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The last artist listed (Desmond Henry) was one of the professors of philosophy when I was a student at Manchester University (actually his official status was Reader). I still have…

I also donated to the Livecode open source project. I just had a look at the Kickstarter programme. I tallied up all the contributions of those who received at least a license to t…

On a thread reminiscing about Hypercard, the only comment down-voted is the one that points to a superset of Hypercard that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux and that can also produce…

"in no way shape or form a terrorist or criminal organisation". Says you. The SWP are followers of Leon Trotsky. https://socialistworker.co.uk/event/view/10735 Trotsky literally wr…

There's no pleasing some people. Never mind that Livecode IDE runs on Linux, Mac and Windows it also can produce compiled apps that run on those 3 platforms and iOS and Androd and …

Calls to handlers/functions (usually) pass through what is called "the message path", going from object -> grouped objects -> card -> substack -> stack. This path is also enhanced …

The cross-platform technology behind Livecode has been in use and in development since before Windows 95. http://metacard.com/ The product known as Metacard and was bought out and …

http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/800867-how-do-i-put-my-...

I've had this experience with doctors so often it is chilling. Elderly relatives writhing in pain, only to have doctors say it's indigestion (it was a perforated ulcer and an uncle…

"have an fsync that doesn't really flush to disk. OS X requires fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to flush to disk" I remember highlighting this problem to the Firebird db developers maybe 13 yea…

"I'm a bit incredulous at the existence of these knuckle-draggers. " I've met many people who will not watch any film - no matter how good its reputation -- if it's in black and wh…

Actually, there are a variety of LaTex editors which I think must meet most people's standards. When I decided to write a book last year, I couldn't face doing it in Word (or anyth…

25 years ago, I was a secretary. I used WordPerfect, Ami Pro, Word, DisplayWrite and other WP programs. Microsoft Word was just about the worst of the bunch. If it hadn't been for …

DabbleDB was written using Seaside, a framework which ran in Squeak (and other Smalltalk implementations). DabbleDB met with rave reviews. http://press.dabbledb.com/ Within a coupl…

My experience is the reverse. My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. The Linode server is far, far closer to me geographicall…

"I feel like that person should be reported to the authorities or something. Not hiring people because they refuse to regularly work over 40hrs/week should be illegal." My husband …

Thanks for the suggestion. Tried them all. Amitryptyline made me suicidal (turns out that is a very common side-effect, and really unwelcome for someone who is in extreme pain). Ga…

Never mind what it is doing for your mind, in my experience, paracetamol causes pain. I've suffered from what doctors call "pain syndrome" for years. Many different parts of my bod…

The UK law is stupid. My sister took her life using paracetamol. She just drove to 3 different pharmacies and bought the max amount at each. She also bought sleeping tablets so tha…

Until 2 weeks ago, I'd never heard of Gangam Style. At least I can now say I am among the 1 billion hippest people on the planet. I can die happy.

We Brits are profoundly discombobulated when we visit a country like Germany, famed for its order and regulations about crossing roads, only to find that the English word "queue" g…

This shambles could only happen in Britain. Senior politicians get accused of being paedophiles by journalists with no evidence. Politicians routinely steal from public coffers, an…

prior art can be found in software. I'm fairly sure "page turning" existed in Lotus Organiser in the mid 1990s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Organizer

"The introduction of islam to much of the world was through trade, just the same as the christians. " Would you care to provide evidence for that assertion about trade rather than …

Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation, the mass slaughter of the males who fought or would not convert, the looting of property and the s…