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Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?(slashdot.org)
82 points by theodpHN 2y ago|108 comments
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by theodpHN 2y ago
A quick search reveals Living Books titles are being offered as iOS/Android apps. A free sampler is available at https://wanderfulstorybooks.com/wanderful_story_book_sampler
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Back in the day (1993!), my 3-year-old loved the delightful Living Books collection software. The interactive CD-ROMs came bundled with paperback versions of the simple books they animated, which were written by popular children's auth
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Also expressing concerns about the selection of suitable languages for novice programming is King's College CS Prof Michael Kölling, who explains, "One of the drivers is the perceived usefulness of the language in a real-world con
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by theodpHN 2y ago
A 'Traveling Santa Tour' Through U.S. Capital Cities https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Fun-With-SAS-ODS...
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by theodpHN 2y ago
GIF Xmas Tree, GIF Xmas Tree... https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-with...
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Damped Oscillation Xmas Tree https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-With...
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Genius vs. Wikipedia: Who explains it better? https://genius.com/816206 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_E...
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Dr. Donald Bitzer on the Phil Donahue Show (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch/k8Ovbmql8wI (29 years later) Watch Steve Jobs announce the original iPad in 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch/eZ87BR
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by theodpHN 2y ago
"Bublé Sort" (2016) https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-With...
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Long before Python and Java, there was $49.95 Turbo Pascal for DOS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
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by theodpHN 2y ago
So, the question is: Would there be fewer or more errors if something other than Excel was used? Has much rigorous research been done on this?
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Bad as they could be back in the day, what would enterprise-wide Y2K remediation projects have looked like with Agile, Jira, Cloud, DevOps, Open-Source packages/dependencies, and today's compliance/risk/audit requirement
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Yes, it's very convenient to be able to use SQL with your massively parallel commercial database (Oracle, Snowflake, etc.) and then again with the results sets (Pandas, etc.). Interestingly, it's a concept that was implemented 35
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by theodpHN 2y ago
What you've come up with looks helpful (and may have other applications as someone else noted), but you know what also makes on-call suck less? Getting paid for it, in $ and/or generous comp time. :-) https://betterstac
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Christie's Likens Microsoft's Work on MS-DOS to Einstein's Work in Physics(slashdot.org)
2 points by theodpHN 2y ago|0 comments
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Thanks, that is a great site! Will have to look at more, but looking at examples like the following, I'm not having a Lisp Aha! moment when I compare the Lisp and Julia/Python implementations, e.g., Cheryl's birthday https:&
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Got a link to fairly simple examples comparing Lisp solutions to those in another more 'mainstream' language (e.g., C, Python, BASIC, Java) that illustrate the benefits of using Lisp over another language for a 'practical&#x2
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Microsoft: Sorry Kids, Free LLM AI is for Teachers! https://slashdot.org/submission/17320965/microsoft-sorry-kid... "Today, we announced a new partnership with Khan Academy to help turn the promise of AI in e
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Nice. Brings back memories of playing Capture the Flag at night at Warren Dunes State Park long ago as a Boy Scout. A quick Google search shows kids are still doing that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Dunes_State
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by theodpHN 2y ago
Wonder if this has gotten worse as music listening has become more of a private thing (solitary ipod/iphone listening). prior to that, i think many parents (myself included) found themselves exposed to lots of new music simply because
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by theodpHN 3y ago
If you looked at Windows applications programming pre-VB, I'd argue Visual Basic represented a 'Fosbury Flop' of sorts (concepts live on, if not the product). :-) Something Pretty Right: a History of Visual Basic https:&#x2F
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Got any picks for past, present, or future 'Fosbury Flops' of programming languages (which could use a game-changing technique!)? And no, language-X-on-ChatGPT doesn't count! :-)
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Check out: DeckGL https://panel.holoviz.org/reference/panes/DeckGL.html ipysigma https://github.com/medialab/ipysigma
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the most declarative dataviz programming language of all? :-) *** SAS SCATTER MATRIX EXAMPLE *** proc sgscatter data=sashelp.cars; matrix Horsepower Acceleration Miles_per_Gallon / group=Origi
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6duQhWuVk General Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdyb-RWNKo Class Action Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Really? Windows Phone Ad (2010): "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-X0p-79SjY
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Congressional Black Caucus Asks EEOC for Workforce Data Tech Promised to Provide(slashdot.org)
1 points by theodpHN 3y ago|0 comments
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Long before Slack, there was TSO SEND. :-) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-for-zos/3.1.1?topic=mes...
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by theodpHN 3y ago
1998 article with quotes from Jim Goodnight, CEO of analytics software company SAS: One big difference is that Goodnight and most of his staff work a 35-hour week. "We want people to go home and be with their families," he says. &

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