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by gavinpc 10y ago
Yeah, actually this is how I remembered it from Webster's Third International many years ago, which I don't have anymore. Since then, I've become reliant on etymonline, which is handy, but somebody's hobby project[0].
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by gavinpc 10y ago
To add to the irony, "robot" comes from the Czech word "robotnik," meaning "slave." http://etymonline.com/index.php?search=robot
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Goldsmith makes the key point at the end of the interview: film scores are trying to do two things at once (1) do what the film needs and (2) stand alone. To me, this completely clarifies his conflict with Ridley Scott. The director doesn&
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I love tup so much. It's a "functional reactive" build tool that practically nobody's heard of, so I'd argue that it's even more "hipster" than make (whatever that means). When I decided I needed a s
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Thanks for your insights, Dr. Kay. I appreciate your taking the time to reply. For context, I was recently struggling with these questions in trying to rationalize a Shakespeare project (on current-day systems) as being good for humanity.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Such differences also served as a forensic tool for Sherlock Holmes, as in "A Case of Identity": > “It is a curious thing,” remarked Holmes, “that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man’s handwriting. Unle
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by gavinpc 10y ago
The charitable view is that this saves bandwidth (and load time) for page views that never get scrolled. Also, it may allow them to count the ads in those sections as impressions without having to paginate the article, which presumably the
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Why is it so important to make the chips smaller every time? Especially if they're going into servers, where, as the article says, they will almost never be seen by the customers. To go from 2bn transistors to 10bn on something that&
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Okay, thanks for the correction. I read the posts you linked and understand the issue better. Although we have a different definition of clearly . And I admit that I still have trouble seeing the plaintiffs in these cases as any kind of
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Are you referring to the part about corporations being able to sue nations if they take any measures that they can claim hurts their business? [0] I assume that the "ISDS" that Warren refers to in the linked article (which was wr
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I agree 100% about catalogues and addressability. I'm also a diehard in that respect, and I've come to distinguish "apps" in a similar manner, as sites where either there's no "business case" for an ontol
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by gavinpc 10y ago
"Good design is about taking things apart." --Rich Hickey I think that statement captures several of these. He says it in the context of methodology and "architectural agility" in a great talk called "Simplicity Ma
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Same here. As others have indicated, that would be more consistent with the title (and more interesting). The more general idea is a content-addressable function repository, where, as you point out, code would have to be in some kind of no
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I agree that we need extensible lightweight markup languages, but I'm not sure how the OP distinguishes between a grammar and a constraint. And if by "language" he didn't mean "grammar," then what did he mean?
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Forgive me, but what does any of this have to do with authoring documents? Aren't JSX and React about coding models and views?
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Dr. Kay, if you're still following... then with singular respect and gratitude for your life-changing work and ideas, I would like to ask you one question. Is there a good way to use bad systems? Such as the web, which you describe as
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Agreed, except I think you mean from the 70's. PARC invented WYSIWYG word processing, I think it was Butler Lampson's gig. As I recall that went out to users before many of their other inventions.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
The original post (not this OP) was clearly a response to Rich Hickey's talk "Simplicity Matters," which was given at a Ruby conference.[0] Particularly the part about "1,000 gems," which Hickey calls "hairbal
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by gavinpc 10y ago
It's called "literate programming." I'm embarrassed of the state of this thing, but I think I'd be remiss if I didn't link to https://willshake.net/about It's a graph of a system based (al
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Thank you. That means a lot to me. I have worked on that project mostly in secret for over ten years, and I had resolved that yesterday had to be a release date of some kind. So yeah, I hadn't slept, and I needlessly (and foolishly)
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Miss Hathaway had as a lover That infamous son of a glover Whatever Will said In their second-best bed She edited cover to cover A sort of rambling article from NYT whose most notable feature was a beautiful si
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by gavinpc 11y ago
> In reality more often then not moving fast and breaking things will result in shipping scrappy software. This is because in the rush to get stuff out the fastest way time consuming things get skipped. Like user testing, automation, ana
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by gavinpc 11y ago
Spreadsheets somehow hit a vein with the public, so that tells you something. I've been kind of obsessed with the Tup build system, and in trying to distill what it does into one sentence, I find it helpful to say, It's like a sp
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by gavinpc 11y ago
Yes, good to learn about him. Like me, he got a B.A. in Liberal Arts. Unlike me, he got his at age 17!
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by gavinpc 11y ago
I thought the first one was Alan Perlis?
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by gavinpc 11y ago
"m" is a voiced, nasal consonant. It can be pitched as much as any vowel.
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by gavinpc 11y ago
The failsafes as I understand it (from recent reading here) also include the inability to programmatically attempt login. As shipped, they will only accept such attempts from user input (keypad UI or fingerprint scanner).
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Also, English got by for centuries without canonical spelling. For the OP's underlying point, I'm not sure that's an improvement, since people could spell things more "naturally," as many children do now when learn
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by gavinpc 11y ago
I asked about this in the fairly early days of SO [1]. Nowadays, it's clear that you're not just answering the OP, but thousands of other people. I think that's worth taking into consideration. > Question askers should p
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by gavinpc 11y ago
> server-side DOM manipulation makes a bunch of possibilities possible Can you explain what this has to do with node.js? I've done server-side DOM manipulation for years, in both .NET and Python.

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