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by antod 3y ago
I didn't either as a kid. I had one of those British Usborne Publishing computer books - one of their intros involved paper only with a long roll of instructions you wrote out and pulled through a cardboard "window" for the c
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by antod 3y ago
Humans being humans, they'd then want to start destroying the other sides ability to design/make/run/maintain/afford pi digit crunching intelligence bots. Then ways to defend against those attacks on their people an
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by antod 3y ago
I can still hear the Amiga versions sound effects in my head.
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by antod 3y ago
My father had a friend who was a well recognised commercial voice over artist , and told me about his fees. There was a fee for doing the actual work, but a much bigger exclusivity/exposure fee designed to prevent his voice getting ove
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by antod 3y ago
or... BIOME: Blender Interactive Object Model Environment
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by antod 3y ago
Looking at those, I could just feel myself plugging my 3DFX2 card into my Matrox Millenium II.
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by antod 3y ago
Hours being base 12 is why time is way more painful to calculate with than other quantities, and why SI just sticks to seconds. Would Americans love pre-decimal British currency? All those shillings and florins with lots of integer division
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by antod 3y ago
Oh that's right - I'd forgotten about that april fools joke that wasn't. It was just client compatibility right - the backend was still git from memory? What I mean was that it wasn't like Bitbucket where you chose wheth
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah, hardly anyone cared what Linux used (a few years earlier before Bitkeeper it was mostly just patches). But Rails was a very early Github user, and the big Rails usage upswing coincided with that and helped drive it. I was a Python and
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by antod 3y ago
> Github allowed you to choose the VC and Mercurial and Git were available You're not thinking about BitBucket are you? I thought Github was always git only?
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah, in my experience, the real world engineering was rushed, under funded, relied on gut feel, and could count on the humans on site building it to use their own judgement to make up for all the gaps in the designs, drawings or specs. Alt
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by antod 3y ago
"tightly allied" sounds like either a fallacy or a bad faith argument. Even ignoring the current situation, criticizing something doesn't necessarily ally you with someone else criticizing the same thing. The "enemy of m
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by antod 3y ago
I always regarded .htm as a sign the site was created using FrontPage. Elsewhere .html was common even back then.
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by antod 3y ago
Is it wrong to want to be even further out of touch?
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by antod 3y ago
I love free42 as well. Mostly as a tribute to the HP42S that got me through engineering school 30 odd yrs ago. The RPN muscle memory never completely went away.
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by antod 3y ago
That's a good way of describing it. Another issue is they've locked a whole lot of useful (practically required these days) features behind requiring an enterprise account - the trouble is that "enterprise" isn't ju
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by antod 3y ago
That describes the first one my parents got in the early 80s - except I seem to remember a power slider as well. Best microwave UI ever.
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by antod 3y ago
There's difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory.
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by antod 3y ago
In the VB6 era, you could write JScript ASP Classic pages and have JS in the browser (provided you weren't doing the more proper DCOM stuff behind the ASP pages). I worked somewhere doing that on NT4, but IIS 5 in W2K broke it somehow.
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by antod 3y ago
It can be, provided your colleagues are all there, your team has its own dedicated space, meeting rooms are alway available, connectivity is good etc etc. If not, and you're still having to work remotely just in the office with crowded
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by antod 3y ago
The end of WWII led to Germany, Japan and Italy becoming (or returning to) democracies. As well as your later examples of South Korea and Taiwan, it's understandable that it seemed like the end of the cold war could also lead to some s
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by antod 3y ago
It was BASIC, just one that had evolved quite far from really old school BASIC. I like to probably incorrectly think that AmigaBASIC (also written by MS) was a bit of a half way point between old 8bit BASIC and VB. It did away with line n
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by antod 3y ago
OpenBSD or NetBSD would be better than Linux if you wanted to delve into operating system internals, or you wanted to operate the OS at a more direct explicit level. They are more straight forward in their implementation - modern Linux has
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by antod 3y ago
Except the article is about 40 years of typing/mouse injuries and how they dealt with them, rather than 40 years of quality engineering output.
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by antod 3y ago
No, you need lateral resistance from something in contact with the water. Otherwise you just get blown downwind until the point your speed relative to the wind (apparent wind) drops away and you're not getting enough lift any more.
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by antod 3y ago
Not in your country, but my point about compliance wasn't that a law requires it specifically (laws don't specify technical "solutions" anyway) - just that often the IT dept is compelled by other depts (eg Risk) to imple
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by antod 3y ago
Not the OP, but currently I work in a regulated industry (financial) where Corporate Risk and Legal depts ask for this stuff (and much more) to satisfy external auditors. The IT people hate it just as much. I had never experienced just how
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by antod 3y ago
Agreed on the Win95 timeframe for the start of the take off phase the iPhone kicked off - just that PCs peaked, stagnated and got boring much less than 28yrs later (eg around 2010ish?). I was disagreeing with the claim that PCs took longer
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by antod 3y ago
> "we are like a banana republic that has to import its bananas from Finland" Wasn't there some trade policy wierdness back in the 90s that made Finland (on paper) one of the world's top banana exporters or somethin
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I really don't think the iPhone (or even Android) was the equivalent of the Kenbak-1 in terms of smartphones. There were "smartphones" before the iPhone. IMO the iPhone was the 90s PC era where these things got a lot better a

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