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721.
by flomo 10y ago
Sure, the serious use case is a VM or Docker or etcetera-virtual based solution. However I must have a couple dozen maintenance-mode projects on my system and there's a certain appeal to alt-tabbing from MS Excel or Photoshop to a cons
722.
by flomo 10y ago
And WSL could potentially be a much better experience than OS X's "real Unix" with Homebrew and etc. The paths and base configuration will match your production environment, no worries about version mismatches or missing exte
723.
by flomo 10y ago
I've realized it's pretty much pointless, and here's why. There's a bunch of people who don't really pay taxes and don't understand how wealth and taxes work. But they have to file a 1040 every year, so when y
724.
by flomo 10y ago
Because "generations" are mostly marketing bullshit that are constantly being adjusted to sell the latest newborn consumers youth products. As a GenXer, I always thought it was funny that GenX was defined down to the point that Do
725.
by flomo 10y ago
> I just downloaded and tried it out and lost my enthusiasm. There's no attempt to provide a proper GUI. That was always my take on Commando. In theory, there's an idea there. In practice, it's not clear who it was suppose
726.
by flomo 10y ago
This kit seems very similar to the famous Altair computer which spawned MS-BASIC and CP/M. Anything like Unix and C is not desirable on such a system. Even a 'text editor', as we understand them today, is a reach on such mach
727.
by flomo 10y ago
I see "frozen in time" Omniture (Adobe) analytics tags, but no Google.
728.
by flomo 10y ago
The images were published in high-resolution in some sort of art magazine and probably numerous other places, I cut them out to decorate my dormroom. I've only seen these awful photocopy images on the web, but there are far better ones
729.
by flomo 10y ago
That is the unspoken thing, the "third rail" of SF Bay area housing is the fact we have a huge Green Belt surrounding the bay. Yes, we pride ourselves on our parks and reserves and natural beauty. But meanwhile Marin County's
730.
by flomo 10y ago
> Tiz.com (Liquor distribution is a de jure or de facto monopoly/kleptocracy. Being inefficient is a profit center for them.) This might make for a crappy exponential growth "startup", but there is most likely a great busi
731.
by flomo 11y ago
On the other hand, I strongly suspect TSR was pandering to the ironic satanic heavy metal crowd when they put evil-looking demon things on all of the AD&D core rulebook covers. http://imgur.com/a/bfE4C
732.
by flomo 11y ago
Agree with your gist completely. I’ve worked in the agency world, and there’s loads of “designers” out there who come primarily from a print background and only have a vague clue how the web medium actually functions. They often try to do s
733.
by flomo 11y ago
I see the exactly opposite. There's so many poorly written wikipedia entries which read as "Fact. Other Disconnected Fact. Another Random Fact (except for fact, fact and fact)." I've made attempts at smoothing out the la
734.
by flomo 11y ago
OpenBSD is mostly famous for fixing tons of security issues in a large C codebase, if anything OpenBSD demonstrates the problem and how hard it is to fix it. And DJB wrote the OP, so he's obviously not pleased with the current situatio
735.
by flomo 11y ago
I was involved in a similar discussion and the logic was hilarious. "Browser standards change too often." (!?) "So we're only to support an old buggy implementation of the specs that is sorta emulated in one modern brows
736.
by flomo 11y ago
Or in 1996, it was easier to put up a page on your website which panders to some hypothetical internet libertarian demographic that might vote for you. Ultimately this is just typical American presidential political theater. By election day
737.
by flomo 11y ago
Not that I ever gave a wit about Bob Dole, but this is HN relevant: Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer Bill Clinton believes in bureaucratic micro-management of the information economy. Within his first 100 d
738.
by flomo 11y ago
I wouldn't overthink this, it's mainly the psychology of the people who work in the bowels of big companies. They are used to having vendors kissing their ring, and on some level they justify it by thinking it's because BigCo
739.
by flomo 11y ago
Thanks, the word hadn't reached my sector.
740.
by flomo 11y ago
When I was in my early 20s, it seemed like we always had someone crashing on our sofa, including employees of major tech firms. At that age, having a 'fuck truck' is probably not any worse than rooming with five other guys in a th
741.
by flomo 11y ago
I live a few blocks away from the Wiggle intersection pictured in the Times, and have been following the online flamewars (which primarily stem from conflicts between bicyclists and pedestrians, not cars). The issue I see is that even the p
742.
by flomo 11y ago
A friend of mine has a great picture of himself at about that age with Andre's humongous hand on top of his head. But, I'll be honest, at that age, I thought the guy was a slob and not a good professional wrestler. (And even then,
743.
by flomo 11y ago
BART should be a massive success story, given its original objectives. The Transbay Tube is running at nearly full capacity and they cannot push any more workers into downtown SF if they wanted to. And the experience is ten times better a
744.
by flomo 11y ago
Keep in mind, BART is about ten times better than what usually passes for public transit. -- Someone who was stuck on SF Muni's pathetic impersonation of a subway today for 30 minutes while next to a not good-smelling guy who was tripp
745.
by flomo 11y ago
Until a few years ago, I owned a LJ4000, and it still had to stop and think for a bit if you were printing a picture or something complicated. Earlier laser printers could be incredibly slow - an Apple LaserWriter took about 30 minutes to p
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by flomo 11y ago
Thanks to this book, I actually received college credit for playing SimCity. (Or actually for writing a paper about the simulator, which was a cinch because the way to 'beat' the game was to build an elitist suburb.)
747.
by flomo 11y ago
If I recall the story correctly, there was some confusion because IBM saw "Microsoft CP/M" running on an Apple II. (MS licensed it from DR and sold it with their "Z80 SoftCard". The Apple II+SoftCard was supposedly
748.
by flomo 12y ago
Pedantic "corrections" that offer no additional value are seen as pretty contemptible behavior in real life, so you probably shouldn't make a habit of it.
749.
by flomo 12y ago
After one had gained fame working for an infamously monopolistic blight on the american economy, "sold out" might be sorta relative.
750.
by flomo 12y ago
The article alludes to Guy Kawasaki's 'evanga-list' back in the 1990s which seems to be the source of the "Everyone thinks Apple is doomed" meme. I don't know if anyone has written up the whole story, but it&#x

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