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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare. It has both. We pay a lot and get less for it on average than other nations. It's done a few things better, like allowing newer cancer treatments, but that&#
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by tabtab 7y ago
Until it all runs out, I'd rather start with a situation where I have health insurances versus a situation where I don't. In other words, I'd rather try to escape the encroaching fire in a Toyota than a Yugo.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Many in the US have no healthcare insurance, or watered-down plans, recently permitted by GOP.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Because it was the right tool at the right time when the web was new and growing rapidly. VB-Classic was similar: it allowed building GUI's with a small learning curve when the alternatives were esoteric and muddled, and thus spread li
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by tabtab 7y ago
Attributes are usually easier to share than functions and algorithms. That's why I suggest using "data dictionaries" nearby. Most common CRUD idioms are readily attribute-able such that we don't need Turing Complete sub-
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by tabtab 7y ago
Rather than rely on SQL, why not put the common info in tables? A "data dictionary" (DD). If tools can extract or sync that up to the actual schema, that's a great bonus, but is not a prerequisite. Using things POC annotation
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by tabtab 7y ago
Calling it "corona crisis" is an attempt to get the debt crooks off the hook. After 9/11 and the Great Recession, we should know better and prepare for bleep happening rather than run up debt in order to brag about the econom
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by tabtab 7y ago
I agree. We were overdue for a correction, based on more than a century of stock & economic patterns. Something was gonna knock it down eventually. The longer a bull market goes on, the more fragile it becomes, like an over-inflated bal
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by tabtab 7y ago
This article has only one real tip: create a high school programming contest for it. The rest is evangelizing a specific language itself, which I won't mention to avoid fueling the gimmick. I think we've been had. In general progr
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by tabtab 7y ago
If you can query the monitor's size and/or preference, you can adjust as needed. Just because many applications didn't doesn't mean they can't. Most web-based apps get it wrong also. One-markup-fits-all is very diff
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by tabtab 7y ago
The problem with RAD has been that it makes the first 80% easy, but the last 20% a bear. You don't get enough control to give the customer what they really want and need. I've kicked around the idea of "staged rendering"
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by tabtab 7y ago
Developers loved Flash: you controlled the layout, not some greedy browser vendor and their screwy CSS anti-rules, and Flash had a lot of interactive options that have be emulated in HTML browsers using ugly work-arounds. Flash just wasn&#x
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by tabtab 7y ago
I don't see interactivity as part of the standard. It's all static as far as I can tell. There are language-specific API's, but that defeats much of the purpose of a markup language: you have to use two languages: the XML, an
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by tabtab 7y ago
I've ranted many times that an open desktop-friendly GUI markup standard is sorely needed. Using HTML/DOM/JS/CSS to emulate real desktops keeps failing in practice and is an IT labor drain. Tens of $billions are wasted.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Undertaker: people are dying to get in :-) No matter how bad things get, you'll have a job.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Kind of reminds me of "factor tables", AKA, "fuzzy query-by-example": https://github.com/RowColz/AI
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by tabtab 7y ago
I always wanted a "demo engine" whereby one feeds in the melody and chord name, and then a style(s). The AI would then use pattern matching to make a fuller score in the chosen style(s). The output could be midi and/or an aud
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by tabtab 7y ago
I made a 2D game in 3 KB of JavaScript. Not quite as impressive I suppose.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Just because the main ingredient is kerosene doesn't necessarily mean that's all that's needed to make the equivalent. I wonder how hard it would be to duplicate the formula if one had a spectral analyzer. Study the plots,
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by tabtab 7y ago
They way null strings are dealt with under default functions and operators has been a huge industrial mistake. It creates code bloat and mistakes that otherwise would be rare. Oracle mostly got it right. And in general, "x <> 5&q
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: you claimed that Lisp programmers can not work in software teams over a long period I meant for "general" programming. I apologize for not wording it clearer earlier. Re: There are also a bunch of examples where Lisp was us
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: Interestingly, though, this policy shows how quickly socialism turns into authoritarianism. That's a slippery-slope fallacy. Anything can "slip" further. If you claim X is more slippery than Y, you need to provide solid
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by tabtab 7y ago
I don't dispute it has niches where it does well, or at least "works". The implication often given is general purpose productivity superiority.
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by tabtab 7y ago
I've heard this "mass productivity" claim from Lisp fans multiple times before, and am skeptical. Lisp has been around for about 60-ish years, yet no software house has been able to conquer the software market using it. It do
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by tabtab 7y ago
It was worded as speculation. It's not illegal to speculate if its stated as such.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Somebody nearby mentioned that if it could (optionally) use a native OS file picker, then that problem might go away or be reduced, assuming one can control the viewing mode to switch the native one to show thumbnails.
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by tabtab 7y ago
I wish someone would build a GUI markup language and "browser" based on GTK. We need an interactive markup language for GUI's and GUI-centric behavior. Forcing "the web" to act like a desktop takes way too many laye
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by tabtab 7y ago
Woz is a known prankster. Take with a grain of salt. Pranks are how he and S. Jobs got to know each other well. My favorite of theirs is a box to mess with the college TV's reception. Students in the TV room were used to fiddling with
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by tabtab 7y ago
Sure: "The cloud doesn't solve common IT problems, only shifts them around, and makes some problems worse, such as more vendor-dependency. If you hire amateurs, you get amateurish results. Renting cloud-based amateurs has all the
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by tabtab 7y ago
Everything I've seen so far either has a huge learning curve to do right/well, breaks over time, or both. If there is a product out there that solves these, that would be nice. I'm skeptical, but I'll ask around...

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