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Getting Started with @dyalogapl APL on OS X for the Truly Impatient

  • These are the steps that I took to get Dyalog up and running on an OS X 10.11 box for my first time ever
  • Dyalog is easy to set up on OS X
  • These notes are the shortest specific steps that I found to get Dyalog up and running
  • My goal is to evaluate ⍳5 using my laptop keyboard
  • My notes follow

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Brené Brown: The price of invulnerability

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  • “equally fatalistic answers yet more creative”
  • “on the verge of bliss and picturing something horrible happening”
  • The fatalistic response if not universal
    • Is a symptom of the universal
    • We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability
  • “Vulnerability is absolutely at the core of fear and anxiety and shame and very difficult emotions that we also experience”
  • “Vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, of love, of belonging, of creativity, of faith”
  • “Perfection is a tool to protect ourselves”
  • “Faith – vulnerability = extremism”
  • “Spirituality is inherently vulnerable”
  • “We live in a culture that tells us at there is never enough (goodness)”
  • “We are not extraordinary enough”
  • “Somehow an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life”
  • “In our ordinary life in ordinary moments is where we can find the most joy”
  • Numbing society
    • Most addicted, medicated, obese, in-debt, adult cohort, busy society
  • “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up”
  • “You cannot selective numb emotion”
    • Numb pain, numb joy
  • How to recover
    • Practice gratitude
    • Stop and be thankful for what we have
    • Honor what is ordinary about our lives
    • The people we love
    • Play, community, nature (honor what is ordinary)
  • If don’t experience those good things, our reservoirs will be empty when the bad things happen

Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying

  • YouTube
  • Joy requires gratitude
  • Joy is the most terrifying thing that humans experience
  • “When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes forboding”
    • “We try to beat vulnerability to the punch”
  • “I know because I’m fixing to meet Oprah, I’m going to die” lolol
  • “We’re trying to dress rehearse tragedy so we can beat vulnerability to the punch”
  • When happy people feel that, they practice gratitude to defeat that fear
  • “In a culture of scarcity, we are always searching for extraordinary when the truth is” (that we truly love the ordinary sweet things about our life)

Dyalog at 25

  • URL
  • The Ugly Duckling
  • PCs made things slower. More available, and slower. That was the challenge.
  • APL made serious money
  • Dyadic Systems Limited + Zilog = Dyalog
    • Happy accident at the near portmanteau of dialog
  • Interpreter implementation
    • By committee an spec: 28 man months
    • By free team making their own decisions: 14 man months
  • “subtle and profound differences”
    • Our favorite kind! 😊
  • Nested-array schism decision
  • single page marketing strategy, five page technical guide
  • Regarding Dyalog sales in the educational market
    • “most university computer departments regarded APL as some kind of devil worship”
  • “like ducks to water”
  • “moving all in”
  • Runtime licenses are important once you sell everyone your product
  • Graphics demo duck
  • “we had a dress code. When we became Dyalog, we became scruffy”
  • Helpful read to get a sense of the APL landscape as it exists today