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by csixty4 11y ago
Depends on when you're talking about. When I got my Ripco internet account in 1994, they made me get a parents' signature on a waiver before I could have access because I might encounter adult conversations and pictures of naked p
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Not really. We rallied pretty hard against the Clipper Chip. John Perry Barlow ran in those circles (he interviewed Ted Nelson for one Mondo issue) and the EFF was a big presence in the hacker culture. I'll admit we were naive about
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I feel like an upvote doesn't do this comment justice. The Guy I Almost Was puts so much of the mid-90s "cyberculture" in perspective. I make a point of reading it every winter, when the dark grey New England skies leave me d
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There was a discussion about Mondo 2000 here on HN maybe a year ago, and I remember someone commenting that they & all their friends growing up in California saw Mondo as a huge joke. Their parents and older friends were all working wit
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> I don't know why it failed At the time, the Amiga name didn't have a lot of mainstream recognition anymore. And the people who still cared about Amiga slammed AA every chance they got on amiga.org & amigaworld.net because
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I know the headline is talking about something different, but I always think something along the same lines when someone talks about iOS multitasking. Does the kernel have a Process Control Block? Is there interrupt-driven preemption? Well,
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> I hear folks say that, but don't encounter it in the wild. Maybe once in 20 years so far. It was the cause of the "goto fail" SSL bug that affected both of Apple's operating systems last year: https://nak
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by csixty4 11y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. Sega built arcade hardware almost identical to their SG-1000 console and ported some of its games to it. Most Neo-Geo arcade "MVS" cartridges were the same as the home "AES&quot
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by csixty4 11y ago
Yes it was, on the Playchoice 10 platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayChoice-10
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> just discovered the 'guid' column on the posts table is hardcoded as the URL of the post It comes up every so often. The WordPress devs are well aware of the platform's warts & WTFs. People have talked for a while ab
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How is this different from iNames, OpenID, CardSpace, and all the decentralized identity platforms that came before it? Federated identity isn't anything new, and throwing a blockchain behind it is just an implementation detail. The co
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I definitely got a chuckle out of it.
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Probably referring to MSN Direct (2004) http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3932102/ns/technology_and_science-...
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I'm sure someone around here could do something with bostoncoder.com - email dave@davidmichaelross.com & make an offer.
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There's always one guy (and it's usually guy) who wants to share his tunes with everybody on the bus or subway. As for me, I do it when I'm at home all the time, when I'm doing chores or working from home.
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I haven't heard that name since leaving the Midwest.
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Microsoft used their private APIs in other software to give it an unfair advantage over their competitors, and they did it while they had a monopoly position in their market. That's why the DoJ went after them. Apple doesn't have
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Bil Herd's talk at a LUCKI expo gives some good insight into how Commodore (and Jack) worked. The page says 1991, but it was probably 2001-2004. I was there for this one, and I didn't start going to Commodore conventions until 199
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I don't want this to be seen as excusing this behavior or justifying it, so let's get that on the table right away. In some cases, they may be well aware of the consequences & just not care. I went through a phase in my early
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It might help to consider TV as the Internet before the real Internet made its way into people's homes. You got a newspaper once a day, but cable TV news was up-to-the-minute, and local TV news filled you in on local events from the da
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(well, taking part in that part of it anyway)
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I'm sure the slave import restrictions had something to do with it. There were also the Triangular Trade routes from Africa (rum for slaves) -> West Indies (slaves for molasses) -> Boston (molasses for rum) -> Africa In doing
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Yep, that's about right. In the heyday of the 8-bit & 16-bit machines, US users were more focused on user groups than a demoscene. We didn't "party" much. It never became a thing here.
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This is usually handled with GPS re-transmitters that have an antenna on the surface, or with eGPS from underground cell phone "towers".
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I frequent a forum for Apple fans and I've seen there's a mix of experiences. Some people have perfectly fine experiences. Other people's computers are so messed up they're better off with an exorcist than the Genius Bar
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Why, yes, it has been a couple months since the last Toxoplasma freakout in the press. Guess we were due for one.
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Detroit has also raised the price of water a couple times over the last decade to make up for budget shortfalls from lower tax revenue. I think it's more than double what it was in 2005.
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I've been looking for a particular quote about this, and just found it. I thought it was a random forum poster, but it was actually John Gruber from Daring Fireball: "The design of the iPhone software was entirely informed by the
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I agree 100%. But I also remember posts on different forums about how button shapes are a skeuomorphic anachronism that nobody needs anymore. So if Apple didn't address that audience, they'd still be screaming about Apple's b
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It definitely bugs me that the entire submission was a link to Wikipedia and...that's it. No "Ask HN" about this historic console, and not a link to a blog post about how cool it was to finally play this mythical home system

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