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by linguae 6y ago
I largely agree with you, and I share many of the same sentiments. Personal computing is supposed to be about user empowerment; the ability for users to not only communicate with other people and to get work done, but to also automate thei
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by linguae 6y ago
I agree. With the exception of the Linux desktop, desktop computing is controlled by two very large companies: Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft still makes plenty of money from Windows licenses, but its business model has become more relian
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by linguae 6y ago
"Do we continue to dumb down software to exclusive casual usage for house-moms or we try to move our society to be more techn savy as we are clearly moving to a more tech relying world. Why shouldn't everyone know how to code?&quo
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by linguae 6y ago
I am working on a side project where I am building a desktop environment for Linux and the BSDs that implements OpenDoc-style components using Common Lisp, where components are objects and where they could be combined not only by using code
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by linguae 6y ago
I saw the trailer for this documentary. I hope it succeeds; how this documentary differs from other stories about the history of personal computing is its coverage of personal computing after the 1980s and how personal computing has gone i
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by linguae 6y ago
There's one issue: what if the only homes available in exurban areas are large, single family homes? I would love to buy a brand-new modestly-sized single-family house under 1,000 sq ft in an exurb like Tracy or Hollister provided tha
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by linguae 6y ago
I was born in the late 1980s and thus was too young to experience NeXT in its heyday, but sometime in high school was when I learned Mac OS X and its NeXT heritage. I was enamored by a highly usable Unix GUI, and since then I've been
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by linguae 6y ago
I am a huge fan of the idea of OpenDoc and component-based software in general, to the point that one of my side projects is writing a desktop environment in Common Lisp that is inspired by OpenDoc is not a clone; the emphasis is not on doc
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by linguae 6y ago
Agreed. The other serious problem with OpenDoc, from a business standpoint, is that it could have alienated big software vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe from Mac OS at a time when Apple needed Microsoft's and Adobe's commitme
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System Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf](herpolhode.com)
1 points by linguae 6y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 6y ago
Exactly. This is why I love the classic Mac OS ecosystem. Yes, the classic Mac OS lacked preemptive multitasking and protected memory, which led to system instability that hampered the user experience. However, most applications written
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Advice about Starting a Company
2 points by linguae 6y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 6y ago
The T420 is the last model to feature the traditional ThinkPad keyboard (except for the special 25th anniversary ThinkPad), though it is possible to install the T420 keyboard in a T430. There is still a segment of ThinkPad users who prefer
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm also a Cal Poly graduate (computer science) who learned Racket (called PLT Scheme back when I was a Cal Poly student) from Professor John Clements ( https://www.brinckerhoff.org ), who was involved with PLT Scheme. We us
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by linguae 6y ago
It’s a tough situation, especially for non-PhD holders. Even with a PhD it’s possible for a researcher to enter a rough patch where a career change looks inevitable. The last time I was unemployed I started sending out my résumé to variou
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by linguae 6y ago
As a (non-PhD) researcher who works for one of the last traditional industrial research labs in Silicon Valley, I've noticed this trend for years. I've seen industrial research labs either close or become increasingly focused on
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by linguae 6y ago
I've been using FreeBSD for servers and as an occasional daily driver for the past 16 years. Linux is a great operating system that I use for my work and also in situations where I have Linux hardware support but not for FreeBSD (I pr
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by linguae 6y ago
I have fond memories of ClarisWorks in elementary school. My elementary school in the 1990s had a bunch of Apple Macintosh Performa 575 and 580 machines running Mac OS 7.5; the school still had them as late as 2001 when I completed sixth g
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by linguae 6y ago
It's a shame that Apple doesn't have an industrial research lab; it certainly has the funding to create a lab that would rival Microsoft Research or perhaps even legendary labs like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. Apple used to have a
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by linguae 6y ago
One of the things I miss about older laptops is the keyboards. I would love to buy a laptop that is built like a PowerBook G4 or a ThinkPad X61 but with modern displays and modern internals, and with extra bonus points if it has user-repla
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by linguae 6y ago
I also remember having to exit into DOS on my parent's PC running Windows 95 whenever I wanted to run MS-DOS games. I remember a PIF setting that allowed booting into DOS, directly running the program, and immediately rebooting into W
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by linguae 6y ago
What a timely post. I actually just finished implementing an S-expression lexer and parser written in Python; I'm going through the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual and my next step is to implement that manual's legendary Page 1
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by linguae 6y ago
I have a somewhat contrarian opinion. I'll speak from the standpoint of an American citizen. Yes, remote work will obviate the need to live in Silicon Valley for many engineers. I'm also concerned that the shift to remote work m
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by linguae 6y ago
I remember reading this book in 11th grade and I absolutely loved it. It made me appreciate math much more and showed me the beauty of mathematics. It helped me overcome my math anxiety.
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by linguae 6y ago
I feel the same way. Earlier this week I read a wonderful article from Bruce Tognazzini, who worked at Apple from 1978 to 1992 and was instrumental in designing the usability guidelines for the Apple II and the classic Mac OS, called &quot
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A Proposal for a Flexible, Composable, Libre Desktop Environment(mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com)
2 points by linguae 6y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm an American who travels to Japan frequently and once lived there for eight months. I don't like the phrase and I feel uncomfortable whenever I hear it; to me it evokes stereotypes and myths surrounding geisha.
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by linguae 6y ago
Exactly. One of my annoyances with Microsoft's post-Windows 2000 design philosophy is its penchant for consuming large amounts of vertical space. This started with the large title bars used in the Windows XP Luna theme. I wasn'
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by linguae 6y ago
Note: I'm an African-American man who works in Silicon Valley as a researcher in an AI lab. I believe there are a number of reasons why there are so few African-Americans in STEM. 1. Many of us grew up in low-income households that do
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by linguae 6y ago
I wonder what would have happened to the Linux desktop ecosystem had it embraced something like Software-ICs modeled similarly to Apple's OpenDoc project rather than to implement monolithic applications. One of my favorite Hacker News

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