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by flomo 8y ago
My IP address is surprisingly stable. (Know this because I have to update a work app when it changes.) I'd logged into and used many google properties after I cleared cookies. What I searched for on Youtube was not oven or housewife re
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by flomo 8y ago
Had a similar experience a few years ago. I cleared cookies and visited YouTube a couple days later. It showed me an advert for an oven starring Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch mom), who died not long afterwards. Google has all this data on
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by flomo 8y ago
I miss pre-commercial Usenet too. But I think it was a completely different feel than HN/Reddit. You could surf the net for a couple hours, engage in a long-form argument, forget about it and come back a couple days later to reply. It
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by flomo 8y ago
I think I started using the Internet in 1990, and I was at the center of "GopherSpace". Email was the killer app, but otherwise it was only slightly useful for "information sharing". I recall pulling some US Census data,
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by flomo 8y ago
Both Sears and K-Mart were crappy dumps 30 years ago. Not saying a competent manager couldn't have turned them around, but they've been on their way down for a long time.
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by flomo 8y ago
Something like that happened in Oakland, CA in 2007. Took 26 days to repair. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30collapse.html https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-MAZE-
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by flomo 8y ago
As a native of Minneapolis, I support the gist of this policy. But I also have knowledge of the zoning history of the city, and the narrative in this story seems incredibly wrong. Minneapolis actually had "Manhattan" zoning in man
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by flomo 8y ago
> If IBM has one brain cell left, they'll pull a NeXT/Apple merger and let Red Hat executives start running the combined company. Honestly, I could see that happening and working out great .. for legacy IBM customers. But if yo
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by flomo 8y ago
Problem is it takes forever for the egg to hatch. SF Central Stubway took 20 years to construct and will take another 20 years to reach the wharf. Caltrain DTX has been in planning for 20 years, construction probably won't start until
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by flomo 8y ago
Yep, I talked to someone years ago who was working in an non-climate-controlled space in the attic above their Union Square store. Hopefully they have a better office now. But really posting because their name seem to break this site. This
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by flomo 8y ago
Can't directly help, but I work with some freelancers who aren't homeless, but have a quite vagabond lifestyle. The good ones know when they are "on" a project they really need to be "online" during business ho
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by flomo 8y ago
In this case, there are official boundaries and they actually matter quite a bit for local politics. "East Cut" is a local neighborhood association which rebranded itself so it could expand its territory.
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by flomo 8y ago
Not strictly, but the original plan was to have Microsoft market OS/2 2.0 to the clone makers. So when MS walked away, IBM didn't have a good story for 3rd parties. OS/2 2 had drivers for stuff with names like "IBM 3142&
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by flomo 8y ago
I won't defend Ballmer, but the guy was a salesman, a really good salesman. Not a technologist. Also Bill Gates was "chief software architect" during the Longhorn/Vista thing so he's hardly absolved of blame.
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by flomo 8y ago
You could probably find this info in the trade press like InfoWorld, but yes, Microsoft was essentially giving-away Windows to get it catch on. 3rd party ISVs also used "runtime Windows", and you could get a full copy free with a
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by flomo 8y ago
Sure and you could buy SCO UNIX for that machine for only $3500. Everyone knew DOS was awful, but it had all the software, and the alternatives (e.g. OS/2) were worse. Once Windows matured, adoption was immediate.
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by flomo 8y ago
Even to this day, there are certain users who double-click on everything. (e.g. on AJAX forms you always need to disable the button.) My assumption is users are confused when a single click or a double click is appropriate, so they always d
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by flomo 8y ago
Yeah, back then IBM was charging ridiculous margins, and so everyone else was charging merely fat margins. Depending on what brand and sales channel, PC prices were all over the place. And they certainly weren't priced for the consumer
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by flomo 8y ago
FYI, you're just quoting some technobabble. Back in reality there were popular magazines like Discover that would have flashy covers about things like ROUGE PLANETS! Mostly just sensationalism. Some semi-unemployed Hollywood writer
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by flomo 8y ago
On a similar note: > Did you know that the long pointy triangle thing is called a “gore”? > Well, you might survive, because there is a thing there that is designed to crush when you hit it. It might be a QuadGuard Elite Crash Cushion
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by flomo 9y ago
At least for me "professional Excel users" sent out stuff that I could not open, and that is not good for the for the platform. "Spreadsheet macros" were like hot personal computing shit in 1983. Really not good if you c
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by flomo 9y ago
Yep, I think people tend to gloss over how smooth these transitions really were. From a creative professional perspective, they were huge short-term PITA until Adobe etc had everything ported over. Also Excel lost VBA support for several ye
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by flomo 9y ago
Whatever point I thought I was trying to make came out the completely wrong way, so for anyone looking at my post history, I was drunk and disavow this comment.
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by flomo 9y ago
I implemented something like this in a naive way. I took the modified date (previous default sort order) and stored the unix timestamp * 100 in a 64 bit indexed SortVal column. Drag-n-drop sets the SortVal +/-1 relative to the item it
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by flomo 9y ago
NT 3.x was mainly pushed as a server OS targeting Novell Netware. On the PC side it never made sense unless you bought one of these discount surplus Multias. I worked at a F500 and two times DEC reps came into sell NT/Alpha, and both o
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by flomo 9y ago
I signed up for a NY Times Sunday subscription because at the time it was roughly the same price as the full-access digital subscription, but the price has gone up over time. However, I find the print edition is a much better experience tha
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by flomo 9y ago
Ha, thanks for that. The implication was the drivers live in cheaper rural areas and come into the city on weekends to make money. Thus they don't know where they're going and are dependent on internet maps. Back when I drove a ca
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by flomo 9y ago
I drove a cab for beer money back in college, and a year or so ago, I had an interesting discussion with a cab medallion owner, after some typical uber driver cut us off. He thought it was a suckers' game where it looked like you were
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by flomo 9y ago
Mom is still rocking her iPad 2. Really the best piece of tech I've ever bought for her. Zero support calls!
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by flomo 9y ago
I have a Newton 2000 that turns on, but the touch screen matrix isn't working properly, apparently a common issue. Also had a Quadra 950 at one point loaded with 1990s game dev stuff in storage. Pulled it out, it wouldn't turn on

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