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by gecko 16y ago
Zipcar had been trying to move off Tcl, but I don't know how seriously they were focused on that or what their status is. My impression is that had much more to do with trouble finding experienced devs than any issues with the technology st
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by gecko 16y ago
I agree completely that the ORMs in Squeak are bad, and many abandoned, but as of six months ago, ROE still worked. ROE is not an ORM per se; rather, it's something close to LINQ on a SQL database: you write your queries in relational alge
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by gecko 16y ago
You're correct that most Smalltalks have a changes file that keeps a log of everything you've done, but that's now how you do version control or share changes. The changes file in practice is more of a kind of local version control, or unli
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by gecko 16y ago
It's even more nuanced than that: the Squeak project took the time to actually do a full hunt for all of the old contributors, figured out who they were, rewrote their code when necessary, and got signed legal agreements authorizing the rel
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by gecko 16y ago
Businesses that are using Linux for their desktops are already in a different situation, since corporate updates and lock downs can be managed through a custom apt repository easily anyway.
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by gecko 16y ago
SuperGenPass ( http://supergenpass.com/ ) does that in a way that is more likely to generate strong passwords honored by sites (e.g., multiple cases, punctuation, etc.). It comes both as a bookmarklet, and, if you don't want to use that, a
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by gecko 16y ago
I remember in high school philosophy class describing prototype-based systems as Aristotelean and class-based as Plutonic. I'm amused you've hit upon the same general idea. (For what it's worth, I like Self, apparently named after an Aristo
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by gecko 16y ago
Even moreso than that, many of the lights in New York still run on genuine relays. You can easily hear them at many street corners in Manhattan, happily thunking away. (The New York Subway is also still powered almost exclusively by relays,
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by gecko 16y ago
I do...but you could accuse me of being somewhat biased: http://bitquabit.com/about/ If anyone has any questions about Kiln or FogBugz, I'd be happy to answer them here. I'm glad to see so many positive comments though, especially about K
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by gecko 16y ago
That can't be correct, since I remember running Windows NT 4 on a PowerPC system.
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by gecko 16y ago
"Dangerously close"? I think he just did. Well, in fairness, he might've told me to buy the new Samsung tablet or a Palm Pre 2. Just...not a BlackBerry.
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by gecko 16y ago
I kind of passionately disagree. I think that both Apple and Microsoft's tools blow Android's out of the water. Objective-C and C# are more pleasant languages; the graphics libraries are in vastly better shape (ever wonder why Android scrol
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by gecko 16y ago
I'd love to have bqb.ww.com -> bitquabit.com
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by gecko 16y ago
I assume you're being somewhat facetious, but the answer is a definitive yes. The team had previously used Campfire, but felt it had a lot of UI issues, and attempted to solve them with chat. I don't know for sure whether they intended chat
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by gecko 16y ago
Indeed. There was something wonderful about seeing not just real desktop shots, but desktop shots with the correct contemporary hardware and software. Mozilla-the-app, Emacs 19, thick crappy Dells. Just a nice break from Hollywood effects
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by gecko 16y ago
Thanks; fixed.
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by gecko 16y ago
I really liked it. It's certainly not 100% accurate, and I don't think it's trying to be. It glosses over some major aspects of Facebook's history (like Zuckerberg's friendship with Graham, the heavy focus on Wirehog, the importance of Dust
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by gecko 16y ago
I don't want to take this too far off-topic, but: why Appleseed? I hadn't heard of them until just now.
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by gecko 16y ago
Yep, sure does. That said, as I explained elsewhere in this thread, I profoundly don't get what the problem is. It's no different than syncing with Google, unless you have a hangup about Facebook.
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by gecko 16y ago
I'm not even convinced of that. Use MobileMe? Your address book gets synced with Apple. Have an Android phone? It gets synced with Google. Maybe Plaxo? Same deal. This should be treated the same as those solutions, as near as I can tell. I
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by gecko 16y ago
[I was a co-founder and am a primary developer of Kiln.] Speaking purely for myself, I don't view Bitbucket as a competitor, to be honest. It's a great tool, but serves a very different purpose. When it comes to social code, Bitbucket's gre
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by gecko 16y ago
Just to be explicit: you mean you programmed it purely with opcodes, presumably compiling by hand a program you'd figured out earlier?
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by gecko 16y ago
It was (re-)released a few years ago, and some people I saw the movie with were totally convinced that the special effects had all been redone with absolutely cutting-edge CGI like the remastered Star Wars movies. They were quite floored wh
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by gecko 16y ago
The largest thing I wrote was a clone of the parts of "curl" that I use, modifying it slightly so that I can just write JSON to describe what I want to post to a website, rather than the URL-encoded string. This included supporting DELETE,
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by gecko 16y ago
I don't honestly think that Factor suffers from the same problems enumerated here at the end of the day. I used to dally in Forth in the form of Mops and PowerMops, and my problems were basically the same as those enumerated in this essay.
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by gecko 16y ago
I have friends at Google, and have heard nothing indicating that salaries are anywhere in this ballpark. I also just spoke to someone whose girlfriend works there, and he too agreed that this article is bullshit. They might mean mid-lev
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by gecko 16y ago
Is that also your stance towards OfficeXML?
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by gecko 16y ago
Neal Stephenson's merged historical fiction with science fiction before, quite successfully (e.g., the entire Baroque Cycle , including the Cryptonomicon ). I'd be surprised if there weren't some fairly heavy sci-fi motifs.
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by gecko 16y ago
So, the way I figure it: let's say each phone call lasts only two minutes. You literally just look up the number, call the person, say "You're awesome!" and then hang up. That still works out to just $10/hr or so, not counting phone costs.
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by gecko 16y ago
Presumably, it would just look like a GNOME app.

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