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by flomo 15y ago
PS/2 was perceived to be an attempt to take control of the clone industry through licensing the Microchannel bus. (The original PC had much more liberal FRAND licensing.) So, IBM was seen to be the "bad guy" in a lot of technical circles. E
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by flomo 15y ago
Yep. For both OS/2 and NT, you had to buy an expensive high-end PC off a pretty narrow hardware-compatibility list, and the user experience wasn't too great (long boot times, laggy UI, etc.) The genius of Windows 95 was that it could sit on
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by flomo 15y ago
I know that look myself. But most experienced web coders know how to whip IE into submission, so I'm very skeptical about the 30-100% figure. (I usually guesstimate it at around 20% for a normal website.) 65% of their traffic is from Mac us
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by flomo 15y ago
As a prominent counter-example, Bill Gates was famous for showing up at tech conferences with a grungy t-shirt, unkempt hair, etc. (And like Zuckerberg, he didn't need to impress any bankers.)
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by flomo 15y ago
That's a certain type of privacy, but it seems that most of the concern revolves around employers/creeps/government/etc accessing the information through some backdoor method. I'm not so sure if most people actually mind if their old high s
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by flomo 15y ago
re: generational difference in privacy attitudes. The older generations who grew up in small towns or tight-knit neighborhoods gossip(ed) about each other like crazy. Pretty much every aspect of their lives was public knowledge among their
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by flomo 15y ago
Indeed. One can imagine an entirely different reaction if the app was called something like "Popular People Around Me" and had come out of the US startup community rather than Russia.
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by flomo 15y ago
Probably because many people want to purchase exactly $X of gas.
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by flomo 15y ago
This discussion is wandering off into la-la land. The GPL isn't designed to cover things like websites or bitmapped images. There's other 'free' content-oriented licenses which should be used instead.
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by flomo 15y ago
Some editors went through and deleted a massive number of useful Mac/Windows screenshots several years ago, but I don't think there's ever been an actual policy stating these screenshots were a legal issue. Also, the GPL only covers code, n
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by flomo 15y ago
Insightful - I agree, completely Informative - I agree, but you may be full of shit Interesting - I agree, stick it to those other guys Funny - I agree, either schadenfreude or grits Idealistically, humans would only vote based on content q
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by flomo 15y ago
Ouch, that sounds uncomfortable. I have no doubt the BBS world was full of creeps, and that could have been very discouraging to someone getting into computing. My point was that behavior was far more segmented away from mainstream society
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by flomo 15y ago
Superficially, HTML Canvas drawing is very similar. (Also, many people taught themselves programming because they wanted to make Flash animations. ) Back in the 8-bit micro days, the commercial games and other software were largely single p
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by flomo 15y ago
It might be tough to imagine now, but very very few people were online in those days. In the programming forums (Compuserve, Usenet) people generally posted using their real names and job/university affiliation, so the atmosphere was profes
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by flomo 15y ago
Just a thought: IBM made a big effort to recruit women into mainframe programming jobs. 1984 roughly when Unix and PCs started to take over the industry; perhaps those companies were not as interested in recruiting women. Also, you can be s
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by flomo 15y ago
Every RISC vendor had their own little PC 'consortium' (except perhaps Sun SPARC). They never sold that well, and when te Intel Pentium Pro came out, it beat them on most specs, so the whole idea of a RISC PC died around 1996 (outside of Ap
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by flomo 15y ago
Good pick. AppleScript fails in its goal to be comprehensible to non-programmers and ends up looking like nonsense to everyone.
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by flomo 15y ago
> x86 will die out and RISC architectures will dominate the market It wasn't just Tanenbaum who was wrong about that. Billions of dollars were dumped into RISC architectures on the assumption that x86 wouldn't scale. Microsoft committe
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by flomo 15y ago
It's been proposed at various times in various ways. It's largely a competitive issue - the for-profit mechanism boils down to selling "certified" enterprise configurations, so there's little intrest in making the platform even more commodi
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by flomo 15y ago
Again, that's not the issue. Package managers are great. The problem is how the base system is maintained/updated/versioned.
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by flomo 15y ago
I think you're conflating two different issues. Poor UX for installing 3rd party software has been solved with things like Steam or the Mac App Store, for example.
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by flomo 15y ago
No, there are definitely underlying economic motives beyond ideological "freedom". The only way to make money in the Linux Distro world is to sell 'stability' ala RHEL. That practically requires that the free teaser product be 'unstable' (a
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by flomo 15y ago
On a few occasions, Safari has claimed gigabytes of memory and caused my machine to start thrashing the swap. In that case, the correct answer is to restart Safari, not take a refresher course on virtual memory allocation. Windows Vista had
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by flomo 15y ago
IMHO, it's a bad practice which is very widely promoted in Rails guides and scaffolding code. Mass-assignment is very difficult to get right in any complex app (e.g. with multiple user roles) and the simplest way to avoid these problems wou
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by flomo 15y ago
I purchased a netbook, and the only OS available was Windows 7 "starter edition" -- and you can't even change the wallpaper! So, I am confused why this product even exists. (But I guess if Microsoft wants to put their brandname on something
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by flomo 15y ago
This type of 'edgy' language was very popular back on Usenet in the 1990s, and the Linux kernel mailing list never really got away from it. Very much a Generation X thing - Kill yourself, they're smoking crack, those retards, kick em in the
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by flomo 15y ago
They mentioned they dumped the clipboard buttons because nobody uses them. I would guess the need with Visual Studio isn't so much "Save" but "Save All", which also updates various project files. (I don't know the Save All shortcut off the
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by flomo 15y ago
The rise of the Internet itself was an interesting phenomenon. There were a number of larger networks in place, but the Internet was used by the 'cool kids' (e.g. students and professors).
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by flomo 15y ago
According to Wired Magazine, the web is "not hot". People are sick of looking at pictures of your cat.
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by flomo 15y ago
Many casinos also have the gambling floor organized around a long snaking curve, with several off-shoots. The distance from say the lobby to the restaurants often seems like a long walk - but if you look at the hotel map, they're right next

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