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by karmelapple 3y ago
Oh it was definitely possible to find monitors like that, but my experience of using Macs in my school's computer lab and having a Performa at home, 800x600 was a big deal, and 640x480 was still the standard well into the 90s. And wow,
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by karmelapple 3y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, you couldn't get WiFi on basically anything, since 802.11b wasn't really available yet. I would strongly argue Apple was the leading force in popularizing wireless internet on laptops and desktops, and the
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I remember the hockey puck mouse had a ball because it was a pretty fantastic ball: it was dual toned, one hemisphere white, the other Bondi blue. As you rolled the mouse, you'd see the ball turn and have a neat color display through
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by karmelapple 3y ago
It reminded me how important information design is. Amazon has an average number of stars there, but it's no longer visually shown - instead, just a number. I have relied on the stars being "filled up" for so long that it no
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I had one and can confirm - it’s about the same as bondi blue.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
The iMac was not particularly underpowered. Could it have used more RAM or hard drive? Sure. But the CPU, as others here have said, was pretty solid. It could run top of the line games at the time like Quake 3. And one thing I don’t read m
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by karmelapple 3y ago
There can be friction scheduling and holding meetings, absolutely. Starting a meeting friction can be overcome through tools like Slack huddles which basically require one click to join if people are around fairly predictably, but schedulin
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by karmelapple 3y ago
And the different levels therein can help you think about your own systems, even if someone won’t crash a plane if your software fails. A large passenger aircraft does not solely consist of Level A software. There’s plenty of not-flight-saf
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by karmelapple 3y ago
The iOS app is similarly well done.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Those of us making web apps don't have the same safety critical nature as anything carrying souls. Working in aerospace gave me a great appreciation for the complexity of ensuring safety, the engineering hours poured into it, and why r
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Absolutely. Former avionics company employee here - not only do companies like Collins have COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) products to buy, but they themselves are frequently made of at least some COTS components. So each of those compone
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by karmelapple 3y ago
That sounds like a reasonable benefit to bargain over, but only if you have a great negotiator to make it happen.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
If he was even entertaining the idea of maybe selling his company, the least he could have done was get a negotiator with mergers and acquisitions experience. If he's making reasonably good money off of Apollo, he could have afforded a
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by karmelapple 3y ago
It sure can be used as a display for a Mac. Just stand in front of a Mac, and the screen will go dark and the windows will be moved to your Vision Pro. Here's the point in the Keynote showing it: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I think you did. When the actual hiring manager, or someone above that person, shows you a concerning aspect of themselves during in the interview, that’s them trying to impress you, demonstrating their best behavior. It won’t be better aft
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by karmelapple 3y ago
> I would be happy to do it again but the cost is easily 5x what it would be to just drive and is far less flexible. To me this is a huge part of the problem. I've wanted to take the train many times in the US, but it also is wildly
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Were jobs hard to come by in that city because it was walkable, beautiful, and full of life? I'm guessing not, and there are other factors causing that. NYC is beautiful, walkable, full of life, and you sure can find a job there. Same
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Those residents are basically pulling up the ladder behind them, and it's depressing to see. Appealing to their moral side seems... perhaps necessary, because it seems a vocal minority simply do not want multi-family housing in their n
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by karmelapple 3y ago
The Bride of Frankenstein lettering looks surprisingly like the Jurassic Park typeface!
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by karmelapple 3y ago
How about in North Dakota, which had a state-owned bank? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_North_Dakota
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Just as a frame of reference, $60/hr is significantly lower than prices out in more major metropolitan areas on the coasts. In Boston it’s definitely over $100/hr.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I had zero idea there was an App Store on the Apple Watch until this thread. There's some neat apps listed on there - glad everyone in this thread talked about this!
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by karmelapple 3y ago
IMO, roll your MVP with something like React Native, although it all depends how important the user experience is for your end users. Snapchat built with some platform-independent UI toolkit would have felt kind of wrong, and the speed at w
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by karmelapple 3y ago
The person you’re replying to has kids in the single digits for age. Thinking about a college-level education for a 7 and 9 year old seems fairly unrealistic, and learning “educational” topics like you point out at that age is perfectly fin
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by karmelapple 4y ago
I'd recommend reading the book Team Topologies [1] - it was well-written and gave me some new ideas for how teams can interact. And it's deeply founded on Conway's Law, including featuring a concept called the reverse Conway
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by karmelapple 4y ago
Your neighbor didn’t understand Google when it came out, but they were informed by a friend about how useful it was. Show them some of the power of an LLM and they too will realize the power I predict.
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by karmelapple 4y ago
The date line on that was 1989, so 16 years before that is 1973, which is 40 years ago. Understood about the concern that if they tried to hide a problem once, they’ll probably try to hide one again. But 16 years ago isn’t accurate with the
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by karmelapple 4y ago
It's a humorous phrase members of my family have used for, as others have mentioned, a larger posterior.
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by karmelapple 4y ago
Same here. The secret I’ve found: look for athletic cut. That’s the cut many hockey players wear, who typically have huge thighs and a rumble seat because of the muscles skating works. Those are the only pants I buy now. I even got Michael
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by karmelapple 4y ago
LiveCode [1] [2] still exists and seems to be actively maintained! Runtime Revolution was the spiritual successor to SuperCard, and made building color, cross-platform stack-like apps totally possible. The language is still very close to Hy

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