igouy

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   by igouy 1y ago

   #1267 It does not work https://lolg.it/amber/amber/issues/1267 Previously https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Amber+Smalltalk
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   by igouy 1y ago

   Except https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513639
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   by igouy 1y ago

   Isn't practical in Smalltalk either, so the compiler does something special: ifFalse: alternativeBlock "Answer the value of alternativeBlock. Execution does not actually reach here because the expression is
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   by igouy 1y ago

   *iirc* pretty much all of the Smalltalks (that was CUIS). ~ "Creating blocks in Smalltalk has always been a potential source of performance problems. … In Resilient, we have restricted blocks to be last in-first-out (LIFO)…&qu
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   by igouy 1y ago

   When is the priority not “making the photos look the way you want them to look” ? When you say “simplicity and ease of use” I think that includes taking the photos, and if I can defer some decisions that might make the overall process simpl
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   by igouy 1y ago

   Thanks for the correction. After reading the reference I don't feel the need to pursue what seems a bit like a quest.
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   by igouy 1y ago

   I wonder specifically what you mean by "too unstable" and how long ago that was, because I haven't had problems with RawTherapee on MSWin. (Later versions may have moved newer functionality to a different tab or menu item, is
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   by igouy 1y ago

   For example — Adobe\CameraRaw Sony SLT-A65 Adobe Standard.dcp ? DCP Tone curve DCP Base table DCP Look table
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   by igouy 1y ago

   https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Exposure#Highlight_Reconstr...
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    by igouy 1y ago

    And then we find out that Smalltalk implementations might choose to optimize instead of allowing anything to change at any time. ifFalse: alternativeBlock "Answer the value of alternativeBlock. Execution does not actuall
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    by igouy 1y ago

    And then there's: "How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification" https://blog.cloudflare.com/topaz-policy-engine-design/
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > I get gigabit fiber in Madison - I'm sure the situation is harder up north. I wouldn't expect getting fiber four hours north of SF would be easy, either. I would guess there's availability in towns like Redding and Mount
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    by igouy 1y ago

    March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1." https://books.google.com/books?id=
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    by igouy 1y ago

    "I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]" HN Dec 18, 2021, 190 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573959
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    by igouy 1y ago

    "Moldable Development: Programming Through Custom Tools" https://youtu.be/W8TSPED0alY (No, I didn't watch it.)
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Before land line phones, in order to get in touch with anyone you had to be willing and able to make small talk with whoever answered the door first .
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    by igouy 1y ago

    fyi http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/TopicsReflection.html
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > throw away everything and go back to some notion of a clean state So throw away the modified image and go back to the original image (and sources file and change log file) which you still have "unmodified" ?
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > you can easily destroy the tools necessary to back out changes to your tools Of course, you did make backup copies of the original image file and original sources file and original change log file. Of course, you can restore your chang
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > standardisation and baseline 1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 500 "At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. …
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Not just a "modifiable image". 1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 46 "Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this
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    by igouy 1y ago

    In Cuis Smalltalk, you can still type b _ 5 and see b ← 5 and copy / paste here and see b := 5 https://cuis.st/
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > Smalltalk UIs used to work with only one CPU thread. Any action from the user would freeze the whole UI while it was working … If that happened maybe a programmer messed-up the green threads! "The Smalltalk-80 system provides supp
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Tangentially, you might find the abandoned Nice programming language interesting. https://gallium.inria.fr/~remy/poly/mot/10/nice/web/language... ---- > … but what about when someon
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    by igouy 1y ago

    2021
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > this kind of question Which kind-of question? "where do I put the breakpoint??"
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    by igouy 1y ago

    "Computing should be viewed as an intrinsic capability of objects that can be uniformly invoked by sending messages." p 290 1981 "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" https://archive.org/details/byte-
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Perhaps "real-world usage" is "… rarely, if at all, reflective of [other] real-world usage …". Perhaps when you write "idiomatic usage" you mean un-optimized.
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Do this at any point and then change the state of the program .
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Not your memories of Smalltalk.