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by linguae 1y ago
Additionally, while this is US-centric, there were still many households in the mid-1990s whose first computers were PCs running Windows 95, just in time for the World Wide Web to be widely available, which created demand for personal compu
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I was just a kid during the 1990s when all of this was happening, but a few years ago I remember reading about an IBM project named GUTS where one kernel would run multiple OS "personalities": https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by linguae 1y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem that the situation regarding software development outside Big Tech and VC-funded startups is sad, and this includes open source projects that are not commercially-backed? I remember hearing about The Omni Gro
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This is also consistent with Apple’s previous behavior with backwards compatibility, where Apple would provide a few years of support for the previous platform but will strongly nudge developers and users to move on. The Classic environmen
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I remember trying out Plan 9 a few years ago. I like its underpinnings; I like how the designers pushed the Unix notion of "everything is a file" to its limits, with various services being presented to the operating system as fil
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by linguae 1y ago
I have a Framework 13 that I use as my personal laptop and a work-issued M3 MacBook Pro. I love my Framework 13. I'm a long-time Mac user, but I increasingly found myself alienated by locked-down hardware and increasingly locked-down
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by linguae 1y ago
Yes! I wholeheartedly agree! I teach C++ programming classes as part of my job as a professor. I have a work-issued MacBook Pro, and I make heavy use of Terminal.app. One of the things that annoy me is always having to click on a dialog
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Unfortunately, if the Mac isn't distinct from Windows and desktop Linux in some way, then what's the point? Yes, as a long-time Mac user who now uses PCs at home but still uses a work-issued MacBook Pro, I greatly appreciate how M
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I think it's a little more complicated than that. He wasn't at Apple from mid-1985 through the end of 1996, yet Apple's culture was still profoundly influenced by him in many ways. Many influential people who were hired pre
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by linguae 1y ago
From the article: “France is different. France is romantic. It’s poetic. It’s revolutionary. It’s meticulous. It’s the land where the word craft still means something. We don’t dream big; we perfect small. We don’t scale; we sculpt. We don’
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I had a chance to skim over the paper, and I'm very inspired; I'm looking forward to reading it in depth and considering its lessons while working on my side project. For about a decade, I've been dreaming about building a m
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Unfortunately, there are some apartment complexes, HOAs, and city ordinances that prohibit people from working on their cars, which means either needing to find a legal place to do your own repairs or paying a mechanic. I’ve lived in apart
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by linguae 1y ago
Disclaimer: I spent a year at Facebook as a production engineer. I wonder if you're familiar with the Hack programming language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) ), which was developed by F
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I think what did IE in was the security issues that IE, ActiveX, and Windows had in the mid-2000s. This, combined with IE 6's stagnation, gave Firefox an opening to compete and to challenge the IE 6 monopoly. There was a sweet spot be
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by linguae 1y ago
Al Gore and Elvis Presley are two prominent Tennesseans who immediately come to mind as a third-generation Californian. Don’t discount your state.
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This is not the first time this has happened in Apple’s history. The transition from the 68k architecture to the PowerPC brought major performance improvements, but Apple’s software didn’t take full advantage of it. If I remember correctl
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This was a problem during the early 2000s when Windows and Internet Explorer were utterly dominant. Some banks, government services, and other essential websites used ActiveX controls, preventing access by non-Windows users. I remember du
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I could think of many examples, but I'll talk about the top four that I have in mind, that I'd like to see re-evaluated for today's times. 1. When Windows Vista was being developed, there were plans to replace the file syste
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This change most likely happened sometime in the early 1990s, though it’s possible it could’ve happened in the late 1980s. I have a PDF copy of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1995 that recommends descriptive button text inst
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I don’t know…for people who can do their computing on a Chromebook, a Linux distribution would be suitable. The people who will have the hardest time switching to Linux are those who need proprietary software products that are unavailable f
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To be fair, Steve Jobs acknowledged this in a 1990s interview: "And they showed me, really, three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was obj
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One of the things that I admire Steve Jobs the most is his good taste. He had a great ability of recognizing talented individuals and adopting some of the best ideas computer science had to offer at the time. For example, the Lisa and the
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I have a 350MHz Power Mac G4 from 1999, and it’s one of the most thoughtfully designed desktops I’ve used. Not only is it visually appealing, but it is very easy to access its components using its door. Ive was also behind many other innov
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by linguae 1y ago
Milton Friedman was not part of the Austrian School. Rather, he was part of the Chicago School. While both schools promote free market economics, there are differences. In fact, one of the biggest differences has to do with their views o
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As someone who transitioned from industry to full-time teaching at a community college, I sympathize. The boom-driven influx of people in the industry who are not passionate about technology but are passionate about money has affected even
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“Trash” is too harsh of a word, but I do feel that desktop Linux lacks the fit-and-finish of Windows and macOS. It boils down to development resources. The Mac ecosystem has a much smaller number of hardware configurations that macOS need
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Even for fields that can be done entirely with pen and paper, grad students and postdocs don't work for free, and often the only way a professor can keep up with a research university's publication expectations is to hire grad stu
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I came to a similar conclusion as a computer scientist working in industry who ended up transitioning to a community college teaching career. I remember being inspired by the stories of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC as a high school student and
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It depends on the progressive, however. Yes, I’m hearing more calls to build from progressives. However, for a long time between the 1960s until the past few years, there were two drivers of NIMBYism that progressives championed: (1) loca
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Nostalgia is one aspect of retrocomputing to me, but one of the things I also like about retrocomputing is being able to experience platforms I never got to use during their heydays, either because I wasn’t around when those platforms were

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