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by jdougan 3y ago
Depends on which part of econ. Micro and econometrics fare pretty well (there was even an econ pseudo-Nobel awarded to Vernon Smith for figuring out how to do reproducible experiments in micro), but macro is the darkest of swamps.
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by jdougan 3y ago
What is is you want to know?
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by jdougan 3y ago
Not so much Smalltalk, but Gemstone/S should have gotten a mention.
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by jdougan 3y ago
How would you compare it to Gemstone/S? I spent a large chunk of the 90s working on a maintenance management system witha GS back end.
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Thank you.
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by jdougan 3y ago
please do
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by jdougan 3y ago
> we have a new "social network" for smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-aged people. Sounds great to me. The hard part is keeping the scammers away. If a ridiculous name can do that, I'm up for it.
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by jdougan 3y ago
If it isn't, it should be.
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by jdougan 3y ago
For me, it's because when I learned BSD 4.2 vi in the mid-80s the emphasis was on learning the decomposed commands then building up. If you learned w and q , wq is obvious and non-magical.
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by jdougan 3y ago
And Runestone, the open source editor framework for iOS [1]. It is also a text editor on the app store that uses the framework. [1] https://github.com/simonbs/Runestone
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by jdougan 3y ago
I wonder what percentage had my response, which was to read the first question, say Unsuffucient Data, and stop doing the quiz. There is no such thing as a singular rule. They are embedded in a host of other rules either explict or as (cult
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by jdougan 3y ago
The original AutoCAD was built around AutoLISP [1] (sort of like Emacs), keeping with John Walker's philosophy regarding programmability in software. [2]. MathCAD APIs were much later. [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autof
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by jdougan 3y ago
I was a bit embarrassed the first time. I was hoping the second post would be "expected to make a full recovery", but unfortunately no.
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by jdougan 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39225011 The bare essentials: > John had a bad fall down some stairs at his house. > He suffered extensive intracranial bleeding, was found unconscious, and the situation is inoper
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by jdougan 3y ago
Private forum post at Scanalyst. I accidentally posted a ref on HN to it earlier not noticing it was not public.
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I'd say the odds are good PG had read it. It has been on the Web since the mid 90s.
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He died from an accident. Stairs can be hazardous.
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I prefer to think of the history of the 20th Century as The Great War plus repercussions.
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A lot of the original thinking that lead to that design was the Cold War use-it-or-lose-it carrier group defense a'la Red Storm Rising .
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It was also ported to a number of languages and used as a benchmark.
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And this time, I have a public link to the announcement.
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John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died(scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)
1072 points by jdougan 3y ago|227 comments
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by jdougan 3y ago
Which make and model of keypunch do people use these days? I thought that IBM had discontinued the Model 029 ages ago (along with all the other unit record equipment).
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by jdougan 3y ago
Sadly, he never got that state governorship he was owed.
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by jdougan 3y ago
My mistake. It is in a privileged forum category and I had forgotten that. I had thought it was in a public area. The bare essentials: > John had a bad fall down some stairs at his house. > He suffered extensive intracranial bleeding,
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John Walker, founder of Autodesk, in serious condition after accident(scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)
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by jdougan 3y ago
This feels a lot like the old saying about advertising: "I know that half of my ads are a waste. I just don't know which half".
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by jdougan 3y ago
Last I looked, Eve Online used radial menus in some places.
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They aren't allowed to collect the data directly...so they have the other UKUSA/5eyes do it for them with what used to be call ECHELON. There are supposed to be restrictions on that but it is hard to tell from the outside.
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A substantial fraction of those weapons were considered "Tactical" or "Battlefield" and could not easily reach the North American mainland. Europe, on the other hand... Cold War Joke: Q: How can you tell if a nuclear exp

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