soapdog

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   by soapdog 7y ago

   I'm 39 years old and books have been an integral part of how I define myself as a human. I grew up with books and they've been a constant presence in my life regardless of what I was doing. It is my personal belief that there is n
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   If you need to send large files to someone, you can use Firefox Send: https://send.firefox.com/ The file is encrypted, the urls are expiring, it costs nothing.
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   The smalltalk IDEs are light years ahead of the rest. Just check Pharo.
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   The documentary linked in the article is really good. I managed to grab a datarover in early 2000s from ebay and had a ton of fun with it but the newton was still my daily driver back then.
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   A Week with the Surface Pro X(andregarzia.com)

   2 points by soapdog 7y ago|0 comments
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   The inca is not a "stone-age" civilization. They arose in the 13th century. They have writing, metal working, amazing agriculture, bureaucracy, road systems, storage, planned cities. They effectively eradicated starvation in the e
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   This is the best video I know about riso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rfwKuXIhcE Olivia from Pindot press makes regular videos on their channel about risos. The one where they make a zine from scratch is really good.
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   For those here who enjoy how ActivityPub allows you to push content and then receive comments back but don't have the mental bandwidth to implement such system for their blog, let me point you to: https://brid.gy/
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   by soapdog 7y ago

   Hi, I am a part of a program at Mozilla called Mozilla Tech Speakers and we help people to become better public speakers. By your message, I'm guessing that public speaking is not your focus buuuut we do have a lot of resources that mi
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    I think you mean s-expressions instead of lisp and if you do, I'm with you. They are really neat and underused. Now, if you want to carry a whole language runtime for the structured data format you'll probably end up with the &quo
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    Hey thanks a ton for all the work in these last 25 years. The account is https://twitter.com/soapdog
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    So a company does a shit move and you want to take it out on kids? Doxing is never the answer. The answer is: stop using products from shit companies.
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    Maybe I chose the wrong word. English is my second language. He just posted an open question on twitter and I answered. There was no hate or discussion. For me it was bittersweet because I was happy to interact, I thought I was contributing
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    I enjoyed a ton of Daves stuff. I've programmer using Frontier. I've used Radio. I've implemented RSS, XML-RPC, and OPML in languages that at the time barelly had a XML parser library. In essence it helped mold me as a develo
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    I did and even though I'm forever in love with both Rebol and Red, Racket does languages in a more fun way and powerful way for my own personal taste. Don't know if you have checked this book out but https://beautifulra
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    thanks for the link
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    does anyone know some software as nice as NNW for Windows 10? It is the kind of thing I miss on my surface...
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    It was created by a sailor who wanted a way to talk to his friends. So the name actually fits.
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    if the author is reading, be aware that `.ss` is used by a lot of Scheme implementations.
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    Hey love the machine! So curious about it. I've built a couple cocktail mixer machines for personal usage in the past and always wanted to build an espresso machine. My main fear was dealing with almost boiling water and pressure, that
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    I totally agree with you that the site needs more work to make these things more discoverable. We don't have a package manager (I built one more than ten years ago, it never got traction and it was very naive) but there are many librar
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    FileMaker Pro is pretty much alive, they have a conference happening in two weeks: https://www.filemaker.com/learning/devcon/ There are many companies using it.
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    LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard(andregarzia.com)

    2 points by soapdog 7y ago|0 comments
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    Hey, I took some time to write a reply to that post showing a modern day alternative: https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp... I posted another comment linking to a modern day HyperCard that
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    you might want to check https://www.livecode.com is is a modern day xtalk, it uses a language and model just like HyperCard but it creates standalones for windows, mac, linux, android and iOS. PS: Disclaimer, I work for them.
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    I always wondered about what people felt regarding Allegro Common Lisp vs LispWorks. Have you used both? Can you share your impressions?
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    But the Airbuses were not grounded right? It is a different thing when they end up grounding all planes of a given model...
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    Hey, I like your list. Now, tell us, from that list, is there a favourite language? Some you'd pick up to write simple tools for your own personal usage...
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    My laptop, a Surface Go, can be charged either with USB C or with the little flimsy microsoft magnetic connector. I like having both options. At home, my surface dock uses that connection so I didn't need to buy new hardware when I upg
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    by soapdog 7y ago

    16 they know about. Giving how fast cats can multiply if unchecked, I expect the actual population to be larger.