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Kenneth Eng writes only about smalltalk... Despite promising directions like Amber ST, somehow smalltalk has failed to reach critical mass, and that's a shame. My feeling is that something about their approach promotes learning by showing rather than reading and that has limited the uptake. Most successful proponents move on... Avi Bryant and Ramon Leon and perhaps Mark Watson. I've had email exchanges with almost all these folks and overall the feeling is that it was a great environment whose time has passed. I think the Forth guy Don Hopkins is also a fan as is perhaps Joe Armstrong of Erlang fame. And of course HN loves Alan Kay.

Good point, though it might trigger the correlation-not-causation debate.

When one has a widespread, general rise in cancer and vascular disease, one should look for a systemic cause. The general perception is changing from 'cancer is genetic' to 'cancer is environmental', although oncologists have long known it. The California Prop 65 warnings are a start at raising awareness, though more risible than alarming.

I hope we start testing, treating & preventing causes, whether it's pathogens (HPV) or chemicals (benzene) causing cancer. Or other disease triggers like Alzheimer's (zoster) or ischemic event triggers (periodontal).

interestingly, the plural is apparently octopodes or octopuses [1]

[1] http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/

It's been working fine for decades! Even through enormous bad calls like their early noughties call on oil.

link to the [talk] from the parent comment [by wwilson]

[talk] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

[by wwilson] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877401

I wonder what pg thought of dabbledb

Doctors Phinney and Volek would disagree on the carbs/sport connection.

Dr Fung's article [1] is a good complement to this one and explains how the market for insulin has been deliberately increased. As other commentators mentioned, once you can have carbs with insulin, why bother changing and looking for an alternative? Dr Fung treats patients with fasting protocols, where compliance is harder, but costs lower. FTA I just learned that Dr Banting is famous for both insulin and the original (proto) Atkins diet.

[1] https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-diabetes-payroll-291649d...

It's on this page in the shipping section [1]. I remember it had something to do with live object databases too, back when Avi Bryant of DabbleDB [2] was heavily pushing the Ruby world towards Smalltalk in the 2007-2010 timeframe with Maglev [3].

[1] http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/successes/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-buildi...

[3] http://pragmati.st/2007/05/19/avi-bryant-keynote/

you don't have to "look at it" -- as long as there's line of sight it should work. I pretty much agree with your position though, just wanted to clarify that as long as the infrared scanner can find your eyes/nose you're good to go. Another commenter pointed out that you need to swipe, which supports your point that it's slower than touch ID. maybe I'm getting pulled in by the Cook RDF, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

Is the telephone party line protected free speech?

Excellent distillation of its core concept and its free speech nature. Just as much as decss for example.

aha!

I recant my: did nobody think of Agrajag[1] and the petunias[2] ?

[1] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Agrajag [2] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/124539-curiously-enough-the...

Perhaps the 'step back' is that LFE is a Lisp-2 like Common Lisp whereas Clojure is a Lisp-1 like Scheme.

You might find Joxa interesting, it predates Elixir, but came after LFE and is patterned on Clojure.

http://joxa.org

well said -- I just came here to post that same link

yes that was a good book. very different from the aikido I have seen :) but that was the point he was making -- about how in its the birthplace it has evolved differently...

Hello, nice to see another big fan of Fogarty & Dixon's work ... such a pity that Microsoft or others didn't make these ideas mainstream! Dixon pointed me to his repo on github if you're interested...

There is also timescale which is built atop Postgres. Or rather, modifies Postgres' query engine etc., this is not some rails app!

https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a...

only when they can get some finger-wagging in and finish with a poor pun or end with a non-sequitur smart-aleck sentence

this journalistic shilling is a fun game! I'm no journo but here's a stab at it:

These laws against sewing in sweatshops will only lead to them moving abroad and taking the jobs with them. A better change would be to allow them to stay, but ensure they feed their workers properly. For within these sweatshops may lie the next JFK or Rockefeller of fashion design!

A very apt description. Cargo-cult is right.

Thanks for an insightful comment. I think it's spot on, SF is young and hip and snooty about its hipness. Hacker culture is much more accepting... I think even the startups are differentiated along those lines, SF is super snooty about stack choices too (and yet largely Rails, go figure!)

That's a great analogy thanks. I still have the scars of doing the JS powering a crazy UX related to a time-chart zooming in and out with various aggregation level filters. On the other hand, when I told the designers to do X (just change this div to be beveled) they said they wouldn't, I needed to add the divs around it and they wouldn't (couldn't) change the CSS rules to make the UI changes. Sometimes it seems backwards to me, coming from a declarative UI background.

especially true when your main interface to real work is a terminal or emacs. most everything else is browser based.

I use a T100HA for exactly these reasons, but it's got a detachable screen. Older models had extra batteries and HDDs in the keyboard section, which is a great addition imho.

Here's a small user-experience report for a similar Atom-powered machine from Asus. I bought it because I am trialling a life built around a dumb-phone, a large tablet/laptop, and AWS based primary computing power for sci-kit, ML etc.

I have the Asus T100HA and intend to run Linux on it, replacing my previous Macbook. As a custom keyboard user, I don't mind the tabletable form-factor. Yet I understand why Apple has stayed away from this FF as there are too many unresolved issues (minor ones, for the most part).

The core hardware is not bad at all, for the CPU, RAM & screen. Opera works great, Chrome too. The keyboard has some flex, is a bit small (but serviceable), and the tablet's magnetic attachment to the keyboard is a bit jiggly (expected). Windows is still the biggest failing of this category - endless updates that brick your machine for hours at a time, powershell is an embarrassment etc.

The SD-card in theory lets you repurpose the computer from ereader to music/media machine to work/github etc. I particularly like detaching the keyboard when flight attendants say laptops must be put away, it's a party trick that makes for a great advertisement of this niche.

Even in 2017, the options for media are very limited on airplanes, and I've been travelling a lot, so I REALLY appreciate this feature.

I popped off the shell once, and the core computer is pleasingly compact and well laid out. Heat is not an issue with the Atom chips (it was with the Macs I've used post Intel).

I do hope Chrome/Android/Linux become serviceable on this platform. Windows is certainly trying, but their baggage holds them back.

Goat are great ... funnily enough was just at a small sheep/goat farm yesterday. The goat's milk is salty (great for keto) and my lactose-intolerant gut can stand a glass or two. Plus the cheese is way tastier, milk has more fat etc.

http://www.self-reliance.com/2015/12/why-not-add-a-dairy-goa...

Joel Salatin of Polyface farms might be an interesting read. He also has a lot of videos on youtube. Here is one [1] but I recall seeing an interesting video where he runs larger ruminants (cows) and then chickens (coop on wheels) and then plants the area (the chickens aerate the soil). He also wrote an article "Everything I want to do is illegal" and has several books on the mess of agricultural bureaucracy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ5y5_0dRc

They get oxidized more easily. Arterial plaque is oxidized fatty acids. Fatty acids are essential to cell wall formation. Deductively, fatty acids which are more susceptible to reactive oxidation species (aka free radicals) will lead to more cell damage. It's an interesting topic and the nutritional science (PUBMED) is very far away from the popular perception (ex Time magazine).

- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16757819 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T78cJv6gi88 - http://oregonstate.edu/dept/biochem/hhmi/hhmiclasses/biochem...

Which chinese phablet, if I may ask?

> with great batteries

A phablet with a big battery plus not-ultraHD screen would solve the abysmal battery life problems of modern phones... it's likely thinness suffers though?