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by flomo 5mo ago
Three decades ago, they would relentlessly snailmail spam us with these weekly industry tabloids like 'ComputerWorld' and 'PCWeek'. These were always fun to read at lunch, even if they were all obvious advertisements, bu
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by flomo 5mo ago
Yeah, I chose Rails just an example, could be PHP, could be Elixir, could be this dumbass bun shit, whatever is cool man and get you that VC. I cannot recall any 'Show HNs' based on J2EE, not that it doesn't work.
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by flomo 5mo ago
I think everyone knew the Macintosh was a technical success and "the future". But it was a commercial flop, and Steve Jobs got fired. So obviously he wan't happy about that. (The Mac press back then loved to portray Jobs as s
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by flomo 5mo ago
Yup.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Checked this on wikipedia, and MkLinux came out after they bought Next. ("The mach kernel company"). But obviously everyone in this space knew about Linux.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Hey PJ, I like your posts because you have the historical background on a lot of this stuff that industry has mostly forgotten. But... Since you mentioned it, I actually have read J2EE and WebObjects documentation. And I conclude that WebOb
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by flomo 5mo ago
I can believe that, but I recall some tradepress article about more than 100 companies selling non-java 'web middleware' who got bowled over by J2EE, and otherwise Next would have just been another one of those. That was Sun'
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by flomo 5mo ago
Cocaine and Heroin (and LSD...) were widely available 20-30-40-50 years ago. Maybe this is a "It's the economy, stupid" thing?
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by flomo 5mo ago
They did a serious technical evaluation of MS WinNT. They also obviously knew about Linux. Sources: same as yours.
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by flomo 5mo ago
> "the Macintosh itself was not a commercial success" which is another strange claim Macintosh was in fact not successful for many years, and Apple survived by chanting "Apple II Forever!" at their legacy edu market.
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by flomo 5mo ago
The big issue with Wince was mobile IE was just an awful browser. I probably was not alone in wanting some 'webtop' gadget, but these weren't it. (In other words, iOS safari really was a killer app.)
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by flomo 5mo ago
Not an obvious google (for me), so here's the link: https://air.arb.ca.gov/Forms/VehicleComplaint/SmokingVehicle
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by flomo 5mo ago
Yeah, if I understand correctly, the Rust project has no intention to formally 'define' what unsafe actually does, so its very implicit. Could be anything... so it's the Does It Work? standard.
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by flomo 5mo ago
All that is true, but only the first part of the story. The OpenStep stuff was also not really successful and effectively became a very expensive MS Windows dev tool (or least that's where 99% of revenue came from). Next's only re
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by flomo 5mo ago
No. The 'old school' hated 538 and polling wonks in general. Back in the 2000s there was a huge push back because this blog guy had numbers going against whatever narrative they were trying spin.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Jobs was going around trying to sell this to programmers at wall street banks and etc, so he definitely understood that stuff (beyond the drag-n-drop sense). You can probably find some demos on youtube. Its basically true that there wasn&#x
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by flomo 5mo ago
Not sure what point exactly you are making. But the Wall Street Journal had a bunch of stuff about Apple engaging what was later known as 'Enron-style accounting'. They were a big company, and they did have a serious cashflow prob
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by flomo 5mo ago
I think its a good question, just because the whole UB thing is such an ideological shibboleth. Maybe its better to think about this in the reverse, where C and C++ has 'defined behavior', but unsafe rust intentionally does not, i
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by flomo 5mo ago
spoiler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8Z7y_QcwE
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by flomo 5mo ago
Not complicated. Thing shows banner ads. Only makes money when expenses are zero.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Am I the only one who remembers how shady a lot of those VPS/hosting companies were? Seemed to be a race to the bottom, so a 'good' outfit might suck or completely disappear a couple years later. (Also, pricing was all over t
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by flomo 5mo ago
Google and Apple maps are terrible at showing you back roads which actually go through. So I carry Delorme Atlas books. On the other hand, I'm glad I no longer need a Thomas Guide (or whatever your local urban mapbook was called.)
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by flomo 5mo ago
This term was how 'true leftists' would separate themselves from the Soviet Union and 'old communism'. So imo, China is something else. (Or as Chomsky says, USA is also state capitalist, so could be anyone!)
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by flomo 5mo ago
Karmawhore strategy. F5 on /new. Scan the article and then race to object to some minor sentence. Upvotes mean you are a smart lil guy. Happens frequently.
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by flomo 5mo ago
The whole thing just shows a huge lack of imagination, at least for something which is supposedly a 'founding document'. Barlow's "cyberspace" is for irrelevant shit like furry larping or talking about the latest De
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by flomo 5mo ago
Did people really carry a compass? (and did it even work inside a car? I think you could get one to stick on the mirror.)
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by flomo 5mo ago
In a previous life, I would go to a lot of art movies, often matinees or monday or etc. Sometimes there was one guy who was working the box-office, the snackbar, and the projection. I was glad he had a job.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Reflection of the happy user's face on the monitor, engaging in pleasing human-computer interaction.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Ideally about 99% of LinkedIn users are using their professional name, occupation, and location.
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by flomo 5mo ago
Probably mostly for abuse prevention. Lots of extensions like this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-data...

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