Smalltalker-80

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by Smalltalker-80 18d ago
"Well, you'll never get through the frontline security but you might look for a backdoor."
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by Smalltalker-80 29d ago
Buy a failing, over-hyped, collateral-less company with pension money. F-no!
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by Smalltalker-80 1mo ago
Agreed, that's why I chose to implement a simple ORM for my language's multi-platform database library. It has a mandatory 'id' column, for simple updating and deleting, but table creation and complex queries are done in
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by Smalltalker-80 1mo ago
I agree, but JS has evolved so far, that when using TypeScript, you can mostly ignore the underlying mismatch.
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by Smalltalker-80 1mo ago
SmallJS ( https://small-js.org ) does what you want mostly. In the sense that a standalone desktop app can be made with NW.js.
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by Smalltalker-80 2mo ago
Indeed, they missed the tiny part of creating the actual memory...
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by Smalltalker-80 2mo ago
I declare CSS properties in the order they appear on the page (first), for easy updates.
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by Smalltalker-80 2mo ago
Like the writer I'm also a 'boomer' still keeping connected to an older friend group using Facebook and Instagram. For Facebook, I use the plugin "FB Purity" to filter out the generated cr*p posts and force chronol
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by Smalltalker-80 3mo ago
Yeah, the actual sizes are right there in the pictures, and never < 1 nm.
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by Smalltalker-80 3mo ago
I think the lesson here is that you should always save (backup) your data on storage (services) and never on functional services. And this certainly includes Google, Apple and Microsoft Photos.
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by Smalltalker-80 3mo ago
Totalle agree, I just googled it: "Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto heavily credits Smalltalk as the deepest structural inspiration behind Ruby’s object model. He combined Smalltalk’s beautiful object-oriented architecture and messa
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by Smalltalker-80 3mo ago
Yes, specifically buying options for the book are on this page: (recommended) https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/journals
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by Smalltalker-80 4mo ago
I studied Scheme in CS around 1990, but also found it hard to grasp and to apply to real world problems. And all those parethesis, brrr... :) The idea that "everying is an object and classes are nothing special" is neat, but it do
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by Smalltalker-80 4mo ago
In 1979, I made a program called VisiBase in this BASIC. It's a visual database modeled after VisiCalc. That won me a joystick in at a competition by the local computer store. :-) Still have the source, that works in an Apple 2 emulato
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by Smalltalker-80 4mo ago
Perhaps SmallJS, a Smalltalk built on top of JS, that can run in browsers and in Node.js (and also has async-await :-) : https://small-js.org
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by Smalltalker-80 5mo ago
This announcement terrfies me. I dont think MS now has developers that are competent enough to reliably change core parts of Windows like the Explorer (taskbar). This plan will not only introduce bloat with reduced performance, but will als
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by Smalltalker-80 5mo ago
A was waiting for the part where he slides his little wafer chip into an ASML High NA EUV...
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by Smalltalker-80 5mo ago
I've downloaded the entire thing a while back for nostalgia sake. And I am (of course) the proud owner of a physical copy of the "Smalltalk" issue :-) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
The appeal of having a very simple, base syntax and almost everything in the library / primitives, would be that code is always easy to read and write, also on the 'reflection' level, where most languages have specific keywor
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
I prefer the postcard ;-) https://richardeng.medium.com/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fa...
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
Cool, I'm going to put this disclaimer in my work email signature. So I'm never accountable for any mistakes.
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
I have this stored locally, of course. And re-bought one physical issue from 1981, that defined computer interaction and programming as we know it today. Say my name... :-) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-19
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
I did mean these, very recent promises (vaporware at this moment), without satire. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
Yes, and the hubris sting-of-death was UWP. They tried to make Windows into a mobile OS, severely restricting the alowed actions of programs, including strict certification to be able to run them (elsewhere). Of course nobody went for this
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by Smalltalker-80 6mo ago
Mostly solid scientific work, this ;)
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by Smalltalker-80 7mo ago
Totally agree the only viewing methods in isolation, is less valuable than viewing the methods around it "for free". Indeed the methods in my classes are caryfully ordered, to keep ones that are used together on the source togethe
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by Smalltalker-80 7mo ago
Imo, the problem with the 4-pane browsers are: 1 - The left-most 'package' pane is a flat list. And there are 10K + classes in e.g. Pharo. There are 900+ (!) packages in Pharo, in the pane, so its not easy to scroll through. This
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by Smalltalker-80 7mo ago
Not if they're made by Anthropic...
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by Smalltalker-80 7mo ago
Yep, there's a lot of (continuing) economical damage and still a lot of new immigrants every week. I think some time still needs to pass before Brexit politicians dare to change their stance, now confronted with the results of their ch
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by Smalltalker-80 7mo ago
Agreed. I'm over 50, so I'm 'allowed' to use FB ;-), for those few posts of the last remaining family and friends there. Using FBP, I only see new posts of friends in chronological order. But FB still f*cks you, be

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