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by acomjean 3y ago
Windows was kinda a wreck till “windows NT” they brought in David Cutler who did Vax/VMS to help architect it. It was pretty amazing the transition from 95/95/me/vista to windowsNT/2000/XP. They put my old ope
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by acomjean 3y ago
A lot of stores had "Apple Sections". Cambridge MA Microcenter still has an apple room. Or compUSAs (a sort of big box computer store, now defunct) had an Apple "Store within a store". https://www.cultofmac
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by acomjean 3y ago
I was surprised the payouts from a small convenience store were so high. And the spending were so high. I'm a very infrequent gambler.. When I was at IBM one of the mathemeticians had a bumper sticker on his office door. “the lotter
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by acomjean 3y ago
When I was young I had a friend who bought one Massachusetts (US) lottery ticket a week. I remember he "won" (basically got his money back). When he went to cash out the cashier asked him, "do you want the money.. or anothe
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by acomjean 3y ago
I made a SAP killer in lotus Notes. Ok maybe not exactly, but at IBM the choice was to wait for SAP to come in and do the project management with that, or have me (intern) port existing non Y2K compliant green screen project management pro
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by acomjean 3y ago
You know those "code of conduct" pages you see a conferences, where you sigh and think this is obvious. Lamentably this is why you have them and you enforce them. If things get bad, people don't want to associate with your
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by acomjean 3y ago
Rewind was a gameplay mechanic in the pretty great 2d platformer “Braid”. There is a GDC talk about how it was implemented in 2010. https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012210/The-Implementation-of-...
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by acomjean 3y ago
Brings me back. My company "upgraded" the time entry system at the beginning of this century.. Issue, our whole dev team was on unix (hpux, Solaris) and used firefox, which didn't work anymore (IE only). They solution to h
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by acomjean 3y ago
I think I t was in part sponsored by Harris bike store which is no longer a going concern. Sheldon’s Brown widow I think runs the site now. Prof Fell who taught one of my grad school CS classes.
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by acomjean 3y ago
We use google maps for our non profit event and for the first time this year we had a small charge for our once a year event. We have the same credit card issue even though we’re a 501c3. Google’s UI is a complete mystery to anyone outside
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by acomjean 3y ago
I watched a bunch of these on YouTube. Tim has added commentary at the end of each one. They’re pretty fun even if some of the devices are kinda obsolete (fax machines, vcrs ...) But I appreciate the explanations and demos which are fun.
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by acomjean 3y ago
My former company sent 10 of us to a red hat kernel internals class to get us preped for moving away from hpux/Solaris. The instructor advised using centos to play around with after the class (before CentOS was bought). We ended up
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by acomjean 3y ago
The issue kinda is on Linux we’re playing windows games. There is significant work done by valve on that proton compatability layer, so a lot of people on Linux want to support that. Without that us Linux users have a lot harder time gami
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by acomjean 3y ago
I haven't downloaded an app from the store in forever. Websites generally work on mobile so that is my chosen path these days. They're not as slick, but I can accomplish what I want.
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by acomjean 3y ago
My boss got a windows laptop (11). She was having trouble logging in. Our IT guys solution was moving it to windows 10. MS owns gaming but they can’t seem to get out of their own way in making a respectful OS without ads, forced online acc
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by acomjean 3y ago
I worked in a modern art museum as security. I had someone ask me is it was art or a bench. "Just a bench". There were some random wood art in the floor of that room. In one exhibit there was an art teeter-totter, that had a pro
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by acomjean 3y ago
I have a Samsung an android tablet with their pencil. Using Krita for drawing I think it’s pretty amazing. The UI is kinda desktop but the brushes are amazing.
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by acomjean 3y ago
I didn’t do debate in high school, but I remember a class in the late 80s we had a class “world crisis” which covered the past/current states of Chile, Cuba, Ireland, Israel and South Africa. We were supposed to debate a South African
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by acomjean 3y ago
I was on one of those calls where you get a question you weren’t expecting.. Jorge: do you think a foosball table will fit in you Honda (element)? Me: I’ll take the back seats out and be right over. He was given the table when the office m
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by acomjean 3y ago
Custom controls make a huge difference. I remember playing the Atari "Assualt" tank game in college. It was fun. 2 joysticks, one for each tread (forward and back). You could roll the tank using the joysitcks left right together
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by acomjean 3y ago
We went toRhode Island computer museum pre-pandemic, was fun (smallish) retro museum. We were offered a tour of the warehouse. A short drive later, a warehouse full of old machines. Impressive lot. It was a lot of fun. They rent them out
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by acomjean 3y ago
Can't speak to julia.. The statistics built in are great. They're just there, less need to find a package (general stats, ttest, chi_squared test...). We tend to use the "tidyverse" packages [1] https://r4d
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I used to think like that. Programmers hate R. But I took a biostatistics class and it really is the best tool for that job. Plus the graphic output can't be beat (ggplot2) and fairly easy to install packages make it quite valuable t
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by acomjean 3y ago
We have a lot of scientists using Rstudio. It’s not quite the same but you can do it. It lets you view your data frames like a spread sheet and generate graphs. It’s R and I get that Jupiter supports R but it’s always has some issue wit
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by acomjean 3y ago
That’s it!
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by acomjean 3y ago
>People give up ownership in the hopes of a reciprocal relationship I think this is it. With your account, you get an easy platform to post on. The platform gets to use your content to presumably get more visitors to show ads to and pu
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by acomjean 3y ago
Reminds me of Homer Simpson getting bought out by Bill Gates. Gates: “Buy him out boys” Gate’s goon trash Homers office Homer: “What is going on” Gates: “I didn’t get rich writing a lot of checks” https://m.youtube.com/watch
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by acomjean 3y ago
>No more rewinding/forwarding You did get adept at looking at a record to figure out where the songs were based on the record track "texture". (our high school had a radio station, and records being the music mode at the
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by acomjean 3y ago
I’m old, and live in a snowy salty area. Car body rust is much less a problem that it used to be. I think they’re all galvanized now. Some parts still rust, but having had some 80s vehicles rust out… plus they always tried to sell some “
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by acomjean 3y ago
This is true. As someone who had a work time card I could fill out on Solaris using Firefox. This the new time card website came out that was “ie” only and we had to log onto a virtual NT server do our time card. Ugh. It was a nightmare.

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