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by flomo 8mo ago
imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
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by flomo 8mo ago
When they process these emails, it's fairly common to import everything into a MS Outlook PST file (using whatever buggy tool). That's probably why these look like Outlook printouts even though its Yahoo mail or etc.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Yeah, I just posted that a lot of that software was amazing and pretty 'feature-complete', all while running on a very limited old personal conmputers. Just please don't gaslight us with some alternate Amiga bullshit history.
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by flomo 8mo ago
Not listening to a blahcast, but shit like MAC addresses and other hardware IDs were well known to everyone in the field. Companies had 'inventory systems' which used this long before MS cared. I certainly don't begrudge anyo
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by flomo 8mo ago
Total nostalgia talk. Those machines were just glacially slow at launching apps and really everything, like spell check, go get a coffee. I could immediately tell the difference between a 25Mhz Mac IIci and a 25Mhz Mac IIci with a 32KB cac
126.
by flomo 8mo ago
They might have stolen the "patented method" (and i know how much u guys love patents), but they certainly did not steal the "idea". Software has had all sorts of horrible copy-protection for decades before this was intr
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by flomo 8mo ago
What Microsoft actually did was make deals with OEMs and distributors so they got paid for every machine sold. In the 1980s, home computers had MS-BASIC in the ROMs, and PCs came with "Vendor DOS", you couldn't even buy MS-DO
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by flomo 8mo ago
We are both old, buddy. My dad bought this pretty loaded used system from a 'hacker', so at least I can post about z80 softcards and etc.
129.
by flomo 8mo ago
Before then, a local clone store had an 'insane deal' on floppy disks, and they came with Slackware. I had a Mac, and the floppies weren't very good so.
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by flomo 8mo ago
I think MS Word was basically feature-complete with v4.0 which ran on a 1MB 68000 Macintosh. Obviously they have added lots of UI and geegaws, but the core word processing functionality hasn't really changed at all. (edit to say I&#x27
131.
by flomo 8mo ago
Maybe 'typical' only in the very early days? I just never saw one plugged into a television rather than a computer monitor, nor did I ever hear about such a thing. I would have loved to play those games in color.
132.
by flomo 8mo ago
When I was a kid, I had a green screen Apple, and I wish I knew about 3rd party RF modulators. (It didn't work with an Atari-style modulator.) I never saw a setup like that, so I wonder how common they really were.
133.
by flomo 8mo ago
Dull title, but this is from the "Creatures of Thought" blog, which has constantly been really good. (Also a bunch of stuff about steam engines, the industrial revolution, etc.)
134.
by flomo 8mo ago
Unfortunately your insightful comment is 30 years too late. You'll have to find a time-machine and go back to the 1990s and tell GNU/GTK/Gnome/etc that they are doing it wrong.
135.
by flomo 8mo ago
The version number was just a joke. But if the "standard unix gui toolkit" was under an open source license back in the 1990s, I am sure people would have run with that rather than inventing something else.
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by flomo 9mo ago
I dunno what's interesting about this link, but Motif has been LGPL a while and the last release was in 2017. https://sourceforge.net/projects/motif/files/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by flomo 9mo ago
In the last few months, this place is turning into Slashdot 2.0. So you're going to encounter people still seething about the 1990s.
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by flomo 9mo ago
"Tech Cofounder" who gets edged out before the next funding round.
139.
by flomo 9mo ago
> of those 3000, they are moving 1400 to an engineering position Interesting. In old companies the only way to climb the ladder (get a raise) was to get into management. And then if they were a bad manager, they might get 'sidemoted
140.
by flomo 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm not hyping react specifically, just point out that vanilla/jquery or even htmx only works well when the state is not that complicated.
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by flomo 9mo ago
Yeah, that's the thing, it might make sense in some simple 1-dimensional case, but beyond that it turns into spaghetti code (or a homebrew 'framework'). The big thing is that if you want to re-gigger some of the DOM, React is
142.
by flomo 9mo ago
Obv we have better operating systems, yes. But we also obviously have much, much better de-jure open source standards than the UNIX/unix/etc crowd could ever manage. So the world is better when all those guys gave-up or died. Stal
143.
by flomo 9mo ago
IMO, that's a pretty poor summary of how the "Unix Wars" really ended. Bell UNIX got productized into System V, and the trademark was dumped off on TOG. But "Unix" was really more of an ideal. The ideal system may n
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by flomo 9mo ago
Back in the early 2000s, RedHat did a study and found the UNIX brandname actually had negative value among IT managers. They saw it as "expensive, proprietary, incompatible" etc. Meanwhile Linux was seen very positively. (So yeah
145.
by flomo 9mo ago
Thanks for this, at one point I tried to google this monument and didn't find much.
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by flomo 9mo ago
You know Meta, the "social media company" came out and said their users spend less than 10% of the time interacting with people they actually know? "Social Media" had become a euphemism for 'scrolling entertainment,
147.
by flomo 9mo ago
After having some time to think about it, I've seen some really perverse DOM stuff in jquery. Like $(el).next().children(3) type stuff. So I think this stuff really fell-over when there was 'too much state' for the DOM.
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by flomo 9mo ago
IIUC, Microsoft bought-out Mono and donated it to Wine, making it effectively legacy. It probably still 'works', but not many big IT departments are going to run critical apps on some old unsupported hackjob.
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by flomo 9mo ago
Yeah, that's the other HN koan about "You probably don't need React if..." But if you are using jquery/vanilla to shove state into your HTML, you probably actually do need something like react.
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by flomo 9mo ago
Whenever HTMX comes up here, I always think "isn't that just some gobbledy-gook which replaces about 3 lines of imperative jquery?" Anyway, jQuery always did the job, use it forever if it solves your problems.

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