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by ralphc 2y ago
I'm of a similar vintage, and I found debuggers valuable when I was debugging Windows 3x and 9x programs, C or MFC C++. You needed to get in to the data structures in memory sometimes, and Microsoft made good debuggers at the time. Mod
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by ralphc 2y ago
I don't know if it's innate but it's what we have. Lisp has been around about as long as programming, it's had plenty of time to catch on, it hasn't. Maybe innate, maybe it's an offshoot of teaching math in an
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by ralphc 2y ago
If the "job" is to make lots and lots of software, even if most of it is mediocre, then the best tool is what will enable millions of mediocre developers to develop, not just thousands of elite developers.
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by ralphc 2y ago
The only way it would have "benefited" would be that the web would only be developed by lisp programmers. To the vast majority of programmers, syntax matters. C-style with brackets, or python whitespace, or Ruby do/end, these
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by ralphc 2y ago
Did you have to put up a credit card for it?
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by ralphc 2y ago
Do you think something like this would work for a non-profit? Do you host it yourself, what database is used? I've done some work for a homeless advocacy group that uses Salesforce, it keeps track of donors as well as information on cl
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by ralphc 2y ago
I have a chumby one, it can be an alarm clock standalone, and you can ssh into it if you put it in developer mode. Someone has bought the chumby domain and runs a service for it, if you subscribe you can get a bunch of apps that run on it.
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by ralphc 2y ago
According to everymac.com it has a serial port but macs had odd port shapes that need a special cable.
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by ralphc 2y ago
I’m envious, reading EGB in the ‘70s is what put me on the path of computer science. I may yet try copycat or other creative analogy project in Elixir. I have the time, I’m retired :)
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by ralphc 2y ago
I’m sticking with Elixir for now. I fancy myself a Lisp/Smalltalk style hacker&painter and like dynamic typing and macros, my current project uses Elixir and I’ve invested too much time & book money in Elixir.
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by ralphc 2y ago
It all did die because of Java, or at least went into hibernation. Common Lisp, true or not, was known as an AI language and died because it was attached to the AI winter. C++ was killed by Java for a lot of business software, including at
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by ralphc 2y ago
What do you consider fads of the 90's? We had object-orientation, of course, Java, it was the beginning of XML.
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by ralphc 2y ago
I keep a notebook of ideas I want to pursue later. A lot of times if you don't write them down they'll be forgotten over the years, unless they're of major importance.
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by ralphc 2y ago
For the most part I'm staying near my field of study, programming, programming languages, theory about programming etc. In that way, just about everything I see I can relate to something I've learned before, I'm in true &quot
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by ralphc 2y ago
This is me. Fortunate to be able to retire at 55, programming my whole life, I love my career even when particular jobs had their issues. So now I work on projects I want to work on, no commute, no 20-person meetings. I'm currently wor
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by ralphc 2y ago
Is using emacs in 2024 based on comfort or is there still not a better alternative in VSCode or a separate IDE?
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by ralphc 2y ago
This actually sounds like a good counter-espionage tool. Feed all you can find about an adversary into a LLM and ask it what the adversary would do in present or hypothetical scenarios. Tweak from differences and you can peer inside their &
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by ralphc 2y ago
Then it would be 5 months.
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by ralphc 2y ago
And let's say that they found their "dream" candidate that knew GWT. Technologies change and improve over time, can you imagine a place that is still using GWT, or jQuery, or backbone? Whoever they hire is going to have to le
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by ralphc 2y ago
That's what I wound up doing at the job I did get, I got hooked up with a recruiting/contracting firm. They got me interviews and then I was a W-2 employee for the contracting firm, got my insurance through them etc. and contracte
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by ralphc 2y ago
I'll throw in my personal example from 2012 when I was laid off. Senior dev, about 30 years experience at the time. A friend knew of an opening somewhere but they wanted GWT experience, I didn't have it so they wouldn't talk
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by ralphc 2y ago
NASCAR fan here. Over the years the measurements of the car have gone from metal templates laying over the car to using lasers, with 1/32 of an inch making a difference.
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by ralphc 2y ago
His tweet is the only mention of this anywhere.
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by ralphc 2y ago
Me, but I found K-pop in my 50s. Add to that Doom Metal & EBM. I also discovered Nu Metal 20 years after the fact. You stop when you want to stop.
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by ralphc 2y ago
What versions of Visicalc can we find in the wild that would have used the IL interpreter?
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by ralphc 2y ago
Look up a couple of comments. From Dan Bricklin himself, "We wrote it in something we called IL, which is a Lisp derivative."
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by ralphc 2y ago
I don't see it mentioned anywhere else. If someone gets a copy of VisiCalc and look at it in a hex editor, are there ways to tell that it's written in a Lisp?
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by ralphc 2y ago
These comments are burying the lede, or burying the (lede). The author said that VisiCalc was written in Lisp and I said "wtf? Then I reread it and said "seriously, wtaf?" I've never heard that before. Was the original A
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by ralphc 2y ago
I dug around in my archives and found this post, someone is running Descent in DOSBox on an XP machine and using two USB joysticks and xpadder to set it up. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments&#x2
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by ralphc 2y ago
THE way to play Descent was with a Spaceball Avenger. I was a beta tester for one, holding it in your hand was like your brain interfacing directly with the ship. Sadly the sensors broke over the years and I'm settling for joysticks.

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