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rcarmo
31,677karma·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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Even though I glance at plan9front now and then, I wonder if there is someone else (anyone?) working on modernizing Plan9 somewhat.
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Still needs Wi-Fi support ( https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/992 ), but now that it's merged into the main MicroPython project, there's extra i…
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I've mostly embraced the JVM (as opposing to hating it), but I find myself reaching for Clojure a lot more than Java (although I have an Android app that I'm tinkering with). I find that an …
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Jython 2.7 isn't quite all there yet, and last I used the betas it wasn't that practical.
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You probably want to look into Zed instead. I found it to be the best editor I could run on an unmodified Chromebook.
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I've been using Textile for ages, and it's much better than Markdown for just about anything _except_ footnotes (in MultiMarkdown) and pieces with multiple references to the same URL. In par…
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I keep a Raspberry Pi on my desktop with plan9front because slow as it is, it's still the fastest way to get a VNC/ssh client going, but I don't think Wayland would be much of an improv…
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I have a U2 (basically the same as the U3 with less ports), and the thing is so good I used it as a desktop for a couple of weeks ( http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013…
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Yes. I've been recommending that for years, actually: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Switch
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Seriously now, and without meaning to diss your work -- ever considered contributing to wisp? The project needs extra hands.
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Personally, I find https://github.com/Gozala/wisp to be a whole lot more coherent and readable (and probably more mature, too, even though it has much less documentation). wisp a…
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That's amazing, even considering the $4500 for the camera (which will probably pay for itself in a couple of months if you're a small architecture/design studio) I've lost touch wi…
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It's not that accidental. CUPS is developed by Apple.
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The most amazing thing here is the USB-to-AUI converter. Wish I could reach the cached page for that.
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It already has, in a way. The Air's SSD already fits that description.
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Congrats. I watched the StrangeLoop videos as well, and have been itching to play with this -- I look forward to your next posts, and particularly like the exposure it brings to Clojure CLR.
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There is a lot of Clojure code out there using Java interop. That said, a lot of "proper" Clojure runs across all three major runtimes (Java/CLR/JS) without any significant changes…
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I started porting the Cognitect transducer libraries to Python yesterday, aiming for a purely functional interface (so that I can use them with hylang.org). Pull requests are welcome.
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Other than using brew (which I love and use from the outset), I would strongly advise against following this guide without understanding what it's doing. Seriously. That's why the author say…
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"Dropped "dark wake" support on OS X, which was preventing portables from going to sleep when there was a stuck job. We now use a variation of the CUPS 1.4 sleep support to do a cleaner…
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Site lists the Core with embedded chip antenna at $39, which is about the cost of a $35 Trinket 6-pack ( http://www.adafruit.com/products/1509 ). Granted those lack connectivity, b…
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FYI, the Plan9Front raspberry pi image is also surprisingly useful if you want a fast-booting graphical terminal (I use it to VNC and SSH to normal boxes): https://code.google.com/p&#x…
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I have one of these. It's great, especially because you can just fire up a serial session to it and get a REPL. Here's a little video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruic…
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Also, I asked HN about modern Acme clones recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8269442 (glad this came along)…
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I wouldn't mind bitbucket, either. Anything that would give this more exposure. And, seriously, e-mailing patches is tedious, error-prone and ultimately inefficient. _anything_ that smooths the p…
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Very nice. Wish it was on Github for easier contributing (and issue tracking).