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by hsmyers 15y ago
Despite the quality look of the site, it appears to need a little work---at least so far as the sign-up mechanism goes. The twitter approach is broken. I don't have a get hub account so I didn't test that. I also (personal preference here)
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<nit>All my copies of 'My System', say Aron Nimzowitsch</nit> Great obsession though, pretty easy to relate to as well. Glad he found comics...
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I would have added an alternate plan---suggesting investment in pitchforks and torches as financial fallback.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
For a guy (Jobs) who stood on the shoulders of a lot of people, I find this quote of an obvious rant indicative of some serious misunderstandings. BTW, he didn't steal the mouse from Xerox, he stole it from SRI down the street...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Although I've spent more than 30 years as a programmer, before that I spent 8 years as an art major so I know a little bit about how non-artist types steer away from this kind of thing. That said, there are a few things that might help. One
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Update on photo incident at mall(bbc.co.uk)
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Interesting illustration. You might have gotten more recognition using the one of the Dore's though. Like this one http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf_01a.jpeg found at http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/images/dore/inf.html but th
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by hsmyers 15y ago
There are a variety of useful things you can feed trolls, rat poison comes to mind almost immediately...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Are there any HN reviews of this guys eBooks? I think he has two on SED and I'm a little leery of self promotion although the preview was pretty good.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Regards the Nano, why would people rather walk than be seen in the 'world's cheapest car?' Given the funds and the availability I'd grab one in a moment---a mountain bike in a snow storm makes a very convincing argument that there must be a
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Price will increase, service will decrease. I'm happy for those at Typekit who cashed out, too bad for the users...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Two things I'd add---learning design never stops. And the vast majority will be after formal training. Spend time looking at everything and ask why it works or why it doesn't work. Continue for life :) The second thing is harder---hang on t
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by hsmyers 15y ago
No particular angst, but I do recognize a personal dichotomy. Like many others I react to Facebook changes with initial distrust and sometimes anger but---then I remember that there is nothing there that I did not put there or that my small
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by hsmyers 15y ago
While I'm busy kicking the kids off of my front lawn, let me pause to say that it fails in the same way that Emacs fails---first thing I want to see in a book on a process (language, editor, what-have-you) is how to get it started and how t
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I seldom ever ask for 'citations' but in this instance the author makes a sweeping claim about everyone missing the mark when it comes to Ada Augusta, and then proceeds to quote the bulk of the existing work---none of which 'misses' anythin
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by hsmyers 15y ago
While I've owned it for years, I have no idea how it made it to HN---anyone got a clue?
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by hsmyers 15y ago
With a little work from an old 'Make' article you can also use it as a target for shotgun practice---cheaper than clay pigeons and they have that 'ooh shiny thing' going for them.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
In looking at my books pre 1930, boxes were primarily reserved for photographs and illustrations in general. Seldom for text.
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In I believe 1975 I moved across the campus from 8 years of fines arts study to the nascent computer department (actually math department---wouldn't become computer department until long after I left) sat down in front of a model 29 keypunc
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Rare Rational Thought in Congress(news.discovery.com)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
As someone who was trained to write by the editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Tribune long before I learned to program, I initially found the title of this a bit confusing. My chain of thought went something like; a. writing is (now)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
10 generations back to 1680 or so. Started a ship's chanderly on the Jersey Shore having read a broadside posted by William Penn---usual promise of a brave new world :)
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Refactoring your code or yourself is not a terminal process.
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What is fairly amusing is that this is much more true for the FORTRAN(64) that was current when the statement was first made. More current versions(anything since 95) are much closer in features and facilities than good old (very) 64 and it
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My than one childhood scarefest here...(bbc.co.uk)
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Took a nibble sometime back and was surprised by how well it did what it promised---that however was the problem. Hard to adapt to someone else's idea of a good time. I found it easier to revert to previous home grown methods and madness...
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Great article on one of my favorite subjects. In the 80's using an IBM PC with a Hercules graphics card I wrote an Arabic word processor so my partner could write to his family in Farsi. The problems of right to left and differing letter sh
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Long ago and far away there was only one PC implementation for Prolog and like a good little programmer I gave it a shot. It was an 'interesting' ride (interesting in the Chinese sense) but I stuck with it long enough to understand that I w
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Fails: --> Working on http://github.com/vti/underscore-perl/tarball/master Fetching http://github.com/vti/underscore-perl/tarball/master ... OK C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: Unknown file type 'g' for pax_global_header, extr
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I didn't count the number of words, but I'd guess it is less than 100 ( my bad, wc says 338 words---sorry )and I didn't find any problem at all figuring out what the basic thrust was. I did find the title a little odd, but one of the notes

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