briantrice

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by briantrice 11y ago
I have definitely found that electric vehicle companies advertise very sound and realistic figures for their mileage. My personal case is a Zero motorcycle, but I've heard confirmation from owners of other kinds; the range it gets is m
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by briantrice 12y ago
I am a Kinesis Advantage user with ten years' experience, and agree with this. I did buy a pre-made Atreus kit and have been playing with it. For a portable/compact solution, it is a reasonable but not full substitute for a Kinesi
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by briantrice 12y ago
It would be good to tackle multiple-promises-dependencies that the when()/all() protocols achieve, compared to then().
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by briantrice 12y ago
Hum. I hear you. I've tracked demos come and go with their hype and lack of delivery. Are they fads, though, inherently, or because of a lack of cultural and financial support? I like to learn from all of them but have no idea how to m
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by briantrice 12y ago
I've heard of NQP but haven't dug into it. I suppose you could, but I'd estimate the effort as higher than for say Rubinius which has been tracking a Smalltalk model since its inception. Really, an image is just a heap snapsh
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by briantrice 12y ago
Yeah, Fortress had a lot of good ideas that we were looking at. We toyed with a way to render and enter unicode operator characters using angle tag notation a la "<circle-plus>". The whitespace idea is interesting but a litt
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by briantrice 12y ago
A little bit of both; I'll skip unfamiliarity and get to the awkwardness. Smalltalk lexical style makes certain kinds of notational customizations difficult to compose. I want multiple kinds of brackets that could get used for DSLs. Sl
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by briantrice 12y ago
Well, I'd like to explore a link-phase to build images. I think that'd be really quite interesting and might break up the monolith and mix Smalltalk ideas in with Unix as they ought to have.
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by briantrice 12y ago
UI research and development stopped dead in its tracks in the early 90s, and most people who've developed UIs now effectively think a whole class of problems are not solvable or even worth thinking about. XCode's Interface Builder
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by briantrice 12y ago
Damn, that's new to me. He resisted joining github until recently, it seems...
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by briantrice 12y ago
Sure. My email is my username at gmail.
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by briantrice 12y ago
I will say that I'm not done yet; I fully intend to build a practical system that hands the lessons of FoNC to the everyday context. I've learned a lot over the years and tried my best to smooth out my early rough edges. The quest
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by briantrice 12y ago
I was perverted by AutoLISP and CADForth in the very early 90's. By 1995 I was in college and researching on my own, found Self and Squeak and made a rather stupid but fun little lisp that ran on DOS4GW and built a Motif-style Morphic-
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by briantrice 12y ago
Clojure deserves a lot of respect for attacking concurrency in a totally new way, but I would not call it mainstream. Homoiconicity is overrated; Atomo and Atomy represented better where I wanted to go, which is to adapt notation to the pro
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by briantrice 12y ago
Images are like filesystems or sandboxes, by the way. They just need better tool support.
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by briantrice 12y ago
I know Steve Dekorte and remember him bringing me along to visit David Ungar over beer and pizza more than a decade ago. :) Io doesn't quite address the goals I wanted, and it was dynamic in ways that prevented some optimizations. But
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by briantrice 12y ago
You'll never regret it, and although every language is ultimately worth criticizing, it's worth having a project of your own to refine or learn from.
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by briantrice 12y ago
See also Atomo: http://vito.github.io/atomo/ And Atomy: http://vito.github.io/atomy/ Both of these, I feel, are interesting small offshoots that explore more in a pattern-matching metaprogrammable
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by briantrice 12y ago
I guess I should say that we built a type system in Slate using objects and multimethods; it was used for metaprogramming and self-hosting. Obviously not ideal, but we leaned in the direction we hoped others would see. I don't think en
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by briantrice 12y ago
I don't feel motivated to work on it (this particular artifact) any more. I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be unwilling to do that in a deep way. If I continue, it wil
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by briantrice 12y ago
I wish Lee were still around. I miss working with him and appreciate him putting up with me.
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by briantrice 12y ago
So, there's something about that that is true, but we weren't aiming for this per se. We wanted to make the idea of a programming world as an OS manifest, so Slate images and object networks are like a file system image. The most
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by briantrice 12y ago
I actually had a big vision to merge Morphic into the CLIM/DUIM tradition from Lisp and Dylan. I was very inspired by Lisp Machines, and still own one to run an emulation for for demonstrations. Morphic alone was not good enough to bui
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by briantrice 12y ago
Ohai. I'm one of the authors. Thanks for noticing this, but we did wind down the project several years ago after failing to bootstrap it into what we wanted it to be. Main regrets: - Starting with multiple delegation from Self; we migr
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by briantrice 13y ago
You should be aware that there was a site like this in 2006 called Standpoint, partly by Gentry Underwood of Mailbox. It also allowed for structural replies and disagreements. References were also included which would point to web articles
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by briantrice 13y ago
I agree. I think the original perception is rooted in a context-free understanding of the present. That is, they lack mature awareness of the period during which women were driven out, only perceiving the status quo after that period.
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by briantrice 13y ago
My Slate programming language was intended to feature a module linking protocol that would have an ELF-like layer to link against native C code. And then the idea was that the object-slot graph would mirror or integrate with the file system
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by briantrice 14y ago
The Emscripten use-case seems to be all about components rather than applications.
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by briantrice 14y ago
More than just a straight-forward Rails app, it's been cleaned up so that a Heroku/etc. deployment is hassle-free! I spent some time in the Portland tech community and Calagator made the experience much nicer than Meetup.com ever has in my
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by briantrice 14y ago
So, you think popularity is success? I think that when Paul says "success", he means "winning" in an old sense that "those who adopt X have a better chance at winning" whatever it is. Just because the language is widely used doesn't mean it

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