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by mimixco 7y ago
We are using Lisp to build the back end of our text processing system[0] and have been continually delighted by how compact, readable, and debuggable our code has been. It is the ideal platform for the development and testing of new program
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by mimixco 7y ago
About Face[0] by Alan Cooper about UI design. Refactoring[1] by Martin Fowler. On Lisp[2] by PG. [0] https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Des... [1] https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Impro
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by mimixco 7y ago
OP here. This is a teardown of the UI and dev problems with Microsoft's innovative (at the time) game dev platform called Project Spark, for which I was an early beta tester. A lot of these issues are still with us in other products.
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What Microsoft Got Wrong in Project Spark (2014)(davidbethune.tumblr.com)
1 points by mimixco 7y ago|1 comments
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This would absolutely be of value. I was wishing for something like it just the other day. IDE's aren't the place to keep doc and there is no good tool which, as you said, ties the doc to the actual code it represents. I would abs
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by mimixco 7y ago
Make some custom graphics using Canva and stock photos. Put words in them in big fonts and use a variety throughout.
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Texas grocer HEB offers restaurant meals at stores; all money to restaurants(preview.houstonchronicle.com)
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Turning off JavaScript in your browser will get you past the NYT paywall and many others.
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I shop HEB and I noticed they were ahead of this thing weeks ago. Their delivery service is terrific and, though quantities are limited and deliveries have to be scheduled several days in advance, you can still buy everything. The article d
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by mimixco 7y ago
America takes the phrase, "Give me liberty, or give me death" very seriously. It's unlikely we'd be ok with massive federal clampdowns on our personal behavior. We also are a nation of 50 states with their own (differing
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by mimixco 7y ago
Remote work and everything related to it, video conferencing, cloud sharing, etc.
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by mimixco 7y ago
#1 Stay home when you're sick! (In the old days, this was expected.) #2 Quit forcing employees to travel to big conferences for stuff they could learn online.
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WPEngine, a hosted WordPress provider, is great for blog type sites. If you're selling stuff with e-commerce, Shopify is easy, too. Both have plugins for A/B testing and other things you are likely to want.
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Declassified Navy training film explains weaponized biological agent dispersion(m.youtube.com)
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The usefulness is very much in doubt. A post here not long ago from a dev who worked on Xanadu said they tried to tell Ted that tumblers, his address locating scheme, was too brittle to use in practice. If a single character changed in text
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by mimixco 7y ago
I don't think it matters one bit. I never liked math until I already had a successful programming career. To me, programming is much more about language skills than math.
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It's definitely the "intelligent person's" way to wager since you're only going up against your fellow players and not the house. Too bad that the parimutuel industry didn't try to modernize its product. How ma
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The guy has a great sense of humor and the individual replies and flags are cool.
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Unboxing free flags requested from every country's embassy [YouTube](youtu.be)
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Roku has an API and you can make your own private channel without any approval or help. Users must discover your channel on their own and sideload it from the Roku website rather than the device menu. Content is a whole nother animal. Pluto
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Negative Ion Products are Radioactive [video](digg.com)
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According to the CDC[0], 9 out of 10 new smokers are under 18. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/yout...
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The fact is that adults don't take up a new nicotine habit, so it's no surprise that PM must market IQOS as a sexy, exciting "lifestyle" for young people. This is part and parcel of the industry they're in. They&#x2
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by mimixco 7y ago
These are certainly good points and valid problems, but "leaving it to a pro" as the OP suggests doesn't fix them. That pro will likely use WordPress or Shopify anyway. Until someone makes a CDN that isn't siloed and tru
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Chart of 100 Most Spoken Languages and Their Origins(digg.com)
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Basically, they offer raw boxes, typically for Linux use. You would terminal into your box, called a droplet, and then install or run whatever you want as though the box were local. They have good setup for security, too, so you can control
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Digital Ocean has been great for us. It's easy to setup and scale, offers lots of server "droplet* types, and is inexpensive.
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Another way to access Hathi is by physically visiting an affiliated university campus and doing it from their computers. Most university libraries allow the public this access.
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TL;DR Owner of major newspapers in Miami, Kansas City, Fort Worth, and Sacramento files bankruptcy and prepares for takeover by $4B hedge fund.
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The value add in paid journalism is in the research and writing itself, not in the delivery platform. This is why the New York Times is able to make money charging for its website. The most difficult part of building a consumer reviews webs

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