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by neonscribe 14y ago
This subject has been covered extensively, but rarely in the popular press. One correction: C wasn't "popularized" in 1977. It was available inside Bell Labs and in a few C.S. departments on early PDP-11 Unix versions, but it did not really
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Here's a much simpler solution: a page-turning pedal: http://www.bilila.com/pagescore_turner
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Did you notice the last word spoken by the host Garry Moore was "withal", meaning "nevertheless". Can you imagine a game show host using the word today?
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Not this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Kashi GoLean: 1 cup/52g, 140kcal, 1g fat, 30g carb, 10g fiber, 6g sugars, 13g protein.
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by neonscribe 15y ago
I want to know more about the "smartphone" market in 1996. If I recall correctly, the smartest thing a phone had in 1996 was a contact list. Perhaps they mean mobile telephones?
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Ted Nelson, not Eric Drexler. And not "inspired by" but founded by him. (K. Eric Drexler is nanotechnology, not hypertext.) Not really an Internet startup, certainly one of the longest but not the biggest tech business failures.
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by neonscribe 15y ago
Written by David Levine, http://grokware.com/dl/resume.html who credits the Lisp-based Macro Assembler in his resume!
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by neonscribe 15y ago
In 1983, Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer, the first releases from Lucasfilm Games, were built with a system written in Lisp. It was a 6502 assembler with Lisp syntax and a Lisp-style macro facility, written in Portable Standard Lisp, run
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by neonscribe 16y ago
Do you mean actionable in the legal sense? I agree, there isn't enough evidence to sue anyone at this point. If you refer to action that an individual or family can take, how about this: eliminate sweet drinks, desserts and snacks from your
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by neonscribe 16y ago
The book hasn't been released yet. You can cancel your Amazon order without penalty until it enters the shipping process.
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by neonscribe 16y ago
I want to be able to stop a podcast, listen to something else and resume the podcast at the point I stopped it. How do I do this on an iPod?
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by neonscribe 16y ago
The "killer feature" that Emacs brings is automatic indentation. Parenthesis matching is important, but an easy feature for non-progammable editors to support. Knowing how much whitespace belongs at the beginning of each line is harder, and
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by neonscribe 16y ago
Bottom line: a smartphone has to last for a full day of heavy use on a single battery. Not 16 continuous hours of high-drain usage, but a mix of phone calls, web browsing, audio or video recording, still photograpy, listening and watching.
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by neonscribe 16y ago
Curry ketchup is very popular in Germany. The street food of Berlin is currywurst, which is just a sausage with curry powder and curry ketchup. The curry ketchup in Germany is not only curry-flavored but sweeter than American Heinz ketchup.
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by neonscribe 16y ago
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned. http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html
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by neonscribe 16y ago
The irony is that "The other white meat," although catchy enough to have a found a long-term place in popular culture, is no longer a great promotion slogan for pork. The obsession with lower-fat foods has faded with time. Food writers comp
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by neonscribe 16y ago
PCs are not "becoming commodity items". PCs have been commodity items for over 20 years. The difference now is that improvements in speed and capacity are no longer compelling reasons for mainstream users to upgrade every couple of years.
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by neonscribe 16y ago
For those who are wondering, PEI is Prince Edward Island, a small province in Eastern Canada.
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by neonscribe 17y ago
Jim Brown in "One Down, Two To Go" (1982): "I may not know kung fu, but I'm an expert in gun fu." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086051/quotes
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by neonscribe 17y ago
And French was the language of diplomacy from the 17th century until WWII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
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by neonscribe 17y ago
Another small example of the network effect increasing the dominance of the already-dominant language.
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by neonscribe 17y ago
If I recall correctly, UTLISP on the CDC-6600 did this up to six levels. UTLISP stored 3 18-bit pointers in a 60 bit word, plus flag bits. The three pointers were called the CAR, CDR and CSR. CONS only took two arguments, but you could set
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by neonscribe 17y ago
This page immediately crashes Firefox 3.5.3 on Snow Leopard!
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by neonscribe 17y ago
Pardon the copy editing, but let's not make up words when the exact word you want already exists. The word is "humility", not "humbleness".
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by neonscribe 18y ago
Algol 68, one of the grand failures in programming language history, allowed for multiple representations of the same source code, including allowing for each natural language to define its own set of keywords. You can see a code sample wit