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by linguae 6y ago
I have a similar idea. I've been working on a design for a Common Lisp-based desktop environment that can run on top of Linux and the BSDs. It's inspired by the Lisp machines of old and OpenDoc, an API for building component-bas
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by linguae 6y ago
Apple went down a very interesting path during the interregnum years from 1985 through 1996. It was a beacon of creativity where some of its engineers worked on projects that offered new visions of personal computing that empowered the use
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by linguae 6y ago
I've been thinking the same thing lately, though I didn't know about the NexDock project until I read your post. My dream would be something like a modern-day ThinkPad X61 or ThinkPad X220 for its durability and its keyboard. Ho
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by linguae 6y ago
My dream platform would be essentially a revival of OpenDoc ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E ), except it's built on top of the Common Lisp Object System, a dynamic object system that supports multiple dispa
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by linguae 6y ago
I feel the same way about Apple these days, and the fact that Apple is secretive and doesn't provide roadmaps makes it harder for me to feel at ease with Apple. My last straw is Catalina's notarization policies, but my discontent
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by linguae 6y ago
The funny thing about this announcement is that a week ago I just found my old QBASIC textbook that I learned how to program with back in 1998. QBASIC was my very first programming language; I was a nine year old kid who loved computers an
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by linguae 6y ago
At the minimum: to find more effective ways at getting people to purchase those products being advertised. There's been a lot of interesting research done on recommender systems and data mining that have been fueled by the growth of t
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by linguae 6y ago
I work for one of the last traditional corporate research labs in Silicon Valley, and I consider myself very fortunate to have my position, especially in the time of COVID-19. I love doing research. But I fear losing my job, partly becaus
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by linguae 6y ago
Alan Kay is one of my intellectual heroes. I've always been enamored by the Macintosh, which was influenced by the work at Xerox PARC. However, it wasn't until I started studying more about Xerox PARC within the past five years
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Oakland Unified launches $12.5M fundraiser to close digital divide(ktvu.com)
1 points by linguae 6y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 6y ago
I can't make any statements regarding quality, but regarding soldered RAM, unfortunately this practice has spread outside of the X1 Carbon lineup. The ThinkPad X280 and X290 have soldered RAM with no DIMM slots, and the ThinkPad T490
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by linguae 6y ago
I believe a part of this has to do with some software products wanting to control the look-and-feel of their applications as part of brand recognition, which runs counter to the idea that GUI applications should conform to the UI guidelines
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by linguae 6y ago
I agree. I remember when I bought a refurbished ThinkPad T430 to play with back in late 2016; it came with Windows 10. The interface looked gaudy on the laptop's 1366x768 display, with all of its oversized elements. It seems to me t
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm a long-time Mac user who is planning a gradual transition to Linux and FreeBSD. However, I have used various desktop environments over the years in the context of installing Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware and in development V
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by linguae 6y ago
I've been a Mac user since 2006, and I currently own a 2013 MacBook Air and a 2013 Mac Pro that I both regularly use. For a long time macOS was the marriage of Unix with commercial hardware support (even if tied to a specific manufact
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by linguae 7y ago
The trouble with this industry view that research is expected to be done in academia is that academia isn't immune from these short-term pressures. There are some five-year NSF grants and some other opportunities for long-term funding
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by linguae 7y ago
As a computer science researcher working toward a PhD, I've been very interested in learning about the history of funding and also thinking about alternative funding models. Speaking from the standpoint of computer science, I believe t
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by linguae 7y ago
I had exposure to Scheme during my undergraduate years taking courses in programming languages and compilers, but earlier this year I started learning Common Lisp and I'm really enjoying the language. It's a large language and so
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by linguae 7y ago
I don't work for a FAANG, but I work in Silicon Valley for a major traditional enterprise company as a research engineer. I'm concerned about layoffs occurring within the next two quarters due to the economic effects of coronaviru
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A Proposal for a Flexible, Composable, Libre Desktop Environment(mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com)
3 points by linguae 7y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 7y ago
This is a fascinating report from Alan Kay about the history of Smalltalk up until the Smalltalk-80 days: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
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by linguae 7y ago
Here is a problem that I've been thinking about for some time: suppose I express using some type of logic that I want the shortest path between two vertices of a graph. Given this logical description of the problem, is it possible for
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by linguae 7y ago
As someone who has planned on returning to grad school this fall to finish my PhD in computer science in hopes of becoming a professor at a teaching-oriented university, I am worried about the future of the occupation of being a university
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by linguae 7y ago
As a counterargument (or perhaps as a corollary), backend programming is also a treadmill these days. It may not have the churn of the world of front-end Web programming, but the world of backend programming in 2020 is quite different from
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by linguae 7y ago
There’s a wonderful software magazine in Japan called “Software Design” that is complete with code examples and tutorials on various topics, including web programming (both front-end and backend), Python development, Linux system administra
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by linguae 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of presentation slides that I read a few nights ago. I was reading presentation slides from Carnegie Mellon professor Heather Miller about the funding challenges that open source software projects have ( https:/&
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by linguae 7y ago
This is something else I've been thinking about lately as I read more about Smalltalk and Lisp. The people who have used the commercial Smalltalk and Lisp offerings from the 1980s and 1990s, including Lisp machines, seem to have had g
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by linguae 7y ago
I have another theory about why Java beat other object-oriented programming languages except C++: cost. I can't speak for Eiffel and Ada since I'm unfamiliar with those environments, but in the mid-1990s Java caused a revolution
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by linguae 7y ago
Another highly influential programming language not listed in the article is Self ( http://www.selflanguage.org ). Although I've taken two graduate-level courses in programming language theory, I didn't learn about Self
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by linguae 7y ago
I had a crush on a girl named Lan back when I was in third grade. This was also the same year (1997-98) when my parents got a new computer: a HP Vectra running Windows 95, which I learned HTML on towards the end of third grade. I remember

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