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by bonaldi 6y ago
This is a great insight, but there's a third angle too: a lot of these 80s tools assumed you'd invest in them, and not just in cash: you'd give them a lot of time and attention and learning and hence reap expert-user rewards.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
I don't know why this bothers people so — I suspect it's similar to some people's surprise at finding out that stand-up comedians rehearse their acts, even the spontaneous-seeming "I'm thinking this up as I stand in
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by bonaldi 6y ago
HyperCard is like Concorde: it was replaced by less powerful alternatives (eg PowerPoint) that took away any hope of mass success and left the remaining audience too small to be viable. That's why later successors like LiveCode have to
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Those debates continue - to Scrivener or not to Scrivener is quite the topic with long-form writers. And Final Draft is heavily discussed. But the reason the debate is dying out is because the competition is dying out: Word won. And that do
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by bonaldi 6y ago
AIM was one of the very first apps on the iOS store — right out the gate. They could have sold it for $0.99 and seen how that went — it went surprisingly well for WhatsApp, after all.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
With the *REMOTE, *VIEW and *NOTIFY commands you could also have a huge amount of fun in class (much of it invisible to the teacher). We also found a privilege escalation endpoint, and were only caught when the network server was upgraded t
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by bonaldi 6y ago
My Sony MDR-V6s were purchased by a relative in the 1980s for use with a vinyl deck and are connected to a Mac today, having worked with cassettes, minidiscs, CDs and iPods along the way. With nothing more than replacement earpads they stil
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by bonaldi 6y ago
It's a shame that iMessage isn't an option (for users, not in the poll!). It's nothing like a perfect option, but if anything is going to beat WhatsApp for mindshare it's something from Apple which already has an enormou
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by bonaldi 6y ago
One of my problems with it is the horrible and overloaded terminology. "I'll call them losers, but I don't mean they're losers". Fine, find a better and less pejorative term, then. People deserve dignity, even if th
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by bonaldi 6y ago
No wireless charging, less space than a Nomad. And even more expensive than an iPod.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Anyone know what terminal font they’re using here?
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by bonaldi 6y ago
> With richtext I need to mark the Text and click some button/menu-item OR learn a gazillion shortcuts for every little syntax-function. Cmd-B for bold is exactly the same number of keystrokes as shift-8, and is exactly the same amo
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Suspect there’s more going on there than the naive explanation. Repeatability breaks down quite easily: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/oct/18/racism-psych...
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Spoken French is just a subgroup that is a type of communication behaviour, which is an inherent feature of all social animals. Doesn't mean speaking French is innate or inherent.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
No, racism is not an inherent human feature. A claim like that needs better justification than ... none at all.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Yes Markdown was fundamentally a hack around the limitations of <textarea>, especially as used in CMS interfaces like Movable Type. In my alternate timeline, 90s Netscape would have added rich text support to those (likely submitting
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by bonaldi 6y ago
I am comparing basic rich text editing (eg the Mac of the 1980s) with the plain text areas and email composers that Markdown was designed for. In rich text interfaces, keyboard shortcuts do more and work better than they do when typing Mark
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Not usually, no. But applying formatting on top of selection is another rich text benefit: with text selected cmd-B makes it bold, shift-8 just replaces the selection with an asterisk (in a standard text field)
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Rich text editing doesn’t demand a mouse: it’s the same number of keystrokes to press cmd-b as it is to do shift-8. But if the intended output is rich text, then wysiwyg is a better interface for editing, yes. Not everything needs to degrad
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by bonaldi 6y ago
I've always found it strange that such a strong Mac advocate as Gruber was behind Markdown. After all, the Mac was doing real rich text in 1984, and with just one more push in the early browser days we might have got there for the web
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Where do you get the idea that free speech means "freedom from consequences"? You're allowed to say offensive things, but you're not immune from (eg) getting fired for it
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by bonaldi 6y ago
well consider the laws mandating equality of coverage in broadcasting in some jurisdictions if you like — those apply directly to the publishers, not the content creators. The core point is the same: the platforms want to avoid enforced reg
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by bonaldi 6y ago
The way to preserve free speech (really "free promotion" or "free publishing" in this case, as there are other avenues for these videos) is exactly what you say — consequences. Newspapers have free speech, but are subjec
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by bonaldi 6y ago
OK, here are the receipts: internal MS emails from just a couple of years after this (in the run-up to Vista) literally saying that they expect to be compared to Tiger and found wanting: https://www.crn.com/news/applica
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by bonaldi 6y ago
Think of it as "rivalry", perhaps. Think of a mass-market car company that outsells a luxury brands 5x or 10x but whose designers still swipe ideas from them.
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by bonaldi 6y ago
The wider context around the specific issues can still be useful in deciding what's "best" (distinct from "right"). EG: look at the antitrust case Apple lost over eBook pricing. The rules said they should lose in or
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by bonaldi 6y ago
It's fairly typical for the BBC to hold fire until the trial concludes and the legal restrictions around reporting are lifted. I'm not sure I see the AP as having more "in depth" reporting, it just has a greater quantity
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by bonaldi 6y ago
My point is that you shouldn't have to be contrite that you can't meet employer's insane demands. You should be able to reject demands to do midnight calls whether or not it's because you have a kid or because you want t
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by bonaldi 6y ago
"I solve world hunger" is a high bar to set for people to establish boundaries with their employers. "I can't do this weekly midnight call" should really be enough. That makes things better for everyone: it means th
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by bonaldi 6y ago
I don’t think you do get it, no. Staff are not “asking their colleagues to finance their lifestyles”, they are asking their managers to accommodate their needs so they can continue to contribute the best they can to the company. If bosses

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