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by jsrcout 4y ago
It doesn't have to be like that. I'm not saying everyone is going to find their dream job, but it is definitely possible. If you're in love with software development, as I am, there are just so many different sub-fields and n
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Thanks for the insights! Hope to try it for myself at some point :-)
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Could I ask how you generally spent your time then? I've always wanted to try it, but fear succumbing to terminal couch potato syndrome. (Ideally I'd be a "maker" of some sort, do a lot of travel and hiking, yadda yadda)
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I agree completely. But IMO the inevitable result is going to be "we" (whoever that is) automating those jobs away, and "them" (the former workers) finding themselves that much closer to the edge of survival without bene
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by jsrcout 4y ago
My friend works for a major aerospace corp and likes to engage (politely) with people who believe it's impossible to go into space and so forth, in hopes of possibly educating someone whose mind isn't already made up. I was surpri
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Great work! Really brings back those heady days when dithering was futuristic.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I don't recall an obvious way for ordinary users in the original Mac days to dither images. But it was difficult/impossible for ordinary users to capture an image back then, anyway. The ThunderScan is the first consumer device I r
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by jsrcout 4y ago
That's my approach as well. My idea is I can change the numbers, and it still better come out right. It forces you to think through (and code) things more clearly. It's too easy to write a test with hard-coded numbers that "j
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by jsrcout 4y ago
The following text, alleged to come from either one of the Zork games or possibly the original Adventure, brings me back to the original romance of programming I felt years ago. Reminds me of all-nighters with my classmates in college, deat
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Orbiter spaceflight sim - learning orbital mechanics, modifying add-on spacecraft and learning how to program my own. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ NASA flight software source code for Apollo and other spacecraft. Emulato
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by jsrcout 4y ago
So true. Same with languages IMO. Not naming any names :-)
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I'd be stunned if there aren't well-funded groups working on this as we speak.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Agree. The hardest thing in the world (besides configuring sendmail) is to remember that other peoples' use cases are not necessarily my use case. The world of email was a whole lot different back when sendmail was created. https:&#x2
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I've definitely done this. Didn't know it had a name! It works surprisingly well.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Sounds like a fun and welcoming group. The world needs some level of friendly silliness.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
> I’ll never forget it I used to think that, too. Narrator: He did forget it... Lesson learned. As always, YMMV.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Almost forgot - Lisp In Life. Pretty sure I first saw it here at HN. IMO the most amazing part is the Life-based processor - once you have that, the rest is "merely" a matter of adding layers. But it's one thing to know someo
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by jsrcout 4y ago
That is indeed special. Probably shouldn't have stayed up all night before checking it out. Getting some real Lovecraft vibes... Or Illuminatus! Trilogy. Hopefully it'll make more sense after some sleep.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
That's one impressive Perl file. And so visually clean, especially considering what it does. I was wondering who would even make such a thing, then noticed the author - D. Conway. One of my programming heroes.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Not only can you read it, you can also run it! https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
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by jsrcout 4y ago
A binary rate-monotonic scheduler. It was in the Ada realtime executive for an avionics box (there was no OS). It executed tasks at 5 rates, each half as fast as the previous one. It was dead simple, something like (pseudocode) counte
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I don't know if it's authentic either, but this bit from the thread sure is interesting: > autopilot had _really_ high turnover at one point before release because some guy from space x came in and gave the entire dept a C poin
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by jsrcout 4y ago
This brings back memories! My first job out of school was with a mostly SunOS shop. After 8-bit micros and then the very first Macintoshes, plus the various oversubscribed machines they had at school, it felt so "big league"! Good
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by jsrcout 4y ago
> * find better programs and copy but never paste, as a beginner always key-in your programs This is a surprisingly valuable tip. By manually typing in the code instead of just using copy/paste, you have the opportunity to make typi
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by jsrcout 4y ago
That was wondrously great.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
System 7 was so awesome. I was still developing Macintosh GUI software when it came out. It was great to use, and visually pleasing. And as you say, the user interface was consistent, also discoverable, and things did what you expected. Att
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by jsrcout 4y ago
This is great! Runs a lot faster than on the Apple II back in the day, too.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Agree, but would also list Narcissus and Goldmund. Am I the only one that found something of value in that book? People never seem to mention it.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
You may know this, but if you type / in the file chooser window, it replaces the path buttons with a text bar that you can type or paste into. I discovered that by accident, probably a couple years after the text bar vanished...
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Don't remember where I saw this, but someone said the 6502 was really an RTCC (Reduced Transistor Count Computer).

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