jejones3141

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by jejones3141 4y ago
> If you have errors in your program, does it matter that much if those errors are caught during runtime or compile time? The passengers on the fly-by-wire jet running the program might well say that it matters.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Yes. Bring back the killfile, so the user can decide.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Hmmm... I wonder whether the modulator did anything about upspeak or vocal fry. Those might give away a woman despite changes in pitch.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Orthogonality has been recognized as desirable at least since the days of Algol 68. Once you couldn't pass a struct as a parameter in C. Now you can.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
In a way it did. Tandy offloaded every possible function onto the processor to lower part count and hence cost, resulting in the infamous bit banger serial port and the equally infamous high resolution mouse adapter, which made the CPU time
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by jejones3141 4y ago
In Algol 68, you can do that; it's part of the standard prelude. I think that some people who'd worked on Algol 68 in the Netherlands also worked on the ABC language, where it's "1" ^^ 4301, and Guido worked on ABC
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Remember the Christmas wreaths made of carefully twisted and stapled together punched cards painted green or gold? Seriously, I wish I'd kept one deck of a program I wrote in Algol W and my program drum card (A and B).
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by jejones3141 4y ago
About Tycho: it might help to give him his golden nose.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
No, it's not just you, and yes, it's definitely changed as I've aged, though I lack the data to say whether it's purely the result of aging, or perhaps it's depression.
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by jejones3141 4y ago
These days, disparate impact is taken as evidence of discrimination, so it's easy to find "discrimination".
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by jejones3141 5y ago
See the section of Coders at Work where the author interviews Frances Allen.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
I think my favorite was "Why did Simon Le Bon cross the road?" "To get to the other microphone."
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by jejones3141 5y ago
I'm not sure how English "tall" would be considered untranslatable/hard to translate.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
That's why I got a Dvorak skin for my TypeMatrix keyboard. I know QWERTY well enough I don't have to look for it, and I can switch to Dvorak and be able to peek if need be.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
That's why I used OS-9 and BASIC09 on my CoCo.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
No kidding. My wife lamented that she couldn't see the original (modulo dubbing) Iron Chef... and poof, now there's a Pluto TV channel running nothing but that.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Take an initial guess at where f(x) = 0; call it x1. Then you generate what you hope is a better guess x2 by finding where the line through (x1, f(x1)) with slope f'(x1) hits zero. Lather, rinse, repeat. Things can get ugly--say, if th
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by jejones3141 5y ago
How is not giving something to someone equivalent to taking something from someone?
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Something fun in that regard, speaking of minimal...the TRS-80 Color Computer community now has a version of awk that runs on NitrOS-9, a variant of OS-9/6809 originally written for the Hitachi 6309. (64K address space, no separate I a
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by jejones3141 5y ago
That's more the New England pronunciation of "Bob". Here in the Midwest it's shorter. It was a fun part of _This Old House_ back when Bob Vila was on; he'd ask a subcontractor (this was in Boston) how things were go
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Yes, and everyone should watch Scott Meyers's awesome presentation at a D conference with the title "The Last Thing D Needs". (tl,dr version: The last thing D needs is someone like him, really to be so insanely convoluted, as
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by jejones3141 5y ago
I take rat poison as medicine--warfarin, just in much smaller doses than the rats get. For that matter, the most toxic substance known to man, botulism toxin, is being promoted for various medical and cosmetic uses.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
All I can say is that GNOME 3 seems to take Havoc Pennington's famous essay about as far as it can go, considering configurability a bug. I don't know exactly when it started, but it definitely came to my attention bigtime with th
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by jejones3141 5y ago
o = "octet" (byte), so Go = gigabyte, Mo = megabyte.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Amen about compiling large codebases. It took the better part of a day to compile MAME. zram is your friend.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Sigh. I'd finish my filk of "Heartbreak Hotel", but it seems to be taking forever.
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Would I be correct in suspecting that you don't get interest on overpaying, but get charged serious fees for having to pay too much on tax day?
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by jejones3141 5y ago
Here in far west West Des Moines, they have LOTS of checkout lines, which once had a fair number of people behind the registers. Now, you're lucky if two of them have people. I think they are really nudging you to go through the self-c
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by jejones3141 5y ago
I wouldn't hazard a guess about the general population based on the people I know. I can, though, talk about my experience. I grew up in what's called the "Bible Belt", so that may have something to do with my not drinki
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by jejones3141 5y ago
If it could be a faster SuperPET I'd be interested.

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