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Wither ACM? Publish and Perish?(cacm.acm.org)
6 points by jwstarr 2mo ago|1 comments
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by jwstarr 4mo ago
> Supposedly, Apple put in a bid at the last minute with the state and won the school contract, and they had a virtual monopoly in the public schools in Minnesota. Dale LaFrenz, who was helping administer MECC, states [1] that Apple won
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Eniac Day Celebration(helicoptermuseum.org)
2 points by jwstarr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jwstarr 10mo ago
Although ACM Queue's audience is practitioners, author submissions to Queue are invite-only. CACM's new Practice section encourages submissions from outside academia.
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Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from Emisari(ztoz.blog)
1 points by jwstarr 1y ago|0 comments
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by jwstarr 1y ago
By "pixel accurate", do you mean the user interface or the rendering? Is she able to leverage the HTML 2D Canvas API or does she have to go lower level than that?
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by jwstarr 2y ago
As a a starting point, "The Origins of PostScript" ( https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2018-warnock.pdf ) provides a few details on the language and Gaffney's involvement. Warnock's or
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by jwstarr 2y ago
Inspired by similar tales, my friends and I made a game about it ( https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/474859/artful-an... ) with the twist that the art is stealing itself. Ross Anderson's _Securit
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by jwstarr 3y ago
Author here. Thank you for the feedback. I may tackle a history of the registries from netlib and CTAN forward in the near future. For this article, I deliberately kept the scope limited because it was getting rather long.
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by jwstarr 3y ago
The author of TECO, Dan Murphy, wrote an article about its history for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . A PDF copy of the article is available here: https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf Alas, it doe
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by jwstarr 3y ago
https://ztoz.blog Programming topics with an emphasis on computing history
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by jwstarr 4y ago
Dramatically, the Dartmouth experiment in teaching BASIC to all undergraduates could be profitable. Although they didn't use PDPs (they used a GE-265), it was the same time period. You have two visionaries, Kemeny and Kurtz, trying to
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by jwstarr 4y ago
Self-promotion: If you're interested in the MUSIC-V language (the software the catalogue uses) or the hardware, I created a video on the subject a few months ago: https://rumble.com/v153i3p-dawn-of-computer-music.html
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by jwstarr 4y ago
One resource to try is SIGCIS ( https://www.sigcis.org/); it's a professional group of computing historians and a number of retired practitioners. However, historians don't tend to care about specific technology fe
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by jwstarr 4y ago
A more quantitative approach can be found in a pair of papers from John C Nesbit, who analyzed ten algorithms in 1985/86 ( https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-computer-based-in... ; https://archiv
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by jwstarr 4y ago
I used my sabbatical to research and write a history paper. One of my colleagues used his sabbatical to just spend the summer with his kids.
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by jwstarr 4y ago
Yes, we use Akka for all the actors. Akka has two types of actors: typed and untyped. Typed actors allow the compiler to type check messages, while untyped (or classic actors) perform runtime checking. This also means references to actors c
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by jwstarr 4y ago
We use them both implicitly (underlying Akka Streams) and explicitly (both classic untyped actors and typed actors). For the explicit actors, we use them to model state machines around I/O (e.g. stateful protocols). I've found tha
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by jwstarr 5y ago
My former employer did coding assessments for roles of that type, although the expectations were very different than for a software development role. For these kinds of roles, the coding test was on the level of fizzbuzz, is a string a pali
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Becoming Universal: Historical Reflections(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by jwstarr 5y ago|0 comments