geophile

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by geophile 3y ago
Check out marcel ( https://marceltheshell.org ). It's yet another pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell (like nushell). Unlike nushell, you pipe Python values. Marcel has no sublanguages (like awk, sed, ...). Instead, when lo
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by geophile 3y ago
This ( https://aletteraday.substack.com/p/letter-107-david-packard-... ) is one of the most remarkable things I've read about business, and should resonate with many HN readers. It is from 1960, and explains Packard
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by geophile 3y ago
Okay, now we’re talkin’.
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by geophile 3y ago
Hey kids. Stop whining about Model M and Unicomp keyboards being loud. You haven't typed on an IBM 029 card punch. That puts a Model M to shame. You haven't typed on an original ASR 33 terminal. That puts an IBM 029 card punch to
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by geophile 3y ago
Can confirm. I owned Unicomps before and after their retooling. The old ones developed problems quickly, and I've been on a new one since shortly after it was available, (three years?). Reliable, and as loud and clicky as it should be.
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by geophile 3y ago
I really don't understand some people's affinity toward Cherry and similar keys, they're quiet and odd feeling.
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by geophile 3y ago
Yeah, it's loud. My wife complains about it. (I didn't realize how loud until I got hearing aids.) Fortunately, we have offices far apart from each other.
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by geophile 3y ago
It sounds pretty nice, but it's a non-starter for me. I am highly dependent on key bindings for the cluster of six keys: Ins/Del/Home/End/PageUp/PageDown. This cluster used to be pretty common but is increasing
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Marcel and Jupyter(marceltheshell.org)
1 points by geophile 3y ago|1 comments
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by geophile 3y ago
Marcel is one of the pipe-objects-not-strings shells. It has an API that runs in Jupyter notebooks. Why would anyone care? Shelling out from Python sucks, and marcel's API makes it much easier. Also, marcel has a pretty powerful set of
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by geophile 3y ago
They're going to rename the planes to HBO.
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Eight Queens as a Marcel One-Liner(marceltheshell.org)
2 points by geophile 3y ago|1 comments
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by geophile 3y ago
Marcel is one of those pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shells. Using marcel, you can solve 8 Queens from the command line as a (long) one-liner. If you were so inclined.
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Marcel, the pythonic shell, now has workspaces(marceltheshell.org)
2 points by geophile 3y ago|1 comments
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by geophile 3y ago
Marcel had its 15 seconds of fame here on HN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991746 I've added workspaces to marcel. A workspace provides for a per-project persistent command history, environmen
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by geophile 3y ago
OCR is pretty much a solved problem. Why not just print the url and have the phone read it? This minimizes the opportunities for havoc, since the url you read is the same as the url that your phone goes to. (Yes, I do recognize the opportun
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by geophile 3y ago
My first programming experience was on a PDP-8 using BASIC. Code, run, debug in a very tight loop. I was hooked. Then in college, it was punch cards and a line printer, with long delays while waiting for the hardware to work, and your job t
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by geophile 3y ago
I worked at Akiban for nearly its entire history, and I don't think I even saw one of their t-shirts.
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by geophile 3y ago
- XML - Object-oriented databases - CORBA — Taligent - AI, a few times - Expert systems - And of course, the extremely hilarious CUE Cat bar code reader.
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by geophile 3y ago
… and why he keeps getting past reviewers, who must know his reputation.
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by geophile 3y ago
I was an undergrad 1974-1977, taking computer science courses at McGill, before there was a CS major. Here was my workflow: 1. Write program longhand, on fanfold paper (more on this below). 2. Type program on cards. Those IBM 029 keypunches
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by geophile 3y ago
The researchers, and the reporters, missed a glaring problem with the inference: Perhaps the increased prevalence of the examined disorders is due to Mensa membership, not high intelligence. Maybe people with high intelligence are just fine
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by geophile 3y ago
I don’t currently have access to it, but I hope to get a copy from his widow.
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by geophile 3y ago
This is a good opportunity to tell a family story involving Louis Armstrong. My uncle was the founder of Topper Toys and Deluxe Toys, in the 60s and 70s. He was a very interesting, very difficult genius. A holocaust survivor, toy inventor,
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by geophile 3y ago
Following reason is as deterministic as following your addiction. Sure determinism and free will are compatible as long as you believe that free will is your emotional reaction to discovering what your mind has determined.
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by geophile 3y ago
Cool. To address one of your other comments: "but the former retains the compatibility with all the tools that don't know the structure." Marcel plays nicely with host executables. The strings generated by an executable can b
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by geophile 3y ago
Is that what happened? MBAs and greed destroy a lot, but I’m not sure about Lisp machines. Beautiful hardware and software, but unbelievably expensive, and custom hardware was bound to lose out on performance.
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by geophile 3y ago
Yes. They work with lines and words, but the sublanguages are hideous.
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by geophile 3y ago
This is a false choice. You can start with minimal structure, add it for intermediate processing and then go back to text, if you’d like. Marcel can run native commands, piping their output into other Marcel commands, as a steam of strings.
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by geophile 3y ago
A lot of this is already in marcel. A command run from the command line is a pipeline, e.g. list files recursively and output (path, filesize): ls -fr | (f: (f, f.size)) But now limit the command to .py files: ls -fr | select

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