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goodthink

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About goodthink

Newspeak is the pinnacle! https://newspeaklanguage.org

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    Comment #49246603

    Help/Useful Expressions has some EToys instructions. The Squeakland images stopped getting upograded when Squeeak went 64-bit (I think). You can get a "halo" on any object, click t…

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    Comment #49015439

    https://newspeaklanguage.org/webIDE

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    Comment #48914012

    I learned this reading Life Extensions by Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw 1981. L-Cysteine is available from raw eggs. Ever heard the saying "Here's egg in your beer"? Trouble is the e…

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    Comment #48890448

    I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak! Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs …

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    Comment #48535556

    [NO-AI] [ https://newspeaklanguage.org ] 1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop onl…

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    Comment #48138645

    Net Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.

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    Comment #48124440

    US Government contractors have a requirement for average hours worked, by salaried workers, to be no more than ~40 hours / week (might be But I go home at 5pm every day.

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    Comment #48122889

    I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE. I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy …

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    Comment #48089167

    Isolated Web Apps - Resurrecting ancient TCP protocols using TCPSockets in the web browser (Chrome) with Newspeak.

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    Comment #47623006

    With all of the big deal being made about viewing the far side of the moon, you would think they would have performed the mission when the moon is _new_ so the far side would be il…

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    Ask HN: How much did you spend on AI last month?

    Show us your receipts! I think it would be enlightening to know what it costs to use these toys - er - tools. Whatever you are building. If you are using AI, tell us what it cost y…

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    Comment #46755358

    1. Newspeak, Smalltalk 2. Smalltalk's code browser can be tedious, Newspeak's IDE is more coherent. TCPSockets, tools 3. Smalltalk's Seaside framework for server side web, Newspeak…

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    Comment #46632833

    https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/newspeak https://github.com/croquet/croquet

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    Comment #46632653

    Reading this book brought me a better understanding of "the expression problem" and the use of the visitor pattern as its solution. This led me to (finally) grok the use of Class _…

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    Comment #46536796

    > Subversion works ok over webdav, it has done it for decades. Thank you!!!!

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    Comment #46429502

    Not Self the language? https://selflanguage.org

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    Comment #46258806

    I call bullsh*t. None of those IDE's had any such feature.

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    Comment #46189737

    I upvoted but, there is no link to your product.

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    Comment #46186859

    LIVE literate programming, now that is something else: https://youtu.be/i8zkG5OBYSQ?si=2Mz0QCO8za5knlgq

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    Comment #46015923

    Basic Auth My blog: https://chalculator.com/blog Use Credentials: User: croquet Pass: yadayadayada Pain in the butt, links won't work without the creds, but they only need to be en…

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    Comment #45922987

    I get a 404

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    Comment #45825266

    If you love the keyword syntax of Smalltalk, the reflectivity, the incremental compilation, live debugging in the environment, check out https://newspeaklanguage.org for theSmallta…

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    Comment #45716853

    Ask the QA people on the team if they have problems with him. Get a different manager involved...

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    Comment #45713439

    Three score and seven years old. How old are you? Good insane or bad? lol I can't infer it from the comment. Here are links to my 3D, multiuser, "coin-toss as a service" apps: http…