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by W-Stool 6y ago
First time I saw one of those in person (SFO) I could not believe a plane that large could fly and be reliably controlled in adverse situations. Maybe it wasn't a huge commercial success but it reminded me that sometimes huge and insa
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by W-Stool 6y ago
He always claimed - always - that he never used performance enhancing drugs or blood processes (doping). Which of course he did.
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Our dystopian hellscape has arrived(youtube.com)
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Note - an L-39 is not a MiG - it was designed in Czechoslovakia by Aero Vodochody. A small point, but these kind of large errors in articles I'm supposed to be taking seriosly drive me crazy.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
VMS, DEC's OS for their VAX architecture, was written in Bliss and a listing of the entire source code was available at the time on microfiche. Could you imagine Microsoft of Apple making the entire source code to their OS available to
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by W-Stool 6y ago
One of the things I like about my cat (Eleanor Roosevelt, a one eyed Maine Coon that sat in the local SPCA for 8 months) is that I don't try to understand her. She does her thing, mostly involving naps and head scratches, and I just a
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by W-Stool 6y ago
In a 30+ year professional IT career I've had exactly three interactions with IBM, and every one of them went very much as you described. How this company stays in businesss I'll never understand.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
My first laptop was a Toshiba T1000 around 1987. I thought I was quite the high roller traveling around with that thing. MSDOS and a 640x200 display - those were the days.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
That went right into my quotes file.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Wow - I guess Bruce did OK! Good for him.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Bruce Artwick was the brains behind Sublogic back in the day. He authored an excellent book on interactive computer graphics as well around the same time. I wonder what he's doing now?
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by W-Stool 6y ago
When I bought the original Compaq Portable in 1984 the first commerical program I purchased was the Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it was stunning to have that running at home. It is amazing that this is still around and what progress in
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by W-Stool 6y ago
I was there a few years ago to check Boise out as maybe a place to live. Nicest/cleanest downtown I think I've ever seen. Didn't end up making the move but I seriously thought about it.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Mid-1990s I was running a boutique software company that made drivers and add-on tools for the graphics library that came with what at the time was the most popular PC desktop compiler tools (Pascal, C, C++). Got a frantic email from a cus
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by W-Stool 6y ago
You get to a certain age where you think you've seen everything. Then something like this comes along and you realize you haven't seen anything.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? I mean, "send us X and you'll get 2X in return" isn't too awfully different than those scams years ago for plans for a perpetual motion machine or the secrets to a 300 mpg car en
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by W-Stool 6y ago
For anyone who is trying to understand what the Cannonball Run is all about and resorts to some of the movies inspired by it, the reference movie is "The Gumball Rally". The actual "Cannonball Run" movies with a laundry
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by W-Stool 6y ago
I'm going to use that in my daily conversations if that's OK. Truer words have never been spoken.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Monty Python voice: "You were lucky!"
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I've never heard of the Zoom app until about three weeks ago and now I'm reading something about it here on HN almost every day. Why is this company and their app suddenly so popular and so critiqued? I thought the world was Sky
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Question from the cheap seats here : what causes a virus to "burn itself out" or fail to keep replicating? A lack of new hosts it can infect? Environmental details (heat, humidity)? If anyone truly knows I'd like to hear it
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by W-Stool 7y ago
As someone who has raced formula race cars and who has been an enthusiastic participant in racing simulations since way back in the old days of Grand Prix Legends let me assure you - a simulated race car has almost nothing in common with th
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Watch "Three Days of the Condor" if only for the scenes with DEC PDP hardware. That's the way we used to do it kids. Max was also great in this movie - I would not want that guy coming after me. RIP after an exceptional car
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Turbo Pascal (which he authored) was quite the accomplishment back in the day - editor and compiler in 64K. Think about that for a minute.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Money. Most of the shady practices going on in the world today and a thousand years ago end up being about money. Even the software engineers who implemented this ghastly thing - they needed the job and the money the job pays so "OK,
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by W-Stool 7y ago
If you like "Dr Strangelove" and "Fail Safe" I highly recommend "The Bedford Incident".
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I put Syd Mead in the same bucket as HR Giger - two absolutely brilliant artists with completely opposite visions of what the future might look like.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Pulitzer Prize winner for non-fiction in 1982.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
Honest question: what is this company trying to do that buying a couple of blade chassis full of blades, a bunch of VMware licenses, and a SAN won't do? I truly don't get it.
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by W-Stool 7y ago
I always considered Sir Alec Guiness's role in "Tinker Tailor ..." and "Smiley's People" to be the pinnacle of acting in a short run series - he really became George Smiley. Since viewing the recent series &qu

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