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by oofoe 10y ago
In Herman Lukoff's autobiography "From Dits to Bits", he describes building a radio where he surface mounted the components to the glass envelope of the vacuum tube. I believe that he constructed it before World War II. Tradi
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HP Journal Online(hpl.hp.com)
2 points by oofoe 10y ago|0 comments
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by oofoe 10y ago
There was a short story, which appeared in one of the HP calculator-centric publications of the 70's or 80's, I think written by a certain George R.R. Martin or Gordon Dickson, which attempted to extrapolate the HP 41CX into a por
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by oofoe 10y ago
For what it's worth, just being able to chain the calls makes this worthwhile. Thanks for making the effort and taking the time to release it!
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by oofoe 11y ago
Another possibility might be to use multiple solid state laser transmitter/receiver pairs located close together, kind of like ink-jet printer nozzles. Because they're discreet, you would lose some resolution compared to a continu
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by oofoe 11y ago
This was a good article about the realities of deploying an overcomplicated and fragile system from the political and practical point of view. BTW, after reading the article, make sure you catch the author's byline at the bottom...
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by oofoe 11y ago
The traditional FORTH "overlay" is to use FORGET. You create a dummy word to serve as a marker, like ": OVERLAY ;" or something, then later, you can "FORGET OVERLAY" and load in new code to replace it. This onl
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Computers by the Millions – Jef Raskin – 1980(www-sul.stanford.edu)
4 points by oofoe 12y ago|1 comments
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by oofoe 13y ago
It sounds like the previous commenter is just getting the groceries themselves because the ASDA is so close by.
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by oofoe 13y ago
For what it's worth, in my opinion, if you need more than an 80 character line in Python, you're doing it wrong. I currently maintain a large Python codebase where the original authors /needed/ big long lines. Anytime I
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by oofoe 13y ago
Well, I did say "maybe"... I guess what I was trying to get at is that before I would enthusiastically recommend their products to other people. Now I don't use them, so I never mention them to anyone. I don't seem to have a problem using s
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by oofoe 13y ago
The big problem for me (and maybe Piriform?) is that now I don't have any of their products on my systems because I can't get them through Ninite. I used to religiously install their CCleaner, their defrag and system information tools. They
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by oofoe 14y ago
Is it possible that because it's so expensive, you could make it yourself for a much better return on investment? Is it so expensive that you could burn out three cheap laser printers a month for a fraction of the cost? What if it was one m
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by oofoe 14y ago
Nor should they. Up to the 3DS, I could play games from anywhere (I like Japanese games a lot). I have happily purchased three different generations of Nintendo portable machines and the software to go with them. I have not purchased the 3D
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by oofoe 14y ago
Try this: The more a company grows, the more efficiently dysfunctional it becomes...
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by oofoe 15y ago
A lot of people here seem to think that complaining about a five to six second start time is just whining. I believe you're wrong -- it is a legitimate and valid complaint and here's why: Most software can't run for very long. A lot of high
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by oofoe 15y ago
While it is true that NewLisp isn't going to win any awards from either the Avant /or/ the Vieille Garde, I would argue that just because its philosophy is different from what you believe is most performant doesn't make it a bad language. R
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by oofoe 15y ago
Apparently one of the guys involved in early Air Force space suit research had lost an eye in an accident (no, not Yeager, can't remember the name right off). It created a bit of a stir when they tested him post-accident and discovered that
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by oofoe 16y ago
Sorry, small clarification: Houdini is actually descended from the PRISMS package developed by Omnibus Computer Graphics (one of the very first CGI studios (and actually still in business in Japan!)). SideFX (started by two of the original
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by oofoe 16y ago
Three words... "substantial non-infringing use". Very nice.
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by oofoe 16y ago
For what it's worth, I interviewed with them shortly after their acquisition by Sony. The gentleman I talked to told me that Sony corporate had dictated that they give up GOAL for C++ so that their code would be interoperable with the rest
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by oofoe 16y ago
Perhaps the poor could also furnish infants for the rich man's table? I see that the spirit of Swift is alive and well...
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by oofoe 16y ago
Required reading: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf More on this page: http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp Yes, the web page colour scheme is /terrible/, but it may save you a great deal of time, trouble and perhaps your sanity. Thi
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The Emacs Multimedia System(gnu.org)
6 points by oofoe 16y ago|0 comments
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by oofoe 16y ago
Should I be worried about how many of these I actually own? By the way, I think the one in the Royal McBee advert is the predecessor to the machine immortalized by the immortal programmer's programmer in the pseudo-poem "The Story of Mel".
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by oofoe 16y ago
The biggest problem with Libre Office is that they have fixed passwords in the the spreadsheets (as in if one is set on the Excel spreadsheet, LO will respect it and demand it before you can make changes). Unfortunately, that means that I c
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by oofoe 16y ago
Please check out the Ben Nanonote -- this is just the sort of thing that it might be good for. I know that some kind of inform interpreter has been ported for it, but a nice little adventure client could be very spiffy! Project page: http:
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by oofoe 16y ago
A while back, I wrote a very small Python HTML rendering library that gives some of the benefits of this notation while still being Python source code. You _may_ find it interesting if this is the sort of thing you find interesting... http
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by oofoe 16y ago
This reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story about Picasso and a carpenter. He had called in a carpenter to build a bookshelf. After sketching out the design, he handed the sketch to the carpenter and asked how much it would cost to bui
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by oofoe 16y ago
Can I ask what you're using to do the parsing? Or did you write your own? This is definitely the kind of thing that I could see doing with REBOL's parse operator, but Python doesn't (seem to) come with such a tool built in. Thanks!

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