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by drfuchs 5y ago
More directly comparable to renouncing “All the world’s an x86” around now.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
New York held a competition for establishing a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford competed strongly, and was considered the shoo-in candidate, but they were sent home with their tail between their legs when the Cornell / Technion
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Phyllis Winkler, long-time secretary to Don Knuth, used to refer to it as “Pigeon Poo”.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
And nobody noticed for years, since the Win95 would typically crash way before then.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Emacs gets it right; the asterisk disappears even if you execute many actions and then multi-undo back to the starting state.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Unhappily, you can’t be at Fry’s anymore, bored or otherwise.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Right; Frame was still beta in 86.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Created with FrameMaker, as were many reference and user manuals in the day. The first editions of the PS and related manuals were done with FrameMaker when Frame was a separate company; Adobe liked it so much, they’d bought us by the time
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by drfuchs 5y ago
The fun directed graph and associated data table show that "anti-RMS" sentiments way outweighed "pro-RMS".
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by drfuchs 5y ago
The target of the advice specifically asked about the super-early case: "How many super early employees are..."
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by drfuchs 5y ago
If the company is half way to a big IPO, then any new hire is no longer "super early," and the advice doesn't pertain.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
You pay ahead, and if you don't make the cliff, or if you leave after the 1 year cliff but before the full 4 year vest, you get the shares you vested, and a refund of the cash that didn't end up buying the rest.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Super-early employee here. Pay for your options your first day of employment. They should be inexpensive; and your employer should be willing to give you a signing bonus to cover it (after all, the money just goes right back to them). Th
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by drfuchs 5y ago
In the USA, "simply repackaged and sold as new" is illegal for all products, even if the first purchaser hadn't even opened the box. You have to sell it as "refurbished" or some such.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
The French Ministry of National Education tried supporting a similar sort of effort 50 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSE_(programming_language)
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Domino's is launching a pizza delivery robot car(cnn.com)
1 points by drfuchs 5y ago|0 comments
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by drfuchs 5y ago
How about a MacBook Pro 16" with an M1 (or follow-on) chip? It's currently a strange hole in the MacBook lineup, that the big-screen model is Intel-only.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
256; used to be 128 way back when.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
In my experience even many decades ago in the US, the "ring" that the caller hears in their handset before the recipient picks up is not actually from the "bell" of the recipient's handset; rather, I understand, it
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Excellent. Glad to know it wasn't completely apocryphal!
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Perhaps you missed the point: An entire country's worth of customers had a product they paid maybe $1,000 for become completely useless all at once, for no good reason. And this was at a time that software came on floppy disks or CDs i
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Heard in the halls of Adobe in 1995: In an earlier version of Photoshop, a high-ranking member of the team had snuck in a Halloween easter-egg, but failed to take account of the fact that text encodings for the Japanese version's strin
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Arguably, there is no algorithmic way to compute high-quality kerning based on character shapes (just as there's no way to determine, say, character width just from an outline). If there were, then Apple would build it into MacOS and i
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by drfuchs 6y ago
TeX finds out about character widths and kerning pairs and ligature replacements from outside of TeX itself. TeX is perfectly happy to ligature together "--" into an en-dash, and "---" into an em-dash, and to then kern e
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by drfuchs 6y ago
You’re right, considering the context. Looks like I’m the bigger fool.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
That’s what a “Pump and Dump” is: buy bad investment, talk it up, sell to bigger fools. (Not that this is what’s going on here; think GameStop perhaps.)
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Pardon the "Snappy Answer...," but the NYTimes Sunday Crossword not only has Al Jaffee as the keystone theme answer, but all the other main answers are humorous inventions in his comics that in fact became reality years later. In
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Al Jaffee turns 100(washingtonpost.com)
145 points by drfuchs 6y ago|28 comments
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by drfuchs 6y ago
You said "[custodial parents] do get paid ... child support" and I was simply pointing out that this isn't "pay" to said parent in the sense of "compensation for services rendered".
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Yes, but every hapless user shouldn't have to go searching through a bunch of commit messages to find the suggested replacement. Bad UX.

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