greggraham

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by greggraham 16y ago
I was planning on buying a KIM-1 when my dad surprised me by buying an Apple II. I didn't end up writing anything in assembly on the Apple II, though. My first assembly language was IBM-370 in college. I wish now I had started with the KIM-
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by greggraham 16y ago
Exactly! The existence of something like a reliable Internet depends on some form of physical civilization with laws and law enforcement, not to mention food production and distribution required to keep the netizens alive. Will some aspects
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by greggraham 16y ago
I learned to program in BASIC on an Apple II, and although it was my entry language, I don't see it as necessary now. The school I work at uses MIT Scratch with the 5th graders, and they love it. I'm teaching Java in a high school computer
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by greggraham 16y ago
Notice that technology is not a critical part of their success. I didn't see a lot of shots of kids in front of computers, but rather, teachers and students interacting with each other. I work at a private school that has a similar philosop
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by greggraham 17y ago
I recently read _Cryptonomicon_ after having put it down last year. It was fun, and overall it was definitely worth it. I'm reading his _Snow Crash_ now. It was published in 1992, before the Web, and it predicts a time close to present day.
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by greggraham 17y ago
Gattaca is a well-done movie in general. My wife liked it, and she prefers art films and usually does not like science fiction.
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by greggraham 17y ago
I use aquamacs at home on my Macintosh, and GNU emacs on Windows XP at work. I have switched back and forth between emacs and vi/vim over the last 25 years because they are both great editors and have various advantages and disadvantages. I
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by greggraham 17y ago
Old versions of BASIC used LET for assignment, but Microsoft BASIC and other BASICs of that era dropped it as being unnecessary.
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by greggraham 17y ago
It doesn't necessarily take any longer to live in the moment. It's a matter of where your mind is focused. In fact, if you are focused on what you are doing, you will likely be more efficient and make fewer mistakes. If the task ends up tak
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by greggraham 17y ago
I currently use Python and Django for the following reasons: 1) Coworker familiar with Python 2) I had an easier time understanding the mechanics of Django than I did Rails 3) Some libraries I needed were only in Python However, from a lang
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by greggraham 17y ago
Without the ability to communicate with people all over the world, you are forced to deal with the people in your own proximity, who might not be the people you would prefer. They might not share your same interests, or they may have annoyi
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by greggraham 17y ago
I spent a year writing C# in Visual Studio and ReSharper, and it is nice, but I'm happier now doing Python with Emacs and the command line.
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by greggraham 17y ago
I know that PHP brings a lot of good things to the web development arena, but I'm glad I've never had to use it for anything of significance. I've been able to use Python/Django and Python with Google App Engine, and they are delightful to
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by greggraham 17y ago
I think people like this help balance the population. They provide an example that a good life is possible without all of these things that some of think we can't live without. They also point out what we are missing out on by not have time
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by greggraham 17y ago
I've heard complaints about the poor battery life on the G1. How is that working for you?
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by greggraham 17y ago
The article agrees with you, "many of the actions we would take to reduce greenhouse-gas production and mitigate global-warming effects are beneficial anyway, most particularly a movement away from fossil fuels to alternative solar and wind
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by greggraham 17y ago
I have the same problem, so I've had to do things to cope with it. Fortunately, I have an office with a door at my work now, and that helps tremendously. At home I have a room to work in where I can shut the door and not hear the TV. When I
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by greggraham 17y ago
I really enjoyed reading that. As russell said, it is far outside my experience, but it is more like I wished my experience would have been. I read an article on APL back in the early 80s and it sounded wonderful, but I never had an occasio
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by greggraham 17y ago
I gave up on awk when Perl became available, and after that, Python. However, after reading this interview, I think I should relearn it.
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by greggraham 17y ago
When I used to ride the train to work, I sat next to a young man who was looking over a printout of what I recognized as COBOL code. I talked to him, and he was debugging a problem that came up the night before in the back-end of a gas pump
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by greggraham 17y ago
I searched and found products to convert to C ( http://www.mpsinc.com/cob2c.html ) and to Java ( http://www.jazillian.com/howCOBOL.html ). However, it is probably easier to maintain the code in the language it was designed in. Also, as the
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by greggraham 17y ago
So all that has happened is that the Internet has allowed schoolgirl gossip and yelling in bars to be broadcast on an international scope and compete with professional journalism and scientific discourse. I suppose that cannot be helped wit
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by greggraham 18y ago
Scratch has been used with great success in the 5th grade computer class at our school. Last year they were slogging through Logo with little motivation. When we switched to Scratch, they loved it.
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by greggraham 18y ago
Unfortunately, people are often short-sighted when it comes to the use of their money. In earlier days, there were influences of culture and religion that were stronger than economic forces, and provided stability for a civilization. Today,
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by greggraham 18y ago
Ah, the power of social networking.
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by greggraham 18y ago
I've been using Applian Media Catcher http://www.applian.com/replay-media-catcher/ to capture videos for teachers at my school for a while now. It's not free, but it works with a lot of sites besides YouTube.