jksmith

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   by jksmith 6y ago

   Indeed, treating for cost of liability (insurance) vs best outcomes. Doctor's conflict of interest built into the system.
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   A buddy of mine just leaned out that whole issue and just charges by the day.
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   I wrote a whole sqlite wrapper while in my hot tub carrel. I call that time "meditubbing." I read a story somewhere a thousand years ago about Gustave Flaubert's work habits. As I recall, at a dinner party: Woman: "Was y
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   I may be off base here, but what if I'm a super-rich dude who starts a company that exists solely to send the SPCA, St.Judes and Shriner's Hospital a million a month because of those gut-wrenching commercials, but I want to remain
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   I'm writing a major system using FPC/Lazarus right now, and will fund additional dev as soon I can get a reference mvp done. No idea how many people are using this toolchain to produce real work, but I consider it to be my secret
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   I'm using Fossil for my book. My book is about business systems simplicity so it's a great fit. If I hadn't started using sqlite for a project, I would have never even heard of Fossil. What a great, beautifully simple combina
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   https://www.ups.com/media/en/terms_service_gnd_pr.pdf https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/USPIS-FAQs.... TLDR is, USPS needs a warrant to open first class mail. Pr
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   Pony 0.36.0 Released(github.com)

   2 points by jksmith 6y ago|0 comments
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   by jksmith 6y ago

   Too bad the C beer-goggles have lasted so long that other great languages didn't take hold. Don't know about that theorem proving stuff in ATS, but with some application of hygiene like "if denom <> 0 then" and com
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    by jksmith 6y ago

    Not own, but assimilate. Own the attention. GPL will have new perspectives after this is over with. For those of you who don't use Windows, try to uninstall the AV on windows 10. MSFT AV uses about 400 mb of ram on my Lenovo Flex 11 ru
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    by jksmith 6y ago

    If MSFT figures out how to make this uninstallable on Linux, I will stop using computers.
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    by jksmith 6y ago

    I'm writing a pretty serious app in FreePascal/Lazarus right now that's working out nicely. At some point, the Delphi cost may be justified, but not right now. Plus, the code injection macros in FPC (Delphi doesn't have)
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    by jksmith 6y ago

    Functionality, power, perfomance, no unicorns, no FUD, low bs factor: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ And a fraction of the design costs!
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    by jksmith 6y ago

    This assembly programmer wants to know what bare-metal performance means in a HLL.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    I always wanted to do a theme for AfterDark involving spinning mummies unwrapping as they floated across the screen.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Been 30 years since I've written assembler but back in the day I considered myself part of Abrash's army. What we tend to forget about writing in assembler is each typical formatted line has a one-to-one mapping to a machine instr
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Induced? If that's the case, so much for being personally responsible these days.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Smiling at comments from afar :) TurboP/Delphi probably has made companies more money commercially than Lisp or below top 8 in tiobe (haven't looked at it lately). The biggest codebase I've ever worked on was in Delphi - all
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing. Interesting stuff, esp since I consult for Ford Motor. I've always been a fan of DbC since introduced by Eiffel, and wrote a clunky but workable DbC module in FPC.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Not suggesting that it's the language. It's the language that is popular for large-organization commodity programming. Agency people who want well paying jobs with not necessarily a lot of interest in software development itself.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    But they aren't using Ada?
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    " I've also found that programs seem more likely to work on their first run, but haven't made any effort to quantify that." Had the same experience with Modula-2, once I got all the compile errors cleared. I think there
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    In the spirit of the effort, might as well complete the value stream and just hang a big display. Very cool project tho'
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    This just in: Rust team writes "Jelly" library to encourage adoption by Navy for dev projects.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    people need to be told what to do loop people wait do only what they're told; people need to be told what to do; if people don't have to be told what to do, exit; end Deming made this observation 50 years ago.
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Maybe, but keep in mind FreePascal/Lazarus has generally been supporting at least three of the platforms natively for several years. Complier, visual design, everything as expected from a delphi-like product. One of my FPC projects inc
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    by jksmith 7y ago

    Yep, looking into it.
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    by jksmith 8y ago

    But is there parity between a $14k scooter and a $500k car? Probably not, but as the Devil said, "there is no accounting for tastes." I think the better question is, who will buy a $14k scooter if and when $24k electric cars becom
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    by jksmith 8y ago

    World class interfaces compared to what? Desktop? Desktop is still superior.