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by lalalandland 6y ago
There are some cool Zuze computers and reconstructions at the Deutches Technik museum. Z1 is a marvel. Well worth a visit: https://technikmuseum.berlin/ausstellungen/dauerausstellunge...
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Misses speech impediment yoke by not calling it Aplil
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by lalalandland 6y ago
"Anyway, have you ever tried to use man? It's fine as long as you know what you are looking for. How would you ever find out the name of command given just the function you wanted to execute? You can't. " One of my grip
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Smalltalk is really quite small. All syntax is described in here: https://gist.github.com/jacaetevha/3795784
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by lalalandland 6y ago
See also resent thread about Zappo where there was lots of talk about customer service. I think a solution would be that designers and engineers should have as part of their job to sit in customer service to support their products. Preferab
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Here is a video about replacing the screen. Also see video description for where a screen can (could?) be bought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa630UVaWp0 Edit: Seems to be for a different version
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by lalalandland 6y ago
I didn't know that.
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Leviatan is a stark insight into corruption in Russia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802154/
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Philip E. Mason also known as Thunderf00t on youtube is one of the authors. Here is a video explaining the experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpLAB5219A
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The Evolution of Smalltalk From Smalltalk-72 Through Squeak (2020) [pdf](smalltalkzoo.thechm.org)
3 points by lalalandland 6y ago|2 comments
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Article by Dan Ingalls; Smalltalks main implementor.
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Art as a big polluter and waste of resources seem like a stretch. Biggest polluters are military and agriculture. I don't think art would make it on that list.
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Artistic expression, human rights and freedom are concepts with huge overlap.
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by lalalandland 6y ago
Trygve Reenskaug is still working on programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve_Reenskaug
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by lalalandland 6y ago
I mostly work with Squeak and do small explorations with graphics and games
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by lalalandland 6y ago
I work in Smalltalk for hobby projects and it's mostly a fun experience. Very powerful debugging and introspection makes it easy to take on stuff I would not consider in any other system.
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by lalalandland 6y ago
;The following block of externals was added on Dec 19, 1982 when BINTRP was ; Split up after the freeze of GW-BASIC Version 1.0 ; This Split-up was not reflected in the PS1:<BASIC>BINTRP.MAC source. ; See Tom Corbett if you
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by lalalandland 7y ago
Yes, it's silly to be gate keeping like this, with some purist fantasy. If OP friend like to role play as a engineer from 1981, that is cool. But he has to realize that that is not everybody's goal.
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by lalalandland 7y ago
Unix shell scripting is an obtuse practice that is really hard to discover. That short shell script is built on hours of hard learned Unix experience that would probably be at least 8 pages long, if explained thorough.
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by lalalandland 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is a typo, but you need a certain speed to be able to steer the ship. Going too slow downstream is like stalling a airplane, you lose control over it.
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by lalalandland 7y ago
I have a Yamaha Motif Rack synth, from around 2004. It has software to aid in the parameter settings if you want to make a new sound. It is a advanced synth and quite complicated. The tiny screen and knobs on the front panel is very fiddly
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by lalalandland 7y ago
Band names in English have the same convention. The Beatles is under B.
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by lalalandland 7y ago
The general purposeness of computers is the reason for complexity. We use the same systems to do highly secure and critical business transaction as high performance simulation, playing and fun. The conveniency of not having to switch system
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by lalalandland 8y ago
Needs Adobe Flash to watch live steam of the pitch drop. Nobody will probably watch it fall then. LOL http://www.thetenthwatch.com/
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by lalalandland 8y ago
I have found what works best for me to recover from chronic stress is light training, like walking, and mindfulness meditation, specially body scan.
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by lalalandland 8y ago
Is't a large part of the history of physics about doing away with wrong assumptions based on beauty? Circular orbits of planets etc.
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by lalalandland 8y ago
I really like using Smalltalk (Squeak) for personal programming and small projects. It's very reflective and it is easy once you know the tools to learn more about how the system works and how to do stuff. I have not found any similar
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by lalalandland 9y ago
"On some growth teams, code quality and maintainability don't matter, all that matters is getting customer growth with new features as quickly as possible. " Do you work for Intel ? /s
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by lalalandland 9y ago
"A complaint might be he left out what aspects of Lisp provided that combinatorial boost". He said it right there: “unlimited programming in an eyeful” (the bottom half of page 13 in the Lisp 1.5 manual)
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by lalalandland 10y ago
I found it somewhat hilarious with the tone of the voice guessing my mundane sketches. "Oh, I know, it's toe" :-( LOL

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