Wisdom And Wonder

Choosing a Switch: Why Cherry MX Whites

This is enough to leave you with a system that you can easily code in, feels familiar, and gives you pop up help for learning APL

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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“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

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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)

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Three counter-intuitive things
- Talk to yourself like you are someone you love when you are feeling unworthy
- Reach out to someone you trust
- Tell your story
  - Shame cannot survive being spoken
Shame requires: Secrecy, silence, judgement
- Antidote: Empathy

“You need this programming language…”

… at least, that’s what they tell you.

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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