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by pmcjones 8y ago
https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm links to a page for each awardee, with a link to their lecture.
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by pmcjones 8y ago
Are you confusing continuations with closures? McCarthy credits Russell with inventing the FUNARG device to achieve lexical scoping.
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by pmcjones 8y ago
> On the internet, the jerks are winning. Arguably, it's not just on the internet. But I try to be optimistic.
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by pmcjones 8y ago
No: Paul Kimpel's emulator is written in Javascript, and runs in the browser (complete with control panel displays).
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by pmcjones 8y ago
Here's the source code, via Paul Kimpel: https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/tree/master...
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by pmcjones 8y ago
For the source code and more: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/
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by pmcjones 8y ago
Or fiddle with the manual choke to find a setting where the engine would sort of idle. Or wish you had a manual choke, when the automatic choke wouldn't go on -- or off.
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by pmcjones 8y ago
When the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics came out, I worked for IBM San Jose Research, then on Cottle Road, and lived in a duplex across the pumpkin field just to the west. I jumped in my car and headed out to buy a copy, searchin
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by pmcjones 8y ago
Except a Thermos bottle instead of a plastic water bottle.
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by pmcjones 8y ago
Sketchpad listing at the Computer History Museum: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903
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by pmcjones 9y ago
I too have scanned all the photographs from my family and my wife's family. The oldest is a tintype of my father's paternal grandparents, circa 1868. The scans are on a RAID 1 NAS, backed up nightly to another RAID 1 NAS, with oth
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by pmcjones 9y ago
I had the good fortune to take the AT&SF El Capitan between Los Angeles and Dodge City at Christmas 1956 (when I was 7). The elegant dining car (run by Fred Harvey) was just one part of an experience I've never forgotten.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
See the ACM's code of ethics, which they are in the process of updating: https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3173016&ftid=1936873&dw... .
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by pmcjones 9y ago
Much less than before.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
The analogy is to nuclear winter (life after a hypothetical nuclear world war) or AI winter (after the fall of the Soviet Union led to decreased military-funded spending on AI).
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by pmcjones 9y ago
Heath includes a chapter "Euclid in Arabia" detailing the various translations from Greek to Arabic.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
Yes, the article later says "(On Voyager 2, because of the broken oscillator, any change in temperature also tweaks the receiver frequency.)"
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by pmcjones 9y ago
Honda has both CarPlay and Android Auto.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
nomorobo.com works well for me (with an AT&T U-verse VOIP line). You need to have the "simultaneous ring" feature, which most mobile phone carriers do not provide.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
I agree that replacing carburetors with electronic fuel injection made a huge improvement. Another step was replacing the distributor and points with electronic ignition. When was the last time anyone replaced a spark plug?
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by pmcjones 9y ago
Apparently there are more projects than proper nouns. This just makes life more interesting.
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by pmcjones 9y ago
The Dream Machine was Taylor's own favorite of this genre.
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by pmcjones 10y ago
(1 -> 0) = 0. In other words, (true implies false) is false.
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by pmcjones 10y ago
Google Fiber had one good side-effect: motivating AT&T to deploy Gigabit fiber in downtown Mountain View -- it's here and it works.
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by pmcjones 10y ago
The Bravo text editor grew out of the second example in his thesis, and was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Its source code is available here: http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Indigo/AltoSource/BRAVO... . St
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by pmcjones 10y ago
I'm writing this on my late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 13", which has become practically an extension of my body. It's lightweight, fast (SSD and decent CPU), and has decent WiFi. But most importantly, I can read text all day lo
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by pmcjones 10y ago
But the "mirror" flattens out the name space hierarchy, so is much more difficult to navigate. So it's not a true mirror.
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by pmcjones 10y ago
See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/software/ .
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by pmcjones 11y ago
In 1968 I was a freshman at U.C. Berkeley with a part-time job at the Computer Center. I had dated since high school, but never had a steady girl friend. I met a young lady who was also a U.C. student and who also worked at the Computer Cen
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by pmcjones 11y ago
There's also an excellent open-source project with an emulator and a lot of software available to run: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500/

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