flomo

29 ms·

421.
by flomo 4y ago
That has long been one of my complaints about Rails. It creates a nice directory structure for the framework's objects. But there's no obvious place by default to put business/application "your logic". So then all t
422.
by flomo 4y ago
I do recall seeing a Franklin in a computer store. But then Apple sued and the outlook was grim. One use case for Apple and CP/M was to be able to run business software by day and play games at night.
423.
by flomo 4y ago
People love Stallman as a moral figurehead. A lot of people who have 'worked for' him consider him to be a terrible boss. There has been many posts like this over the years, when a true believer figures out the leader is terrible
424.
by flomo 4y ago
A long time ago, I worked at a place which was an IBM partner (for other reasons), and I went to an iSeries training session. The user interface on these things is really ugly, didn't seem like it would be 'fun' to play aroun
425.
by flomo 4y ago
> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003 Wonderful! Back in the mid-2000s, this annoyed me enough to switch from Thunderbird to Outlook for work mail. Gre
426.
by flomo 4y ago
The banner ad people have moved on to Animate. The 'flash splash' thing went away due to iOS. The people who were doing actual ActionScript dev are using JS now. I'd guess people are just nostalgic for those homemade flash mi
427.
by flomo 4y ago
One of those small cozy niche subs I used to follow is now being spammed by bot reposts. Intelligent posts have dropped off dramatically. It is endemic.
428.
by flomo 4y ago
NIMBYs in their own backyard, not necessarily your backyard. Marc Andreessen for example. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
429.
by flomo 4y ago
An attempt was made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000
430.
by flomo 4y ago
> That his letter pointed out a real problem never seemed controversial. Only in retrospect. At the time, the internet was full of people who thought Symbian was Just Fine. And they had sales figures of millions of (mostly 12-key) "
431.
by flomo 4y ago
Twitter is under a FTC consent degree, which they allegedly have been grossly violating, so the taxpayers are already up in their business.
432.
by flomo 4y ago
They pretty much chose the most expensive route possible, requiring long urban viaducts and numerous tunnels through seismically active areas. It is probably unconstructible, but the engineering consultants made out.
433.
by flomo 4y ago
I thinks the idea is companies would put their back offices in Bakersfield instead of Salt Lake or somewhere.
434.
by flomo 4y ago
The T-Third is also slower than the bus it replaced, and that was only like 20 years ago.
435.
by flomo 4y ago
In ye olden days, my company had a courier who would shuttle interoffice mail between the Walnut Creek and downtown SF offices on BART all day. So I could see this happening.
436.
by flomo 4y ago
Was going to disagree, because you portrayed this as as "unjust personal affront". I mean like everyone who ever got fired from McDonalds thinks "my boss irrationally hates me." But on reflection this happens frequently,
437.
by flomo 4y ago
Since you asked, it was the second edition which came in an academic bundle with iirc Symantec Think C for Macintosh.
438.
by flomo 4y ago
I really don't know any C beyond K&R years ago, but this was an enjoyable read.
439.
by flomo 4y ago
Probably around the same time, we had a client where IBM convinced them to install Lotus Notes/Domino on their iSeries, which ran their factory assembly line. This caused extended downtime and cost them tons of money. IIRC they ultimat
440.
by flomo 4y ago
AFAIK, Gnome2 was the only foss desktop to receive extensive user testing. (Sun dogfooded it with their employees.) Lots of little workflow issues were identified and resolved.
441.
by flomo 4y ago
IIRC, Microsoft actually had an hand in Motif, which followed the IBM Common User Access spec. Some of this I suspect was for legal reasons with Apple suing everyone.
442.
by flomo 4y ago
The Apple II softcard version does show a Microsoft copyright. (This was reportedly the most popular platform for CP/M.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCV81rlwMTU
443.
by flomo 4y ago
fyi, the 0PS/2 Model 030 was always 0junk, it really only existed as discipline and punishment from 0IBM's 0enterprise 0sales.
444.
by flomo 4y ago
C64 software sales were already dropping off dramatically by 1988, which is what this article is alluding to. Yeah, maybe it remained the "pirate's choice" in certain circles, as a lot of the adverts there were for copy carts
445.
by flomo 4y ago
C64 was very similar to the earlier Atari 800, just much cheaper in terms of price and construction, and (reportedly) sold below cost to drive the minor players out of the business. Nobody cross-shopped a CP/M or IBM PC with a Commodor
446.
by flomo 4y ago
This probably goes both ways, where BART wanted a computerized control system and not have to deal with legacy rail systems.
447.
by flomo 4y ago
This was the railfan argument for years, but BART replacement cars were priced similarly to standard cars. Modern mass transit cars are built on customized production lines, so there really isn't any economy of scales they are missing
448.
by flomo 4y ago
Employee benefits like company-provided cars were way more common as it was a more favorable tax situation.
449.
by flomo 4y ago
"Why did you put this French stuff on my computer instead of All-American™ Microsoft?"
450.
by flomo 4y ago
Agreed, also "libre" is a gnu/jargon word which doesn't exist in most people's vocabulary, and probably seems meaningless or foreign.

More ›