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by russellallen 12y ago
Given that the racial categories used are American (White/Black/Asian/Latino) I'm guessing this is only or mostly American data. In which case it probably should say so. "Race" is a culturally mediated differen
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by russellallen 13y ago
No, I'm not making that distinction. I'm just saying that text editors and word processors have historically and up to this day been somewhat different beasts written for different audiences with different focuses on their feature
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by russellallen 13y ago
Well Emacs can almost but not quite be everything of course. But this is a pretty common distinction, surely? Words are text, but word processors have historically been focused on preparing documents for printing (or nowdays viewing a visua
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by russellallen 13y ago
I'm a big command line fan, but vi/emac/nano are not word processors. They're text editors. You might be able to get close if you are using them to edit Markdown and running it through Pandoc (especially if you add in a
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by russellallen 13y ago
I'll see if I can do one and send it to you.
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by russellallen 13y ago
Cool! It has Morphic with a snapshot of Squeak which is fair enough but it'd be nice to also include Self[1] which is where Morphic came from and which has I think a nicer implementation[2] of visual programming. [1]: http:/&#x2F
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by russellallen 13y ago
Much of the syntax is similar too: (2 + 4) == 5 ifTrue: [ Transcript show: 'Yay!' ] "Squeak" (2 + 4) == 5 ifTrue: [ 'Yay!' printLine ] "Self"
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by russellallen 13y ago
Yeah, its a fair cop. The website is old and more about people who already know about Self than people who don't. I'll put fixing it on my todo list.
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New release of Self programming language(blog.selflanguage.org)
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by russellallen 13y ago
Self the system still exists - this isn't just archeology. The website is at http://selflanguage.org and the Git sources at http://github.com/russellallen/self The VM compiles on recent OS X and x86 Li
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by russellallen 13y ago
Sometimes I think people could better spend their time on something more useful. Then I realise I'm sitting in front of a web browser browsing Hacker News. :)
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by russellallen 13y ago
I enjoy eating more than I enjoy most other things I do, so saving time by not eating in order to spend more time doing other stuff doesn't really appeal... Oh well. I guess there must be people out there who spend all their time doing
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by russellallen 13y ago
This is an interesting article on this "rule": http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
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by russellallen 13y ago
What does "one space" even mean? Does it mean only one character's width? No, because that varies. Does it mean the same width as all other spaces? No, because as explained above typesetting systems often make the space longe
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by russellallen 13y ago
Many of the early Smalltalk books, including the Blue Book which includes a description of Smalltalk written in Smalltalk, and the Green Book with essays on very early Smalltalk history, can be already downloaded from http://step
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by russellallen 14y ago
A currency which changes in value by around 40% in a 24 hour period is completely useless for the transactions I mostly deal with. We worry about a few percent change over weeks and insist on hedges. Imagine saying to someone - I'll put 10
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by russellallen 14y ago
I think I can blame TED for lending its name and reputation to a process which would inevitably turn up talks like this...
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by russellallen 14y ago
Sure, the film industry is tough to break into. But making a good indie film to get a crack at a studio production (or a crack at a higher budget independent) is very similar to making a startup to become a talent acquisition for example.
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by russellallen 14y ago
There is lot of overlap in how the film industry and the tech industries work - and startups and indie films are a great analogy!
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by russellallen 14y ago
If I want it to be a useful currency, I want it stable and predictable. Otherwise I have to mitigate my currency risk by hedging or taking out forward exchange contracts (assuming that I can find someone prepared to offer that service for b
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by russellallen 14y ago
Large value movements, up or down, are not a good thing.
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by russellallen 14y ago
Dunno what 'dead' means. There are several commercial vendors and several open source versions. The ecosystem is at least stable and probably growing.
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by russellallen 14y ago
We used to see these articles for object orientation. Now we see them for functional. I look forward with bated breath for the next paradigm!
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by russellallen 14y ago
It doesn't matter if bitcoin is high or low against USD. All that matters is stability. It's supposed to be a currency not an investment.
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by russellallen 14y ago
Trained animals is a good metaphor. Not passive objects acted upon but actors. Your example is even cleaner in Self which allows implicit 'self': emptyInto: vessel = (| here | here: place. go: vessel place. vessel add: spil
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by russellallen 14y ago
Australia and the US already have a free trade agreement: http://www.austrade.gov.au/AUSFTA/default.aspx
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by russellallen 14y ago
Write no classes: http://selflanguage.org :)
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by russellallen 14y ago
Another approach to this type of thing worth checking out is Dan Ingall's Lively Kernel http://lively-kernel.org/
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by russellallen 14y ago
Not knowing who Kayak are makes this headline especially interesting. What does it mean to be a kayak of online insurance? Are CoverHound able to right themselves if they capsize? Are they slow and hard to paddle?
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by russellallen 14y ago
It is a collection of writings containing some of the oldest recorded human stories, poetry and philosophy, law, history, and myth. Reading it is no more a waste of time than reading the Iliad or Plato.

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