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by enf 4y ago
Have you had your thyroid levels tested? My problem was mostly hypothyroidism.
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by enf 4y ago
The C Programming Language for pointers, which didn't make any sense to me in Pascal.
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by enf 4y ago
Thank you!
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by enf 4y ago
I was laid off from Eazel when their funding fell through in the 2001 dot-com crash. The founders were ex-Apple people and they arranged for Apple to interview those of us who had been laid off. I wasn't hired, but the people who did g
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by enf 4y ago
In my case it was hypothyroidism. See a doctor.
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by enf 4y ago
"3990 Old Town Avenue, San Diego" is permanently burned into my brain. I was finally in that neighborhood about 10 years ago and visited the shrine myself, even though any evidence of the company there is long gone now.
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by enf 5y ago
If only these sorts of workarounds really worked when your brain doesn't have enough of the right chemicals. "Can't make myself do the thing" turns out to be called ADHD, and T3+T4 thyroid treatment and Adderall have hel
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by enf 5y ago
Types and especially structured types. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
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by enf 6y ago
Semicolons came in with Algol 58 too, which used them in what now seems like a really excessive way.
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by enf 6y ago
Thanks. My major public project for map utilities has been Tippecanoe, https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
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by enf 6y ago
That was a common convention at the time and you can also see it in early BASIC manuals.
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by enf 6y ago
For is also from Algol, replacing "do" from Fortran. I agree it would be interesting to know why the word was chosen, but I think it comes from the mathematical "for all x in Y, x > 5" or whatever other assertion is b
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by enf 6y ago
Thanks. It has been cited as confusing in sources like The Elements of Programming Style, but I can appreciate that it may feel natural to some people, and there are certainly cases like strcmp() where a three-way distinction is necessary,
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by enf 6y ago
I was a linguistics major in college and therefore am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist about language. When I say I cannot say this, I mean that this construct does not exist in the ordinary dialect that I speak, in the same way that I
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by enf 6y ago
Actually, no, you are right: I seem to have received one email message that begins a sentence with "else" in 1996 and another in 2003. So it is not unknown to me, but it is quite rare.
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by enf 6y ago
This is a usage that I have no memory of ever encountering in any context other than computer programming. It may be in some dialects, but not in ones I have come in conscious contact with.
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by enf 6y ago
Algol was not prone to abbreviation. Algol 58 used "or if," so if they had wanted "or else," they would have used "or else."
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by enf 6y ago
Looks like this article was the source of the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/geoffwozniak/status/1337916048276852737 where I revived the discussion of my talk.
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by enf 6y ago
I said I can't say it, not that no one can say it. It is not in my dialect.
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by enf 6y ago
Thanks for the insider German knowledge!
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by enf 6y ago
I am the author, and I mean that I can say "or else" in a normal sentence, but I cannot say "else" without an "or" in normal speech in my normal dialect.
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by enf 7y ago
My scan of the print edition (kindly mailed to me many years ago by Doug McIlroy), which includes the historical manpages as well as the commentary: https://archive.org/details/research-unix-reader/
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by enf 7y ago
Also A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter Salus, https://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:q...
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by enf 7y ago
Whoever wrote the web interface to "p4 blame" at Danger called it "See who made these codes," which always sounded super weird to me
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by enf 7y ago
Later versions of Research Unix I believe reserved another standard file descriptor for /dev/tty so it wouldn't have to have magic knowledge.
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by enf 7y ago
Thanks. Yes, I made these maps several years ago.
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by enf 7y ago
It wasn't just songs they all knew from memory. There was a widely issued monthly publication, the Army/Navy Hit Kit, later the Armed Forces Song Folio, that provided them with eight pop songs and one four-part chorus arrangement
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by enf 8y ago
He and Peter Samson gave the Spacewar demo last August 4th, on the Vintage Computer Festival day.
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by enf 8y ago
Traffic signal green is already optimized for colorblindness: the green looks white, so it is unambiguously distinguished from red and yellow. What do you propose as better?
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by enf 8y ago
"We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reas

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