johnm

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by johnm 7y ago
No. Not even close. Did you bother to actually read the Common Clause FAQ? Here are the first 2 FAQ entries: "What is Commons Clause? The Commons Clause is a license condition drafted by Heather Meeker that applies a narrow, minimal-f
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by johnm 8y ago
"Abstract Many practitioners and academics believe in a delayed issue effect (DIE); i.e. the longer an issue lingers in the system, the more effort it requires to resolve. This belief is often used to justify major investments in new d
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Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by johnm 8y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 8y ago
How are you going to deal with underlying "sources" where the content disappears or is changed out from under the fact checkers?
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by johnm 8y ago
Indeed. And that's a sad testament about humanity.
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by johnm 8y ago
Hahaha! You must be working with folks (pm, dev, qa) that do a lot more than just hack away. Or perhaps I've just been working too much lately with big enterprises. :-(
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by johnm 8y ago
Commodore GEOS was created by the same company as PC/GEOS. I only worked on PC/GEOS.
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by johnm 8y ago
Technologically, no. Business-wise, I don't recall.
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by johnm 8y ago
There was a standalone version that was sold on disks as AOL. GEOS was completely hidden from the users. I.e., it was AOL's GUI.
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by johnm 8y ago
We had some fun times playing heads up Tetris competitions in the office. It was extra fun when one of the guys checked in a hacked version with some special keys to cheat that only he knew about. :-)
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by johnm 8y ago
I doubt it. Ours was written in our homegrown x86 assembly language for our own OS kernel.
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by johnm 8y ago
Actually, to be more clear... The original graphical AOL client for the PC was a PC/GEOS application. It booted GEOS and straight into the AOL GEOS application.
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by johnm 8y ago
PC/GEOS didn't have virtual memory the way people think about it--it was a handles based approach so that memory could be moved when it wasn't being actively used.
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by johnm 8y ago
Actually, v1.0 of PC/GEOS ran on an original IBM PC with 512K RAM. Later versions required 1MB and more.
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by johnm 8y ago
It was similar to the Motif L&F but it was all implemented from scratch in the x86 assembly version.
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by johnm 8y ago
We cross-developed. The host machines were Sun workstations where the dev tools and Swat debugger ran and talked to the PC target (remember that we started with PC/GEOS running on an original IBM PC with 512K of RAM).
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by johnm 12y ago
Yeah, that's been my experience, too (on both counts). Emacs ftw!
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by johnm 12y ago
Have you tried LightTable yet?
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by johnm 14y ago
For those who've tried cpap machines and struggled with the masks, try the so-called "nasal pillows". They are a lot easier to get a good, consistent seal; are much smaller and so don't trigger that "omfg their's an alien on my face" freak
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by johnm 14y ago
It's a definite help but no.
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by johnm 14y ago
Get rid of the stupid "certifications".
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by johnm 14y ago
Clarity. Expressivity. Simplicity.
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by johnm 14y ago
Searching for security vulnerabilities is even more humorous. :-) I had so much fun demo'ing that ability at a PHP conference one year.
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by johnm 14y ago
Regular expressions are the wrong tool for this job. For Krugle, we actually parsed the various languages so it actually knew the differences between e.g. definitions, invocations, comments, strings, etc. It affords the capabilities to do
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by johnm 14y ago
We did that with Krugle awhile ago. It's still alive as an enterprise product... http://krugle.com/
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by johnm 14y ago
Makes the choice of using them that much easier. :-)
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by johnm 14y ago
Indeed and even more... The entire GEOS operating system, gui/windowing system, application suite, and the vast majority of the rest of the apps were written in 8086 assembly language and ran on an original IBM PC.
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Found: All Your Local & Cloud Documents in One Place(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by johnm 15y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 15y ago
In terms of this point, the lack of closures forced one to NOT write that messy garbage of code that people complain that the newbs are doing in node. I.e. it forces one to separate out the behavior from the construction and so systems (rat
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by johnm 15y ago
People generally have two high-quality stints in them per day. Putting in a sleep cycle (be that a power nap or up to a full cycle) between them works wonders for all sorts of benefits physiologically and creatively.

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