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by ken 7y ago
Type/creator codes were any 4-byte OSType, actually. ASCII values were commonly used, for obvious reasons, but not required.
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by ken 7y ago
Sure, Einstein and Feynman are the classic examples, but they were both musicians. This article specifically called out "actor, dancer, magician". Who do these refer to?
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by ken 7y ago
A very similar claim appeared in a BBC article 2 months ago, and it seemed bogus. After a brief bit of online research, it seems even more bogus to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617547 Please, anyone who wishe
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by ken 7y ago
I drive a 23-year-old car design and have zero qualms about it. Commercial aviation is one of the safest modes of transportation there is. That’s due to the safety procedures practiced by the operators, not faster FEA modeling. It’s far sa
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by ken 7y ago
SwiftUI isn’t UIKit-specific. Display Postscript hasn’t existed since the OS was called NeXT, 20+ years ago, and was never on any iDevice. Cocoa is an alias for AppKit + CoreData, and iOS uses CocoaTouch instead.
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by ken 7y ago
I didn't sign up for "a general purpose UI platform". I got on board when it was a hypertext publication system. They've been boiling this frog for 25 years. Every year, I'm less and less convinced that JavaScript
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by ken 7y ago
Wouldn't that be better? Anything you can script with AppleScript (OSA) you can also script with JavaScript, but not the other way around.
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by ken 7y ago
Focus-follows-mouse, even sloppy, is problematic on macOS due to the menu bar. Moving the mouse up to the menu bar means covering space which can belong to a different window, which would change the meaning of the menu item when you got th
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by ken 7y ago
Yes, wanting to "solve" Lisp syntax has been a common initial response to Lisp for at least several decades. In 1993, Gabriel and Steele wrote: > we expect future generations of Lisp programmers to continue to reinvent Algol-s
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by ken 7y ago
> Facebook: Does this even need a replacement? Not all of us use it for reading the 'timeline' and seeing what our friends' cats are doing this week. Organizations also use it for updates, scheduling, sharing ideas, etc.
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by ken 7y ago
Lisp doesn't have more grouping characters than other languages. The primary difference is that it consistently uses prefix notation, so the cursor always immediately goes inside the parens, rather than needing to type one part of an
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by ken 7y ago
Yes, perhaps I was too subtle but the point of my comment was that (from what I have heard) virtually all small B&M businesses evade taxes when they're starting out. I don't think it's coincidence that all the cashless bu
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by ken 7y ago
> Everyone ends up paying an approximately fair price for the one product that they were going to buy no matter what, and then gets a very good deal on everything else. [...] If you’ve ever bought a new car, you’ve probably faced down th
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by ken 7y ago
I admire the effort. Being poor is expensive. I'd love to see big-picture legislation (like GDPR is for privacy) which could take a bite out of all the tiny cuts of financial mini-hardship that poor people face every day. I just have
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by ken 7y ago
Does cash make it harder to operate? That sounds backwards to me. Traditionally, small businesses love cash. The open secret is that no small business reports 100% of their cash income to the government. I've had small business ow
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by ken 7y ago
Are they required to tell you? I've been to more than one restaurant that said "sorry, we don't take cash" when there was no signage to inform me of this fact.
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by ken 7y ago
The problem, as always, is that parties disagree on what "best" means. Governments and safety organizations are pushing for "Vision Zero", i.e., safety at any cost. (My economics professor once pointed out that if you r
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by ken 7y ago
The opposite, in fact. My professor talked about the amazing things he did with Fortran. Then I had to learn it in order to find the bugs. I'd never use it by choice. I know of 4 major languages created in the 1950's: Lisp, Alg
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by ken 7y ago
Can you explain the mechanism? All I see is an excuse to show more ads. I can't name a single way that being digitally tracked improves my "productivity" or "quality of life".
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by ken 7y ago
I've come to realize that laws aren't generally about fairness. They're about whole-systems thinking. Lots of rules seem unfair if you're an individual in a system. The popcorn kernel that doesn't pop may feel sli
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by ken 7y ago
Not in America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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by ken 7y ago
UW had a lab of them that I got to use for a math class once or twice. I used Mathematica on a NeXT and on a Macintosh II, and it was clear NeXT was just better at everything. If you had told me they used the same processor family, I prob
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by ken 7y ago
I don’t see how it’s a betrayal, as iCloud has never had E2EE, and Apple has never made any secret of this omission. Did we really think that Apple was just so incompetent they could run online file services for 20+ years and have almost a
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by ken 7y ago
Every built-in browser password manager I've seen seems to be just a password-protected list of (URL, name, password) tuples. They're the most bare-bones possible implementation. There's no (non-cloud) syncing, or easy backu
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by ken 7y ago
> Unfortunately people get bored, especially in creative profession, when the product is mature, the job becomes more boring. This is backwards, IME. I want to maintain a system and make it run great. Management is always pushing for s
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by ken 7y ago
You mean a compiler?
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by ken 7y ago
Ergo, Java: "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." -- Guy Steele
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by ken 7y ago
I've seen lots of programs written in lower-level languages that are incomprehensible because the patterns were macro-expanded by hand 1000 times and it's impossible to get the big picture. I can't say I've ever seen a L
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by ken 7y ago
Preface: It took me years (decades?) to realize that what happens in each person's brain when they 'think' or 'remember' is very different. I often have perfectly clear memories that don't fit into any cohesive
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by ken 7y ago
Leave out one parenthesis and your program doesn’t compile, i.e., exactly the same failure mode as almost any other language.

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