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   Ask HN: Career Advice for CS Researchers During an Economic Downturn

   6 points by linguae 7y ago|0 comments
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I think these are references to Apple's change in software design once Jony Ive became in charge of human interface design in late 2012 as well as the 2013 Mac Pro and the 2016 MacBook Pro. From a software standpoint, I've notice
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I was in elementary school during Copland and the NeXT acquisition and so I wasn't there, but based on everything that I've read, the reason for the long gap between the purchase of NeXT in December 1996 and the release of Mac OS
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   by linguae 7y ago

   It's not impossible, but it will take an enormous amount of effort to replicate. Consider the ReactOS project, which strives for compatibility with Windows Server 2003. I use it occasionally in a VM and it is roughly at par with Wind
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I have a similar vision as yours. I wish we had a computing environment today that was a refinement of the Smalltalk and Lisp machine environments of the 1980s, where there was no distinction between user and programmer and where everythin
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I was also blown away by Google Chrome's client-side JavaScript environment (though Safari's environment is good for me, too). I started getting into web development a year ago when I placed on a web-based project; I came from a
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   Multi-Language Support in Smalltalk and Historical Lisp Environments

   10 points by linguae 7y ago|6 comments
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I completely understand you. Last summer I was learning GNUstep development on FreeBSD, and I decided to fire up an instance of Mac OS X Tiger running inside of QEMU on my Mac Pro to compile my code using XCode to see if it worked there.
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   by linguae 7y ago

   I still care about macOS because it is still the most pleasant desktop environment to use, in my opinion. I love macOS's pervasive support for PDFs and macOS's font rendering. I also love the iLife suite of applications. With
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I was just eating lunch across the street from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino when I read the news. The John Sculley era of Apple has received a lot of criticism. With that being said, one of the aspects of this era that I'm m
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    by linguae 7y ago

    That's unfortunate about Étoilé, which looked promising and cool. Last summer I wrote an article about the current state of GNUstep, and I was hoping that someone would pick up from where Étoilé left off. http://mmcthrow-mu
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I wholeheartedly agree. In some ways, iOS and its spinoff iPadOS are the complete opposite of the vision that Apple pursued in the 1990s (before Steve Jobs' return) of scriptable, composable software through AppleScript and OpenDoc, w
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I also think that the lack of community interest in GNUstep was a missed opportunity. More of my thoughts on the matter can be found at http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2019/06/some-thoughts-a... . With that b
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I've been using FreeBSD as my Unix of choice for desktop PCs, Unix development inside VMs, and for servers since 2004 when a community college CS instructor told me about it and gave me an install disc. I love the documentation that s
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I thought this talk was an interesting overview of some of the limitations of Unix (particularly Linux) and C, although I wish the speaker had discussed more details as to why C is not a match for modern processor architectures and how mode
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I can confirm. I used to live in Kawasaki in 2010 and I regularly visit Japan from California for vacation and business. The morning rush hour is relatively short (roughly 7am to past 9am) but intensely congested due to the fact that most
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    by linguae 7y ago

    This mod fascinates me as a Mac user. For the past few years I've been interested in projects like the ThinkPad X62 and ThinkPad x210, which are unofficial ThinkPad modifications with updated components. There are some ThinkPad users
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    Retro PowerBook Gets a Mac Mini Transplant(hackaday.com)

    1 points by linguae 7y ago|1 comments
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    by linguae 7y ago

    Yes. In the 1990s and 2000s Microsoft sold encyclopedia software called Encarta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta I remember some consumer PCs being bundled with Encarta in the 1990s and 2000s. I also remember Gr
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    by linguae 7y ago

    This is exactly correct. There's a wonderful late-1990s documentary on the history of East Palo Alto called "Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto" that describes how the community was formed and ultimately became an inc
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I'm not Asian or Asian-American (I'm an African-American male), but there have been studies that shown that in the United States men and women of certain ethnic groups have different levels of success when it comes to dating. Man
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I usually purchase my computer components from Newegg. However, whenever I was impatient or pressed for time, I used to go to Fry’s. I remember one time in 2011 driving from Santa Cruz to Campbell to pick up a hard drive to replace one th
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    by linguae 7y ago

    This might not be what you want since you've specified System 7, but if you like the Platinum theme used in Mac OS 8 and 9, I recommend the Platinum9 theme for XFCE, which is what I've been recently using whenever I use a Linux de
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    by linguae 7y ago

    Personally, while I’m a fan of Mac OS X and its NeXT lineage, from a UI standpoint I prefer the simplicity of the classic Mac OS, and A/UX married the classic interface with a solid Unix foundation. One of the major focuses of pre-OS X
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    by linguae 7y ago

    There were a lot of really cool technologies developed during the "interregnum" years between 1985 and 1997 at Apple. OpenDoc is one of the most interesting technologies to be developed during this time period. OpenDoc would hav
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I miss the classic Mac OS. From time to time I turn on one of my classic Macs and use Mac OS 8 or 9 for a while, going down memory lane. While the classic Mac OS was unstable due to its lack of both memory protection and preemptive multit
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    by linguae 7y ago

    Standards for what is socially considered appropriate for children has changed over time, at least in American society. For example, in one of the DVD re-releases of the late 1960s-early 1970s seasons of Sesame Street, a children's te
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    Recommended Computer System Simulators

    6 points by linguae 7y ago|1 comments
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I wish there were something like Visual Basic for the development of web applications.
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    by linguae 7y ago

    I wholeheartedly agree. The state of personal computing in 2019 is one of uncomfortable compromises. I'm still using my Macs; I have a 2013 Mac Pro that I regularly use at home, a 2013 MacBook Air that I also regularly use whenever I