Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon May 11 13:26:34 EDT 2015


On 11/05/15 17:09, PystCat wrote:
> I have a friend who gets very annoyed that "the Americans always control things."  When I ask for clarification of this I get, "Well... For instance, why does the States have to be 001 in the international dialing....? Answer me THAT..!"  The answer... "We invented the telephone.  If you want to control something, invent it."  That shut him up.
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> If you want a language to be controlled in whatever language you want... Invent one.

But, oddly enough, computers were invented in England, and the USA 
hijacked them.

The only comfort I get is that the USA invented Rockabilly, but the 
Welsh and the Germans hijacked that and improved it.

Pace "Crazy Cavan" and the "Lennerockers".

Richmond.
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>> On May 11, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
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>>>> As a case in point, I just opened up revNavigator from the plugins menu -
>>>> and it works in 7. Indeed, if I have objects with Unicode names,
>>>> revNavigator still works perfectly, displaying precisely what you would
>>>> expect. There was no need for me to modify the code, nor do anything to the
>>>> stack.
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>>> Ha, way to hit me where I live :-) Are developers really naming objects
>>> with unicode-only names? Why? It's not like "repeat" or "filter" are
>>> localized, so how much of a benefit is it really that variable names and
>>> object names can be in cyrillic?
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>> Well, it may be that your work goes a lot more smoothly if you can give your
>> variables and objects names that are relatively easy to remember because they are
>> in your native language.
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>> I don't know what you call your variables and objects, but I always give them names
>> that make sense to me and have some sort of connexion to their function: flds such
>> as "OOT", "DOONBY", "BIGGIN", "BYRE" mak a heil puckle o sense tae ma mind mair
>> than Sudron yins, as well as aa those that aiblins hae nummers: yin, twa, three, fower,
>> fife, sax, se'en, nichan, teen. Now, sud I wark fae a stoor mon that has Bulgarian fae his leid
>> he mun find it mense fu gif I caa them names he kens: КОТИКА, ТОРБИЧКА, ОБОР.
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>> The unconscious arrogance of the English-speaking world never ceases to amaze me.
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>> It might not be a bad idea to meditate on the fact that an awful lot of people conduct
>> their daily lives using non-latinate writing systems.
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>> Richmond.
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