I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley.
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#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd
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#operating_systems
#GOF_AI (#good_old_fashioned_ai pre-2014)
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Ars longa, vita brevis.
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Joined: 2022-05-11
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2024-11-29 dougmerritt ┃ 3👤 1💬 ┃ RE: prahou
[re: spoilers]
2024-11-29 dougmerritt ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: screwtape
[re: spoilers]
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2024-11-28 dougmerritt ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: screwtape
[spoilers]
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2024-11-27 dougmerritt ┃ 3👤 ┃ RE: screwtape
@screwtape @aartaka @pkw @prahou
Bill Joy was a supergenius programmer, but he was not a Lisp guy.
Ex is significantly more powerful than ed (or sed), though, so I would think Emacs+ex would […]
2024-11-27 dougmerritt ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: screwtape
@screwtape @kentpitman @prahou
Thanks, it was fun. (I'm Foolsbane BTW)
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2024-11-16 dougmerritt ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: screwtape
@screwtape @kentpitman
Ah. I saw that, but didn't get that it was the same topic. Thanks.
2024-11-16 dougmerritt ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: screwtape
@screwtape
I'm not quite sure why that makes you enormously happy, but as a language designer, I can share a related observation:
Programmers seem to me to do better with tools that let them […]
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