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by coolestuk 3y ago
The last artist listed (Desmond Henry) was one of the professors of philosophy when I was a student at Manchester University (actually his official status was Reader). I still have one of his original drawings he gave me some 40 odd years
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by coolestuk 5y ago
I also donated to the Livecode open source project. I just had a look at the Kickstarter programme. I tallied up all the contributions of those who received at least a license to the commercial product in the days after the Kickstarter ende
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by coolestuk 5y ago
On a thread reminiscing about Hypercard, the only comment down-voted is the one that points to a superset of Hypercard that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux and that can also produce apps that run on iOS and Android. And it's free to use
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by coolestuk 6y ago
"in no way shape or form a terrorist or criminal organisation". Says you. The SWP are followers of Leon Trotsky. https://socialistworker.co.uk/event/view/10735 Trotsky literally wrote a book advocating t
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by coolestuk 6y ago
There's no pleasing some people. Never mind that Livecode IDE runs on Linux, Mac and Windows it also can produce compiled apps that run on those 3 platforms and iOS and Androd and even as a webapp like PHP. And it can even compile to H
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by coolestuk 6y ago
Calls to handlers/functions (usually) pass through what is called "the message path", going from object -> grouped objects -> card -> substack -> stack. This path is also enhanced by frontscripts and backscripts
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by coolestuk 6y ago
The cross-platform technology behind Livecode has been in use and in development since before Windows 95. http://metacard.com/ The product known as Metacard and was bought out and enhanced to create Livecode. https:/&
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by coolestuk 6y ago
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/800867-how-do-i-put-my-...
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by coolestuk 8y ago
I've had this experience with doctors so often it is chilling. Elderly relatives writhing in pain, only to have doctors say it's indigestion (it was a perforated ulcer and an uncle had previously died from a wrongly diagnosed ulce
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by coolestuk 8y ago
"have an fsync that doesn't really flush to disk. OS X requires fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to flush to disk" I remember highlighting this problem to the Firebird db developers maybe 13 years ago. AFAIR they were open to the problem
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by coolestuk 12y ago
"I'm a bit incredulous at the existence of these knuckle-draggers. " I've met many people who will not watch any film - no matter how good its reputation -- if it's in black and white. The first time I heard someon
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by coolestuk 12y ago
Actually, there are a variety of LaTex editors which I think must meet most people's standards. When I decided to write a book last year, I couldn't face doing it in Word (or anything which would not allow me to view the formatti
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by coolestuk 12y ago
25 years ago, I was a secretary. I used WordPerfect, Ami Pro, Word, DisplayWrite and other WP programs. Microsoft Word was just about the worst of the bunch. If it hadn't been for Microsoft's criminal monopolistic practices (OS
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by coolestuk 12y ago
DabbleDB was written using Seaside, a framework which ran in Squeak (and other Smalltalk implementations). DabbleDB met with rave reviews. http://press.dabbledb.com/ Within a couple of years the company behind it were boug
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by coolestuk 12y ago
My experience is the reverse. My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. The Linode server is far, far closer to me geographically. I have put this down to the DO SSDs. It will be interes
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by coolestuk 13y ago
"I feel like that person should be reported to the authorities or something. Not hiring people because they refuse to regularly work over 40hrs/week should be illegal." My husband is a low-grade chef. The vast majority of pl
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by coolestuk 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried them all. Amitryptyline made me suicidal (turns out that is a very common side-effect, and really unwelcome for someone who is in extreme pain). Gabapentin (and pre-gabalin) had no effect, but at least did n
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by coolestuk 13y ago
Never mind what it is doing for your mind, in my experience, paracetamol causes pain. I've suffered from what doctors call "pain syndrome" for years. Many different parts of my body are painful at any one time. It is years since I had a pai
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by coolestuk 13y ago
The UK law is stupid. My sister took her life using paracetamol. She just drove to 3 different pharmacies and bought the max amount at each. She also bought sleeping tablets so that the pain of her dying liver would not wake her. A few day
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by coolestuk 14y ago
Until 2 weeks ago, I'd never heard of Gangam Style. At least I can now say I am among the 1 billion hippest people on the planet. I can die happy.
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by coolestuk 14y ago
We Brits are profoundly discombobulated when we visit a country like Germany, famed for its order and regulations about crossing roads, only to find that the English word "queue" got mis-translated as "free for all".
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by coolestuk 14y ago
This shambles could only happen in Britain. Senior politicians get accused of being paedophiles by journalists with no evidence. Politicians routinely steal from public coffers, and don't even lose their place in Parliament (even though s
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by coolestuk 14y ago
prior art can be found in software. I'm fairly sure "page turning" existed in Lotus Organiser in the mid 1990s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Organizer
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by coolestuk 14y ago
"The introduction of islam to much of the world was through trade, just the same as the christians. " Would you care to provide evidence for that assertion about trade rather than jihad? There is evidence that for areas like Indonesia &#38
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by coolestuk 14y ago
Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation, the mass slaughter of the males who fought or would not convert, the looting of property and the selling off into slavery of their women and children. This w
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by coolestuk 14y ago
Not doing read locking is not a game-changer. Firebird doesn't do read locking. Neither does Lotus Notes. Both have been around about 20 years.
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by coolestuk 14y ago
"It was never an attack on our freedom." You only believe that because you are not listening to what they are saying to you. Here is the full text of Osama Bin Laden's letter to America: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobser
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by coolestuk 14y ago
The author seems more intent on Dawkins-bashing than anything else. What else can explain his deliberate mis-reading of Dawkins missive. "As is typical of hatemongers, Dawkins is careful not to name his target directly: instead, he works w
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by coolestuk 14y ago
There are far bigger reasons to question Amnesty International's integrity. Search their website for the OIC's "Cairo Declaration" on Human Rights under Islam, and you'll find that Amnesty has completely ignored it. The Cairo Declaration
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by coolestuk 14y ago
Hypertalk has gone on from strength to strength. I'm surprised that the Ars Technica writer should be so uninformed. Runtime Revolution have been providing a Hypercard environment for at least a decade, and the technology they acquired had

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