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by abanana 5mo ago
True, but "Amiga made lots of assumptions about the use that ended up..." seemed an odd way to phrase it, given that it was originally designed as a games machine, although the plans were expanded later in development. As I unders
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by abanana 5mo ago
The release of Windows 95 was weird. There were PC users talking about how amazing Microsoft were, to have come up with all the things their marketing people were shouting about, such as pre-emptive multitasking and plug-and-play. Then all
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by abanana 5mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but that's a really weird way to phrase it!
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by abanana 5mo ago
Yeah that was a big part of it, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it more important than preventing immediate bankruptcy. "We'll give you a wodge of cash and we'll keep supplying Office for Mac, so you can continue t
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by abanana 5mo ago
"Wut" indeed! I was only skimming it anyway, but stopped there. I'm sorry, that paragraph is so effed up, I can't take anything else seriously from this author. This is too often the problem with stuff about Steve Jobs.
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by abanana 5mo ago
> Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away... They just... This is historical revisionism, and there's a lot of it around, where Apple is concerned. Since those days, Apple has done a great job of controlling
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by abanana 5mo ago
Are you seriously suggesting people shouldn't operate with a bit of common decency unless they're going to get some money out of it?
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by abanana 5mo ago
It can be very interesting to read opinions in such places as "Letters to the Editor" in newspapers from the 1800s. The conviction that "things were so much better in the past" and "everything's gone to shit&qu
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by abanana 5mo ago
> Rapes have not increased by some 200% over the last 10 years? No. There has been an increase in reported rapes across many Western countries, due to a combination of much higher awareness (especially due to celebrities), and cleare
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by abanana 5mo ago
Who's using a browser from 2013? When I said I'm running Windows 7, I'm specifically talking about the OS, including an awful lot of updates it's had since 2013, not all software I run on it. Updates added such things as
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by abanana 5mo ago
Just thinking more about how we're told it's "insecure". It's unfortunate that so many tech people are so gullible when it comes to the industry's marketing around this. Many of us know a huge proportion of new
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by abanana 5mo ago
> I still use an old PC on Win7 as my primary machine So do I. I've had to deal with 10 and 11 at work and had the same sort of problems, so I've refused to "downgrade" this PC. It particularly used to really piss m
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by abanana 5mo ago
Regarding Britain, "conserve" used to mean posh jam, but nowadays it seems to be more of a marketing word - a brand trying to pretend they're posh, similar to how pretentious restaurants use French words for no obvious reason
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by abanana 5mo ago
I've always heard it came from Xerox PARC, but even if it originated at Apple, it would have been one of their OS devs. It's nuts how the cult of Steve Jobs leads some to label him as the inventor of everything.
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by abanana 5mo ago
Indeed, is this a comparison of home computers running on a cheap TV, with business computers running on an expensive monitor? I remember being amazed at how sharp the Amiga Workbench looked when I upgraded from an old TV to a "real&qu
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by abanana 5mo ago
I don't think I've seen a JS exception like that, but it drives me nuts when I'm dragging the scrollbar down for a quick scan of the page contents (especially if it's images or huge product tiles), and at some point it s
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by abanana 5mo ago
Yeah, me too. The Amiga had a good idea with its Preferences programs (i.e. settings or options) - a "Use" button, which only saves to memory, separate from the "Save" button, which also saves to disk. So even if you mak
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by abanana 5mo ago
> The aspect ratio is correct Yes it is, was my post unclear? Following your suggestion that someone might contribute a screenshot of 1.x, which I agree would be a nice addition, I'm suggesting a "HiRes" screenshot of 2.x
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by abanana 5mo ago
Basing one's opinion on how a static screenshot looks, is the reason we've moved towards pretty looks and away from usability concerns. As other commentors have said, the overriding concern with these older OSs was to make them as
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by abanana 5mo ago
Regarding Amiga screenshots, they've taken care to get the DigiPaint aspect ratios right, but the Workbench 2.04 screenshot is in a resolution that comes from an add-in graphics card rather than the Amiga's custom chips. It's
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by abanana 5mo ago
> Operating systems of that era were designed based on UX research Too many developers nowadays don't know this. On any HN discussion of UIs, I've been noticing a growing number of younger devs insisting that usability is en
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by abanana 5mo ago
Indeed, it's essential in some cases. I was talking about in the context of sutterd's suggestion, where just lower-case letters have been encoded. > strong case for blocking the request as suspicious Yep, as there shouldn&#x2
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by abanana 5mo ago
snuffx.com, sideburns.co.uk (a little more tame IIRC but it's been a while)...
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by abanana 5mo ago
Indeed, that's not a query string! The #, and following text, is a fragment , is client-side only, and isn't the subject of the blogpost. Neither is percent encoding, which is just another way to send the exact same path from you
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by abanana 5mo ago
That incredibly condescending phrase should be banned from HN.
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by abanana 5mo ago
It happened in 2011 when massive flooding in Thailand stopped a huge chunk of global production. Hard drive prices pretty much doubled overnight.
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by abanana 6mo ago
That's because we're fed the massively oversimplified idea that English was one language, spoken all over the UK, and developing in a single straight line from Old English, to Middle English, to modern English. It's obvious t
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by abanana 6mo ago
Absolutely correct - as with so many things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's too easy to think "I'm right and you're wrong".
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by abanana 7mo ago
Indeed, they're talking about the opposite extreme from the usual problem we all bemoan in here, which is JS devs being determined to use the newest shiniest thing as soon as it's been announced, instead of being willing to contin
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by abanana 7mo ago
A nitpick to add to the sibling comment, more a minor personal annoyance than anything: No throttling is a menu button that, when clicked, gives you a dropdown menu - not a "combobox". A combobox is a text input element that has

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