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alexshendi··on Terrible programming features from the past
Can't read. Does it cover the following:

* Computed GOTO

* Arithmetic IF

* Indentation based syntax

* M-exprs

* The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (I was going to write "The only thing that hurts more than the Glasgow razor gangs", but that's too cheesy).

alexshendi··on German privacy tsar tells ministries to shut Facebook pages
Shouldn't it be the german privacy Kaiser?
alexshendi··on Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
Am I the only one who has read "Piracy First"?
alexshendi··on APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (2006)
https://github.com/dzaima/APL has an Android app with a virtual APL keyboard. I believe you can find the apk under "releases".
alexshendi··on Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence
I think Phrenology was preferable.
alexshendi··on Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)
An impressive downward spiral. SCNR.
alexshendi··on Per Bothner: Writing a 3-D Multiplayer Game with Kawa and JMonkeyEngine (2015)
Also available as PDF under: http://per.bothner.com/papers/JavaOne15/slides.pdf. Enjoy!
alexshendi··on Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)
See:

1. [http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html]

2.[https://turtlespaces.org/books/]

1. may be too advanced for children...

alexshendi··on In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
I don't think that's the concept used. It's more likely to be a salient pole synchronous machine with the field winding supplied by an rotating transformer and diodes (the second illustration in the linked article seems to corroborate that). This concept has been proposed at least since the 1960s, to the best of my knowledge, but is only viable with modern power semiconductors. The hyped-up style is typical of american "technical" articles about electrical machinery.
alexshendi··on So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)
https://9p.io/plan9/

SCNR

alexshendi··on Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
Two words are enough: Rampant Neophilia.
alexshendi··on Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone
Was anyone else reminded of "Tonight we're gonna party, like it's 1999"? Anyway all of e. g. Usenet, mailing lists, and BBSes had their fair share of noise and toxicity.
alexshendi··on Programming for Cats
"Java has so little syntax... ". I pronounce this the understatement of the (admittedly young) decade.
alexshendi··on Show HN: LogoMor: a 3D Logo interpreter and visualizer
This might be a good place to share some other logo implementations in Javascript:

* JSLogo - Logo in Javascript: https://github.com/inexorabletash/jslogo. See the project's README.md for more links.

* papert - logo in your browser (http://logo.twentygototen.org/. source code: https://code.google.com/p/papert/)

* Curly Logo https://github.com/drj11/curlylogo

alexshendi··on Show HN: LogoMor: a 3D Logo interpreter and visualizer
I agree: Very nice indeed.
alexshendi··on zForth – Tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth for embedded systems
Nice. Does build on OpenBSD. :)
alexshendi··on By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
It doesn't play well with the current largish screen sizes. I got it to run on an eeePC 701, which has a 800x480 LCD Display.
alexshendi··on By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
There is actually a Squeak VM in Javascript (http://squeak.js.org) and there is at least Amber Smalltalk implemented in JS. http://amber-lang.net. No need for WASM.
alexshendi··on By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
It was a part of Digitalk Smalltalk/V for DOS. It can still be found at: https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-smalltalk/12-dos It does run under FreeDOS.
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