Wisdom And Wonder

Emacs Keyboard Design 37: Possible

Small changes to a 104 key ANSI skyrocket the price
Stay close to the standard to make it affordable

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Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying

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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)

Brené Brown: 3 Things You Can Do to Stop a Shame Spiral

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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

Notation as a tool of thought

“You need this programming language…”

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

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Håkan Kjellerstrand's APL Page

http://hakank.org/apl/

Dyalog at 25

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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

APL on an iPad

Via comp.lang.apl:

I posted results of experimental work to get a small, but production-grade APL
on my iPad. But I did not provide full details. Apologies for that. Explicit
details are now offered at the website:  http://www.gemesyscanada.com