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by oofoe 4y ago
To paraphrase from somewhere -- "why should they change their name? It's the other guys that suck."
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by oofoe 5y ago
I did something similar to this in Racket to generate unique filetype icons for unknown files. If you're careful with your defaults it can work really well.
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by oofoe 5y ago
Sinclair ZX BASIC actually checked for syntax errors as you typed. Because they abused the character table to "pre-tokenize" all the BASIC statements, you couldn't actually misspell anything either. (ZX80 and ZX81 at least.)
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by oofoe 5y ago
My instructor always told me that from the air, one body of water looks much like another.
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by oofoe 5y ago
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further” A single ad now on a network connected device is no guarantee that it will remain that way. Especially as it becomes "optimized" for revenue from all possible sources. It is
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by oofoe 5y ago
For what it's worth, Xara (xara.com) offers SVG output. I wonder if it could work with your setup? They also have their own integrated web site builder as well.
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by oofoe 5y ago
See also, "Carcinoma Angels", Norman Spinrad, 1967.
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by oofoe 5y ago
You mean like the common or garden variety corporation? These "slow AIs", like the Dutch East India Corporation or Coca-Cola or Exxon have already proved their danger -- wars, resource depletion, pollution and other negative exter
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by oofoe 5y ago
In a followup statement, the Administration admitted "we've tried everything else, may as well give this a shot." /s
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by oofoe 5y ago
My old company locked us out several years ago for a period of time that continues to be uninterrupted. It certainly did shake out lots of problems... (My point is that after having had that happen to me, if it EVER happens again and isn&#x
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by oofoe 5y ago
I have certainly met people who have done their level best to write Python that /looked/ like Java... But even they were disappointed at how un-Java Python was. I'm sure Guido is relieved.
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by oofoe 6y ago
Three cheers for mithril.js! I've used it for a number of things, including a complete rewrite of a heavy old app that used Ext.js. It was very simple to set up dynamic page assembly for very fast and flexible UIs. I've tried ment
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by oofoe 6y ago
It does add a "tax" of sort in the form time or attention that must be paid to keep a website up. You can't just sling some files in a directory and be done -- you have to pay for certificates or pay (in time and executable c
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by oofoe 6y ago
The lack of fingerprinting information is, in itself, a data point.
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by oofoe 6y ago
After using REBOL, I found the "standard" GUI functionality in Python for creating interfaces so unhappy I used pyPEG to write a DSL parser that would turn REBOL-style interface descriptions into introspective wxPython GUI's.
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by oofoe 6y ago
A friend of mine described this as "exploring the endless possibilities or endlessly exploring the possibilities"...
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by oofoe 6y ago
REBOL 3 has been open sourced, at least to some extent: http://github.com/carls/R3A110 As usual with this kind of conversion there were things they couldn't open source or otherwise include. The biggest problem (f
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by oofoe 6y ago
Also, if you're interested in that sort of thing, the book "From Dits to Bits" by Herman Lukoff is a good read from an engineer in the trenches. Seems that it's now available on the Internet Archive: https://o
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by oofoe 7y ago
If you don't already know about it, you might be interested in "From Dits to Bits", the autobiography of Herman Lukoff, an engineer who worked with Eckert and Mauchly. It's hard to find these days, but a competent unive
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by oofoe 7y ago
STRETCH also makes an appearance in one of the classic Alfred Bester (the writer, not the telepath) short stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Up_There_Likes_Me Well worth a read if you can find it -- the W
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by oofoe 7y ago
Yes. Used it in a production paint program I ported from Ikonas to SGI 4D+ machines. It worked completely as advertised. I started out just using it to read a settings file. But then I realized that I could use the REPL to change the settin
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by oofoe 7y ago
Actually, if you want to go back even further... Jef Raskin of Mac fame created a programming language called FLOW in 1971 for teaching computer programming to humanities students. It's a cute little language (you definitely wouldn&#x2
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by oofoe 8y ago
Actually, the old Forth block editors did this with their screens and shadow-screens. The normal unit of editing work in original Forth was a 1024 byte "page" called a SCREEN. You would write your code in an editor that arranged i
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by oofoe 8y ago
As someone who just retired a fairly interesting piece of software that had been running for 20 years (not immortal, but not too bad), I have a few thoughts: 1) Have standards that don't change appreciably. I first wrote the system in
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by oofoe 8y ago
The biggest problem I have about not getting an offline copy is that he makes it clear that if the book does not perform to his expectations, then he will take it down. So, even if I pay for this wonderful book (and it /is/ wonder
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by oofoe 8y ago
I'm not sure which is more expensive in the long run... When I was getting my license, I asked another pilot how much money it would take.... "All of it."
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by oofoe 9y ago
I was in a similar situation in college. What helped me was to do /every/ problem in the homework and check them -- many math books will provide answers to even or odd numbered questions. It sounds like a drag (and it was), but I
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by oofoe 9y ago
I'm worried that the "gully of poverty" will be crossed over the bodies of the surplus citizenry.
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by oofoe 9y ago
Check out the REBOL examples on Rosetta code. I'm very fond of the "percent of image difference" one -- it's not large, but shows off some of the nice features like image handling and the fantastic REBOL GUI dialect. (Ye
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by oofoe 10y ago
I can't answer for QuantumAphid, but I have used REBOL (v2) extensively for graphics post-production utilities for my old studio. It was the only way that I could provide programming services for all the departments I had to support. O

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