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by mschaef 9y ago
Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.
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by mschaef 9y ago
Sounds difficult to achieve. I attended University of Texas at Austin, and the campus has a central tower that my psychology professor used as an example of something phallic. The dividing line would have to be rather precise not to exclude
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Disclosure: I am a contributor to this project Thanks for posting this and thanks for your contributions.
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by mschaef 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I agree with one of the other commenters that this is probably the most informative comment on the thread. (And, to be honest, the kind of answer I was hoping to get to my initial post.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
> one needs to be entirely "stop energy" (to take a nice phrasing from a now dead comment). I'm sorry that comment got down modded. In fact, I think/hope I voted it up. One of the interesting tensions this dialog has
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by mschaef 9y ago
That's part of why I made the comment I did. 15 years ago, I was starting a small little MicroISV. Rather than focus on the product, I focused on building a Scheme interpreter I was going to use to build the product. It was a lot of fu
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by mschaef 9y ago
The last numbers I heard were from a few years ago, but on the order of 250KLOC of C and 1MLOC of Emacs Lisp. There's a lot there (and some of it gets fairly exotic around redisplay, unexec, etc.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
I intended it more as a friendly suggestion or observation than anything else. Looking at the Github README, I see a lot of enthusiasm for Emacs and Rust, but not much justification for the (tremendous) effort of a port. Losing site of the
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by mschaef 9y ago
This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit. Honestly, I'd rather see more progress on the Emacs Lisp/Guile migration than on a putative C/Rust migration. At least with the Guile switch, it&
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by mschaef 9y ago
> I didn't condemn If you think you didn't condemn, you have a different view of the meaning of that word than I do. "Most people will blame someone else, ... and then go back to what they would have done otherwise, withou
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by mschaef 9y ago
Right around the time the Cat was discontinued, there was one on clearance at a store I frequented in Houston for something like $100. There isn't much computer equipment I didn't buy that I regret not buying, but this is at the t
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by mschaef 9y ago
Heh... I knew my Slashdot ID was pretty low (~32K), but had no idea I'd been around here that long. Now I feel old. :-) Speaking of old, I used Reddit as my main news source for a while, and I remember /r/programming having a
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by mschaef 9y ago
It was more an attempt at light humor than sarcasm. :-) (Not to mention I thought it was hard to imagine anybody around here being unaware of the most capitalized company in the world. Aside from maybe Saudi Aramco.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
It's surprising to me that people are surprised by this. Even setting aside the fact that the people that can do this work are few in number, the vast majority of people need a way to support themselves and their family. If the number
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by mschaef 9y ago
I don't know who you're talking about, but Orange Micro went out of business in 2004. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Micro )
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by mschaef 9y ago
> But a McMansion will almost always cost you more than a more 'modest' house offering the same amount of space. Lots of variables there. Construction is usually estimated in terms of price per square feet, and property values
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> It takes a special person to sympathize with someone living so far beyond their means that they take a $1 million (my average price estimate from the website) mortgage that they can't actually afford They'll suffer enough wit
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Why is this so different Benchmarks are at least attempting to be objective. Also, there's a difference between mocking a company's product and mocking a house that is 1) an individual's home 2) their largest investment
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by mschaef 9y ago
> there is no defending that. There is a lot of space between defending bad ideas and putting up a website to mock them.
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by mschaef 9y ago
> IMO, the ease of manipulating Lisp code comes from that code being internally represented as a tree. I don't think this is sufficient to explain the ease of manipulating Lisp code, After all, most languages are processed through a
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by mschaef 9y ago
Several organizations are investigating batteries. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/texas-town-... There are also more traditional 1-2MW batteries that fit in tractor-trailers, etc.
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by mschaef 9y ago
I'm thinking that'd be a stretch. Anything that would sink enough power would have high capital costs, and negative prices (in my experience in US power markets) don't occur all that often. If you tried this as your primary
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by mschaef 9y ago
Data tables are a huge win where they apply... they can result in significant performance improvements in addition to all the other benefits. (A former co-worker of mine once wrote a simulation using Excel, and switching to tables give the
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by mschaef 9y ago
> I definitely get frustrated by some of the things we still use Excel for in 2017. Excel suffers a lot due to the fact that its core computational model has been static for decades. While Microsoft has been good at adding commands that
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> Simplicity can hurt readability, for example, by utilizing too few distinctive visual patterns - fewer than human brain can easily distinguish while scanning code There's a bit of a tradeoff. I tend to agree with you that there i
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by mschaef 9y ago
> that is an application of the list procedure That really depends on the current package at the time the form is read, and then how `list` is defined within that package. Strictly speaking, you don't even know which 'list&#x27
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by mschaef 9y ago
Yeah... the thing I didn't mention about my family's old 386sx/16 was that it was similar to what you describe. That machine was an ALR PowerFlex, which came out of the box as a 286/12. However, it also had a special CPU
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by mschaef 9y ago
The 386/40's were definitely fast enough to be pushing into the 486's performance envelope (at least for integer).
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> the whole class roster was entered and managed on the PC using only the tools that came with PC-DOS. Having once written a depth-first directory tree traversal using edlin and batch files, I can only imagine what this must have entaile
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by mschaef 9y ago
How far back do you want to go with that? I remember assembling computers out of video boards, motherboards, etc.... but there are some people that remember soldering chips together... or transistors... or tubes... or relays. The trend towa

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