mephistoschmalz

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   by mephistoschmalz 10y ago

   Related story: Stephen Wolfram (the "inventor" of Mathematica talked at my university many years ago about an early version of Mathematica. It was probably version 2 or 3 at that point.) He noted that Mathematica was a programmi
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   by mephistoschmalz 10y ago

   This is sorta unrelated, but related to engineering. On my first day in college, the Dean of my Aerospace Engineering program and two other people came into my first huge classroom and said, "there are too many people in this program.
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   by mephistoschmalz 10y ago

   When I saw the author talk at LL4 at MIT, he did note that GNU units was an inspiration (and was an inspiration for a precursor special-purpose language.) https://frinklang.org/LL4.html#slide2 I'm a huge fan of the &q
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   by mephistoschmalz 10y ago

   I apologize if you used an old version of my IRC bot. It actually tried to screen-scrape the Frink website and did it badly. There are some sites still using it. (And, I think, got throttled for abuse, which might explain your "flak