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by linguae 5y ago
This brings back memories of playing around with Visual Basic 6 as an 11 year old, trying to figure out how exactly Microsoft came up with the flat toolbars used in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office 97 while the toolbar controls provid
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by linguae 5y ago
From Hadi Partovi's thread: "The Internet Explorer team was the hardest-working team I’ve ever been on. And I’ve worked at multiple start-ups. It was a sprint, not a marathon. We ate every meal at the office. We often held foosbal
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by linguae 5y ago
I concur; I believe selling software components is a difficult business model for the reasons that you mentioned. This may have contributed to Steve Jobs' decision to cancel OpenDoc in 1997: Apple needed the support of its existing ba
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by linguae 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree; the app-centric model of today's desktop environments is the antithesis of the Smalltalk vision of composability. In an environment where everything is a live object, programmers can send messages to those obje
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by linguae 5y ago
As a long time Mac user, in my opinion what has historically distinguished the Mac from other platforms is the high degree of UI/UX consistency across applications. Mac users historically valued software products that conformed to the
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by linguae 5y ago
Exactly. I lived in Kawasaki, Japan, which is a large suburb of both Tokyo and Yokohama. Much of Kawasaki is walkable and has amenities such as restaurants, grocery stores, and shopping centers within no more than a 15-minute walk from mo
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by linguae 5y ago
It took me a while to understand the X Window System’s definitions of client and server. An X client refers to an application that uses the X11 protocol, such as Firefox or GIMP. An X server implements the X protocol and connects to a dis
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Founding a Non-Profit FOSS Company
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by linguae 5y ago
The simple answer to this question is that not all software at Xerox PARC was written in Smalltalk. In fact, Smalltalk was just one out of a few different languages and programming environments that Xerox PARC used. For example, the Bravo
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by linguae 5y ago
From the article: “My heart was broken because Common Lisp is such a fine fine language and it is a joy to work in and hardly anyone uses it in industry. The industry has a lot of code in Java even when it takes much less time to write code
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by linguae 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm live in the Santa Cruz area and visit Cupertino at least once a week. Cupertino might not be the most active place in terms of things to do, especially regarding nightlife (which the most exciting thing is probably gett
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by linguae 5y ago
Sometimes users have problems installing Linux, not because of lack of ability, but because of lack of driver support. This is especially true for laptops. I remember installing Linux on my desktop in 2004 as an 11th grader, and I remembe
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by linguae 5y ago
For the past few years I've felt the same way; I've been wrestling with these feelings since the release of the 2016 MacBook Pro. I haven't upgraded my Macs past Mojave due to the loss of 32-bit application support in Catali
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by linguae 5y ago
C and Unix are from the early 1970s. They date from an era that predates the prevalence of large, bitmapped displays. There is a famous photo of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at a teletype in 1972 ( http://www.columbia.edu&#x2
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by linguae 5y ago
Unfortunately if the OP is located in California, there are very few places left in the state where one can purchase a home for just $300k; these are generally places in the southern half of the Central Valley (e.g., Fresno, Bakersfield) or
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by linguae 5y ago
It's not just man pages. I can't speak for OpenBSD and NetBSD since I'm unfamiliar with those systems, but for FreeBSD there is the excellent FreeBSD Handbook ( https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/hand
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by linguae 5y ago
I use FreeBSD on my servers and for research for the following reasons: 1. The documentation is excellent. The man pages are well-written and have useful examples, and the FreeBSD Handbook and Developer Guide are great resources. 2. Firs
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by linguae 5y ago
I wonder how close NetBSD’s design is to 4.4BSD, the last version of BSD from UC Berkeley’s CSRG? My understanding is that FreeBSD has a lot of features that are exclusive to it, such as jails and Capsicum, and FreeBSD also has some Solari
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by linguae 5y ago
However, building a business is a different problem from doing research. When one accepts VC funding, the funding comes with the expectation that it will lead to a high-growth business. This is fine when you have an idea that has the pote
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by linguae 5y ago
I use dc all the time, which the article denounced as even worse. dc gets more usage on my machines than most other commands, except for perhaps ls, cd, and vi. Whenever I need to make quick calculations on my computer, it is much more ef
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by linguae 5y ago
I'm a lifelong Californian whose lived in Santa Cruz County for nearly nine out of the past 11 years, and as someone who wants to become a CS professor at a teaching university one day, I feel the exact same way. I love California and
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by linguae 6y ago
I've been paying attention to the GNUstep project periodically since 2004, and I can't recall Apple ever supporting the project.
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by linguae 6y ago
I don't think Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites are good places for randomly asking out anyone due to etiquette. In fact, even offline there seems to be a growing backlash, at least in American society, toward randomly a
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by linguae 6y ago
My understanding of academia is that even tenured professors can still be subject to the same publish-or-perish pressures that non-tenured faculty have. My understanding of tenure is that you cannot be fired without cause, but you can stil
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by linguae 6y ago
I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. It's unfortunate that there are a lot of CS degree programs that are basically vocational prep teaching today's tech du jour at the expense of teaching the fundamentals, but this is not a r
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by linguae 6y ago
I’m not exclusively a Mac user. In the past 30 years I’ve also used MS-DOS, every version of Windows since 95 (except for Me and server-based versions like 2003 and 2008), various Linux desktops, Android, ChromeOS, and iOS. I’ve even play
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by linguae 6y ago
I agree. The Mac ecosystem has long valued quality, especially when it comes to UI/UX. One of my favorite proprietary software companies is The Omni Group, which has made a lot of very well-done software tools for the Mac, such as Om
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by linguae 6y ago
One of the things that I have noticed in my career is that the industry, in my opinion, does not seem to value craftsmanship in software outside of a few niches. After all, for most people, software is simply the means to an end, and this
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by linguae 6y ago
Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up readi
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by linguae 6y ago
In my opinion, I believe the economic model for desktop computing changed with the rise of mobile and cloud computing, and with this change in economics came a shift in focus from desktop computer platforms to these new platforms. Before th

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