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by lastdong 4y ago
The ridiculous bell curve… I was also quite surprised early on my career. I was asked to rate my colleagues, when I said they were all top performers, as we had such a tight team (we could really depend on each other) and it was a very homo
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by lastdong 4y ago
For MacOS, Boxer ( http://boxerapp.com/ ) is great. It creates executables (self contained distributable with zero dependencies) that include dosbox and the app to run - the creation is super easy drag n’drop. Dosbox footpri
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by lastdong 4y ago
I recall buying a magazine that focused on the Win95 launch. The highlight was the ability to play Prince of Persia in the included DOS. Backwards compatibility was effectively a major selling point.
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Why cheap US gas costs a fortune in Europe(politico.eu)
3 points by lastdong 4y ago|1 comments
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by lastdong 4y ago
Does inform generate the story (like ChatGPT)? Explored the Inform website. Not sure what am I looking at.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Many houses dropped apple, not only because of price, but also OS capabilities and software availability. The system became too limited, so where you would see rows of mac pros, you prob now see PCs.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Remarkable article, with notable works entering public domain in 2023, but also giving plenty of context why we are better off to resist abusive copyright trolls.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Had no idea what pinboard was before this thread. The website looks not so great, but reading the service is quite amazing how it nailed such a simple idea so well. Totally understand being a useful service. Too bad there’s so many issues r
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by lastdong 4y ago
I used VS Code beta and it was slow… I remember an issue in the beginning where the cursor was refreshing at 60fps, causing huge delays. The software evolved really well over the years.
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by lastdong 4y ago
VS Code built on top of Atom’s team great work, which was open source (something that Microsoft was still grasping at the time). Not saying VS Code isn’t great, but they definitely learned from past projects mistakes and wins. Atom was one
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by lastdong 4y ago
Best desktop manager ever, it’s so lightweight but provides all the functionality you need, and super customisable too.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
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Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’(theguardian.com)
7 points by lastdong 4y ago|0 comments
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by lastdong 4y ago
Remarkable how 3D, Digital VFX and Animation are now common place from the biggest to the one person studio.
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by lastdong 4y ago
This is brilliant! Being able to use these apps again is gold
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by lastdong 4y ago
That’s a fair point. My understanding is that GPT will eventually replace (or transform) what we today call a search engine: i.e. Google.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Trying to recall if Google raised the same the questions when it revolutionised access to information many years ago, or if it’s even comparable.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Fond days while studying, network protocols class. Such a great tool, easy to use and full featured.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Gimp is great, just wished they could have the same support for improving UX as Blender and Krita for instance. But still amazing, remember how things were different 27 years ago.
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BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism(theguardian.com)
113 points by lastdong 4y ago|105 comments
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by lastdong 4y ago
Love the language and how much has grown, but could never get past the 1-based indexing of table arrays.
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by lastdong 4y ago
Great software, at a amazing price - the new universal license discounted is an incredible value. Super easy to start using and great design + functionality. Just hope Adobe doesn’t end up buying Affinity like it has done with many others.
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by lastdong 4y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_... It’s public, as it should be. I haven’t search hard enough for this specific project, but if you email the right channel they should provid
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Paid fans and England band show everyone is for sale at Qatar World Cup(theguardian.com)
24 points by lastdong 4y ago|6 comments
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by lastdong 4y ago
Not sure if it has to do with this viral reddit post “Since rebranding as Meta, (…). They're now worth less than Home Depot. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/yfy4rx/since_re...
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by lastdong 4y ago
Telcos (and I would expect water and energy companies) support legacy systems whose software only runs in Solaris.
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by lastdong 4y ago
They had really great (and different) design pieces, with collaboration with new designers and good prices. It’s a bit of a shame because there’s not really a replacement in their market segment, above Ikea and others, but below luxury bran
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by lastdong 4y ago
Looks great! Amazing resource for newcomers (mug is still mandatory, though). On mobile, the virtual keyboard would be super useful (doesn’t seem to work on iphone).
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by lastdong 4y ago
Thank you
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by lastdong 4y ago
Great to see XFCE: it’s amazing, so flexible, lightweight and enables so much more than one would expect. To bear in mind, MacOS is not just visual, there’s a whole UX paradigm that goes with it

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