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by flomo 13y ago
No, sorry, but there's absolutely nothing "weird" about a windowless telephone exchange building. At one time, every single neighborhood in this country had one. This building was not created for this, it's just an old B
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by flomo 13y ago
When launching LO Writer, one is presented with a virtual blank sheet of paper. The entire metaphor of the program is built around printing. In any case, I have virtually no Libre Office experience, and I was able to generate dizzystar's te
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by flomo 13y ago
You could do all of above in Word version 4.0. Why isn't Libre Office designed to create a report which can be printed and bound? Seems like a basic word processing task.
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by flomo 13y ago
The government is just expressing the will of the citizens -- primarily older people who won the property lotto and want to keep the community in a permanent 1960s time-bubble.
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by flomo 13y ago
You're right about google programmer salaries. It's worth nothing that many different companies run bus services in SF. The busses aren't prominently labeled so the locals refer to them all as "Google Busses".
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by flomo 13y ago
> probably keeps 10 new BMWs off the road But not the roads of San Francisco. During dotbomb 1.0, if you worked in Mountain View or Cupertino, you had to really want to live in San Francisco if you were to stomach the commute. The bus s
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by flomo 13y ago
In my experience, exactly the opposite can happen and open-plan offices can discourage a lot of that cross-talk and casual discussion. The last two I've worked in had an almost library-like atmosphere. In a quiet environment, people tend to
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by flomo 13y ago
On old Macintosh systems, JPEG files would often be labeled "JFIF file"[1]. This created some confusion which I believe contributed to people adopting the hard G pronunciation. Back during the dotcom boom, there was a joke: "We'll hire any
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by flomo 13y ago
I've noticed that the "LinkedIn Updates" email spam tend to heavily feature a few attractive women than I worked with some time ago. I strongly suspect Linkedin is using these women's photos to bait people into clicking through to the site
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by flomo 14y ago
There were also various java applets which more-or-less did something similar, and had the advantage of being semi-cross-platform. (Microsoft's was called "remote scripting"[1] and was pulled after they lost the Sun lawsuit.) [1] http://ww
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by flomo 14y ago
What I'm seeing is people who already have some experience with WordPress, and are accustomed to the admin screens. Any alternative/custom CMSs are seen to be "difficult to use" when compared to WordPress.
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by flomo 14y ago
Prior to tabbed browsing, browsers acted like 'normal' (SDI) Windows apps. The complaint about Excel is that it's an 'old-fashioned' MDI application and is missing UI widgets for easily switching between documents. (And that it's behavior i
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by flomo 14y ago
Internet Explorer supports the installation of additional scripting languages ... or at least it used to.
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by flomo 14y ago
> I see it as Ubuntu finally having the balls to .. move ahead with their grand vision on bringing free software to the masses Actually, I don't see that at all. Where's the marketing initiative? Where's the retail channel? Where's the
885.
by flomo 14y ago
Yeah, I used one back in school. It had a 'letter quality' mode which looked like a million bucks compared to the typical Epson monospaced dot-matrix printout. Probably subtly nudged up my GPA.
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by flomo 14y ago
Yellow Cab's brandname has survived. In any case, I thought Uber's 'difference' was the professional black car/limo drivers. Judging by this page, they're now signing up randoms who are behind on the payments on their 09 Hyundai. As a forme
887.
by flomo 14y ago
I'd just started college and witnessed some of the havoc. Suddenly the Internet was a big topic of discussion, at least among the engineering students, everyone wanted to get email addresses and so on. It suddenly was in everyone's consciou
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by flomo 14y ago
NextBus has something similar, but it's java, so no-go for mobile. http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/publicMap.shtml?a=sf-muni&#...
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by flomo 14y ago
The train animation didn't reflect the underlying traffic simulator. And yep, that was the trick.
890.
by flomo 14y ago
Putting aside all the cultural/branding/sales stuff, the IBM supported more memory and therefore larger spreadsheets. The first expanded memory (>640K) spec was pushed by Lotus ("LIM EMS").
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by flomo 14y ago
Yep. Believe you also need to set something like this: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.xls"
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by flomo 14y ago
Sun Java included either the Google or Yahoo browser toolbar, and IIRC it prompted you about an antivirus program for a while.
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by flomo 14y ago
Microsoft moved to a business model where they received royalties paid directly from the OEMs. And I suppose, BASIC was a teaser for MS's more advanced developer tools.
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by flomo 14y ago
Unix workstations were largely slaughtered by Windows NT (and faster/cheaper PC hardware). Linux wasn't helping, but it didn't have the professional CAD etc. software at the time.
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by flomo 14y ago
A friend bought a Quake III for Linux tin box from the discount bin because they had put a sticker on it saying it also worked for Windows. Inside was a instruction sheet informing Linux users how they could use CVS to pull and compile 3D s
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by flomo 14y ago
Agreed, LiveScript was a very good name. I'm curious who owns the LiveScript trademark, if anyone. If the Mozilla Foundation inherited it from Netscape/AOL, they should give it to ECMA. At this point, the association with Java is probably m
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by flomo 14y ago
I think it's simply social expectations. Single guy is expected to make the first 'move'. Married guy is expected to not make any moves at all. Therefore it's on the woman to begin flirtations with guys who appear to be taken. Married guy c
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by flomo 14y ago
Unfortunately, no pictures: http://images.google.com/search?q=thinking+machines&hl=e... (I have nothing to add other than they looked amazing, in that 1980s way.)
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by flomo 14y ago
My understanding is the BSD projects originally forked over personality/political issues with the defunct 386BSD project, and only later did they begin to focus on certain feature sets.
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by flomo 14y ago
It's funny, because when I first encountered Notes way back when, it was something the department installed without IT approval. Semi-technical users could easily build little tracking and document databases and publish them on the network.

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