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by jdougan 3y ago
"Drugs will make you feel awesome. Never trust _anything_ that makes you feel like that"
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by jdougan 3y ago
Look for "stretchtext"
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by jdougan 3y ago
Please bring Jon Blow back!
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by jdougan 3y ago
According to WikipediA, it was Torvex not Torpex.
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by jdougan 3y ago
I'm doing this with Google drive over Autosync and mostly it is fine. Occasional merge conflicts where it generates an extra file that is the other version, but I just run winmerge. It helps if you are careful about syncing and don&#x2
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by jdougan 3y ago
It wasn't compiled, but the way Smalltalk-72 did ?integrated into the rest of the execution? parsing is worth understanding. http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
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by jdougan 3y ago
Lots of Canadians do just that. Even when I was a kid, long time ago, my best friend had to go to the US for urinary tract surgery. It is effectively a 2 tier system with the second tier being "Go to the US".
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by jdougan 3y ago
It probably won't work, the problem is a lot deeper than a something a few more talented migrants can fix. A few years ago Alex Danco wrote up what he saw as the issues [1] and it reads pretty much like the list I would have made in th
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by jdougan 3y ago
The Soviet/Russian Perimeter (aka Dead Hand) second-strike system uses rockets with transmitters flying cross-country to alert the Russian missile fields in case of a decapitation strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jdougan 3y ago
Bazaar-style development?
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by jdougan 3y ago
It’s Tom Clancy’s future, we just live in it.
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by jdougan 3y ago
You'd think that....but then there is Deadhand/Perimeter...
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by jdougan 3y ago
would it be hard to modify the readline mechanism to show the "implicit" parens and push them apart as you type?
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by jdougan 3y ago
Better ebook software clearly needed
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by jdougan 3y ago
https://archive.ph/e6bUp
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by jdougan 3y ago
Do it! And tell us how it went.
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by jdougan 3y ago
Death March, 2nd Ed. - Ed Yourdon Peopleware, 2nd Ed, - Lister and DeMarco Art of the Meta-Object Protocol
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by jdougan 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ejN76
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by jdougan 3y ago
Implementing State Machines in Smalltalk, Trevor P. Hopkins, Technical Report UMCS-93-3-1, March 1993 [PDF] http://trevor-hopkins.com/downloads/UMCS-93-3-1.pdf
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by jdougan 3y ago
I think he misunderstands the state of STEPS. STEPS was impressive, however it was far from feature complete compared to a modern desktop. They didn't (and possibly can't) solve for the essential complexity in modern specificatio
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by jdougan 3y ago
Time to use more "comprised of" in wikipedia.
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by jdougan 3y ago
My impression back then was that the TV cancon rules were a disaster, and the music ones may have helped more than hurt, after the first 10 years or so.
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by jdougan 3y ago
I've been looking deeply at the existing Xanadu docs so I have a pretty good sense of how it all was supposed to work. Could I get a look at the stuff you did with the LLM? I want to see what it gets wrong as there is a lot of misleadi
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by jdougan 3y ago
To be fair, that is probably partially fallout from the Canadian content regulations and possibly other law regarding corporate ownership. Not sure because it has been over two decades since I was current in that stuff.
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by jdougan 3y ago
It's a reason to look for alternatives. If no one there has 100,000+ bookmarks, they can't understand their users and problem domain that well. Once Android chrome is out with the update, I'll start looking at other browsers
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by jdougan 3y ago
I wonder how that would have worked if the Autodesk situation had been more gentle. eg. they had xu88/Green/Classic working well enough for actual usage while they built out xu92/Gold.
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by jdougan 3y ago
At least in iOS chrome, 113 brings with it a "fix" to the bookmark sync problem [1] they themselves recently created with the the cap on mobile bookmark sync raised to that of desktop chrome (100,000 bookmarks up from 20,000!) [1]
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by jdougan 3y ago
I'm kicking around some editor ideas at the emacs/ST/plan9 intersection and I'd like to discuss them with you if you're amenable. My email is in my bio.
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by jdougan 4y ago
I believe Gilad Bracha's Newspeak does this.
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by jdougan 4y ago
Did anyone actually go over the NLS internals docs over at bitsavers? I went through them, it is impressive how much mileage they got out of the '68 designs. Still parts missing that no one seems to want to add to their new outliners.

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