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by flomo 4y ago
Sorta interesting I guess, this was a very common abbreviation which seemed to disappear with computerization.
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by flomo 4y ago
Yeah, A lot of those early web apps were total spaghetti garbage hardcoded to a table layout, so if they survived most of them were rewritten from scratch. Of course perl programmers' tricky tendencies didn't help, but also say AS
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by flomo 4y ago
I'm not sure how many Computer Space machines were made, but one ended in the corner of my smokey late 80s arcade. It sorta worked for a bit before glitching out. The game is also seen in the movie Soylent Green (1973) as one of the &q
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by flomo 4y ago
You shouldn't take reddit creative writing seriously.
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by flomo 4y ago
Similar, I had a Mac SE and was maybe the only person in my dorm section to have a new personal computer. But I also knew someone who had bought a Yugo, which was more expensive.
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by flomo 4y ago
IIRC it didn't even have strings, but it did have drawing commands.
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by flomo 4y ago
I had a 6 cylinder VW and the feeling was more 'any gear is fine', so I lost interest. Also grew up driving manuals so never had a problem commuting, its advantageous sometimes to take it out of gear in stop-n-go traffic.
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by flomo 4y ago
I did my part and bought a manual VW. The problem was reselling it. Nobody wanted it.
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by flomo 4y ago
Yep, I used to be a manual fanatic, but I realized it's only 'fun' when the engine is slightly underpowered. On a typical modern car sold in USA you'd practically have to take it to a racetrack.
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by flomo 4y ago
In 1990, it would have been somewhat rare for a college student to own a computer, but there were computer labs everywhere on campus and you had an email address, so it was clear they a part of modern life. They were priced in the 'use
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by flomo 4y ago
Old boss had a handheld computer which ran 1-2-3 from ROM. Spreadsheets on the fly! I think this was it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX
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by flomo 4y ago
I recall when a Linux kernel dev broke it down like 1) files can be slow and correct, 2) or files can be fast and incorrect, 3) but if you want fast and correct, you need a database. Slashdot and other tabloids reported this as "Linux
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by flomo 4y ago
Just posting in agreement. I'd like my Firefox direct from Mozilla, without being molested by some rando 'maintainer' who could do things like null-out SSL code or include their personal "standard violating" config
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by flomo 5y ago
Article is a deep dive into ruby internals, which is technically interesting but probably beyond the average ruby/rails programmer's routine. And otherwise, certainly not relevant to you. The back button is over there. "ME NO
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by flomo 5y ago
Besides NeXT being largely unsuccessful, it was also entirely enterprise-oriented. In an alternate history, perhaps Jobs leverages his fortune and hollywood connections to start "iPod Inc." He always envied Sony's expertise a
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by flomo 5y ago
Yep, I remember comments like "You know Linux is good shit because Linus won't tolerate bad patches." There was a "mailing list alpha male" culture back then which inspired a lot of people to join up. Maybe some peo
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by flomo 5y ago
> smaller supermarkets closer to where people lives Back when these places existed, they were terrible leaches on poor people. High prices, almost rotten meat and produce and etc. Desperate oasises in the "food desert". Many ci
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by flomo 5y ago
There was some crossover between open source *BSD and a closed source OS called BSDi. So this fear was not totally unjustified. Also people were still burned from the "Unix Wars", where closed-source BSD variants played a major ro
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by flomo 5y ago
Yeah, the story I read was Jolitz went AWOL, so there was a contentious period when Net/Open/Free split and self-organized and started releasing again.
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by flomo 5y ago
The answer might be it was easier to duel-boot DOS with Linux in the early days (something about partitioning). However the takeoff point probably wasn't until a few years later when Linux 2.0 was the first with SMP support. Many other
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by flomo 5y ago
> Even on websites, you can feel when you click on a link, it is doing something more It is, analytics hooks which require network round trips. Otherwise disagree and this is false memories and/or very superficial observation of &qu
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by flomo 5y ago
Not sure how many actual customers ran NT on these things. (big mssql shops?) But DEC had also successfully mode-switched into x86 servers and services. At one point, the commodity server sales leaders were Compaq, HP, DEC -- who all merged
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by flomo 5y ago
Yeah, job adverts (and resumes) with "C/C++" usually seem like they are reading off MS VisualStudio marketing and imo a clown indicator. I've seen this with jobs which were really C# or Java (or maybe even VB). Top C++ p
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by flomo 5y ago
One thing is PC hardware back then was often complete crap. You could run diagnostics and get a lot of memory and disk errors, but Windows 95 still ran "okay". It was definitely a lot more stable if you spent the money on good stu
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by flomo 5y ago
The ThinkPad 701 with the butterfly keyboard would bring up BASIC if you removed the hard drive. That was a 486, none of the later machines seemed to do so.
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by flomo 5y ago
> So the 8088 and assembly window was really, really small It really wasn't. Ten years later you could walk into a shop and still purchase an XT-class system. It ran WordPerfect (written in asm) just fine. Newer stuff had come out,
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by flomo 5y ago
Upper classes already do something like M-corps. One thing about prenups is they might not substantially change the outcome, but at least at least people are reviewing the implied contract up-front with their lawyer.
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by flomo 5y ago
Once the odd perspective clicked for me, Zaxxon wasn't bad and there was a 'pattern'. I enjoyed Xevious a lot more though.
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by flomo 5y ago
I can say that San Francisco has an enormous tax base and budget, but most money goes to social services (and corruption) because piers and pipes don't vote.
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by flomo 5y ago
I believe this to be complete bullshit, and the infrastructure deficit is far worse in large cities which supposedly have the population density to pay for it. Look at NYC: everything outside of central Manhattan seems like it's about

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