jdougan

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by jdougan 5y ago
I take it that means you have no idea what Marshall was talking about.
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by jdougan 5y ago
There are a couple forms but the version I saw most in english is "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."
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by jdougan 5y ago
Maybe you can answer a question I've had about ASN.1. Long time ago, Marshall Rose had harsh things to say about the ASN.1 macro facility like "buried semantics"[1]. Do you know what he meant? [1]: https://www-sop.
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by jdougan 5y ago
On paper forms you usef to just draw a line theough the field to make clear that you didn't just forget. I've seen electronic forms that require you enter "N/A" for the same. Would be amusing if someone chamged thei
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by jdougan 5y ago
Drop in a future/promise and backfill. Or just generate 30 nulls.
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by jdougan 5y ago
There isn't a "proper" solution that handles everything because just when you have text nailed down, someone decides their name is a novel pictogram (Prince) or an odor (no one yet, but if the iSmell was still being manufactu
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by jdougan 5y ago
I wonder what their budget looked like for the data operations? It might actually be seperable if it is only a few years old and doesn't appear to be that black yet.
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by jdougan 5y ago
OTOH parsing with a recursive descent parser requires either a machine with a stack and the approriate calling conventions OR a lot of work to fake it. FORTRANs before F90 had no recursion (and you still have to explicitly declare that a fu
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by jdougan 5y ago
If you like simple language cores look at chapter IV in "Early History of Smalltalk" for the one pager that became Smalltalk-72. http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
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by jdougan 5y ago
I think alot of dudes would want it in case she is lying about birth control. Every do often you hear about a paternity case where the alleged father had had a vasectomy years before.
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by jdougan 5y ago
An interesting and often overlooked exposition by Dijkstra on notation: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E... https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13
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by jdougan 5y ago
My first thought was the Magma object database https://github.com/magma-database/magma
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by jdougan 5y ago
YTMND is a whole family of sites/pages with the same basic approach of the original but different messages. ytmnd.com appears to still index them.
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by jdougan 5y ago
ISTR that lead dust from wear and tear can be an issue as well though obviously less of one unless you're sanding the paint.
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by jdougan 5y ago
My personal favorite feature in PL/1 was the zero overhead matrix transpose. You achieved this by mapping two matrix declarations onto the same storage, one specifying column-major and the other row-major. We used to joke the PL/1
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by jdougan 5y ago
He is obviously shorthanding Software Architect or Information Architect here. It clearly has nothing to do with actual buildings or other civil structures and he isn't using the legal label either (eg. "Licensed Professional Arch
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by jdougan 5y ago
Squeak or Pharo if you want the full image-based experience. Some distros come with Squeak but the packaging can be confused and the versions are often old. A slow and slightly janky but surprisingly useable Squeak experience can be had in
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by jdougan 5y ago
Almost all Smalltalks, especially the image based ones support dynamic run-time patches.
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by jdougan 5y ago
I'm getting 404d on the link
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by jdougan 5y ago
> The people he's criticizing seem to define value as what someone will pay for something, which may be based on just rarity. Without reading the rest of his blog, this piece reads like he read some Keynes-derived macro-econ without
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by jdougan 5y ago
This hugely reminds me of the discussion on jelling teams in Peopleware . The teamicide chapter comes from the opposite direction admitting you can't jell teams on demand, you have to make sure you don't do bad stuff and hope for
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by jdougan 5y ago
I think he is competent, just not at guiding an economy or making the rest of east asia not angry at you. It takes a lot of skill and will-to-power to get to his current position. Stalin was similar, being a genius at getting and holding p
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by jdougan 5y ago
Yes, mine is the second one that has Issac Newton sitting on a floppy drive. It is for DOS 3.3. It came with a ring binding whose plastic fell apart after a few years.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Somewhere in my library I have a copy of "Beneath Apple DOS" which was a detailed documentation of how Apple DOS wss structured, on-disk formats, etc. It has been awhile but I recall being impressed at how clean and reusable the D
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by jdougan 5y ago
Dan ported and updated Fabrik to run on the JS Lively Kernel. The link is https://lively-kernel.org/repository/lively-wiki/Fabrik.xhtm... but I haven't tried it for a while so I have no clue how well it curre
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by jdougan 5y ago
Pty is a historical quirk: it stands for pseudo-tty, and tty is short for teletype. Actually there are a lot of things in old Unix that were influenced by the primary user interaction device being a slow (110 baud) printing terminal with no
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by jdougan 5y ago
Half right. The job is indeed thinking. But to think we need to interact with the code, the spec, the documentation, and the other devs. All of these often require using tools on the computer and the interface and interactions of these tool
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by jdougan 5y ago
The point wasn't typing speed, the NLS workstations had full keyboards for bulk typing. Where NLS combined with the chording shined was in editing and presentation (look at what they showed in the demo), and the NLS command set design
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by jdougan 5y ago
I've been busy and hadn't paid attention to google sites' "upgrade". It is on my to do list now.
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by jdougan 5y ago
Because that is where the grant money was. Also, the start space was a giant room so it had plenty of "space" to demo.

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