CarlRJ

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by CarlRJ 6y ago
It's enjoyable to think everyone spoke like that at the time, but I suspect their spoken language was more pedestrian (though it would be quite odd to our ears). These days it's written language that is pedestrian (especially with
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see what develops.
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Blue! No, YELLLLLLOOoooooowwwwwwww!
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
If two friends both had that policy, it'd be a standoff. They'd never get to talk on the phone.
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Of course, by that standard, someone with an iPad with a keyboard attached (the ones that are part of a case/cover) could just as easily consider their keyboard "permanent".
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Counter-counterpoint would be, Apple becomes a customer of the API, and then someone else (Google, Facebook, whoever) buys Dark Sky and Apple has to scramble. I'm bitter too, I build my own local/remote weather station at home (se
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
> Apple has a monopoly on the channel to deliver iOS apps. That's only a monopoly in the same sense that McDonalds has a monopoly on Big Macs. It's within their own ecosystem. Customers can decide whether they want to buy into
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Luxury. We just had one bit and we could only turn it on and off. And it was a timesharing system, so you had to share that one bit with 13 other programmers.
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
I did my Fortran in high school on punched cards, because the small timesharing system we had (a Cromemco Z80-based S-100 bus machine with a handful of terminals) had a habit of crashing and eating files - but it couldn't eat cards. We
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
macOS (neé OS X) is actually more Unix than Linux, as it is certified.
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
Lately I've been streaming a couple different classical stations (KUSC and KPBS Classical, which is a feed from Classical 24), and I get push notifications from several different local news apps when the city and county start their dai
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
My first language was Basic (first on an HP-2000 timesharing system and then on the Apple II), but my second language was 6502 assembly, something for which I will be forever grateful - with the groundwork laid by assembly, C was a wonderfu
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by CarlRJ 6y ago
For a humorous taste of a limited language, without venturing outside of English, Randall Munroe (the XKCD guy) has a book called, "Thing Explainer", that's a sort of encyclopedia written using only the 1,000 most common word
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Vim
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
"That's no moon..."
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
No, that was a network, but it was very much not the Internet. Different technologies. Per Wikipedia, "The Internet (portmanteau of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Intern
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Before the Internet there was Usenet and a world-wide network network of machines connected together via UUCP, doing email and such over point-to-point dialup (modem) links. Sending mail was a matter of knowing a complete path through the n
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
I recall that being his response to Dropbox (if I recall correctly Apple made a pitch for buying them and they said "no").
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
That's it, we're going back to core memory.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
That's not their reason for discontinuing it though - there's no reason for them to sell the 3, 4, and 5. Probably retooled the 4's assembly line to make 5's.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Vi(m) favors “easy to use” over “easy to learn” - which is the right tradeoff for a tool that one can use for hours a day for decades. Though I always liked the line, “Vi is user-friendly - it’s just picky about who its friends are”. (BTW
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
IIRC, the Pencil 2 requires different (and likely more expensive) support in the screen, as well as docking to the side of the iPad and charging magnetically - both of which raise the costs for the iPad. And then the lower cost models would
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
And yet... someone trying to “sell” me a language while seemingly refusing to show me any code samples feels like someone trying to sell me a car based entirely on a spec sheet with no pictures and without actually seeing, touching or exper
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Need to age a few of the drives by a hundred hours before putting them in the set.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
> Though, and at risk of re-igniting old flamewars, I always preferred vi to emacs even despite having a fondness for LISP. That's because vi is a better text editor (as the old saw goes, emacs is a nice OS, but it lacks a decent te
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
> I can't think of any reason I would want half my list indexes to be wrong in my source file. Agreed. The bit about "oh, well, it fixes mistakes if you rearrange items" falls in the astonishing (in a bad way) camp far too
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
To be fair, his use case was/is for writing very simple things (blurbs on his blog), that simply don't get into painful corner cases. It's a simple tool that works great - for simple things. It can fail hard on more strenuous
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Hitting far above its weight in this category is autocorrect (my wife took to calling it autocarrot in a small act of rebellion), which "helpfully" corrects millions of painstakingly correctly-spelled obscure words into completely

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