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811.
by flomo 13y ago
Not to disagree, but Apple had very steep educational discounts. My example: Mac SE with harddisk, ImageWriter II, Microsoft Word, and some other software for $2500. Macs were everywhere in higher education (except the business school). My
812.
by flomo 13y ago
Atari games were discounted to $1 or $2 and they were stacked to the celling at major retailers. They sat around discount stores for a decade afterward. There's still warehouses full of them.[1] The company produced millions more games
813.
by flomo 13y ago
Related to this, a cost estimator for adding a cc: to an email. Some people might think twice if they knew what their mail really cost the company.
814.
by flomo 13y ago
My apologies, a complete misread.
815.
by flomo 13y ago
Not sure why you feel BART has dismal ridership, as the transbay tube runs at nearly full capacity during rush hour.
816.
by flomo 13y ago
Keep in mind this didn't just start up when Twitter moved into town. It's a long war that has been fought for 50-60 years now, and the preservation forces have won nearly every battle and aren't planning on surrendering. I up
817.
by flomo 13y ago
Sure it's semi-ridiculous to frame this in terms of left "progressivism", especially as the waterfront battles are being fought by rich people who live in skyscrapers who do not want other skyscrapers blocking their views. Bu
818.
by flomo 13y ago
I think this quote really nails the mentality in the city: > As political scientist and longtime San Francisco observer Richard DeLeon puts it: San Francisco has emerged as a “semi-sovereign city” — a city that imposes as many limits on
819.
by flomo 13y ago
I used to work in an industry where different vendors passed around massive CSV files. If there was a way to abuse CSV, someone had done it, no two of them were exactly alike.
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by flomo 13y ago
It seems like there's a very loud minority concerned with the online issue. They created a shitstorm about Diablo 3 too, but the game still sold very well. The bigger issue seems to be that SimCity wasn't fun to play & didn&#x
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by flomo 13y ago
Appears to be a Compaq Portable II, which is a 286 PC clone, not an 8080. http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable_II
822.
by flomo 13y ago
Hypothetically, if you stumbled upon some folks arguing about Lotus Notes R3, wouldn't you assume they knew the standard windows shortcuts? (Trick question, R3 only had ctrl-insert etc OS/2 shortcuts!) In any case I apologize my p
823.
by flomo 13y ago
Actually, a prospective tenant probably has no idea if the unit is "illegal" or not. It is an apartment for rent and there is a line going out the door, so don't ask any annoying questions. I can understand the confusion beca
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by flomo 13y ago
Sorry, I wrote a fairly long reply and HN told me my link had expired and the text was lost. Perhaps too long then :) In any case, Notes ended up sucking, anyone who saw what happened can toast to that.
825.
by flomo 13y ago
The article states that, but it is semi-official policy to let these units be. I think that if you made some random complaint about your neighbor's mother-in-law unit, you would likely not get any action from the city. Therefore the co
826.
by flomo 13y ago
San Francisco almost always looks the other way regarding these 'illegal' units. Many of them are in plain sight and the rent/tenancy control laws still apply. I would guess the unit must have been a serious health/safet
827.
by flomo 13y ago
The extended AT layout one always seemed to be more beloved: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard Back then Macintoshes were advertised as "keyboard not included" so Apple got to soak you for a
828.
by flomo 13y ago
One of the reasons I'm cynical about online communities is because certain users will seem to have invested their entire life into participating, e.g. spending 12-16 hours a day online (per their post history). Basement Dweller is an d
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by flomo 13y ago
That was the entire appeal of Notes/Hypercard, people could throw together a small database application and it wasn't any more difficult than creating a spreadsheet. (The big difference was that Notes apps were automatically netwo
830.
by flomo 13y ago
> The thing that steamrollered HyperCard was Visual BASIC True from a market standpoint, I recall one of the Mac magazines had an article about jerry-rigging a database front-end in HyperCard, and it was clear it was no VB. However, more
831.
by flomo 13y ago
I think that would be an incorrect way of reading it. At his level, he would be negotiating executive responsibility and a huge salary. I'm sure any of these companies would love to have had him as a "senior engineer".
832.
by flomo 13y ago
He didn't stop personally, just professionally. In the 1990s Gates would write articles about various personal programming projects -- the last one I can recall was in Java. (This was back when Java was the next big thing for MS, so ce
833.
by flomo 13y ago
I had exactly such a collection of DOM utility functions and was glad to give it up. For example, rooting around in element.className was never very enjoyable. Also, the site does not show handling null cases which adds more code.
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by flomo 13y ago
Strained car analogies are the 1999 Slashdot PT Cruiser of internet arguments.
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by flomo 13y ago
If it is a GNU utility, the man page usually contains a bug report link. AFAICT GNU is the upstream for all their documentation.
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by flomo 13y ago
Obligatory link to Old Man Murray's "Who Killed Adventure Games?": http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
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by flomo 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MnY59V0exw
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by flomo 13y ago
I strongly suspect Ebert and the other critics were in on the joke. They knew if they played it straight and panned the movie, even more unwitting teenagers would pour into the theaters on opening weekend. (At least, I had no idea the movie
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by flomo 13y ago
It's still an undesirable result even if it compiled a portable Linux .so just for your CPU architecture. The requirements are so flawed the system should be junked, not hacked around. Also, I'm not sure why my post was dinged, bu
840.
by flomo 13y ago
The security implications of requiring users to install Firefox add-ons are not any better than requiring them to install ActiveX plug-ins. (Other than pure vendor politics.) You still have the artificial requirement of some Win32 blob, whi

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