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by geophile 6y ago
I went through a very similar evolution, starting with slide rules, at about the same time. You don't mention middle school and high school -- I was very fortunate in having access to Wang and Monroe programmable calculators, and then
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by geophile 6y ago
It's not a matter of liking it or being compelled, it is the right tool for the job. The alternatives have the advantage of being accessible to developers who don't even know what they don't know. I think that this article de
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by geophile 6y ago
Speaking as an American who is sick to death (possibly) of Trump, and who spent a wonderful 9 years in Canada: Canada should, under no circumstances, open their border to the idiots in this country. The border should be closed indefinitely.
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by geophile 6y ago
Take a look at marcel: https://github.com/geophile/marcel . It is a pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell, implemented in Python. But it is also an API allowing scripting from inside Python, e.g. for file, size in
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by geophile 6y ago
What is the point? Why is this a desirable thing at all? TFA goes directly into implementation and has not a word about why this is desirable for readability, aesthetics, or any other criterion. Seems like the sort of faddish syntactic suga
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by geophile 6y ago
Oh, come on, I've seen the Harvard circle jerks. The undergrads don't see the best professors. The best professors there, as everywhere, often do what they can to evade teaching. Many of the real-world resources are, of course, un
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by geophile 6y ago
Harvard chose their response. All colleges and university have to, and anything involving in-person classes is just nuts now. I understand why they do it, but it is inarguably dangerous. About "Harvard grad for life": That's
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by geophile 6y ago
The pandemic is particularly challenging for a school like Harvard, as it makes the implicit thing obvious: a prestige school like Harvard is about the social connections far more than the education. If you get one semester on campus, may
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by geophile 6y ago
Exactly. With experience, you learn not to abstract too soon.
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by geophile 6y ago
I was just listening to a podcast last night, in which a financial analyst who identified problems with Wirecard was harrassed for years, both online and IRL. Interesting story: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/868001948
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by geophile 6y ago
Same. I’ve been on Pop OS on a System76 Darter for over a year. Very happy with the combination, and the price.
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by geophile 6y ago
A new shell: https://github.com/geophile/marcel . - Based on Python -- filter, transform, etc. using Python functions. - Pipe Python values, not strings. - Database operations from the command line. - Run commands remot
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by geophile 6y ago
I've been using a System76 Darter with Pop OS for over a year now, through, I think, four releases. Everything about the hardware and software has been wonderful. I decided to abandon Apple MBPs due to software regressing in both desig
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Show HN: Marcel – A Modern Shell
6 points by geophile 6y ago|0 comments
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by geophile 6y ago
Do you mean IPython? My understanding is that IPython more of a REPL for Python, less of a shell.
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by geophile 6y ago
I love pipelines. I don't know the elaborate sublanguages of find, awk, and others, to exploit them adequately. I also love Python, and would rather use Python than those sublanguages. I'm developing a shell based on these ideas:
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by geophile 6y ago
I eliminated Microsoft from my life nearly 20 years ago. While my impression is that their software is less buggy and irritating in some ways now, I haven't heard anything compelling to pull me back into that world. Apple lost me a yea
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by geophile 6y ago
My left pinky is like Arnold Schwarzenegger's bicep, thanks to emacs.
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by geophile 6y ago
Being 63, I don't get to say this very often: I am one of the youngest people in this conversation. Delighted to read these stories about even-older-than-me old-timers. Even though I am a relative spring chicken, I'll list my old-
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by geophile 6y ago
I love The Prisoner. I was so taken with the location that I sought it out and visited it. Portmeirion, in Wales. The very odd architecture was designed and built by an eccentric British aristocrat who was an amateur architect, Sir Clough W
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by geophile 6y ago
Along similar lines: https://github.com/geophile/marcel
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by geophile 6y ago
I went through a similar progression. A couple of observations: 1) Part of what you experience is just gaining wisdom with age. You see how things really work, and you get disillusioned. The thrill of early experiences, does diminish over t
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by geophile 6y ago
Apple has lost me as a customer for their computers. The software has been getting flakier for years, the butterfly fiasco, and their inexplicable decision to continue shipping laptops missing 15% of the keyboard. I'm on a System 76 Da
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Leak of New MBP Specs(zdnet.com)
2 points by geophile 6y ago|0 comments
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by geophile 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that the JetBrains products (Intellij, PyCharm, etc.) have a pretty deep understanding of the languages they handle. Java is strongly typed, and Intellij does a perfect job, (as far as I can tell), of highlighting, and
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by geophile 6y ago
Uhh ... why is this the top article on HN? I know all about B-trees, and I do not understand what is new or interesting in this very brief page.
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by geophile 7y ago
For me, it is essential to find a project that absorbs me. Usually that’s a personal itch just project, not one at work. Code reviews, agile “stand up” meetings, sacrificing one of quality or features — all that kills interest, for me. Don’
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by geophile 7y ago
I may be off on the version numbers. But I do remember 3 as being very buggy.
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by geophile 7y ago
Turbo Pascal was an IDE and a blazingly fast compiler. In 1986, I ran it on my 64k IBM PC (8088 4MHz). It was like nothing else I had experienced previously. Prior to that, I had developed software in grad school on punch cards. I occasiona
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by geophile 7y ago
I was looking for a hobby that, for once, did not involve sitting at a monitor and keyboard. So I decided to build a sailboat. Chesapeake Light Crafts sells kits. Basically, like a wooden model except 1) it's full-size, and 2) you are

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