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601.
by flomo 7y ago
... I have a 2016 MBP and I'm on my third keyboard/topcase (all repairs covered by Apple, so thumbsup). But both times they also decided to replace the logic board even though the computer was working fine and passed their initial
602.
by flomo 7y ago
"Shipped" might be debatable. IIRC, the OS/2-PPC release was more like a preview or private beta. Or at least that's how the OS/2 and PPC fanboys spun it by saying "just wait for the real retail version!"
603.
by flomo 7y ago
Well stated description of the culture around this. I find it hard to take technical critiques of systemd seriously because the well was poisoned from day 1 by personalizing this to such a great degree.
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by flomo 7y ago
(1) Nah, it certainly doesn't work "fantastically", but might work decently enough for you if you have bought an additional ipad stand. (2) If this was some really great solution and not just your personal workaround, Apple w
605.
by flomo 7y ago
My take on the iPad form-factor hasn't really changed since the introduction. Its really great for certain casual use cases, but as soon as you sit down at a desk to get some work done, oh god does this fucking suck. And the keyboard c
606.
by flomo 7y ago
Sounds like the IRS was trying to encourage/strongarm the owners to charitably contribute the piece to a museum by offering them a fat deduction. Yay. (Probably would have better to have this unsalable art owned by the American people
607.
by flomo 7y ago
Sure, Dijkstra said BASIC ruins you, but this is actually a nice incremental improvement over what your 1980s home computer had to offer.
608.
by flomo 7y ago
> Finally, the Web of Trust was a bright, shiny idea — and wrong Yeah, this whole part is some 90s cypherpunk way of modeling human relations, which has never mapped onto any real world relationships. As soon as people had real world dig
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by flomo 7y ago
I've been using Macs since the early 90s, and VSC is fine for me. All the skeuomorphic stuff Apple has put out pretty much shits all over any widget purity arguments IMO. Most users don't care, they just don't want it to look
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by flomo 7y ago
AppleSoft (MS) BASIC came out very early in Apple II lifecycle, and prior to that there would have been no reason to call the original BASIC anything other than BASIC. Afterwards, of course, all the documentation and commands were updated.
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by flomo 7y ago
Sorry to sperg, but "Integer BASIC" was almost certainly a retronym, a term which didn't exist prior to AppleSoft. Originally it was probably called Apple BASIC, just like ever other [manufacturer] BASIC (at least colloquiall
612.
by flomo 7y ago
My take is the use case where you manually merge on to the interstate freeway in clear weather and say "hey google wake me up when we're approaching downtown Boston" is right around the corner. Its all those other use cases w
613.
by flomo 7y ago
Okay, 15 years ago. I think it was Word 2000 which added whatever lawyer features were missing (something about word count iirc). Also the stickiness wasn't entirely the word processor but also document management systems implemented a
614.
by flomo 7y ago
This discussion is using the present tense for something which mostly happened like 20 years ago.
615.
by flomo 7y ago
Like 10 years ago, I thought it was great when we garnered a client which was one those "Microsoft only" type shops, because I like C#/NET. But the only justification for using it was really "IT made us do it". And
616.
by flomo 7y ago
agreed, just an observance.
617.
by flomo 7y ago
GenX 4 lyfe :)
618.
by flomo 7y ago
The fin de siecle HN is currently in is apparently some GenX midlife crisis phase where we're so mad about ecmascript that we vote up any rando retrocomputing article which gets posted. Like we have to remind ourselves that we loved th
619.
by flomo 7y ago
I think its been a long, long time coming. X11 was effectively left in "hard maintenance mode" in the early 1990s when the Unix vendors abandoned the workstation market. Since then every new system based on *nix has used some othe
620.
by flomo 7y ago
It was a very thin ruse, but there's no real conspiracy theory required. The original iPhone was a beta product rushed to market to make everyone else look "last gen". The final APIs, SDK, store infrastructure, and so on was
621.
by flomo 7y ago
Good question. When you tour these old lighthouses, the gigantic glass lenses are certainly impressive in their construction. The technology may be well understood today, but I doubt you could procure such a thing. (Well maybe if you'r
622.
by flomo 7y ago
I find Slack to be a good incremental improvement over whatever AOL/MSN/Yahoo/Google IM front-ends we used in the old days. Otherwise nothing new.
623.
by flomo 7y ago
Sounds like an interesting hack :) But from the picture its unclear if it had the sharp bright pixels of the old toaster Macs.
624.
by flomo 7y ago
Atari ST had a similar hires/hicontrast black-on-white designed for text display monitor available. If Commodore sold anything similar, I never saw it.
625.
by flomo 7y ago
> The version I have retailed for $3,900, or about $8,400 in 2019 dollars. Had a similar Mac SE with 1MB RAM and 20MB HD. From the university store it was student priced under $2500 with the standard ADB keyboard (iirc $130 and normally
626.
by flomo 7y ago
OS/2 was a single user PC OS, it didn't have any physical security or account passwords or etc.
627.
by flomo 7y ago
Yep, every multinational capitalist corporation split themselves into Axis and Allies subdivisions, and continued business as usual during the war. You can point out American corps like IBM and GM, but European corps like Shell did the exac
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by flomo 7y ago
Yes, the location was really not ideal in terms of access, but tbh I don't know where else in the bay area you could hold that kind of event. I think the bigger issue was that every year it felt like 98% of the same exhibits in the sam
629.
by flomo 7y ago
Old tyme internet user here who doesn't get the slightest bit of cringe out of these statements. Reddit is the closest analogy to usenet which relates to later adopters. And perhaps the WWW technically existed in 1993, it was really 19
630.
by flomo 8y ago
I looked at Coda and thought it was targeting a very specific one person shop type developer. Like the type of person who wanted SASS and minifiers and all that good stuff, but didn't want to deal with NPM and gulp/grunt/webp

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