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571.
by flomo 7y ago
I was typing something in response, but I think the best advice is advocating mental health services. Sorry if that violates the rules.
572.
by flomo 7y ago
> Honestly property ownership being default-public seems like a weird anachronism Land registry is a necessary function of local government. But this is one of those things which was historically only available within a government office
573.
by flomo 7y ago
In case any redditors are here, anyone can set up a LLC in California for like $300. I am and have been in a bunch of them, but we've never been successful enough to look into Panamanian services :/
574.
by flomo 7y ago
Majority are likely small-time landlords, local investors, and etc, as it is very easy to set up an LLC. Also, I wonder if HNers describe their startups as "anonymous shell companies"?
575.
by flomo 7y ago
Well, Google is probably going to have to pay Oracle a lot of money, so I guess you can wander around mumbling about relevancy , despite whatever facts are noted by the courts.
576.
by flomo 7y ago
It is the most relevant thing when judges started disagreeing with Google's take on the law. Sun wanted money for X, Google didn't want to pay for X. (And IBM didn't want money for SQL.)
577.
by flomo 7y ago
Almost certainly IBM was a major contributor to the SQL standard. Since the entire point of a "standard" is to encourage third-party adoption, so it would rather difficult to sue anyone, imo. Sun set up a certification process for
578.
by flomo 7y ago
> I don't think engineers use frameworks because they think it makes them look cool. I've been in this line of work for a long time, and I'll admit its a huge factor. Webdev is a very fad-driven business, and I've see
579.
by flomo 7y ago
Super interesting primary source with the technical details and a bit about how they built the community. Thanks and merry christmas!
580.
by flomo 7y ago
My understanding is that the old MacOS Classic "Blue box" dates back to making System 7 virtualizable on A/UX. The issue at the time is the typical Unix/X11 graphical application was not really impressive compared to wha
581.
by flomo 7y ago
That sentence conveyed an important fact, but is missing a word or two for technical accuracy. Hopefully, after a long full life, he had much more important things to cringe about! Glad the Times published his obit even with this bit.
582.
by flomo 7y ago
Probably right on the rationale, but I cannot remember anyone using FAX as a symbol. But, not the only obsolete bit of technology in Unicode though.
583.
by flomo 7y ago
Someone with a landline should dial "0" for the operator and see if it still works. (Assuming it does, they will charge you.)
584.
by flomo 7y ago
In USA, stores in chinatown openly sold multi-region DVD players. But outside of immigrant communities, most Americans had no reason to know or care about this. (Also bittorrent was a thing in 2006 so many ppl had moved away from physical d
585.
by flomo 7y ago
Antitrust decree. IBM also did come back and collect royalties from the PC industry.
586.
by flomo 7y ago
I wish I had forgotten about this. Hopefully this webcomic's persistence is actually due to it being a PERL script riffing on dadjokes.txt and whatever reddit lol monkee cheese stuff from 2012.
587.
by flomo 7y ago
I work in marketing and spent years trying to convince people to use less Flash ... but hey look at this snazzy thing a designer just cooked up. This got the to the point where they launched a site and were like "why isn't google
588.
by flomo 7y ago
Ya, but the snark at the time was that Jobs was such a great salesman he sold a dead OS to those dumb suckers at Apple for $400M. (Of course they were really buying Jobs & team.) Still took about 6-8 years for that OS to get good.
589.
by flomo 7y ago
NeXT workstations and OS were not successful, and at this point had largely been shelved. WebObjects was the only thing which they had which was profitable. Most customers were developing/deploying on NT, which (I assume) is why Jobs i
590.
by flomo 7y ago
Awesome, you have a career for life, until you don't.
591.
by flomo 7y ago
Yep. I live in a place where Market St outbound is the most logical way to go. Assuming you can dodge all sorts of buses, garbage trucks, and all the hobos stumbling around on the street. Uber and Lyft refuse to route their rutabaga drive
592.
by flomo 7y ago
I had no involvement in this, but Sun caused some huge split in their userbase with the switch to SysV Solaris. I had an ISP that never switched off SunOS 4 until they went out of business. I've always wondered how much *BSD love is Su
593.
by flomo 7y ago
I like this storyline, because it means myself and some other random webdev folks were a step ahead of Top Google Geniuses because we asked "is your intranet IE only? if so, we have some tricks." Or more likely, AJAX techniques we
594.
by flomo 7y ago
Lots of intranet stuff used it, or anywhere they could mandate IE.
595.
by flomo 7y ago
Right, for those who never used Friendster, you could only see friends-of-friends (to a certain degree of separation). So people would friend the profiles of bars and etc to see more people.
596.
by flomo 7y ago
There was probably about 100 pre-facebook social networking sites not mentioned in this article. Even Yahoo.com had profiles and was sorta proto-social networking. I always thought Friendster was the interesting one, because they had corner
597.
by flomo 7y ago
Redhat EL provides this. There are various engineering reasons for why they don't care for it in the Linus kernels. So it seems nobody wants to invest the engineering effort to do this for Android.
598.
by flomo 7y ago
Didn't know it existed - thanks!
599.
by flomo 7y ago
However BareBones did drop TextWrangler, and that's one of the thing that's going to keep me on Mojave for a while.
600.
by flomo 7y ago
Or it is a feature because they don't care about your particular production support issues.

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