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rcarmo
31,678karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rcarmo; my proof: https://keybase.io/rcarmo/sigs/dPUWksGTynvLR6kAjasNUx4K65ETkwsM3_vFZ_dcDFA ]
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I thought it was monthly. Seems to happen around the 20th each time, every time a Python piece gets posted...
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Well, code reuse is a pain, for starters. Limbo is not something people actively develop in, there are very few native ports of networking protocols, and you need to rebuild the OS if you want to expo…
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I've been playing around with it on[1] and off, mostly on the Raspberry Pi[2]. It's very nice conceptually, almost impossible to use practically except for research purposes. [1]: http:…
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It's not wet and squirmy like a babel fish, but I fear the consequences of it being able to fully translate product/sales-speak into engineer-speak and vice-versa. Like Douglas Adams wrote: …
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Up next, on 11'o'clock news: "JavaScript developer breaks all mainframes on the planet by withholding LEFTPAD.CBL"
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Only the other day I started keeping track of stuff for kids here: http://taoofmac.com/space/dev/Kids (my kids are moving on from Scratch, and we eventually settled on Pytho…
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I went through the second list and got a perfect 10 for one of my previous positions and an 8 for most of the others. This is as realistic as Dilbert.
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I've been known to do commits from http://workingcopyapp.com from both my iPad and my iPhone. Works better than you'd think, really.…
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The Pyra looks like a shoebox - isn't there anything with a nicer form factor?
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XMPP. Yeah, I know technically it still exists, but having 8 different chat clients installed on my phone is ridiculous.
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Yeah, I did point that out on my post. They let it languish for a good while and recently started updating it.
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Graffiti on Palm handhelds. I owned the original PalmPilot and a couple of other models up to the Vx, and can still write Graffiti faster than I can type on a touch screen. Discounting the Newton (whi…
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I never owned a 5, much to my regret. I switched from a 3a to a PalmPilot (which by itself deserves another entry in this list), but often wished I'd stuck with Psion.
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PageMaker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker I used it to typeset nearly all of my academic work until I was forced to switch to Word by peer pressure. Adobe made a…
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The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was …
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Having built my own portable server a couple of times* using old Android phones, I genuinely like the idea, but find it quite surprising that someone actually went out and built an integrated device -…
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Had to happen. New PyPy release, new 2vs3 feud in comments. Can't we all just get along? Anyway, my $0.02: I'm looking forward to test this with Hy (hylang.org) and seeing if some of the mod…
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I can't help it - the first thing I thought of was doing a mashup of this and leftpad as a service :)
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Precisely. :) Also, see above my comment on using Hy (hylang.org) for LISPy glue.