njr 3.0

…Georg Bauer posted some clarification of PyDS’s use of asynchrony and threading. I wish I could find a picture of me in the first grade programming our Apple IIe, on the top floor of our condo in Durham. Better yet, I’d like to see some of the Applesoft programs I wrote back then. Looking for old pictures of my work environment, the earliest I could find was this one: It shows a portion of my cube at Invantage’s third office space, at 149 Sidney S…

10:46 AM | PyCS

…os;s anything important I've missed. Feature Treo 300 T-Mobile Sidekick Coverage OK poor Price/month $30/$40 $40 Daytime minutes 300 200 Night minutes unlimited n/a Weekend minutes unlimited 1000 Additional minutes 40¢ 35¢ Data unlimited unlimited Phone cost $250 $200 Activation $35 $35 Sync support Yes No Camera No Yes Palm OS compatible Yes No…

2:31 PM | Radio

…|| APE 1.0: http://www.haxies.com/ape/ 14:32 sabi> so, what's the deal with the SDK? 14:34 + miles [~miles@kidthree.ne.client2.attbi.com] joined #macdev 14:35 @Dr_Qwerty> it exists ;) 14:37 sabi> that's nice……

2:33 PM | Radio

...would be great, but there isn’t any, so instead I just use the existing clipboard bridging functionality and synthesize Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Pasting into Citrix Viewer is the easy part; copying into the buffer is harder because the Mac clipboard doesn’t immediately update with the Windows clipboard contents. I just have to poll the clipboard until something happens — ugly but effective. You may wonder why I go to all this trouble when I’m ultimatel...

10:34 PM | Computing, Dictation, macOS

…and/or broken. There are some significant differences in how the various readers handle them. Here are a couple of representative examples: FatBits, John Siracusa’s old Ars Technica staff blog The URL for this feed was http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.rssx. This returns a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirecting to /staff/, which is not a feed. This is clearly breakage on Ars’s part. The Old Reader scraped the redirected-to page and pulled a feed…

4:10 PM | Computing, Web