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I miss the other direction, being able to put shortcuts (aliases) in your Apple menu. When OS X was still young there used to be a "haxes" called Fruit Menu that let you do that, b…

I have not found it especially useful on my MBP, but it is a huge improvement for me on the iPad with keyboard and mouse. It feels much more natural now to have two windows open an…

This is so completely random, and not really code related, but it was huge at the time (circa 1990). I was compiling large bibliographies of research documents for NSF that eventua…

I also like FPM and the ecosystem. In case anyone is just getting started with Fortran, definitely checkout the Fortran Standard Library project: https://github.com/fortran-lang/st…

Tremendous! One of my first tasks with QuickBasic 4.5 was writing an AKAC-874 code generator (for training purposes only) for some Marines at the embassy where I was stationed. It …

Great. Thanks so much for following up. This is a great project and I am definitely looking forward to trying it and learning more.

Hi, sorry for the delay, I wanted to do a clean install of sbcl and quicklisp just to double check. I was having trouble getting the plotting code to work, so I cloned Lisp-Stat/pl…

I gave this a try but still ran into issues. First it was a missing file, description.text, so I created a temporary one, but have not been able to figure it out after going throug…

Glad it is not just me. I did a clean install and follow the examples on the web site step by step: debugger invoked on a QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND in thread # : System "pl…

For me it was strictly personal use. For example, I made a series of maps for stadiums for teams in the EFL Championship to use as wallpaper when my club has away matches. I also m…

I played around with this library a few months ago and it is an absolute joy to use if you like maps.

One of my favorite sports memories was going to my son's first big cross-country running meet. There were hundreds of kids lined up for the race and parents lined the course to che…

If you are open to a broader score of university work then you might consider connecting with the Research Software Engineer Associations in the countries that you would consider w…

The most important anecdote that I can tell from the early 1980s is how optimistic we all were. My dad was an engineer and helped take the lead on fundraising to buy Apple ][+ comp…

My memory is that MS laughed because they did not believe the hype. The laughing stopped when they got the first iPhones in house and were able to see how much space Apple was able…

I had a similar path to nano. Pico was the default editor for the Pine email client, and I still use Alpine for work decades later. I am generally an emacs user, but nano / pico de…

I was in Central Africa (CAR and Chad) in the early 90s and shortwave was a lifeline. The BBC was on in the background almost all day, with the exception of switching to the VOA on…

I can't believe WRJ came up on HN. But, where are you seeing that? WRJ only has one zip code (that I know of), 05001. WRJ (population between 2,000-3,000) is not only smaller than …

Dartmouth celebrated the 50th anniversary of BASIC a few years ago and they were pretty consistent in keeping it all upper case. https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basic.html Tru…

French instruction starts very early in our town in Vermont because there are over 8 million French speakers right next to us, including almost 2 million living right over the bord…

Yes, if you read the first Dartmouth BASIC documentation you immediately understand that Kurtz and Kemeny were designing a language that students could teach themselves, with the g…

I had an SE/30! It was a big upgrade from my Mac Plus, even with the external floppy drive, because I could finally compile Pascal code without having to swap discs. All of this wa…

This is probably a "me problem," but I have had a hard time moving beyond the tutorials to actually getting work done. For example, I am working on a project right now where I woul…

Almost up to 365 days on Duolingo: French, German, Italian.