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by eschaton 11y ago
You've got the causality reversed. The Apple Lisa introduced the command-Z/X/C/V keyboard equivalents for undo/cut/copy/paste, and they were kept with the Macintosh and Apple IIgs. IBM CUA and Microsoft Wi
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by eschaton 11y ago
Drivers and support for platforms should be separate from the kernel and work via a stable and well-designed API & ABI. The lack of this has been Linux's single biggest design flaw from the beginning.
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by eschaton 11y ago
You can probably see exactly that kind of benchmark in BYTE issues from 1994-1997 at archive.org, I think they did a couple benchmark roundups of PC UNIX back then.
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by eschaton 11y ago
If you can, I'd love to see those benchmarks not just on SunOS 4.1 or Solaris, but on something like NetBSD 7.0 using a recent GCC or clang. It might make for a good comparison since the hardware is close to what the benchmark was orig
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by eschaton 11y ago
It looks like a throwback to Windows 95 because it actually appears to clone the NEXTSTEP look and feel, which is what Windows 95 also cloned.
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by eschaton 11y ago
Mapping the paddle buttons to meta keys was such a good idea that Apple used it on the Apple //e with the open-Apple and closed-Apple (eventually option) keys. Was that a common thing for extended keyboards in the Apple ][ era?
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by eschaton 11y ago
At least on OS X, you could probably implement something like this using supported functionality for interrogating the OS state, and even interrogating the state of running applications using the accessibility APIs.
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by eschaton 11y ago
It's really a bummer that whoever it is who bought the Symbolics intellectual property at probate* hasn't been more open about their plans for it or how they will be opening it up to the world. The Symbolics intellectual property
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by eschaton 11y ago
This is pretty much why Jordan Hubbard &co are bringing Mach IPC and other NeXT/Apple technologies to FreeBSD: http://youtu.be/49sPYHh473U It turns out that some of these problems already do have pretty decent solu
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by eschaton 11y ago
I thought the RPi 2 was armv7, why is the image for it using armv6? Does BSD support fat/multi-architecture binaries?
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by eschaton 12y ago
Why not start with Hemlock or CLIMacs atop a CLIM implementation, or take the (MIT-licensed) ZWEI codebase and bring that forward? Is there really all that much in GNU emacs that is really widely used?
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by eschaton 12y ago
Neither NeWS not Display PostScript were written in Objective-C, as far as I recall they were both written in C. They also both actually did implement substantial portions of their respective window systems in PostScript. They didn't j
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by eschaton 12y ago
Have you considered hosting the images on imgur or another such site, at least during HN traffic? Until such time as people can reasonably get their hands on OpenGenera (which I gather might now be in the hands of CL-HTTP's author) peo
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by eschaton 12y ago
You mean like the command line on Lisp machines, such as this example from Symbolics Genera? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk The command line is contextually intelligent and presents interactive graphics and tex
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by eschaton 12y ago
What always surprises me is that so many don't know or use the directory stack commands, pushd and popd. I'll admit I was also ignorant of them until something like 2005, but once I learned of them I switched and never looked back
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by eschaton 12y ago
Seems like this could be handled more like the Symbolics Genera command line, which offered extensible intelligent commands with context-sensitive completions. Here's a demo by Kalman Reti: http://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk
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by eschaton 13y ago
And Minix was essentially a clone of IBM PC-IX, which was essentially a UNIX Version 7 for the PC and PC-XT that could also run off floppies.
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by eschaton 13y ago
The TRS-80 Model II/16 or just the Model 16? It shouldn't surprise you that there was also a version of 68000 Xenix for the Lisa.
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by eschaton 13y ago
This is why there is regulation of the finance sector, and exactly what happens when companies and individuals try to pretend the regulation doesn't apply to them. If you want to start an online financial services business, the first t
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by eschaton 13y ago
You misspelled "freedom fighter" and deserve downvotes for attempting to shut down discussion with a bogus analogy.
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by eschaton 13y ago
Who else hates the ignorance inherent in phrases like "the fair use law." They got it right in the very next sentence of their FAQ ("doctrine of fair use"). And then they made the same mistake again later with "the
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by eschaton 13y ago
Ponzi schemes aren't OK. They're a form of theft, both immoral and illegal.
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by eschaton 13y ago
If you've been following what's actually gone on in the Bitcoin world for any length of time, you'd know that "BTC investors" aren't "more sophisticated" - they tend to be less so. For one example, ta
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by eschaton 13y ago
This assumes the title of the "original owner" of the land was valid. Somehow I think there just may be some legitimate claims that go further back than to someone of Spanish descent in the 1830s.
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by eschaton 13y ago
The original Mac's display was 512x342, not 384.
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by eschaton 13y ago
I'll come right out and say it: learning to program will teach you to think better. It gives you another tool with which to interpret and analyze the world, and if applied well that actually can result in better thought.
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by eschaton 13y ago
Your use of the term "tattle" makes it sound like perhaps you've done something someone didn't like in the past, and they reported it, and you had to deal with the consequences. If they'd just approached you directl
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by eschaton 13y ago
So what do you suggest a victim do? How do you suggest a victim confront a bully? Ask them to please stop because it's not very nice, and maybe they're just not aware of it, and only once they escalate after that (and they will) g
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by eschaton 13y ago
Awareness means more than knowing something can happen. It means having ways to address it. It is not the victim's responsibility to "stand up to" a bully. It is the responsibility of the power structure to prevent bullying a
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by eschaton 13y ago
Stop blaming the victim. Victim-blaming puts the onus on the victim to prevent something that is neither their fault nor their responsibility. You don't get bullied because you haven't been singled out by a bully, not because you

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