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by linguae 2y ago
It depends on the country, though. I love Japan, where I lived for eight months and where I frequently travel to, but dealing with government services there can be stressful. Granted, the clerks are professional and cordial, but be prepar
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by linguae 2y ago
In my experience living in California, government services such as the DMV and the post office tend to be more pleasant in small towns compared to in large metro areas. When I lived in San Luis Obispo and in Santa Cruz County, it was gener
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by linguae 2y ago
I love the power of Apple’s ARM Macs, and at work I always choose a Mac when given a choice between a PC running Windows. I love my work-issued MacBook Pro. However, for my personal equipment, it’s really difficult for me to stomach payin
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by linguae 2y ago
Thank goodness for Jean-Louis Gassée and his advocacy for user-serviceable, expandable Macs, starting with the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II in 1987. I have strong respect for Steve Jobs, but I agree with Jean-Louis Gassée on this issue, a
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by linguae 2y ago
1. My family is from Northern California. I grew up in Sacramento, and my family still resides there. I spent all of my life in California except for eight months in Japan and three months in Seattle, both for internships. 2. I have a t
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by linguae 2y ago
In the San Francisco Bay Area, renting is considerably cheaper than buying at current home prices and interest rates. For example, I just moved into a two-bedroom apartment in San Ramon, roughly a 45 minute drive northeast of Silicon Valle
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by linguae 2y ago
Even with remote work, it may still be beneficial to live in or near a large metro area. From an American point of view, large metro areas generally offer many amenities such as a variety of cultural events (concerts, exhibits, festivals),
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by linguae 2y ago
I agree with this view; the breakup of the AT&T monopoly was a boon for consumers. However, I also agree that Bell Labs was a casualty of the breakup. Once AT&T was split, Bell Labs was pressured to demonstrate its value by focusi
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by linguae 2y ago
It’s good to see this article. Self is one of the most influential research programming languages; it’s unfortunate most people outside of the programming language research and compiler research/development communities never heard of
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by linguae 2y ago
I agree, but I believe the fact there are no popular applications that fully embrace the Unix/Plan 9 philosophy is the point of the philosophy. Generic tools that can be composed versus end-to-end applications. Both have their advant
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by linguae 2y ago
Counterpoint: Plan 9 is supposed to be the ultimate realization of the Unix philosophy. One important aspect of the Unix philosophy is composable software. Instead of large, feature-rich programs where functionality is often siloed off fr
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by linguae 2y ago
Plan 9 was heavily influenced by the Xerox PARC Mesa/Cedar interface, which influenced Wirth’s Project Oberon. I forget whether Project Oberon directly influenced Plan 9, but I’ve heard people argue that Rob Pike, one of the leaders o
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by linguae 2y ago
As a resident of nearby Capitola (and not far from Pleasure Point where Tom Lehrer bought a home), I absolutely love the winter in Santa Cruz County. I can enjoy the natural scenery and many of the tourist attractions without dealing with
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by linguae 2y ago
I wrote my first program when I was nine years old. It was a very simple quiz written in QBASIC on my parent’s PC running Windows 95. I loved programming as a kid, and 26 years later, I still do. There’s more to life than career preparati
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by linguae 2y ago
This issue was compounded by the death of streetcar lines across America, being replaced with buses. In Tokyo some of these streetcar lines evolved into subway and train lines. For example, the stretch of the modern Tokyu Den-en-Toshi Lin
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by linguae 2y ago
Yes, once Tokyu sold Tokyu Hands the store dropped the Tokyu name. I also haven’t noticed any changes in terms of product selection or customer service, with the caveat that I’m a tourist who goes to Japan 2-3 times per year, not a residen
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by linguae 2y ago
Another big difference between transit in Tokyo versus transit in California: in Tokyo many of the lines are owned and operated by private companies. JR East used to be part of Japan National Railways, but the Japanese government privatize
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by linguae 2y ago
Yeah, I travel to Japan frequently (in fact, my next trip is next week!) and I'm also tall. I love Japan, and I love Tokyo's public transportation. However, one of the things I don't like are the jammed-packed rush hour tra
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by linguae 2y ago
1. Try to do at least one internship before you graduate. Internships solve the chicken-and-egg problem of entry-level full-time roles requiring experience, since the internship will provide this experience. When I was an undergrad at Ca
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by linguae 2y ago
I wonder how possible it is to design a cross-platform GUI framework that not only uses the native UI widgets of each underlying platform, but also respects each platform's human interface guidelines. I'd imagine this would be ve
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by linguae 2y ago
There was an implementation of OpenStep for Windows named OpenStep Enterprise: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/11422/openstep-for-w... It even survived Apple's purchase of NeXT, where the OpenStep API
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by linguae 2y ago
Here’s a fun fact that may interest you. There was an attempt in the 1990s outside of Microsoft to make the Windows API an official standard to help other operating systems run Windows software, but Microsoft balked, asserting its IP over
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by linguae 2y ago
Something I’ve wondered for about 20 years is why I haven’t heard of any FOSS clones of WordStar or the classic WordPerfect interface? I heard that Unix users traditionally preferred typesetting tools like troff and LaTeX instead of WYSIWY
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by linguae 2y ago
(Disclaimer: I am a member of the Computer History Museum.) We have the Computer History Museum in Mountain View ( https://computerhistory.org/ ). While unfortunately visitors are not allowed to touch the equipment unlike th
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by linguae 2y ago
For better or worse, part of the story of the FOSS ecosystem is that there is no singular "Linux community." Rather, there are many communities with different interests, some of them overlapping, some of them complementary, and s
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by linguae 2y ago
I also have a Framework 13, and I agree that Apple’s ARM laptops have amazing performance per watt. The reason I have a Framework 13 instead of an ARM Mac is user-serviceability and cost savings. There is 32GB of RAM in my Framework, and
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by linguae 2y ago
I remember the same thing at Sacramento City College around 2003-05 when I was taking classes as a high school student. It was hard to reserve a PC in the library running Windows XP; sometimes there were long lines. However, the Macs in t
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by linguae 2y ago
As someone who has taught university courses recently, I’ve noticed that more colleges and universities are abandoning computer labs due to the ubiquity of affordable laptops, where many students are well-served by a cheap Chromebook or a u
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by linguae 2y ago
What do you hate about software engineering? “Software engineering” is a very wide, encompassing term, and software engineering practices can vary wildly across industries, companies, domains, and even across teams within a company. There
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by linguae 2y ago
The influence of Lisp is widely known among PL researchers and practitioners (such as compiler writers), but there are many people in computing who are unaware of PL research and who have little exposure to Lisp except for Emacs users and m

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