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by jjkaczor 3y ago
As a BeOS user (and wannabe dev) in 1997/98, there were plenty of software developers and applictions available,
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
You wish there was something like this for adult programmers? Blythe Omnis 7 in ... (checks CV/resume) ...1996 (and earlier), a 'RAD' platform/solution that worked across Windows and Macintosh... (I landed the job becaus
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
As per the reviews - it will be hard to say, as both positive and negative takes will be uploaded by ChatGPT bots (or it's myriad of descendents).
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
No way to do responsive interfaces? Oh sweet summer child. (if you are going to call us weirdly nostalgic) There were ton's of methods - from extremely manual code-based detection of window resizing events, then subsequent calculating
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
No comment... whistles and walks away...
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Huh, I wonder which of the "big-4" advised them on their practices? Am willing to bet it was 'KTMJ'... (Batman reference, but... strangely similar to one of the "big-4")
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Slow clap... Bravo, well played!
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Oh, you must have missed the update where blue checkmark people can HIDE their blue checkmark... So, you cannot even reliably filter/ignore based on that anymore...
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Oh, so just like silicon valley techbros?
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Agree - I was active enough on Usenet that at one point a book publisher sent me a box of books because apparently I had helped out one of their authors, and he asked them to do so. (Wiley FTW)
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Depends on if it is a direct corporate owned location, or franchised - but yes, I would argue that it hits many of the average small/medium business owners. Things will be "interesting" over the next 10-20 with the switch to
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Interesting - in Canada, if you want to "Pay Inside", you have to go in and actually pay - they authorize the maximum transaction, and it unlocks the pump and sets it to a maximum amount. If you pump less than that amount, you pa
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Inconceivable!
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They still do, it's called the "Surface Hub" line, currently at "Surface Hub 2" - integrates with Teams and other apps. However - recent changes in "management" and direction with Surface hardware products
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Am going to chime in as well - Amit is amazing and has been providing his knowledge and experience since the early 90's, when I first encountered him on FidoNet over BBS, then next on Usenet. Regular tech blog: https://amitp
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Ding ding ding, I met my current partner on OKCupid 9 years ago, don't think I will ever need to return. (fingers-crossed, knock-on-wood, [insert-platitude-here) Seeing as I have a "face for radio", I doubt I would ever manag
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Yeah, but then what would they make dog food and jello out of? /s
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Very networked - but their email servers are now likely cloud-based SaaS.
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Having been in the IT industry since 1992 - I did use a free Usenet server, probably provided by my ISP. Used the "comp.*" heirarchy mostly, discussing technical topics and answering questions - in 1996, a publisher (Wiley!) sent
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Aha... for some reason I thought they did most of that in the GTA, makes sense though.
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CTRL+F 'hallmark' = No results...? One would have thought that would be the main location, as dozens (hundreds?) of these have been filmed in Canada. Sets, tons, plots and actors are all generic and interchangable...
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Listened to a news story at some point over the last couple years, as there were lettuce shortages in North America due to the drought in the US Southwest, and one quote stayed in my mind: "Lettuce is perhaps the most expensive way to
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Why? It's not like someone who doesn't know how to play - and has some songs committed to memory is going to opt to play an instrument in a public setting without having some skill and talent...
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Well... I remember some press and discussion about "InterBase" (now FireBase) - and it's storage/self-healing recovery model being critical for some scenarios "back in the day", some quotes: "AFATDS includ
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Heh... Logic! Well - now they no longer need to hide themselves away, they are hiding-in-plain sight... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion
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... Huh, so - more of the same really ...
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Heh... or mining coins... or these days, factoring LLM's...
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Heh... I had a client, as recently as 2020 who barely had "users" - who didn't know how to perform basic computer operations (Cut/Copy/Paste, navigate menus, etc). Hell - yesterday, I was working with a DBA over rem
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Ugh... see - they didn't "get it". The point of SharePoint was to allow end-users to cobble things together themselves. One of the original design philosophies was "Excel on the web", hence the reliance on it&#x27
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Heh, in my family that is "Down-under Syndrome". As in, "oh - that's not how they do it in Australia, did you know I lived in (or visited) Australia for 'x' amount of time?"

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