bobbane

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by bobbane 6d ago
As a person whose graduate work in GOFAI in the early 1980's was funded by DARPA, I am somewhat conflicted by choices like this. In 2015, I told my son I would disown him if he went to work for Facebook. Several years later, he told m
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by bobbane 13d ago
I learned to pronounce the V in VC as 'vulture' back in the 1980's.
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by bobbane 6mo ago
I told my son I would disown him if he worked for Facebook, for the reasons stated above. Then he took a contracting gig for Meta. His rationalization was that the project was an ill-specified prototype that would never see the light of da
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by bobbane 7mo ago
Lemons do happen with Apple Silicon. I had a Mac Studio that would kernel panic on a semi-weekly basis. Apple Care put me through the reinstall OS / remove all external devices tap-dance for weeks, insisting that hardware was the last
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by bobbane 7mo ago
LOOPS, on the other hand, is an object-oriented programming environment in Interlisp-D, and one of the predecessors to CLOS.
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by bobbane 1y ago
Only partially. As long as the third-party doctrine is valid in the US, they can claim that they're just integrating data from private companies with existing government records. And those third party companies can, if they choose, te
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by bobbane 6y ago
> ... a practical tip is to eat only those things that people of his grandmother's generation would have recognized as food. So, Lisp?
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by bobbane 6y ago
I worked as part of a distributed team from 1989-1994. I was on the US east coast, one guy was in Ohio, two guys were in California, and two were in Japan. I worked at the end of a Telebit Trailblazer, so I had a 19200 baud link to the int
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by bobbane 6y ago
I'm on the fringes of this project, trying to shake enough free time loose to contribute to coding - I'm still employed beating code into submission for NASA. What we have is access to the source code for the D-machine emulator th
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by bobbane 6y ago
The only good thing about the ST mouse was that you could use it in confined spaces. It was possible to lift the mouse a bit, twist your wrist, and scuff the pointer across the screen - I called it "ballistic mousing". I actually
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by bobbane 6y ago
Any thoughts on applying this article to... programming languages defined by a single portable implementation?
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by bobbane 6y ago
Did not see it mentioned in the article, but I believe Quintus Prolog was the base for Prolog on the Xerox Lisp machine line. They went to the effort of writing special microcode for the unifier, which meant the basically 16-bit 1100 series
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by bobbane 7y ago
A lot of paper in the US ends up in landfills. Paper in a landfill is sequestered carbon, since it basically does not decompose once it’s buried. So, if you subscribe to a dead-tree newspaper, it might be better for the atmosphere to throw
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by bobbane 8y ago
"3 years in SF will not only have been an amazing experience you’ll always remember; they’ll pay dividends for your whole life." I lived in Mountain View in the 1980's, and I have found this to be true. My wife and I left th
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by bobbane 12y ago
I was looking forward to an article about a 3-D printer that created objects out of tungsten.
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by bobbane 13y ago
From 1986-88, I worked for Xerox AI Systems, the group that commercialized Interlisp-D. We(my personal contribution was relatively small) added Common Lisp to the system, along with SEdit, a friendlier-than-DEdit structure editor. Interlis