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by ashleyn 8y ago
You can tell Brøderbund was a small company at the time because they weren't actively designing the product around avoiding tech support calls.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I once read a story on Reddit about a payroll processor with an utterly unholy mess of a system. One day, they get a customer called "Select", and the entire system stopped working.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Google's approach to open source does feel very much like virtue signaling rather than constructive adherence to the ideology. The build system for any Google project is notoriously terrible. I recently attempted to build Skia; even af
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by ashleyn 8y ago
In his biography, Jobs bemoaned the utilitarian brutalism of the medical devices he relied on in his final years of life. He absolutely would've oversaw the development of slicker accessibility.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
In my experience, there's an academic world, and a practical world, and never the 'twain shall meet. The academic world knew without experience that higher-level structured concurrency was the way to go. It took the practical indu
576.
by ashleyn 9y ago
For decades, America has embraced a civic nationalism over a European-style ethnic nationalism. This is that certain notions of freedom and responsibility, not blood and soil, were the real ties that bind. A sense of community can transcend
577.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I developed this skill because of a combination of social anxiety and wanting to keep my first job.
578.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Quite a while even with mass-production figured out. Graphene is a horrendous carcinogen and environmental hazard.
579.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Qbasic was never quite the professionals' system like C and Assembly was, but looking back, I was at least using the same system that non-technical managers who regretted firing the developers were clumsily banging out solutions with.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I also started with Qbasic. I learned from the examples in the on-line help system. The first one I vividly recall running and changing was the CIRCLE example; probably the first code I ever wrote.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I'm also old enough to remember how buggy DoubleSpace was and, truth be told, that still kinda puts me off disk compression.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I also have a hard time believing that VB6 is more popular than Objective-C.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The rise of nationalist populism, although something I still disagree quite contentiously with, really begins making more sense when opinions like this start leaking out.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Willfully participating in a Ponzi scheme is a crime.
585.
by ashleyn 9y ago
This is one thing most people don't understand. If someone is selling you a financial instrument with >6-7% annual returns, it's as ridiculous as someone selling you a time machine or the cure to death. The top 500 companies by
586.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Is it truly "censorship" though, if one is so aggressively distasteful and difficult to deal with that nobody wants to do business with them? Daily Stormer was taken down as a result of 0 court orders. If I'm on someone'
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by ashleyn 9y ago
We've had a "flying car" for generations. It's called the helicopter. It was even able to land on top of Pan Am's headquarters in NYC. The problem, of course, is the high level of training required to operate such a
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by ashleyn 9y ago
It's a dying art because now even the cheapest SoCs are capable of running full Linux with a big stack like Node. The Pi Zero is $5 and capable of all these things. Perhaps the last refuge is battery-powered microcontrollers.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Unfortunately, Voat suffers from a problem that all "free speech" platforms do: the extreme, obnoxious behaviour of mainly national socialists and paedophiles drive out all normal, tactful users...leaving only very fringe and dist
590.
by ashleyn 9y ago
The appeal of retro console/computer dev is essentially an exercise in constrained programming. Systems of these era had extremely constrained specifications, and making the most of them is an art in itself.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I don't really know the precise technical details, but owing to how these stations serve as entry points for other stations, I would surmise all one would have to do is impersonate the original station and hundreds of other broadcaster
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by ashleyn 9y ago
No, I meant the country as in the United States. EAS on the national level works by playing telephone: hopping the alert from station to station in a mesh configuration. PEP stations are origins for national alerts.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Although this is an entirely different system, it brings to mind how badly insecure the US Emergency Alert System is, which is used for television and radio alerts. EAS was designed in the late eighties, when infosec was not a well-establis
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by ashleyn 9y ago
It's disappointing that SST died off the way it did. In the 1960s, the 747 was originally designed as a stopgap between subsonic and supersonic, which was viewed as the next inevitable step. Unfortunately, in a hamfisted effort to stud
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I would think James Cameron articulated quite a compelling case against one 35 years ago.
596.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I miss MDI. I often find myself wishing Chrome had it, although if you want to view something side-by-side I suppose you can just make a new window.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
AFAIK chip and pin shifts liability for fraud onto the credit customer. While banks may be more than eager to do so, they may also be wary of a customer backlash over this.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I did the same with Lotus Freelance! And later qbasic...
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by ashleyn 9y ago
If you think the rich and powerful won't pay someone to mark up their score, I have bad news for you. This is not a solution to that.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Public services, especially those run by China, don't exactly have a stellar record of being uncorrupt and accountable. What if the system is abused to shut down a competitor on the surreptitious "donation" of another company

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