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by linguae 2y ago
With inflation and the terribly high cost of housing in places like the Bay Area, “seven figures is the new six figures” is an apt observation. I make six figures, yet I can’t afford to buy a home within a reasonable commute from my job, a
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by linguae 2y ago
I’ve had similar feelings about Apple since the mid-2010s, that my interests as a Mac user are not in line with Apple’s interests as a corporation. Since Steve Jobs passed away, Apple made moves that made the Mac less attractive to me, mos
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by linguae 2y ago
This is what I do in my introductory data structures and algorithms course at a Bay Area community college: I teach binary search as part of my introduction to recursion, and then the following lectures are a series of lessons on sorting al
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by linguae 2y ago
This reminds me of what I’ve read about the Xerox Mesa/Cedar environment, which in turn influenced the look and feel of Wirth’s Project Oberon and the acme text editor from Plan 9 from Bell Labs. I also have a copy of Jef Raskin’s Th
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by linguae 2y ago
This is very interesting to think about, though. What if there were many more representatives? It doesn't have to be one for every 40,000, but suppose there were 2,000 representatives. Of course there are logistical challenges to in
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by linguae 2y ago
I've been using Windows since the days of Windows 95, and while Windows was not my daily driver from 2006 to 2021 (I was primarily a Mac user during this period), I've used every desktop version of Windows since 95 with the except
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Ask HN: How to Consult Part-Time as a Community College Instructor
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by linguae 2y ago
I have a Toyota Mirai. The cheapest hydrogen available to me is $30/kg, and many stations (those owned by True Zero) charge $36/kg. When I bought my Mirai, it was $19.70/kg. The reason I bought a Mirai is because I wanted t
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by linguae 2y ago
There’s a documentary that should be released soon named “Message Not Understood” that covers the history of personal computing, with a heavy emphasis on Xerox PARC and its contributions, and how modern computing has become less about user
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by linguae 2y ago
For these reasons, Jimmy Carter is my third-favorite president of the 20th century, behind my favorite, Calvin Coolidge, and my second-favorite, Dwight Eisenhower. I am a very big fan of Paul Volcker and I’m glad Jimmy Carter nominated him
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by linguae 2y ago
When I was 12 years old, we had to leave a rental house because the landlord sold it. It was very disruptive for us since my parents were low-income and didn’t have much savings. It also took place at a time when market rents increased qu
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by linguae 2y ago
One of the things I appreciate about x86 isn’t the instruction set itself, but the relatively open PC platform that developed around it. I like being able to purchase processors, motherboards, RAM, and other components off the shelf, and I
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by linguae 2y ago
This is actually how I was introduced to FreeBSD as well. I was a high school student in 2004 who had a hand-me-down PC that one of my high school teachers gave me. It had a 475MHz AMD K6-2 processor, 64MB RAM, and a 8GB hard drive that w
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by linguae 2y ago
I’ve never thought of it that way. Come to think of it, I could name many of the influential people at Apple from the 1970s through the 1990s beyond the founders and CEOs. Bill Atkinson, Larry Tesler, Ike Nassi, Alan Kay, Susan Kare, Chri
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by linguae 2y ago
Ever since I was in high school in the early 2000s, I've been fascinated with Apple's history and, by extension, spinoff companies like NeXT, Be, Claris, Taligent, and General Magic. While my enthusiasm for Apple has waned since
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by linguae 2y ago
A thought dawned on me this morning when I was thinking about the Power Mac G5, which came out around the time I first started getting into Macs: over 20 years have elapsed since the release of the Power Mac G5 (and it's been almost 20
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by linguae 2y ago
I don’t know if retrocomputing makes me feel younger or older, but it makes me feel nostalgic for the younger days of computing. My retrocomputing niches are classic Macs, NeXT (I own a few machines, including a NeXT cube), and older versi
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by linguae 2y ago
I believe this depends on the type of research that is being done. There are certain types of research that benefit from our current research grant system and from VC funding. The former is good when the research has a clear impact (wheth
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by linguae 2y ago
It's an example of Zuck's curiosity. When I refer to curiosity-driven research, I mean curiosity driven by the researchers, where the researchers themselves drive the research agenda, not management. To be fair, though; Faceboo
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by linguae 2y ago
I agree with you that the modern corporate world seems to be allergic to anything that doesn't promise immediate profits. It takes more than a monopoly to have something like Bell Labs. To be more precise, monopolies tend to have the
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by linguae 2y ago
I have come to realize that over the years, though I still believe that wealthier companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Facebook, and the like could fund curiosity-driven research, even if it’s not at the scale of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC. On a smal
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by linguae 2y ago
Something that just dawned on me is the downstream effects of United States’ policy regarding science during WWII and the Cold War. The Manhattan Project, NASA, the NSA and all of its contributions to mathematics and cryptography, ARPA, DA
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by linguae 2y ago
During my teenage and college years in the 2000s, I was inspired by what I’ve read about Bell Labs, and I wanted to work as a computer science researcher in industry. I’ve also been inspired by Xerox PARC’s 1970s and 1980s researchers. I
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by linguae 2y ago
I don't know if this is the same thing, but you may be interested in this failed project from IBM in the 1990s that attempted to leverage Taligent and OS/2 to create a universal operating system that used a microkernel and was cap
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by linguae 2y ago
I like to think of Apple as an unfocused fount of innovation during its "interregnum" years (1985-1996). There were many interesting projects that came out of Apple during this time, including (but not limited to) Pink/Talig
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by linguae 2y ago
Definitely (I’m an African American who grew up in “inner-city” Sacramento). There’s been a reversal of this trend during the 2010s, where the inner city has seen an influx of higher-income residents seeking lower home prices and shorter c
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by linguae 2y ago
I haven’t ridden the ACE train before, but this can be a major benefit for those commuting from the Outer East Bay and San Joaquin County. Plus, I heard the seats are like Caltrain’s, which means it’s possible for commuters to get work don
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by linguae 2y ago
The situation in the San Francisco Bay Area is similar. While there are still low-income communities in and near the urban centers (e.g., East Oakland, Richmond, Bay View/Hunter’s Point in San Francisco), there are many low-income and
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by linguae 2y ago
This is one of the reasons why I'm curious about Alan Kay's STEPS project, which attempted to build an entire desktop environment in just 20,000 lines of code via the use of bespoke domain-specific languages ( https://ti
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by linguae 2y ago
I agree with you. I disagree with the assertion from the author that LibreOffice refuses to implement the OOXML standard for ideological reasons; nothing was cited in the article supporting this assertion. If it were true that LibreOffice

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