meadhbh-hamrick

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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
I mean... it's not ALL LEENUCKS. You still have to grok the difference between Darwin and Leenucks. And Minix if you work with PCHes.
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
It sounds almost like the OP is bemoaning the stability of Unix-like systems. I like that ls, cd, mkdir, emacs and cp all work more or less the same way. And as much as I sometimes curse at autotools, I appreciate how nice it is I can gen
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
You're suggesting I created an account an hour before urbit was mentioned in this thread just knowing someone would mention it? And I made the comment with my IRL name to hide my tracks? Sometimes the world doesn't revolve around
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
OOF!
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
Meh. Urbit. That's not a weird technical scene, that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society an
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
I'm a fan of FORTH, but absolutely second your motion that Joy is worth investigating. It has a FORTH "feel" but feels like you can more easily do more advanced things with it.
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
I sometimes write COBOL programs for fun. Seriously... one of the things COBOL used to require and still strongly encourages is to declare record types before procedures (the Data Division is before the Procedure Division). There's a
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by meadhbh-hamrick 4y ago
My favorite Wikipedia story is when I tried to update the page for the "Homebrew Mobile Phone Club" to reflect the location of the first meeting. Someone (probably not at all maliciously) commented that the club's first meet