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by linguae 2y ago
Interestingly enough, Apple did contribute to porting Linux to PowerPC Macs in the mid-1990s under the MkLinux project, which started in 1996 before Apple’s purchase of NeXT later that year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by linguae 2y ago
In defense of such compilers professors, part of the purpose of a good undergraduate computer science program is to expose students to different programming language paradigms. Computing professionals are expected to grasp new languages, A
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I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but Microsoft Excel was very innovative for being one of the first graphical spreadsheets, originally written for the classic Mac OS in the mid-1980s before it was available for Windows. It was Excel, not Word or
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by linguae 2y ago
I’m a 90s kid (born in 1989), and I remember the days of the anti-trust lawsuit, “Internet Exploder,” the Slashdot Borg icon, and resentment from Mac users, WordPerfect users, Netscape users, and others who strongly disliked the Microsoft m
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I enjoy my Framework 13 laptop; it’s great having a laptop that is user-serviceable and upgradable, and I’m keeping my eyes out on the upcoming Framework convertible laptop as a potential replacement for my aging Microsoft Surface Pro 7. Wi
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by linguae 2y ago
To add, coming from a research environment (industry AI researcher turned community college professor), there are deadlines in industrial research labs and academia, too. All of my industry research projects had to fit within management-de
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by linguae 2y ago
Maybe I’m biased because I grew up in a family where my dad at one point was a musician and my siblings and I all pursued competitive careers at one point in our lives (academia, acting, business, music, sports), but I don’t know if America
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by linguae 2y ago
Linux has far greater hardware support than ReactOS does.
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Honestly, our legal remedies are quite limited: 1. All three branches of government are controlled by the MAGA Party. I call it the MAGA Party, not the Republican Party, since the Republican Party has long been purged of serious Never Tru
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by linguae 2y ago
It’s the “slope of enlightenment” phase of the Gartner hype cycle, where people are able to make sober assessments of technologies without undue influence from hype or its backlash. We’re long past the days where XML is used for everything
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by linguae 2y ago
“There just isn't a huge pool of money for academics anywhere. Maybe the EU, Canada, or Australia or NZ can step up to the plate, but pretty much everyone I've talked to in those areas have been in financial crises of their own.”
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by linguae 2y ago
1. I’ve read that the first edition of Philip Wadler’s and Richard Bird’s Introduction to Functional Programming is better than the second edition, but having read neither, I can’t give an opinion one way or the other. 2. I have deep re
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I was waiting to respond until I saw this reported from a source like Reuters. This is very scary. I’m an American community college instructor in Silicon Valley who does research with domestic and international colleagues; in fact, I will
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A thought occurred to me as I was reading your comment: what if this thinking that what we're witnessing couldn't happen in "advanced Western democracies" that are not "socially backward, ideology-riddled, [and] far
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by linguae 2y ago
1. It’s about the culture wars and also “evening the score” against opponents of Trump and MAGA. The Trump administration seems to be hellbent on “sticking it” to people, groups, institutions, and even nations that opposed him. Scientist
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This reminds me of something Alan Kay (of Xerox PARC and Apple fame) wrote when talked about how those who profited from the results of research have not “paid it forward” through funding future research: https://worrydream.com&#
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by linguae 2y ago
It’s not just zoning restrictions that caused housing prices to increase. 1. There was a lot of money circulating during the COVID pandemic as a result of very low interest rates and other practices intended to stimulate the economy. More
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Ironically, AT&T's monopoly actually helped the adoption of Unix, but not in an exploitative way. In 1956, AT&T was subject to a consent decree by the US government, where AT&T was allowed to maintain its phone monopoly bu
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by linguae 2y ago
Agreed. The iPad, from a hardware point of view, is a close approximation to Alan Kay's Dynabook concept ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook ). It's a shame that iPads are so locked down; I'd love t
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by linguae 2y ago
Unfortunately many people rely on proprietary software packages that don't run on Linux, such as Microsoft Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, and other desktop software tools that serve various niches like CAD, music, video production,
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I’m very fascinated by this, and I hope that your proposal gets approved! I’m a community college instructor in Silicon Valley, and my plan this summer (which is when I have nearly three months off from teaching) is to work on a side proje
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by linguae 2y ago
There are some RPN calculators from SwissMicros that are inspired by HP’s RPN calculators from the 1980s and 1990s: https://www.swissmicros.com/products There is also the HP-15c Collector’s Edition (I have one), which is st
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by linguae 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this article; this changed some of my perceptions of Bell Labs regarding how free its researchers were, though Bell Labs was certainly one of the most free industrial research labs in history, alongside 1970s-era Xerox
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As a researcher who changed career paths to teaching at a community college, I empathize. Twenty years ago when I graduated from high school, I was inspired by the stories I’ve read about Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and early Apple and Microsof
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by linguae 2y ago
I think there was a sweet spot in the late 2000s and early 2010s, more specifically, the Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard eras. On the Windows side of things, this was when Microsoft got serious about security, with plagued earlier versi
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by linguae 2y ago
My first PhD advisor was German, and he introduced me to LAMY pens. Everyone in our lab was given a hardcover notebook and a LAMY pen, and there were plenty of ink cartridges that we could use. I don’t use fountain pens these days, prefer
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by linguae 2y ago
I love Japanese stationery. I prefer my Mitsubishi Hi-Uni pencils to even my Blackwings, which are also great pencils. I also love Kokuyo Campus notebooks, which I first started using 15 years ago when I was a research intern at Fujitsu L
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by linguae 2y ago
I concur. To add, I wonder how much of the “old guard” is still at Apple? Apple used to be perfectionistic when it came to software, even during the 1985-1996 interregnum when Steve Jobs was absent. Besides Steve Jobs, Apple also had peo
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I disagree with the notion that Microsoft is sabotaging the Linux desktop via WSL. In my opinion, I believe it’s the Sisyphean development churn of the FOSS desktop ecosystem that held the Linux desktop back. However, the industry-wide mo
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by linguae 2y ago
At the time of early Linux, BSD was still a UC Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group project, though the CSRG would disband after 4.4BSD was released sometime in 1994-1995. BSD had a user base even in the days when using BSD required an

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