ddp

Joined 19 years ago

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Jun 18

I've been writing software since 1976. I've been fluent in APL, Basic, Z80/8080, Fortran, Algol-68, PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, Lisp, BLISS-32, MACRO-32, C, and Scheme. I learned me a Haskell for great good but still prefer “The Little Schemer” and OCaml.

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Comment · 3 years ago

1112+, plus 25 in Microsoft Authenticator w/ cloud backup enabled, and a Yubikey 5c FIPS for every device I care about.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for positing this, I was using nvALT, I love this app.

Comment · 4 years ago

After SICP, I would recommend The Little Schemer https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780262560993

Comment · 6 years ago

Mine works fine too (Windows/Chrome).

Comment · 6 years ago

This site is one of the reasons.

Comment · 7 years ago

Thank you!

Comment · 8 years ago

I haven't used it enough to know what its limits are but there's a lot to like with Windows Subsystem for Linux running either Ubuntu or Debian. Compared with macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date. I really like what Microsoft is doing here.

Comment · 8 years ago

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Comment · 8 years ago

I switched to this: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Now, if I could just find something as brilliant for this Surface Book 2.

Comment · 8 years ago

Well, when it shipped it didn't support Fusion Drives, which were the default when High Sierra shipped. Time Machine backups fell over and quit working (somewhat different issue, agreed) and before I got them working again, FileVault 2 ate both of the disks on both of my MacBook Pros causing me substantial data loss.

I also had two macOS Servers running on mac minis and they announced that they're discontinuing it, leaving Apple with no server offering. I also removed the discontinued Apple Airports from my network.

I plan to stay on iOS and Watch for now, though I only use my iPad Pro for music synthesizers and basic chat/browsing.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm being absolutely harrassed typing in my iCloud password on all my i-devices. In contrast, I think I've typed my Microsoft password less than 10 times in the last year.

Comment · 8 years ago

I helped build Apple 1's. I had a Lisa. I've owned nearly every generation of PowerBook and MacBook and I've had enough. I bought a loaded Surface Pro tablet last summer and I ordered a new 15" Surface Book 2 w/ Nvidia GTX 1060 to replace my MacBook Pro. Not the new one with TouchBar, that one was so bad I sold it back to Apple for a substantial loss. It was a good run.