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by mschaef 8y ago
It switches analog phone lines, so it could (and I'm sure did) act as a control plane for modem links. (Over which it was possible to send TCP/IP, etc.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
There's another interesting story about Knuth that's worth repeating here. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg... The tl;dr is that Knuth wrote an elaborate implementation o
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by mschaef 8y ago
> UI reflects internal code structure instead of just doing what a user would want to see. Some of that depends on the audience for the app. For a technically sophisticated user base, having an interface that comes closer to the level of
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Some might say Vue.js is technical complexity but after investing time to learn the basics I would say that I'm reaping productivity gains. After thirty years coding, I probably shouldn't admit this, but it's still a sig
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by mschaef 8y ago
I stick with a few basic guidelines: * Sketch out the idea on literal paper before committing it to working code. Paper is so much easier to get 'working'. * Borrow visually from other sites that I like and have similar intent. I
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by mschaef 8y ago
I tend to think of George Carette's SIOD Scheme interpreter when I think of "Lisp style C": LISP difference(LISP x,LISP y) {if NFLONUMP(x) err("wta(1st) to difference",x); if NULLP(y) return(fl
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by mschaef 8y ago
Thanks... tbh, it was the technology that interested me more. I remember pretty amazed at GEOS on the C64, but have never fully understood if there was a connection to the other GEOS implementations (or the nature of that connection if it e
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by mschaef 8y ago
Interesting. Was there any carryover between that and QuantumLink/QLink (via Commodore GEOS). I'm assuming not...
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by mschaef 8y ago
Windows and MacOS did something like this too. The memory APIs worked in terms of blocks of memory identified through 'handles' rather than pointers. To get a pointer, there were additional calls that would enable blocks (identifi
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by mschaef 8y ago
> GEOS would run on systems three orders of magnitude smaller than the ones you describe. Let's not get carried away... I remember running Linux on machines as small as 4MB.... not to mention embedded versions that were materially s
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Many of us won't be alive to see this code legally. Dunno about you, but for me, it's hard to imagine an 85 year old in the year 2083 even caring about seeing this code legally.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> those things tend to be interest, activity, or goal based. I think that's a more significant distinction than it might appear, mainly because it seems to imply a narrower and more disjoint view of community than you might expect f
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by mschaef 8y ago
I live fairly close to several churches that have been converted to (high end) condos. From an economic point of view I get the appeal. In terms of the modern cynicism about religion, I also get the appeal. But on a personal note, It's
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by mschaef 8y ago
> It’s about bringing people to God. True enough, but the community ('fellowship') aspect of the faith is essential. Maybe I'm missing it, but it also seems to be something that's missing in more secular world views.
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by mschaef 8y ago
Interesting. Most of the churches I'm aware of around Philly that would fall into the 'for sale' category seem like they'd be utter maintenance disasters. (ie: very expensive to keep up up, heated, maintained, etc.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Smaller churches are more conservative and more political, You sure that generalization holds well enough to be useful? Personally speaking, I've attended services at small churches of both political alignments. (Ranging from stro
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by mschaef 8y ago
Thank you!
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by mschaef 8y ago
Thanks. (I'm actually aware of the mechanisms involved and have implemented something similar in the past, although with a rather different set of tradeoffs.) My main interested was in use cases and the details of the integration with
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by mschaef 8y ago
What's it used for? (Can you say?)
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by mschaef 8y ago
Can you (have you?) say anything more publicly? Would be interested to know more.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Having a right to do something is completely orthogonal to whether you should do that thing. Yeah... there are really several conversations that could be had: 1. Rich deserves credit and respect for personally taking on a cost that ran
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Chas knows very well how Clojure is authored. I suppose some people believe their contributions or community status give them higher authority and a right to publicly pressure Rich Hickey. Thought experiment: assume for a moment Rich i
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I am genuinely curious why you, or anyone else, would think he is right. Because Rich has the rights to do what he wants with his time and money. (Like everybody else.) It is completely within his rights to establish his own governance
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by mschaef 8y ago
> To be honest, I could use that money in my retirement account, having depleted it to make Clojure in the first place. A perfect example of the significant cost and personal risks people take on for the benefit of producing open source
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by mschaef 8y ago
> they basically find out that baby had powers? The baby demonstrates powers in the first movie when Syndrome tries to abduct him at the very end. But the baby in the air and the rest of the family are on the ground, so maybe they didn&#
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I can't imagine kids sitting through Screenslaver's monologue Do you have kids? I have a six year old that's watched the movie, monologue and all, more times than I can count.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> When one of us is away, all hell is prone to break loose. Of course.... with half the capacity to manage the household, it's only natural that things would get, well, a bit more chaotic.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> All I remember is the father -- a superhero -- unable to perform basic child rearing tasks You try raising a toddler that can uncontrollably turn into a demon, burst into flame, warp into another dimension, and shoot lasers from its ey
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by mschaef 8y ago
JS is not without its problems, but it has attracted both a huge amount of mindshare and corporate investment over the last twenty years. Those both go a long way towards fixing many of the initial problems of the language. While it isn&#x2
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by mschaef 8y ago
..The amount of people who want to cook and prepare a nice meal is probably a lot less than the amount of people who think they want to cook and prepare a nice meal... ftfy. We did Blue Apron and Sunbasket both for a while. Both are general

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