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by flomo 6y ago
Just posting in agreement. I've never been a fan of reddit, but have found myself lurking there far more often since the redesign (which admittedly is bloated). Old reddit was too wonky-looking and disproportionate for me to take serio
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by flomo 6y ago
Another option would be a Ethernet-Localtalk bridge box (which were commonly used for Apple printers). These used to be dirt cheap on ebay, but I guess people are into this stuff and they're now over $100.
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by flomo 6y ago
I used some early versions of Excel and am completely shocked the legacy macros still work. Article if you want to do some Win32 programming in XLM. https://outflank.nl/blog/2018/10/06/old-school-evil-exc
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by flomo 6y ago
For a TUI program Wordstar seemed much more accessible than WordPerfect. But I guess WP was more aimed at professional secretaries and typists, and people with offbrand printers. When I was first messing around with Linux, I was (pleasantly
545.
by flomo 6y ago
The basic tension here is designers are often not really designing a "style sheet" (even if they think they are). So a lot of elements end up being similar, but not the same. And all responsive states are often 'you figure it
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by flomo 6y ago
On the other hand, back in the 1980s Lee Iacocca was promoting American Innovation with the Chrysler talking car. So imagine a 1983 K-car saying "The door is ajar. The door is ajar. The door is ajar. The door is ajar," until you w
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by flomo 6y ago
Railroad land grants in the Western US were generally handed out in a checkerboard pattern, and that's apparently what happened here. https://www.pscondos.com/palm-springs-indian-lease-land/
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by flomo 6y ago
Nopay 2016 article about the recipient and other war funds: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/civil-war-ve...
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by flomo 6y ago
Ah, okay.
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by flomo 6y ago
I mean they replaced it back in ~2001 so 2008 was the official version. Not that it makes a real difference.
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by flomo 6y ago
Even ignoring the "expected" inflation of costs. IMO the bottom line with California HSR is it would require far more tunneling than is feasible to construct. They studied it extensively, and LA-SF high speed rail just didn't
552.
by flomo 6y ago
If I recall the story correctly, Caltrans replaced the guerrilla sign with an official one in the same location, and returned the replica to the artist.
553.
by flomo 6y ago
I've only played in person a handful of times (hard to organize even if you really want to). But every game ended in a story which we friends have retold and mythologized over the years. I'll probably never play a real game of D
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by flomo 7y ago
Maybe they weren't called bootcamps, but these short webdev training courses have been around since the late 1990s.
555.
by flomo 7y ago
Totally untrue. Sun had all sorts of legal contracts committees and procedures and testing suites to manage java forking into different environments. Sun sued Microsoft for $1 BILLION dollars for violating their Java license. Sun and Google
556.
by flomo 7y ago
Right, everyone was well aware. But I think there was a bit of "We don't need to worry because we're replacing the mainframe with the new ERP system in 1997", and then whoops the mainframe was still running.
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by flomo 7y ago
The part that's missing from Ars' story is when IBM and Oracle shook hands and decided that SQL was a super-awesome standard that everyone else in the industry should be able adopt for free. Yay! So not happening, sry. Java was di
558.
by flomo 7y ago
Very surprised after all these years (decades?) they have not done something like this. Basic has been a low priority at MS for a long time now.
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by flomo 7y ago
Late reply but it frustrates me when these examples are all (1) public standarda, or (2) two companies in bed with each other. The best counter-example I can think of is "Microsoft NWLink", which was a Netware 3-compatible file se
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by flomo 7y ago
Thanks for posting this explanation. Bolinas is also pretty infamous as the only town in California that Caltrans can't post a sign pointing too. It does hit on the fundamental Bay Area issue that almost all water is imported, and ther
561.
by flomo 7y ago
Good points, but it's probably not "empty land" we're talking about. Instead, it is an existing development which is not the "highest and best use". Prop 13 means underdeveloped properties can still be quite pr
562.
by flomo 7y ago
OS/2 I think was visa-versa, but IBM and Microsoft were in bed with each other so that was all contractual. You guys need to find an example where one company offered licensing and the other simply refused to negotiate.
563.
by flomo 7y ago
Gopher, not csci. The University certainly did promote their Cray supercomputing connection for local business support, just as GP describes. Cray computer was the cover model for the coursebook, while us plebs really got to timeshare on a
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by flomo 7y ago
Keep in mind these hostnames were generally quite descriptive of their network location, and people could vouch for that. There was no typo squatting or fishing going on. This guy's host file became popular mostly because local sysadmi
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by flomo 7y ago
No, the early peripherals were the same stuff with a different plug. Two years later, people were copying Apple designs. But they still do that to this day and it is not 'for Apple users', just that Apple is known for great design
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by flomo 7y ago
To this day , everyone copies Apple's industrial design. So I'm not sold those Braun Iron printers were for Mac users, or just what was in fashion for the time.
567.
by flomo 7y ago
IIRC Windows 98 was released 2 months after the iMac, so Apple has received a lot of credit for hardware that was probably mostly intended for Windows users. As the article mentions, it originally was supposed to be Windows 97. (USB was fin
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by flomo 7y ago
At one point years ago I signed-up for Quora, and the question feed was filled with stuff like: * Did Picard violate the Prime Directive in TNG S6E13? * If five ninjas attacked you, how you would you physically defeat them? * Here's th
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by flomo 7y ago
IIRC, there was a lawsuit which was settled. Check old Infoworld or other traderags.
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by flomo 7y ago
I'm sure there's tons of patents, but the p6 core came out in 1995 and most of the 32 bit stuff predates that and has all been patent free for quite a while. I guess if you're building your own processor, why make an x86?

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