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by swdunlop 9y ago
My favorite (mis)use of Dosbox was using it to drive Symate for PLC programming. That let me switch to using a Linux netbook instead of dragging a laptop booted in DOS around a factory. My notes from the time: https://sites.goog
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by swdunlop 9y ago
Hopefully, that will change in 16.9.0 with Office for Mac sharing a codebase with Office for Windows: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/office-for-mac-final...
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by swdunlop 9y ago
When I moved to Seattle, the D&D Encounters program was just getting started in the local game stores. That was an excellent way to meet other gamers in the area. That program has evolved into the Adventurers' League, which expan
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by swdunlop 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy_(ISP)
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by swdunlop 9y ago
You need to set expectations. When you are working at home, you are not daycare, dogsitter, handyman or generally at leisure. I have worked at home for eight years now, and my family generally understands this. As someone who now manages a
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by swdunlop 9y ago
No, but it comes with a popular browser?
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by swdunlop 11y ago
That Seattle PI article is from 2011; so if the justice department is still investigating.. They need to hurry the hell up. Also, Washington is only a blue state because of Seattle. It would be a swing state at best. You can see the evid
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by swdunlop 12y ago
> That sounds like it's actually very difficult to support multiple operating systems. As a developer I never, ever want to write any OS-specific code. You may not, but if you want something to work on multiple platforms that someon
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by swdunlop 12y ago
The old way in industrial automation is a float sensor, which is basically a reed switch with some buoyancy on the end. With substances that are corrosive, or where there's a cross contamination concern, you drop down to load cells or
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by swdunlop 12y ago
That's a big improvement, then. The original Surface Pro was awful, with serious problems [1] in the mwifiex driver. I also found its wireless support was unstable when bluetooth was also in use, even in Windows 8, which was the fina
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by swdunlop 12y ago
The README looks interesting, but with zero API documentation, it is just a curiosity; see https://godoc.org/github.com/docker/libchan for how this package looks to GoDoc. Usage information and context is essenti
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by swdunlop 12y ago
Great tool. In Go, I usually write a throwaway_test.go in whatever package I'm hacking on, and use "go test" as my REPL. (With the intent that these experiments and crude checks should become unit tests later, anyway.) For
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by swdunlop 12y ago
Yeah. Anyone who knows Mike knows that he isn't some fictional automaton. The journalist is playing the 90's hollywood hacker card here. All we need now is Mike roller blading and some bad CGI to make it complete.
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by swdunlop 12y ago
I thought the same thing. The journalist is very careful to respect the scammer, "Mr. Smith" but is very eager to dump where Mike lives, what mule fingered him, and the only thing protecting either would be the fact that Mr. Smith
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by swdunlop 13y ago
Interesting. I find it a little comic that plist XML files have become the common language for exchanging syntax definitions between editors, due to TextMate. I wrote a utility to convert these files to/from YAML so it would be friendl
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by swdunlop 13y ago
There's source code, a BSD license and the README describes their rationale right up front. In light of just the superficial information on github, your comment seems hyperbolic. My interest in the project is in something with a desig
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by swdunlop 13y ago
"Hm, maybe better to write an open-source version of Sublime Text?" You mean, like Lime? https://github.com/limetext/lime
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by swdunlop 13y ago
I thought the same when I read the article -- they missed the point of the programmability, and some of the downfall of hypercard (it was an unholy mess to sort out a badly written stack.) Sometimes I wonder if the spiritual successor of h
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by swdunlop 13y ago
That is not a bad thing in a window manager for people wanting an environment with few surprises. Openbox's development has been idle for years, but it where I go every time after I get bored with fighting GNOME3 or E17 on a new Linux
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by swdunlop 13y ago
> Do native apps really use third-party authentication services? That would scare the shit out of me too. I would not underestimate the callousness of someone chasing revenue one or two dollars at a time. I see this all the time in Andr
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by swdunlop 13y ago
And what is the difference between an untrusted application presenting a login webview for your service of choice, and a GUI form doing the same? I must not understand the article.
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by swdunlop 13y ago
Not at all. "Mailpile will download your e-mail from a mail server much like Thunderbird or Mail.app and process it locally." PRISM and other efforts at tracking associations operate at the server and header level, this is not a u
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by swdunlop 13y ago
It would, except that the JVM is short a stack -- Forth really likes having two. A Toy Forth is a great next step after writing a Toy Lisp. It's like exploring an alternate universe, where any sort of abstraction between you and the
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by swdunlop 13y ago
Your blog post has some assertions that are either overbroad ("No type inference.") or just unsupported ("The whole design of GOROOT/GOPATH is completely broken".) Everyone is welcome to their opinion, but it'd
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by swdunlop 13y ago
Very nice.. I've wanted a nontrivial example of a Go webapp -- the ones I write are strictly JSON API's that lurk behind our presentation UI. You can see the actual dependencies used by hitting godoc.org: http://godoc.o
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by swdunlop 13y ago
I have found that fan will run like crazy even with htop showing low CPU usage. It is something about Thunderbolt that seems to produce substantial waste heat, even when it's just a single terminal watching htop. Driving one or two display
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by swdunlop 13y ago
In a much more complex sense, yes. Go's build process starts from various cruft found in Linux, OSX, or Windows, and makes a beeline for its own (more uniform) cruft, where things are uniform enough to build Go's toolchain. It is interesti
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by swdunlop 13y ago
I have a recent Macbook Air 11 and two Thunderbolt Displays that I daisy chain. That lets me keep my telemetry terminals that monitor cluster health, chat and music off to one side while I work on the other display in a full screen iTerm2
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by swdunlop 13y ago
That is the most clear description I've ever seen of local vs global illumination. Thank you.
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by swdunlop 13y ago
"It seems like it's all about saving dev time these days." It has always been about saving engineering time; otherwise, why aren't you handcoding things in assembler? Any reasonable development process involves at least a subconscious deci

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