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by flomo 1y ago
HN had a story about Google removing the guy who cared about search quality a few years ago. Since then it's all about stuffing Google links on the top (like Yahoo did), and whatever SEO results has the most profitable google ads on it
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by flomo 1y ago
Late reply, but '[year] [make] [model] [feature]' has never been a bad query for as long as I've been using google. They used to be really good at that kind of thing, but now they are really bad. I can ignore the "AI re
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by flomo 1y ago
Informative. AOL also sued Microsoft for iirc $1 billion for their illegal Netscape shenanigans. That kept Mozilla going for several years when they really didn't have a product, and probably would have been shut down otherwise.
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by flomo 1y ago
You're right about the money part, but it always seemed more like a 30-year-old pursuit than middle-aged. But once I went through Vogons and had the impression that many of them lacked any taste. A lot of PCs (and Macs) were total shit
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by flomo 1y ago
Root for the illegal Google monopoly then, because that's what Mozilla says they need to survive. (It's over soon.)
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by flomo 1y ago
Well the truth is Microsoft branding is totally incoherent, and MSN has been anything and everything MS thought they could put their name on. Like there is a cable network called MSNBC which now has nothing to do with either MS or NBC. Orig
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by flomo 1y ago
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days." > from The Book of
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by flomo 1y ago
Adam was mostly interesting in terms of marketing. The Atari 5200 was based on the 400/800 computer, but was intentionally made incompatible. Meanwhile, Coleco heavily advertised the 'computer expansion unit (coming soon)' as
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by flomo 1y ago
Back in the 1990s, I lived in the midwest. The state built a freeway through a bunch of cornfields, and long before the road was even done, there were suburban subdivisions sprouting up. My professor points this out, and says this highway h
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by flomo 1y ago
Itsamystery what Apple was thinking, but I suspect almost zero external customers actually bought an ANS. Apple probably used it internally (dogfood), and maybe some external partners got one. Sorta like CHRP "Windows NT on PPC",
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah they definitely did that. But this AI diarrhea is so awful, I honestly can't see any angle in giving me tons of bad results about a minor feature of my car. (I should sell it and use waymo??) Maybe the really sharp monopolists ran
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by flomo 1y ago
Exactly, the "AI" opiateturd results are often for the completely wrong year/model or just obviously false. I'm certain Google used to be really good at this kind of thing.
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by flomo 1y ago
No, I'm not complaining about SEO shit... The thing is the primordial google had the answer , but Google themselves buried it under 100+ links of Google-generated slopdiarrhea, most of which didn't even factually fit the question
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by flomo 1y ago
I had a question about my car, so I googled '[year] [make] [model] [feature]'. This seems like the sort of thing that Google had always absolutely nailed. But now, 90% of the page was ai slop about wrong model, wrong year, even th
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by flomo 1y ago
Exactly my point, back then they had no influence outside of a tiny social bubble which I didn't really care about. So I could not be 'cancelled'.
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by flomo 1y ago
I dunno, I try not to be evil, but I slapstick flipped into a leftist circular firing squad back in my college days. Back then we could all just say fuck you too, and move on with life with no long-term consequences. The truth is there&#x27
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by flomo 1y ago
You are obviously right, and only the mostest HTML5 stuff has been on the same level as the 'flash splash' stuff which was all over the place... But did anyone care? Or was this is just creative mutually-assured-destruction? >
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by flomo 1y ago
True. But on HN, I commonly see the opposite "retro manchild" take that Flash was all just all web fun & games applets, totally unlike all this awful Node/React stuff. They have no idea how professional ActionScript progr
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by flomo 1y ago
I could speculate, it was partially because of that blog post. The more social nerds are encouraged to cast out the antisocial stinky ones. Instead of a whisper campaign, there's a social media ejection. (Nerds in particular have been
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by flomo 1y ago
I worked with a few different types of Flash guys. The top guys were artists, they delivered awesome stuff that nobody has seen since. (But, like the website, it was hardcoded to desktop dimensions.) They made a great living doing this stuf
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by flomo 1y ago
I think a gracious reading here is a "boardgame type" is the sort of person you would only encounter at your friendly local game store etc. GP has a point, but I know plenty of 'high(er) status' groups include 'non-
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by flomo 1y ago
Really? Back in my day, there were all sorts of nerd groups, which were often plagued with horrible social dysfunction.[0] People just muddled through. [0] https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/
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by flomo 1y ago
Yep, I worked in advertising at the time. I was constantly explaining to the creatives "no, we can't have a flash main menu because of SEO" "no, we shouldn't make the website as 25MB flash file" "see, here
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, the impression I have is the talks went nowhere, but Atari was obviously on top of the market on that point, so no surprise they made a call. Maybe IBM wanted to contract something out, but IIRC Jay Miner had already quit.
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by flomo 1y ago
I once read that IBM had contacted Atari about licensing their chipset, so they did actually care about gaming to some degree. Also a lot of Apple users gamed on a monochrome monitor, so how many colors maybe wasn't the biggest concern
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by flomo 1y ago
IBM only gave maybe 1.0 shits about gaming, to the extent they needed "business graphics" like charts, and maybe just some extra fun shit. The primary competition was loads of CP/M "business micros" with not many re
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by flomo 1y ago
Honestly, you have a point. At one point there was a proposal for a "Linux Standard Base", but none of the distros really cared (they had their special sauce), so it withered. If Linux app devs could target "LSB-2020" or
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by flomo 1y ago
The *BSDs have all the same issues that Flatpak is trying to solve. (ports aint it.)
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by flomo 1y ago
Plus the app developers at least have some level of accountability. Like when JWZ got into it with Debian (can't link here). You might think you are running XScreensaver from the great Zawinski, but no you are actually running some wei
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by flomo 1y ago
Hilarious, wish I would have seen this when I was studying German.

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