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DonHopkins

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About DonHopkins

    \ don@donhopkins.com

    FORTH ?KNOW IF HONK ELSE FORTH LEARN THEN

    : C(-; LICK SMILE NOSE WINK ;

    \ FORTH PAPER TAPE PUNCHER:

    : PT# ( L --- L/2 )
      DUP 1 AND IF 
        ASCII @ 
      ELSE BL THEN
      HOLD
      2/
    ;

    : PT. ( N --- )
       TYPE
    ;

    : CUT
      ." -----------" CR
    ;

    : PTAPE
      CUT
      BEGIN
        KEY ?DUP WHILE
        DUP ." |" PT. ." |"  SPACE EMIT CR
      REPEAT
      CUT
    ;
Lisp -vs- Forth -vs- PostScript:

    ; Lisp:
    (defun caar (x) (car (car x)))
    (defun caaar (x) (car (car (car x))))
    (defun caaaar (x) (car (car (car (car x)))))

    \ Forth:
    : droop drop drop ;
    : drooop drop drop drop ;
    : droooop drop drop drop drop ;

    % PostScript:
    /poop { pop pop } def
    /pooop { pop pop pop } def
    /poooop { pop pop pop pop } def

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49221385

    You're carrying the water and making rationalizations for a lawnmower.

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    Comment #49220214

    That's right. Clearly juleiie has never actually tried to ship a game, and is just speculating without any actual experience, which is fine for fan fiction, given they have free sp…

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    Comment #49220166

    Procedural Mating to a Sexy Soundtrack https://youtu.be/ofA6YWVTURU?t=1222 https://youtu.be/Dfc-DQorohc?t=2617

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    Comment #49213837

    If you really have nothing to say, you shouldn't post when it doesn't contribute to the discussion and is just whining.

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    Comment #49204940

    If they just stayed opn they could reinvest the penultimate e in calling themselves Herder.

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    Comment #49193802

    Also throw down some Psylocybe Allenii spores (family Hymenogastraceae) for even better measure! It thrives in otherwise hideous and tacky Home Depot woodchip landscaping beds in f…

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    Comment #49193706

    Simlish was intentionally designed to be linguistically neutral, so we didn't have to laboriously translate all the game audio into dozens of languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

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    Comment #49193600

    More scientific lectures should be delivered with a blue collar Chicago dialect and accent.

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    Comment #49193490

    Woke Grocery Store (Whole Foods in Berkeley) https://youtu.be/PUFQouwqbe8?t=180 Now this, this is the bargain, this is the bargain section. Now shit gets a little hectic here, 'cau…

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    Comment #49175634

    You are clearly deteriorating and self destructive, especially as evidenced by your recent flagged "randomize skin tone" rant. Well do you apologize for threatening my life, and re…

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    Comment #49175613

    I use Old Glory Robot Insurance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

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    Comment #49175085

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    Comment #49175064

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    Comment #49174764

    The US fully achieved its objective of distracting attention away from the Trump-Epstein files.

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    Comment #49172966

    Don't be such a racist troll. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171881

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    Comment #49149647

    The Whoopie Laptop

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    Comment #49148928

    Remember when Robert Scoble posted a photo of himself naked in the shower wearing only Google Wave? Oh never mind, that was Google Glass, another dead google product. That he perso…

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    Comment #49148894

    Also see Game Helpin' Squad's "A Pissed Off Tutorial For Google Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug Their "World Quester 2" tutorial shines as the holy grail of cons…

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    Comment #49144580

    At least you don't get fined for forgetting to rewind you Atom feed.

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    Comment #49144561

    I used to be on Dave Winer's scripting-news mailing list, and then somebody posted a request to be removed, so he removed them in a huff and then complained about how they hurt his…

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    Comment #49144462

    Who remembers when everybody was syndicating all their favorite RSS feeds on their own blogs, and then some joker posted a blog entry to his own RSS feed with a title like "What ha…

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