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by flomo 10y ago
> they scale based on the number of trolls Low-level trolling has almost zero cost on wikipedia, you don't even need an account. Especially for articles that are largely politically uncontroversial and "done". So they prob
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by flomo 10y ago
And I hate that argument too. There are long-term costs for maintaining any page on wikipedia, because there's always people out there looking to insert troll content or provide biased information for a specifically-targeted search ter
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by flomo 10y ago
I don't use Python, but there are some super cringy naming suggestions in that thread. This is the kind of thing where you are appealing to a legacy user base and there's no reason to get smirky about it. Something like Twothon, B
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by flomo 10y ago
I half-agree with you, because at some point, software versioning and the notion of stable apis went all post-modern (especially with open source). But we used to pay software vendors a lot of money to care about boring things like backward
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by flomo 10y ago
He is inserting his own bias without considering the obvious: Infrastructure doesn't vote. It doesn't really matter where you are, politics state that money is going mostly to people and not into the ground. San Francisco, where I
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by flomo 10y ago
If only that were true... "Fixing a DOS machine" used to be the entry level skillset to get into IT. At this point, the issue is more faded memories than finding the people who did it. (My first real IT job was creating the DOS co
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by flomo 10y ago
Supposedly, Microsoft Office used a bytecode language for a long time afterward, at least into the 1990s. Old time Mac users probably remember MS Office 4.2, which was an identical clone of the Windows version and ran like molasses.
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by flomo 10y ago
UNIX is an open standard with a certification program, and Linux certainly tries to follow the standard. The only real reason that a Linux distribution hasn't been UNIX-certified is because RedHat and IBM found there was very little ma
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by flomo 10y ago
No idea who you are thinking of, but yes this is a pseudonym based on a 1970s krautrock album.
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by flomo 10y ago
Wow. I have to say that it is funny how you hear the legendary tales of computing history over and over again and then some little crucial minor details like "we sold the CEO's office on it" eventually slip out. Ok, that was
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by flomo 10y ago
If you google "PHP MySQL", you can find all sorts of horrible tutorials like [1] teaching you to write SQL injections. So unlike users of other languages, PHP programmers are taught the wrong way first and then are expected to fig
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by flomo 10y ago
My conspiracy theory was VC funding required companies to spend X% on Sun/Cisco equipment, whether they needed it or not. In any case expensive, unused Sun servers were lying around everywhere during that period. And you'd hear th
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by flomo 10y ago
Anyone else reminded of Visual C++ for Macintosh circa early 1990s?
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by flomo 10y ago
Even back in the 1980s, ada had a "stodgy government bondage & discipline language" reputation. At least among the hacker set, who back then was all about bit-banging the machine. I'd speculate that ada never received the
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by flomo 10y ago
I had no idea that Grab.app was still around, because Preview.app does mostly the same thing. I'd guess it is hanging around as a backward-compatibility thing.
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by flomo 10y ago
I'd argue the iMac was a different situation because there was an immediate upside to using USB peripherals, namely they were much cheaper than Mac proprietary stuff. For example HP had a popular inkjet printer, the PC (parallel port)
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by flomo 10y ago
> I guess a new engineer may not know that Where() is avaiable, but a seasoned engineer should know I'd guess the opposite. Its only in the last few years that many mainstream languages have adopted this sort of functional syntax. T
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by flomo 10y ago
Sadly, when I first clicked on this, it had a much better headline. Something like "LA Times poll, how sample sizes make it an outlier". Maybe clickbait++, or maybe the NY Times felt better about fingering a young black guy than a
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by flomo 10y ago
The second picture perfectly sets the mood for this piece. The 1970s Plymouth Sapporo in the foreground (a rebranded Mitsubishi Galant). Haven't seen one of those in decades, and this one is rustless. Behind it a 1990s Chevy Caprice, a
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by flomo 10y ago
I once worked with this insane genius who reverse-engineered DOC and PST by bit-banging the files in Visual Basic. Once I mentioned the compound document format and he was puzzled for a second and then shrugged "I guess that's wha
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by flomo 10y ago
Right, and in larger organizations, the "they" are two completely different groups of people. My current situation: Developers in City A are expected to use secure coding standards. But the IT group in City B, halfway across the c
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by flomo 10y ago
If Cooltalk is the same thing I'm thinking about, it took about five minutes to start and absolutely crushed the average PC. Netscape dropped it after a couple point releases. It was Java-based but might have been Windows-only.
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by flomo 10y ago
Worth mentioning that this investment figure would have included lots of stuff beyond what our current minds consider the "computer". It would have also included I/O systems, disk & tape storage, communications, terminals
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by flomo 10y ago
Yes, the single userness of Homebrew became obvious when I inherited a MacBook from someone which also contained some licensed software that couldn't not easily flattened and reinstalled. Homebrew sprays single-user shit all over the p
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by flomo 10y ago
Slashdot's method of scoring comments was overly complicated and probably did not produce any better results than reddit-style voting. However, Slashdot's killer feature was that the reader could filter by comment score and thus o
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by flomo 10y ago
Late reply (this has dropped to pg 6), but here's to you . Our team uses postgres.app, and I know of a number of others who do too. From my standpoint, it is shocking that such a popular and great gateway into the PG world is in this s
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by flomo 10y ago
Well, private browsing really functions as mechanism to discourage people from routinely deleting their cookies. (Which, according to a mid-2000s report, was an extremely common user activity.) Firefox always had an option to delete history
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by flomo 10y ago
It's the standard way of referring to the 'opposition party' in local SF politics.
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by flomo 10y ago
Yeah, I worked on a Rails 1.x app which integrated with an xml feed. IIRC, the options were a library that used regexes internally and had horrible performance (but might have been fine for rss feeds), and another library which wrapped a C
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by flomo 10y ago
Outputting JS as templates or printed text was pretty common before every language added a handy toJson method though.

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