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by linguae 4y ago
Ummmm, Japanese people have rioted before. While riots have been very rare in recent decades, the decades after WWII had riots, including the rather legendary riots over the construction of Narita Airport ( https://en.m.wikipedia
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The INTERNET on April 4th, 1998(youtube.com)
13 points by linguae 4y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 4y ago
I feel the exact same way. I don’t understand how the fast food industry will continue without major changes due to the “low cost” factor being completely evaporated. They cost almost as much as fast casual places these days, yet the quali
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by linguae 4y ago
Walkable communities don't mean stores on every street. An example would be the residential neighborhoods of Tokyo. There are plenty of quiet streets with homes, which are generally a mixture of single-family and multi-family units.
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by linguae 4y ago
I feel the exact same way; I'm not epileptic but I avoid media that knowingly contains rapid flashing lights out of precaution, and I look away or scroll down whenever I do come across rapid flashing lights. I'm glad that Apple ha
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by linguae 4y ago
Yes, I believe the course of the history of the Linux desktop would have been very different had GNUstep took off, especially around the crucial years of 1996-1998. In our timeline KDE started in 1996 and GNOME started in 1997, and neither
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by linguae 4y ago
I don’t know how true the allegations are, but this is a link to a Hacker News discussion about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32257412
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by linguae 4y ago
Software used in medical devices, airplanes, and other applications where mistakes can lead to death does exist, and there has been tragic examples of software bugs killing people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac
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by linguae 4y ago
(Disclaimer: I was a software engineering intern at Google during the summers of 2013 and 2014.) In the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s, Google felt like the dream place to work. Yes, a lot has been said about the perks and the gener
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by linguae 4y ago
Databases and networking were optional topics at my undergraduate institution, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where many of its CS grads went on to have successful software engineering careers in Silicon Valley. As for concurrency, we had a few
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by linguae 4y ago
Some examples that come to mind: 1. Among long-time Mac users and developers there is a strong sense of what is “Mac-like” based on not just the guidelines set in place by the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, but also by prominent exa
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Ask HN: Why Do Some CS Researchers Switch to Software Engineering Careers
3 points by linguae 4y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 4y ago
Even with working from home, some people have certain needs that are easier to fulfill in/near cities. For example, people with chronic medical conditions may have an easier time finding quality health care resources if they are close
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by linguae 4y ago
I make six figures in tech in Silicon Valley, yet the closest places I can afford to purchase a home that isn't in a dangerous neighborhood are in far-flung exurban towns in the Central Valley such as Lathrop, Patterson, and Los Banos
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by linguae 4y ago
Consumer electronics from Sony, Canon, Nikon, Sharp, etc. immediately come to mind. They were dominant in the 1990s, but have since faced heavy competition.
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by linguae 4y ago
I agree. I bet on hydrogen by purchasing a new Toyota Mirai two months ago. The reason I purchased a Mirai instead of a BEV is because I am an apartment dweller with no convenient charging options available to me; my landlord has no plans
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by linguae 4y ago
I’m also a black American who lived in Japan and who frequents Japan for business and vacation; in fact, I just returned from my eighth trip a few days ago. I feel an indescribable feeling of freedom and even acceptance in Japan that have
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by linguae 4y ago
This is just my opinion, but I believe it is because California is the land of the “I got mine!” mentality, the types who pull up the ladders that they climbed. Housing has effectively been outsourced to the Central Valley and the desert d
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by linguae 4y ago
That’s true, but I see where the original poster is coming from. Having grown up in a low-income household where every dime mattered, we couldn’t afford cable TV, and we didn’t have cell phones until 2004. The costs of cable/satellit
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PostScript: A Digital Printing Press(computerhistory.org)
102 points by linguae 4y ago|29 comments
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by linguae 4y ago
The Computer History Museum has just announced the release of the source code of the original version of Adobe PostScript ( https://info.computerhistory.org/aoc-postscript ). It is not open source under the OSI definition, h
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by linguae 4y ago
I didn’t see any posts related to STEPS yesterday, but I’ve been aware of STEPS for a few years.
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by linguae 4y ago
You may be very interested in the STEPS project from Alan Kay’s Viewpoints Research Institute. STEPS was an attempt to build an entire desktop operating system environment with only 20,000 lines of code. In order to accomplish this, the d
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by linguae 4y ago
Judging by the title, I was expecting to read about the advantages of dynamically-typed functional programming languages like Scheme and Clojure over statically-typed functional languages like Standard ML and Haskell. It seems to me that l
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by linguae 4y ago
Counterpoint regarding C and C++ is the famous “Worse is Better” essay by famed Lisp hacker Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html C was the implementation language of AT&T Unix. The opera
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by linguae 4y ago
I dream of owning two homes: one on the central coast of California somewhere between Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, and one in Japan, ideally in either one of the western districts of Tokyo (like the Meguro or Setagaya wards) or in the Kana
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by linguae 4y ago
Same here. When I started my search last year, while I could afford the mortgage payments, I kept getting outbid on everything I could find within my price range ($550,000). This year I'm priced out due to the doubling of interest ra
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by linguae 4y ago
This is an unfortunate feature loss in my favorite PDF viewer. Even though I’ve migrated to Windows and FreeBSD for my daily driver at home, I still use a Mac at work, and I have to admit that I miss Preview.app whenever I’m using my home
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by linguae 4y ago
I'm a long-time Mac user who made the switch back to FreeBSD and Windows at the beginning of the year due to my disappointments with the direction the Mac has gone since Tim Cook took over. I started thinking about switching away from
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by linguae 4y ago
I agree. I'd like to see some themes that are Mac-inspired but are not clones, which seem to suffer from this "uncanny valley" you mentioned. To add, Mac OS is much more than its visual elements; the Macintosh Human Interfac

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