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   by vram22 6y ago

   Right, good point. It has also been discussed on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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   by vram22 6y ago

   There are many cool / useful less-known utilities in GNU / Linux. Check man7.org for good, though brief info on many of them. I had explored many of them a while ago. Maintained by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming
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   by vram22 6y ago

   >pretty useless Your opinion. Even the micros of the 70's, not just 80's, were useful. Not just for fun. Even for work. Just do some Googling. And check out recent HN thread about Don Lancaster's sites and work, for just
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   by vram22 6y ago

   Ha ha, Lissajous curves. I first discovered them in a math book, early on, in a phase when I had a craze for computer graphics programming. Plotted conics, sine and cosine, Lissajous, derived curves of all kinds, independently discovered an
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   by vram22 6y ago

   Did all that, before your reply, BTW.
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   by vram22 6y ago

   I agree about the nostalgia, and will also add (differing), that at least in some ways, those were more fun times ... because the overhead of all this modern complexity (although it sure does confer greater features and power), does kill o
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   by vram22 6y ago

   You are probably right. I first wrote "many", then edited it to say "some", in the interest of accuracy, since I had only used a few kinds myself, and did not know if all the others supported that feature or not :)
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   by vram22 6y ago

   >Asia Yes. Large parts of North and Central India eat wheat a lot, as chapati, roti, paratha, naan, bhatoora, poori, daliya (broken wheat), rava (semolina), etc. Even in South India a good amount of wheat is eaten as rava (rava upma and
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   by vram22 6y ago

   Actually, some microcomputers (apart from bare board micros) had the option to use a TV as a monitor in the early days.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    I had checked out F# for a while, some time earlier. IIRC, it has some features like that, for encoding business logic in code/types. Probably some other languages do too. I had mainly used Scott Wlaschin's site F# for Fun and Pro
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    by vram22 6y ago

    That was the name I think I read about for the big stein. Didn't know the other stuff. Sehr gut, danke :)
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    by vram22 6y ago

    And 1 liter steins, I've read. IIRC there is a German name for them.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    This is one: Music video: Sitar - Vilayat khan - Rarely Heard Ragas: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya...
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    by vram22 6y ago

    I have not looked at your [1] or [2], but I seem to vaguely remember that either a PG book On Lisp or ANSI Common Lisp (wordplay accidental but retained about the "On", heh) or a Peter Norvig book (one of his two main ones) has a
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Inertia and/or lack of knowledge, likely. There are colleges in India which even today use Turbo C (maybe v2.0) as the tool to teach C, for example, even though there are things like Bloodshed Dev-C++ and GCC - GCC even on Windows via
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Thanks for the detailed answers, though I am not the one who asked.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    I too loved programming on the 6502 processor. I did a fair amount of assembly language programming on micros that had it, like the BBC micro and Commodore 64, very early, when learning programming. I liked its instruction set, with all tho
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Is a testament to its huge success, I'd say.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Yes, that's probably part of the reason - apart from a fad-of-the-month kind of thing, and also due to genuine interest in the topics.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Will check,thanks.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Has any one else noticed that programming-language-topic threads on HN seem to come in batches, sometimes? I'm not complaining. I like it, since I am a language fan, though not an implementer or lawyer. I have seen this phenomenon at
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Innovative idea :) Could be extended to buying and sharing multiple sets of parts for multiple products.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Stopping at "a Linux dev" would still be meaningful. Coz we are (aliens), in the quantitative sense.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Yes, seems sort of non-orthogonal.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Thanks.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    > a somewhat lower-level than Pascal in some not-necessarily negative ways). Meant "a somewhat lower-level language than Pascal" Early on, I read in some book or mag that "C is a version of Pascal that is not afraid to g
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    by vram22 6y ago

    I did a fair amount of hobbyist programming on the Commodore 64 and BBC micros in their respective BASIC dialects and 6502 assembly language, and loved it. Only a bit later did I get to know of higher-level languages like Pascal and then C
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Got it, thanks.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Thank you.
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    by vram22 6y ago

    Right. Forgot to mention that earlier. IIRC, two key useful features missing were the ability to import and use third-party components[1], and any built-in database-aware controls functionality[2]. They stripped out those two for the two Ex