ago
I suggest reading the article I linked. It talks about Dr. Ken Liegner. He just happened to be my wife's Lyme doctor, and I'm pretty sure my wife was one of the 30 patients mentioned in the article. My son was another of them. (I
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by garyrob 6y ago
"'chronic lyme disease' is something I imagine has touched someone in each of our networks." My wife, a retinal surgeon, lost her career due to it. She was pretty much unable to function at a professional level for seve
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by garyrob 6y ago
The fact that an idea is rejected is not, on its own, evidence that it's any good. However, great ideas are often not "obviously" good, because if they were, someone would have done them already. And if they're not obvio
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by garyrob 6y ago
The reminds me of Zen master Shunru Suzuki's famous statement: "in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few," in his book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. https:/&#x2
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by garyrob 6y ago
They did NOT pioneer personalized recommendations. Believe me, I know, because out-of-the-blue I got a phone call from Jeff Bezos back in the day, who was interested in my pre-existing recommendation technology. They didn't have any. I
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by garyrob 6y ago
I'm the same way. My logic is: It may be very rare that it's a problem, but if it does happen that someone with the virus coughs on my groceries, mail, etc., then it's dangerous, even if it isn't a risk just due to them
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by garyrob 6y ago
I had a Gifford S100 system running Concurrent CP/M and with telephone-voice interface boards that ran a voice-based dating site I designed and programmed in Pascal. The CPU was a 286 running at 8mhz. It was in NYC, with phone number 2
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by garyrob 6y ago
Some people here are saying they shouldn't be praised for the retraction because retracting an error is merely doing what a publication should do. This is wrongheaded, because it ignores the fact that in the actual world in which we ac
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by garyrob 6y ago
As I remember the series, they presented pro and con arguments about believing him near the beginning, and never expressed certainty that it was true, but felt it was likely enough true that it was worth reporting. Then when more facts came
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by garyrob 6y ago
Question: suppose you're a user who does not use something like Lulu to monitor traffic, and does not use firewall settings that close the ports Apple uses. Then, does this Big Sur issue make any difference to you? Wouldn't malici
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Ars Technica on the Big Sur firewall issue(arstechnica.com)
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by garyrob 6y ago
For something like a PDF, macOS would open Preview, or some other PDF-handling app, to handle it if the user opens it in the Finder. So the PDF would have to have code in it that exploited some security weakness in the associated app that
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by garyrob 6y ago
Thank you. I am not sophisticated about these things so let me ask a follow-up. By "open" a file, most end users think of documents that are opened by applications... either from the App Store or from Apple. I think you are thinki
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by garyrob 6y ago
Trying to understand this as someone who is not sophisticated about security issues. It SOUNDS like, if you have a Big Sur machine that runs no software other than Apple's and software downloaded from App Store, this isn't an issu
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Can anyone get access to the same live vote data the networks use?
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by garyrob 6y ago
"I'm also old enough to remember when you'd be hard pressed to find a desktop computer for under $1000, perhaps $1500 adjusted for inflation." I'm old enough to remember buying a 40MB hard drive for $4,000 (about $9

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