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by kar1181 7y ago
And just look at how much simpler it is compared to modern kids programming materials. The code is denser but there's less of it, and far far less bootstrapping. I think that is the killer right now, the amount of barriers to moving pi
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by kar1181 7y ago
I'm done. I'm still on my 2015 MBP, my next computer will be a Thinkpad.
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by kar1181 8y ago
I had a lot of trouble with Mojave and the crashing you are reporting is annoying. I’ve been using their test builds the past couple months with zero problems though. https://sequelpro.com/test-builds
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by kar1181 8y ago
There's a nice video from The Obsolete Geek on the Pippin too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz05U67NecI Shame he's really stopped making any new videos, between him and the 8-bit guy I think I have lost months i
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by kar1181 8y ago
I still own and love both :) I mentioned the A1200 because it was basically the apex of that line of computers (and indeed that entire approach to computing). There's some great videos on Youtube (particularly the Computerphile ones) o
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by kar1181 8y ago
As the comments below observe, I think the types and number of experiences built on the back of new (to mainstream audiences anyway) technology were transformative. In 92 the Amiga 1200 came out, a wonderful computer with great hardware but
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by kar1181 8y ago
We owe a lot to John Carmack in many ways - but I hope one of his enduring legacies will be the amount of programmers he inspired with both the games he helped make, and the code he made available. It helped many of us to get started somewh
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by kar1181 8y ago
Agreed, it's one of my favourite books of all time.
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by kar1181 9y ago
I get where this is coming from - but to be honest the main thing I want to lock down on my ipad is just not let them fire up youtube. You can't restrict certain apps from being opened. Restricted mode works mostly how I want. I have a
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by kar1181 9y ago
I was thinking about this the other day when I first started reading the Coffee Lake reviews. This thing runs toasty. Yeah it's fast, but it's hot enough to boil water faster than a US kettle. I hope the next step on Zen really cl
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by kar1181 9y ago
No mention of the word upgrade anywhere. A pro computer needs to be re-configurable after purchase.
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by kar1181 9y ago
There's a train out of London Euston that will get you there in ~ 30 minutes.
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by kar1181 9y ago
He gets nearly no money from the dead tree version (4%) and about 35% from the eBook. I hate drm but I want to put money into things I want more of. So I held my nose and paid for the eBook. I hope drm free emerges later though. Source htt
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by kar1181 9y ago
Agree, indeed barriers to entry in computing generally is getting lower and lower all the time. The issue is that computers are so good now that the need to 'play around with them' is getting less and less. But for those of us tha
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by kar1181 9y ago
I have been reading Fabien's book over the past few nights and it has been enormous fun. Programming for most of us has moved a long way from the metal our code eventually executes on. And it's quite fun to go real low level and u
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by kar1181 9y ago
Private landlord.
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by kar1181 9y ago
Going from the UK to the US was like stepping back in time when it came to banking. I remember complaining about some aspects of UK banking - it's going to take a day for my transfer to complete!?! Now we have faster payments in the UK
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by kar1181 10y ago
Taylor had an immense impact both direct and indirect on the nature of computing as we know it today, it's a little sad he's not better known. Dealers of Lightning does a great job detailing his role in it all - https:/&#x2F
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by kar1181 10y ago
My first reaction is to think - I hope my girls can take inspiration from Sabrina. But taking a second to think about it, she's an inspiration to _everyone_. She just got on with it and built a plane. Starting something, finishing some
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by kar1181 10y ago
Thank you so much - love this stuff.
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by kar1181 10y ago
I feel like there needs to be a sequel or at least epilogue to masters of doom when the dust finally settles on all this.
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by kar1181 10y ago
Having lived in both the UK and US I find the cost of medicines very hard to understand here. For example in the UK I can buy a ventolin inhaler for £10 over the counter (if I went to the Doctor it would be free). But in the US, an inhaler
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by kar1181 10y ago
Muscle & Strength | https://www.muscleandstrength.com | Columbia, SC | REMOTE OK | Fulltime -- Senior Frontend Developer – Remote Muscle & Strength is a comprehensive online resource that provides people with the tools
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by kar1181 10y ago
And thank you massively for that work!
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by kar1181 10y ago
I'm not on the forgive train yet, but with the Apple computer ecosystem (as in things that look and behave like a PC-esque device) becoming increasingly hostile, I'm actually seriously considering going back to Windows. The deal b
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by kar1181 10y ago
Love that there's an Atari ST and ZX emulator running inside of this.
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by kar1181 10y ago
If you run a small business and don't need a full blown windows setup - nor want to figure out linux it's perfect. We have folks who come in and do work and all they need is chrome. You can imagine slightly more complex work requi
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by kar1181 11y ago
Muscle & Strength LLC. | Columbia, SC | Frontend (UI/UX) Engineer | Full-time, ONSITE Muscle & Strength is one of the largest and fastest growing fitness websites in the USA. Our goal is to help our 200,000+ daily visitors reac
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by kar1181 11y ago
One of the really nice things about Julia and her writing style, is she makes quite complicated subjects fairly easy to grasp from a high level. For beginners, or those who work much higher up the technology chain it provides a nice launchi
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by kar1181 11y ago
There's a comment at the bottom of his original predictions blog, and it reminded me immediately of Alan Kay's 'pop culture' quote "We work in a fashion industry, and marketing really matters.". I don't kn

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