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* Posts by woppo

9 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2019

Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again

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Re: Alice K Hartley's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_K._Hartley

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Re: lore

Unfortunately this first sets up a scheme-like library where cons is possible and then uses this exclusively. It is nothing like standard JavaScript and does not provide much insight into either native JavaScript programming or how you would use native JavaScript to write code like that found in SICP.

One is better off using standard SICP to learn the ideas presented there in a general sense, then attempting to apply them in JavaScript.

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52,000 is not that many

Shouldn't they fix their email server systems so that they can handle 52,000 mails? An email is hardly heavyweight.

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Google's clever-clogs are focused on many things, but not this: The Chrome Web Store. Devs complain of rip-offs, scams, wait times

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Re: Could it be described as a House of Cards?

Thank you for educating me :-)

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Re: Could it be described as a House of Cards?

Where do you find that Chrome is a fork of Safari?

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AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace

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This is an application!

Apart from editing wikis and designing photo-hosting websites, what substantial applications can be written just by dragging stuff about and connecting things together?

A decent Visio diagram can take days and that's just a diagram.

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Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

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Re: Epic number of downvotes

I agree with your point but there's no king in that story ;-)

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Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

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Re: He should have stuck to what he knows

"...deliberately structured GCC to be non-modular so to hinder other compiler projects..."

This is very interesting. Do you have any links or material to share on this? I would love to read the rationale etc.

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Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

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Would you trust them? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/21/slack_iran_ban/

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