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by leoc 5y ago
Obligatory mention of J. Wayne Spence's COBOL for the 80's https://www.worldcat.org/title/cobol-for-the-80s/oclc/116217... (images of different covers: https://www.ebay.com/itm&#x2
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by leoc 5y ago
Dealers of Lightning has an interesting chapter about Pixar's PARC roots in the SuperPaint group. There's also a very good article somewhere on the web (I can't find it now) about the NYIT years; the NYIT lab was a very str
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by leoc 5y ago
> This wouldn't be the first time we'd talked to Jobs. Three months earlier, on August 4, Steve had invited Ed, me, and Ajit Gill, our financial manager, to his mansion in Woodside, Calif. Steve, who had just been ousted from A
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by leoc 5y ago
This is another problem which was already solved in the '70s on the PDP-10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)#As_a_progra... ;) So you're keen on making invalid states unrepresentable ? Boy
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by leoc 5y ago
It might not matter commercially, but it certainly matters from a scientific POV.
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by leoc 5y ago
But if anything this an argument in favour of the idea that ideas do have value, as it's equivalent to the situation where the capitalist pays $10,000 to set up the ice cream stand and wanders off while their partner does all the wor
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by leoc 5y ago
I'm no expert on any of this but that doesn't seem right; is it? IIUC, most procedural programming is nearly as wedded to the "one entity, one master data structure, one address in memory" frame of mind as OO is. (And th
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by leoc 5y ago
Doge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only left the project in early 2015, which would mean that he was involved through t
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by leoc 5y ago
I know hardly anything about either language, but 'Julia' does sound suspiciously like 'Dylan', and Dylan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) is usually described as a success
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by leoc 5y ago
If you're talking about the restriction that prevents the forwarding of routes in one iBGP connection and out another, I think that's a requirement of the standard rather than something vendors have imposed. Because iBGP hops don&
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by leoc 5y ago
Sure: I don't have any strong opinions one way or the other about Not All 4chan so feel free to amend "4chan" to "the worst bits of 4chan" if you think that's more accurate. But IME when you hear someone say &q
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by leoc 5y ago
You're mostly just missing the quasi-Darwinian dynamic of places like 4chan where these teenage boys, clinical psychopaths and the like all gather anonymously to compete over who's most flamboyantly too cool for school, so that tr
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by leoc 5y ago
I get the impression that Apple since Jobs' return has actively gone out of its way to try not to have pundits and the general public make the pretty obvious comparisons to B & O or Bose, because they rightly see it as not a flatte
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by leoc 5y ago
And often that's because MS decided not to replicate some capabilities of the old WinNT-vintage configuration GUI in the pretty new touch-friendly interface. Probably the classic example is the trek you have to make, through two or thr
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by leoc 5y ago
TuneFork natch.
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by leoc 5y ago
There's a reaction from one of the library's authors https://twitter.com/seanjtaylor/status/1410447403153457152 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1410447403153457152.html . (IDK an
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by leoc 5y ago
To the extent that being remembered after your death matters at all, then absolutely, yes. To go back to the original point of comparison, many more people know Ramesses II now than have ever heard of Paul Graham, and this is when pg is s
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by leoc 5y ago
This is all broadly true, but the fact that 'Ozymandias' is frickin' Ramesses II does undermine the message of the poems a bit. Or more generously, it adds another level of depth to the point that someone's future fame
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by leoc 5y ago
Today, on episode 42 of /Putting Things In-Band Doesn't Make Them Go Away/ ...
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by leoc 5y ago
And in many of those countries expensive things like cars and smartphones are usually discretionary items, not absolutely or near-absolutely necessary to get and keep a job, pay taxes, get your children to school and so on.
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by leoc 5y ago
KeithS from https://www.assemblytutorial.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/ChibiAkumas/ does introductions to assembly programming on nearly every old microcomputer platform you can think of.
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by leoc 5y ago
Wasn’t the original Inside Macintosh supposedly a nightmare? Did it improve dramatically over the lifetime of (classic) MacOS?
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by leoc 5y ago
I asssume (I'm very much not an expert) that there have to be security considerations too, particularly if you're hoping to hire from the sorts of countries where Google or Adobe wouldn't consider opening an office and hiring
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by leoc 5y ago
TBH I'm not sure what you think I was saying.
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by leoc 5y ago
Talk about the exception that proves the rule, though!
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by leoc 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRjO3kHxU4 seems to be pretty balanced and informative too.
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by leoc 5y ago
It’s a standard expression, not an Americanism.
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by leoc 5y ago
> There's no way to organize the current amount of hours in which you have "small groups" for 5 hours a day, unless small is 30 students per one teacher, in which case we're already doing that. The proposal was 5 hour
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by leoc 5y ago
If you grub around on YouTube you can find plenty of coverage of the London Underground's ghost stations.
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by leoc 5y ago
There was also the Myo armband by Thalmic Labs, later North, later a division of Google. Apparently it didn't work very well though.

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