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by jsrcout 4y ago
Thanks, this is a gold mine of useful applications of Git
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Had no idea such a thing had ever happened. Interesting article. General Motors streetcar conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Names are interesting. They combine many kinds of history.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
User tip, don't close a Finder window with ^W. At least if that maps to closing the browser window on your system. :-) Seriously, it warms this old programmer's heart to see the beautiful old-time Macintosh user interface. That wa
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Our official "return to the office" date is very soon. Our second work site has been folded into the main site, and the cubicles in the main site have been reduced to half the size (in terms of square feet) they used to be, to mor
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Highly recommend for anyone interested in the olden days to read the rest of the thread.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I remember that feeling. I've given up on ever experiencing it with C++. Too much of C++ feels like complexity for the sake of fixing other complexity, which makes it harder to get excited about learning it. Maybe I'm just getting
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by jsrcout 5y ago
OMG. That's going to the top of my Christmas list.
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That second one gave me a flashback to childhood. "You're sitting too close to the TV! You'll ruin your eyes!" > Proximity Alert allows you to set an adequate viewing distance for your child and displays an overlay no
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Great point. I've read a lot about Apollo over the years and outside of the changes you mention, the most detailed thing I remember was basically "every aspect of the program looked at what they were doing and made whatever improv
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by jsrcout 5y ago
"No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."
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by jsrcout 5y ago
My very first attempt at programming was on a TRS-80 Model II, in a junior high school summer class. I made a Dungeons and Dragons character generator. Sadly I didn't know about loops, so there was a lot of manually typed duplicate cod
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I did analysis on a complex embedded real-time, safety-critical C and Ada codebase some years back, and was surprised to end up respecting the language after seeing it shine in that use case. Really changed my perspective. Edit: The languag
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by jsrcout 5y ago
If anyone remembers Daniel Lyons' numerous anti-Linux articles on Forbes [0] from back when Linux was seriously threatened by the SCO lawsuit... I'm still a bit salty about that. The articles were mean-spirited, sarcastic and over
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by jsrcout 5y ago
This may be the first explanation of Unicode representation that I can actually follow. Great work.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
That sounds intriguing. Any specific recommendations?
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Bought a new fridge in 2020, relative decent one, around $2200. Works fine but the plastic shelf parts inside are just unbelievably cheap and shitty. And the replacement parts if you would happen to break one are correspondingly expensive.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Work from home, definitely. The office was fine but I'm very much an introvert and it's just so much less stress this way. The main thing I miss is random chats with people in the aisles or the break room. Haven't found a sub
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Hello from a guy who used your and Roger's work every day back then. Still one of my favorite developer experiences. (I ported an old-school AI application from its original Sun workstation environment to the Macintosh. Had a blast but
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I found a Green Hills page with a little more info. https://www.ghs.com/news/20110427_esc_silicon_valley11.html Sounds like GH's founder just really likes dinosaurs. (To be clear, if I was in that kind of financia
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I love your terminology of Comically Large Display and shall use it always. I keep threatening to drag our 55" Sony main TV into my office for work from home usage. I actually tried using it as a display for my Raspberry Pi once, it wa
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I've had terrible sleep issues forever. Finally got my sleep apnea and insomnia sorted out some years back (CPAP and melatonin+magnesium took care of it for me) and the difference is just incredible. I mean I would worry on a daily bas
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by jsrcout 5y ago
This is why I sometimes long for the good ole days of 6502 assembly where there was no data type, just the particular instructions you used. Or maybe it's because I was blissfully ignorant of these things back then...
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by jsrcout 5y ago
The conspiracy angle here is not that he's spent a lot of money to influence politics, which is a fact, but that conspiracy types have rounded that up to "Soros is one of the shadowy puppet masters pulling the strings behind the s
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Bob Bishop's AppleVision (1977)(6502disassembly.com)
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That's a sobering video. It doesn't look like much... at first. The power and violence of the water really has to be seen to be appreciated. Edited to add: On March 11, 2011, large parts of the city were destroyed by the tsunami w
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I absolutely loved Fitzgerald's book The Knox Brothers. It's a touching biography of her father and uncles: a classics scholar/WWII codebreaker, an Anglican priest, a Catholic priest, and the editor of Punch magazine, all gif
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by jsrcout 5y ago
+1 on Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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The Motif window frames really bring back memories. And don't forget xlander - my favorite classic DECStation game. Update: Thought xlander was extinct in the wild, but Slackware still has it in their xgames package. Runs fine on Mint
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"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program" That brings back memories! Loved MPW C.

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