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by tabtab 4y ago
I remember that the early CPM edition of WordStar didn't have an interactive spell-checker, but you could run it in batch mode and get a report. One way to implement that is to store say a paragraph or more of your document at a time i
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by tabtab 4y ago
It's partially here already: my Ford breaks down when I skip a payment. Then again, it breaks down when I pay also.
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by tabtab 4y ago
We wanted Commander Data, instead we got HAL and Bender's love-child.
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by tabtab 4y ago
I enjoy new stuff, even cheesy Autotuned pop, but I'm less likely to actively hunt for new things. Maybe priorities change. I do hunt around other genres a bit more, such as classical and eastern.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Maybe after time we find enough favorites that we can live with the existing pool rather than hunt for yet more. After you collect say 20k favorites, you won't hear any one of them often enough to become stale.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Indeed. "Ends justify the means" is one of the biggest mis-rationalizations used by people in power. "We have to be devious to protect our people, culture, religion, system, etc." Often with a dose of "the other sid
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by tabtab 4y ago
AI and tables? Factor Tables! https://github.com/RowColz/AI
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by tabtab 4y ago
UK invented the Ministry of Silly Walks, so why not the Ministry of Silly Internet Regulation?
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by tabtab 4y ago
And idiots.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Rich people will find a way to use and experiment with this. They'll do it on a private island if they have to. Then dictators will be tempted to "build" better workers and soldiers to get an edge on "those pesky democ
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by tabtab 4y ago
Aren't some of the newer TLDN's pretty good alternatives, such as ".shop", ".store", ".social", ".insurance", ".save", ".software", ".search", ".game"
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by tabtab 4y ago
That's Iwei robbery!
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by tabtab 4y ago
It's not intended to replace a bank. For one, bank-related regulations that protect consumers are missing from PayPal. It's best used for buying random nick-nacks, and never keep more than a couple hundred in your PayPal account.
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by tabtab 4y ago
China stole Microsoft's and IBM's (70's) near-oligopoly playbook: forced bundling, FUD'ing customers (scare them away from competitors), and subsidizing new products until smaller competitors fall. I suppose the "ro
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by tabtab 4y ago
It's possible to make a full-fledged GUI using just monospace (such as console characters), minus icons. It's one possibility for making cross-platform mouse-friendly system management consoles. It won't necessarily be esthet
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by tabtab 4y ago
Fundamentalists are probably down there now trying to squish them out. "Blasphemy, fish can't walk!"
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by tabtab 4y ago
Hanging out at the corner or mall also has risks. It's diminishing returns to try to rid every risk to minors, and they'll probably rebel anyhow and sneak off; it's what adolescents do. That being said, I do expect reasonable
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by tabtab 4y ago
Was it anything like the "Don Years" in the Whitehouse? I swear the guy has ADHD or something very similar. Almost everyone who ever worked for him and talked has stories.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Indeed! I'm not saying women are necessarily better at desk work, only that those who did it before have the necessary experience and office habits. But most got fired after the change-over.
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by tabtab 4y ago
It indeed amazes me how screwed up the big dogs' web apps are. The web & phone version of MS-Outlook was notorious for about 2 years. They did gradually mostly fix it, but it was a painful journey. The limits of current web standa
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by tabtab 4y ago
> This idea that you avoid creating a dependency mess by writing more of your own work, isn't the entire truth. The dependency is just internal The point is that it's better to depend on something simple and quickly fixable tha
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by tabtab 4y ago
It hinges on "loosely coupled", which is also a problematic definition. Almost nobody with experience intentionally makes something "tightly coupled" without cause, and coupling often depends on one's view or estima
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by tabtab 4y ago
Excellent, I'm not alone in feeling something is missing from the industry. I'm in the early stages of a proof-of-concept using MS-WinForms to write a GUI browser. Nothing special about WinForms, I'm just somewhat more famili
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by tabtab 4y ago
As an amateur artist myself, I've often fudged shadows and shading to emphasize or de-emphasize certain things. Often I'll make slight "token shadows" to at least have enough to say "here it is" if somebody fas
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by tabtab 4y ago
> your far more likely to die by not shipping things early than by having to refactor occasionally. Know your org. A startup has very different priorities than a bank, for example. Small projects need different conventions than big proje
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by tabtab 4y ago
> Frameworks and plug-ins exist to allow this to be all plug and play Too many are buggy and/or poorly documented and take lots of trial and error to get working as intended. And you create a dependency mess by including lots of plu
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by tabtab 4y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The main reason we need bloated convoluted web frameworks with giant learning curves and a jillion gotcha's is because businesses want desktop-like GUI's and HTML/DOM/
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by tabtab 4y ago
xBASE (dBASE derivatives). I did lots of "table oriented programming" experiments with it. It's essentially a semi-relational "tabular scripting language" with lots of meta ability so tables can be used to generate
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Is “microservice” too watered down to be a useful term?
3 points by tabtab 4y ago|2 comments
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by tabtab 4y ago
The big companies with deep pockets do, because they weaponize them against smaller companies that threaten their turf. While there are some legitimate software patents, the vast majority are junk (trivial, obvious, overly vague, etc.) The

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