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by cac1 6y ago
I wrote Epiphany WorkFlow (Mac App Store) for my own use to help with the problem I have organizing and sustaining a well directed writing project. With ADHS, this is a big problem with me.
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by cac1 6y ago
I've been programming for 52 years. I'm still programming and enjoying it. For me the key was focusing on the end product, not on the programming. Programming was just something that I did to get the product I wanted. It is kin
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by cac1 6y ago
Sometimes the way a computer works is a useful model for thinking about your thoughts, but you don't actually think that way. If you believe that you actually do, it can be self-fulfilling, limiting, and even deny your humanity. You a
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by cac1 6y ago
10 years ago I drove from Tucson to Iowa to buy a 42 year old Avion truck camper. I moved to a homeless camp in Tucson and rebuilt the camper. I regard living in a homeless camp a worthwhile experience. In the summers I'm a camp host
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by cac1 6y ago
The early days in my post were the 1980s
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by cac1 6y ago
One of the funniest things I ever saw was the SV Fry's Store back in the early days. It sold 3 things: electronics, junk food, and makeup. Its makeup section was huge. One can imagine its geeky owners desperate for a chance to meet
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by cac1 6y ago
I recently read something that seemed almost nonsensical at first. "Action can precede motivation." In different words it means just start doing the task and the motivation to continue will come to you on it own. I'm sure i
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by cac1 6y ago
I've been programming for 52 years. I've learned a dozen or so languages and OSs. This career requires continued learning of new languages. Otherwise you are just a coder.
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by cac1 6y ago
Consider Epiphany WorkFlow for the Mac. It's a workflow for writing an academic paper (among other things). I really don't fully understand what you are asking for. I hope Epiphany WorkFlow is useful.
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by cac1 6y ago
I sit on a narrow couch with a firm seat and back. I place the laptop in my lap. I'm 74, and it works for me. Incidentally Epiphany Workflow works with web sites as well as files.
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by cac1 6y ago
I use Epiphany Workflow on a MacBook Pro. It's easy to extract notes and review both the notes and the source paper later.
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by cac1 6y ago
Hard right perspectives were always just out of sight revealing themselves only rarely. Presumably, it's the old give it away until they are hooked, then take advantage.
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by cac1 6y ago
This is a promising site, but I don't understand enough of the concepts involved in each description to make sense of what you are saying. Very frustrating.
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by cac1 6y ago
Epiphany WorkFlow for the Mac is about collecting ideas, organizing ideas, and referring to ideas while writing. It won't help you WRITE, but it will reduce the laborious overhead that gets in the way of writing.
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by cac1 6y ago
I built 3 houses acting as my own general contractor. That's not what you are asking about, but I leaned some important things doing it. The most important was my estimate that there are about 10 years required to build a 3-bedroom c
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by cac1 6y ago
The pop ups make this article unreadable.
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by cac1 6y ago
Perhaps Mr Putin has realized how vulnerable he is to such attacks. Russia is not one culture. It is many cultures with rivalries and histories of animosity. It may not be widely realized, but Russians make heavy use of western social me
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by cac1 6y ago
After 50 years of agonizing over why I failed academically, I realized the problem was my "inability to organize and to sustain a directed effort". So I would tell myself: 1) to explicitly work on organizing my efforts as opposed
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by cac1 6y ago
Few worthwhile efforts are successful on the first attempt.
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by cac1 6y ago
I moved from the US to Mexico. I'm retired. I spend half my time in Mexico, then come to the US to visit family who are spread out over 3 states and then to take up a part-time summer job.
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Are there any guides to using social media
6 points by cac1 6y ago|3 comments
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Are there any forums devoted to side-projects
2 points by cac1 6y ago|1 comments
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How to find a startup that wants to buy a ready-made application
2 points by cac1 6y ago|0 comments
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by cac1 6y ago
In over 50 years of programming I have always read a new language manual in close association with designing then writing a program.
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by cac1 6y ago
Prep a plan to save their asses when things blow up. Don't rub it in. Be a hero.
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by cac1 6y ago
It seems straight forward to interpret (which means I'm probably wrong.) Since the motions are impossible they didn't happen. Either: 1) The objects were much closer and the high speed motions were apparent motions; or 2) The ins
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by cac1 6y ago
I have had to learn nearly a dozen languages in my career. You are on a useful track coupling your study with a side project. I found carefully reading a language manual cover to cover while trying to see how to complete a project was pow
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The Laws of Programming
2 points by cac1 6y ago|1 comments
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by cac1 6y ago
This can't possibly stick. Xi will have egg on his face. On the other hand, it will make a great distraction from the emerging virus scandal.
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by cac1 6y ago
My family went picnicking in a cottonwood grove and noticed all the mistletoe. So we threw rocks to knock some of it down, took it home, and put in is small bags. We kids sold it door to door and made a mint in pocket change.

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