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by wlindley 3y ago
»> ... "curly braces" ... « Ugh. Braces are "curly" — there are no "square braces" or "round braces." Needlessly redundant and confusion-inducing. Can we please eradicate this circumlocution f
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by wlindley 3y ago
Craftsman is as dead as RCA. Those brands are now just trademarks, names sold to the highest bidder, not the company that built the quality products that the words now lead you into thinking they might still represent. At least "Craft
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by wlindley 3y ago
How fun it would be to receive a Cantor result in which as many elements from the original set as there were have been removed, leaving a set drawn from what you started with which still contains as many elements!
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by wlindley 3y ago
Memories: Being in sixth grade and wondering why the teacher thought it was odd that I was using pencils with "Diazepam HCl" on them.
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by wlindley 3y ago
Gently correcting grammar in a constructive way is constructive. I hope we are all here to learn and help each other succeed.
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by wlindley 3y ago
"Giving." (sigh)
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by wlindley 3y ago
Grammar nitpick: it is "a piece of software" or "a program" or "a software system." You cannot have "one information, one music, one software" -- those words are mass nouns, or can be used as adjectiv
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by wlindley 3y ago
We had that once, in an MSDOS-era program called Javelin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software ): "Unlike models in a spreadsheet, Javelin models are built on objects called variables, not on data in ce
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by wlindley 3y ago
Hey Eric if you're out there, a 20-years-later edition, looking at a few new programs, formats, and protocols would be grand; as would your comments on which of your statements and predictions have held up best and worst over the decad
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by wlindley 3y ago
I drive like this all the time, keeping out of the "fast" lane on the highway with the cruise set at 3mph under the limit. Enya CD playing and life's good.
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by wlindley 3y ago
I do find listening to a southern California speaker say "I was on 'the' 10" is physically stressful, as it expands to "I was on the [part of Interstate Highway] 10 [which is a limited-access highway ['freeway&
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by wlindley 3y ago
I really wish someone could resuscitate Javelin (it "Understands the Arrow of Time" to quote the old ads). Where you can create a variable and define its time period: is it a monthly value, a daily value, a quarterly value, and s
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by wlindley 3y ago
This is why some of us have been saying, for decades, only to use free software. And to base business models on actual services, not the sale of what can be infinitely and effortlessly copied. To the developers: You signed a contract, and n
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by wlindley 3y ago
I might spring for it if the author had a pre-packaged "You want a printed copy? Click here for a pre-set on-demand copy." Trying to figure how to have one printed and bound, for those of us who aren't self-publishers, is a n
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by wlindley 3y ago
Very cool, although it sounded like perhaps going to be about how "Meetup" ('machine' politics) aided and abetted the anti-Trump hate group "Resist" and their domestic terrorists. I somehow expected there to be
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by wlindley 3y ago
I just read them all as "tiny little indistinguishable blob." Too small to see what they are, and other than the smiley-face and a few others, completely devoid of any meaning. Someone sends me an email and all it says is, &quot
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by wlindley 3y ago
Yet again another page that doesn't bother to explain what this has to do with the Radio Corporation of America, or what "RCA" might otherwise stand for. RCA's greatest disaster was Selectavision, but that's not on
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by wlindley 3y ago
The most amazing thing is when you understand that circuit diagram elements like resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors are merely simplified versions of what those parts actually look like.
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by wlindley 3y ago
This also sets the standard for the names of characters. (Parentheses are round) [Brackets are square.] {And braces are 'curly.'} There are no 'round braces' and to say 'curly braces' is redundant.
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by wlindley 3y ago
Isn't Red Hat's position, "You have the freedom to redistribute this code but if you do so, we will sever our relationship with you as a customer of ours, so you won't get any more code." Which might go against
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by wlindley 3y ago
It's amazing how many folks think that maintaining more than a few over the posted speed limit is acceptable, or that driving 52 in a 55 zone, which is what you are supposed to do, is somehow illegal or immoral. What's wrong with
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by wlindley 3y ago
What's the logo for BASIC? for Pascal? for COBOL? for FORTRAN? for C (other than the light blue letter 'C' on the 1970s K&R book)? For that matter, what's the logo for English or French or German (national flags aren
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by wlindley 3y ago
Perhaps the data are commingling true sit-down service with take-out and pickup-at-the-counter service. Does anyone actually tip for take-out, or when you are handed your order at the counter? That would be bizarre... there was no waiter or
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by wlindley 3y ago
Listening to your database — is there a way to create an audio stream so you can actually "listen to" reads (a low hum), writes (tinkling wind chimes), and failed transactions (BANG! CRASH! BOOM!)? That would be a useful ambient s
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by wlindley 3y ago
I learned programming in 1977, age 12, on an RCA VIP (CDP1802 cpu) with 2K RAM, a hex keypad, composite video out (thru an RF modulator) and cassettes. None of that fancy ASCII stuff, and floppy drives were an unimaginable luxury. CHIP-8 w
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by wlindley 3y ago
OP: Why are you reading advertisements as admonishments? Ignore the adverts, problem solved.
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by wlindley 4y ago
Why are folks wailing and gnashing teeth over Mr. Musk buying Twitter, but they still gush like giddy schoolgirls over Tesla, and their "self-driving" vaporware? =confused=
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by wlindley 4y ago
Oh the joys of being a school administrator with a new international student whose birth date is given as 3/7/5.
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by wlindley 4y ago
Ventura was a good program but having to run it under GEM was a drag.
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by wlindley 4y ago
The article is spot-on but does not go far enough. The way to fight back is to decline to interact with, use, or especially pay for anything that actively works against your freedom. In other words, stop hurting yourself! (and paying for t

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