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by flomo 9y ago
Right. I don't mean to dismiss the "value" of the C64. But it was more like Commodore accidentally released something good, and then sold at or below cost to run their lower-end competitors out of business. Commodore 64 obvio
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by flomo 9y ago
Yeah, Commodore's business model seemed to be designing incompatible 6502 computers and throwing them against the wall to see which ones stuck. There was like a dozen of them, and only 2 or 3 really mattered. When they were riding high
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by flomo 9y ago
Believe this is what people are looking for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
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by flomo 9y ago
Something like this happened when I was a kid and it scared the heck out of me. Suddenly there was this loud garbled voice booming from the stereo speakers. I thought it was the devil or something. Turned out to be the radio enthusiast who
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by flomo 9y ago
Because I downvoted you, I'll say that critiques like this are totally ineffective without examples. I haven't worked with Windows/IIS in like ten years, but I recall they had APIs for certificate management and http, system
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by flomo 9y ago
Firefox had a Console window which displayed error messages from the very beginning. But I have no idea if you could log to it.
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by flomo 9y ago
Hmm, testing it here on Mac Office 15, it does work if you use .xls, but it throws an error message first. So much for that trick...
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by flomo 9y ago
Similarly, you can also create a HTML document containing a single <table>, and Excel will open it with the right extension/mime type.
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by flomo 9y ago
Wow, a Lotus Domino website that is still in use. (That page was updated 9/5/17.)
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by flomo 9y ago
For certain jobs like Bank Tellers or Travel Agents, it might have been computer terminal -> typing -> "woman's work". My dad, for example, didn't learn how to type until the late 1990s.
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by flomo 9y ago
To a great degree, "modern web standards" are an exercise in reinventing proprietary Microsoft stuff from the 1990s. (Or replacing some thing that Java or Flash had done for years.)
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by flomo 9y ago
"Third party widgets" was the use case. The idea was to build a marketplace for frontend components, much like existed for Visual Basic, eg. the average web developer would buy/download BobsTreeView.htc and bind an XML file a
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by flomo 9y ago
Interesting. Clicking around from that link and found that the famous Chicago cholera outbreak was a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_...
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by flomo 9y ago
Visual Basic always struck me as the grown-up version of Hypercard.
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by flomo 9y ago
My memories of playing it as a child is kids crying and whining. I think this game is designed so nobody really wins, they just slowly bleed the losers until they have a breakdown and quit. Playing it as an adult, it was mostly an excuse to
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by flomo 9y ago
I was lucky enough to have a second hand Apple ][ from a "hacker", it had a ][+ rom and was pretty much loaded to the gills with a "z80 softcard" and etc. The slot 3 80-column card also had 16K RAM and was the only full-
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by flomo 9y ago
Not trying to rewrite history at all. It was reported that Intel had developed their own version of x86-64, but was withholding it because of Itanium. If Intel had pushed it to market first, both Microsoft and AMD would have followed along.
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by flomo 9y ago
Not to disagree with your point about monopolism, but "Intel Inside" came about in that weird period of PC history where IBM had been dethroned, but nobody had taken charge. PC companies were manufacturing "clones" of in
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by flomo 9y ago
No idea if this is true, but the meme was that you could only write BASIC for the TI99, assembly was forbidden somehow. For the most part, hackers avoided this system like the plague, despite all the advertisements starring Bill Cosby.
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by flomo 9y ago
I've heard it argued that burning Intel was intentional strategy as Jobs wanted Firewire to be associated with the Mac. People bought Macs simply because they couldn't get their DV cameras working with a third-party Windows-based
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by flomo 9y ago
Originally from Minneapolis. Farmlands extend infinitely outwards in all directions. The real Met Council power is over the sewer pipes, which allows them to limit sprawl and set a growth boundary. Maybe things have changed, but it used to
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by flomo 10y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that sounds pretty much exactly how Win16 apps worked on 32-bit NT.
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by flomo 10y ago
> But it maintained quality via community, and through a simple $10 barrier. One thing written-out of the official history. 10bux was introduced when SA had a wide variety of infringing bittorrent links in various subforums. Somehow, Low
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by flomo 10y ago
Wow, that is the exact article where I learned this stuff from. (Funny how your memory gets jogged like that.) I was an Apple guy and a late comer to the PC world, and PC Magazine was pretty much a must-read back in the day. Lots of good t
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by flomo 10y ago
Aside from the creative exercise, it is a complete dud argument because Mozilla isn't comparing and contrasting with their own licenses and user agreements. I mean, does Mozilla even offer album art downloads? Because I don't even
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by flomo 10y ago
As a tourist in lower Manhattan, the Citibike stations seemed to be everywhere, and I saw a number other people riding them. So I felt confident that I could rent a bike and later find a station to drop it off. Still, it was expensive. In S
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by flomo 10y ago
Right now, the biggest pile of useless stuff I have is .. video games. (~Twenty years ago I bought every Atari/Intellivision/Vetrex/etc game I could find at various flea market and thrift stores, and for the last ten I'v
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by flomo 10y ago
As a practical matter, the IRS has bigger fish to fry. There's so many lower-income people who don't pay income tax, and a few get made an example of, but most fly under the radar indefinitely.
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by flomo 10y ago
The problem is being addressed both supply-side (H1B body shops) and demand-side (salaries and working conditions are broadly better than they used to be IMO). So it is hard to say. I do think there is some truth in "ten years of exper
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by flomo 10y ago
FYI, you can still buy commercial microwaves with knob controls and an absence of useless buttons.

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