lupin_sansei

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A Personal History of APL (1982)(ed-thelen.org)
122 points by lupin_sansei 3y ago|47 comments
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by lupin_sansei 4y ago
The beauty of this idea is that it solves the usual to-do list problem of adding a task and then ignoring it forever.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
3! You could make grey using the checkboard box character thing.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
I was super impressed how they got high resolution graphics out of the ZX81 which only has characters not a user programmable bitmapped display https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6134/how-... http
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
Found a short video of the hardware Mark 1 Perceptron machine in action classifying photos. Fascinating https://youtu.be/cNxadbrN_aI
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
I can highly recommend Task Ratchet https://taskratchet.com/ by the makers of Beeminder. You add a task and a due date and how much they will fine if you if you don’t do it in time. Loss aversion kicks in and I actually do
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
It used to be spelled Tokio in English speaking countries before the 1950s https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/207014/why-was-t...
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
How about a small portable radio tuned between stations? It might have to be an old analogue tuning one to actually not mute when there’s no signal. https://youtu.be/t1thDa4zeog
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
This isn’t correct. I’ve lived in UK, Australia, and Japan and all those places use 12 hour time.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
They’ve tried a couple of social networks around iTunes but they failed.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
A nice little walkthrough/tutorial of Remind: http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-... for example... Semi-Complex Tip: Date-Based Math You can do date-based math with Remind. Goin
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
I love Beeminder too (the sister app to GTBee). I’ve been trying to reorganise my habits into ones that aren’t “proxy’s” for what I want to really achieve (Eg “invoiced dollars”, rather than “did some client work”)
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
The calendar blocking is a really important point I’ve found too, so you make time to do the items in the list.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
Interestingly I’ve found I haven’t done that. I try to make the tasks small enough that when it’s time to do them it’s not overwhelming and the potential fine is enough just sting to make me check the app regularly
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
Yeah. Not wanting to pay them motivates me to not fail.
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by lupin_sansei 5y ago
I’ve found the trouble with Todo lists is that you fill them up and then start ignoring them as they are overwhelming. I’ve recently found Beeminder’s GTBee todo list app a good help as it forces you to enter a due date and fines you at lea
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Programming Is a Dead End Job (2014)(thecodist.com)
2 points by lupin_sansei 5y ago|2 comments
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React Considered Harmful(werkema.com)
1 points by lupin_sansei 6y ago|1 comments
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by lupin_sansei 7y ago
Those colour preferences might be innate though https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12512-women-may-be-ha...
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by lupin_sansei 8y ago
Good point. Not a lot of people remembered that Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer in 1996 for millions. There's a pretty good old book about it "High St@kes, No Prisoners"
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Not sure that's true. Out of the box ASP.NET has request validation enabled by default that screens out lots of opportunities for XSS https://www.owasp.org/index.php/ASP.NET_Request_Validation PHP doesn't hav
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
How does Libre Taxi uniquely identify a driver for ratings and kicking them off the system if they are too bad?
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
This was interesting: "Based on his review of the scientific literature, between 10 to 30% of regular users will develop dependency. Only about 9% will have a serious addiction" https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Thankfully Chrome has fixed this issue. I just tried this and Chrome actually warns you about downloading DLLs and requires further user interaction to actually download DLL to the downloads folder: Screenshot: https://i.imgur.co
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
It's handy on the new Apple TV to speak a search phrase rather than select each letter one at a time using the remote. At least on the Apple one though you press to speak into a mic on the remote so presumably it's not listening a
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
There are products that already allow the running of Android apps on Windows: http://www.greenbot.com/article/3129740/android/the-best-pro... I've never tried it or seen anyone do it though.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Many of them would make great desktop widget kind of apps, such a mini music player, or weather app.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
The ability to lay people off whenever you want also has the benefit of employers feeling more confident in hiring people, as they can lay them off if required. It leads to more jobs and a more dynamic labour market as your job security is
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Yes it was a stroke of genius for php to add user comments to the bottom of the page describing each function/method etc. the examples in those comments were often much better than the documentation itself. I remember in early 2000s tr
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
This was the argument against privatizing the telcos in Europe in the 80s. But once they did competition and innovation thrived. Classifying something as a utility leads to stagnation.

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