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by jdougan 4y ago
It doesn't need the full SemWeb treatment to work. All it needs is a reasonable descriptive language such as SIREN [1] along with Web Link Relations list the IETF maintains already. 1. https://github.com/kevinswiber&#
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by jdougan 4y ago
There was also The Boy Electrician https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63207 My elementary school (1975) library had a copy I devoured.
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by jdougan 4y ago
Also Da Vinci's Inquest which, while set in Vancouver, went to great lengths to make it look grittier than it was at the time.
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by jdougan 4y ago
Vancouver never plays itself: https://youtu.be/ojm74VGsZBU
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by jdougan 4y ago
On further searching GemFire has been open sourced as Apache Geode. https://geode.apache.org/
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by jdougan 4y ago
No. The distributed cache product was GemFire, which was derived from the cacheing strategy used in Gemstone/S and Gemstone/J. There was a series of aquisitions and I think Pivotal owns it now. Gemstone/S is an ACID object da
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by jdougan 4y ago
laughs in Gemstone/S His position is arguably an engineering limitation of the databases used, rather than an actual principle.
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by jdougan 4y ago
If the dev pool of 2022 was like the dev pool of (for example) 1994, just larger, you would have been right. But the software goldrush came and attracted many more who were just in it for the money or just weren't as thoughtful. Scale
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by jdougan 4y ago
That, and repo size can get huge in a game project and no one wants to have to copy the whole thing to do a check out. Svn still sees use for gamedevs that don't want to buy.
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by jdougan 4y ago
An actual modern successor to Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire. The one they built was too Civilization and not AC enough (eg. No unit build system)
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by jdougan 4y ago
"You poor incompetent kitten."
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by jdougan 4y ago
As I understand it, that is a traditional thing for map publishers to do.
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My facvorite was when the forum background image had the logged-in user encoded into it
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Probably a better example is #at:ifAbsent:, which is a place I've seen all kinds of faffing about with default retutn valures in languages without closures/blocks.
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by jdougan 5y ago
The problems I had with 4GLs back in the day, is they had a more extreme version of the 80/20 rule. It was gloriously easy to prototype but if you had to interface to external systems or any other thing they didn't think of, you w
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by jdougan 5y ago
Three little words: Just Use Lisp. Having written a skeletal macro system for a Smalltalk, I do have a lot of sympathy for the effort he had to go through.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Or as one person called the post-merger company: MacDac in a Boeing suit.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Whatever is happening to Elon's bid for TWTR, it continues to be entertaining.
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I'm a bit surprised they hit the limit that early. I wonder what could improve this? Adaptive optics?
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by jdougan 5y ago
Good essay. I would like to have seen a little history of Soviet/Pact/Russian thought besides American and Israeli. After all the Soviet Army was probably the most all in on tanks in the Cold War.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Hi. A long long time ago I paid for an ARPA membership and my account was never upgraded. Who/where should I contact to get this resolved?
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by jdougan 5y ago
I miss Ebert. He never cheated and was clear as to which standard he was judging a movie by.
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by jdougan 5y ago
https://archive.ph/QIH6D Missing from this article: "China" and "belt and road"
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by jdougan 5y ago
Weirdly, the linked page doesn't have a link to the Byte Magazine issues that discussed Visi On. "A Guided Tour of Visi On" https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-06/page/n255/...
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by jdougan 5y ago
That can be trickier, but Gemstone/S did it transactionally.
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The story of Xanadu, in a nutshell.
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Besides looking at the green codebase, have you found any good expositions on implementing multi-dimensional enfilades?
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by jdougan 5y ago
Which of the arcade-ified versions did you play? Computer Space, Space Wars, or Galaxy Game?
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by jdougan 5y ago
For a more dynamic moldable approach, look at Moose. https://moosetechnology.org/
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by jdougan 5y ago
Yes, when I have the option and I'm proofing text. Less useful for writing, very useful for bulk reading.

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