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by machinecoffee 8y ago
IOCP in Windows is a good API (although a bit non-obvious), but to be fair, they did have a few tries and missteps before they got there.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Wow, that was an expensive mouse! I remember working on a Sun Sparc 4 (I think, about 1996) with an optical mouse that would only work on a special mat, and wondering what was the point? Glad to see they solved that particular problem.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
maybe data froms action! http://www.data-forms-action.com/
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
It's not where the data came from that's interesting, it's the the fact the list exists, who's on it and that it's being used to identify people that you may not want to start a business relationship with.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Would it be possible to think of a way to keep your satellite office open? Think of some plan so that you can support new customers, or somehow widen your scope to get fresh work. Is there some geographical advantage to where you are so tha
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Probably a lot of DB Servers do that - which is why the plan for a query can change as the amount of data per table increases.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
I would argue that BeOS was not a failure as an OS, but it was a failure in the market where it couldn't find a clear place for itself, and was attempting to break into a market pretty much totally dominated by MS at the time. Remembe
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Folklore.org is an excellent site, I loved reading about the early days of the mac and gained a great respect for the first Macintosh team. In my opinion they really moved the needle on ubiquitous computing for the masses, and did a great j
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Oh my goodness, sensible, persistent, easy to use scrollbars! Oh how I've missed them...
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Interesting reading through the code, which looks very much like Win32.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Actually Mac OS was always pretty restrictive in what you could customize - in some ways they've actually doubled the number of choices you now have :)
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
And I guess there's no way to create a transaction between the file system and the sqlite db. I've often thought that would be a useful feature sometimes - maybe something in the sqlite API could write your file, and then commit w
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Snow Leopard and Windows 2000 I believe will long be fondly remembered by some, for being stable releases that barely introduced new features, but focused instead on stability.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Wow, good acronym. Now if only I had a good way to remember names, it's something I'm really bad at. Somehow when somebody tells me their name my brain goes on holiday, even after I purposefully repeat it, like 'Hi Luke, nice
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Never realized how much Smalltalk influenced Objective C until I looked a bit more into it. See e.g. object initialization here: https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Inst... And the no
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Thanks for reminding me how useful a site finance.yahoo is, if you take that graph back to 2005, IBM doesn't look that bad. You also see the precipitous fall Groupon had from its earliest days.
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
It didn't seem to be a problem for GEM for some reason though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gem_11_Desktop.png
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
I was too, of course a distributed system could also be built with DCOM and MTC (later COM+), and the DTC (Distributed Transaction Coordinator) could be used when you needed a transaction across services (or DBs, or MQs). Obviously the DTC
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Previous discussion on HN for 'Naughty Strings', was certainly an entertaining and eye opening read... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008
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by machinecoffee 8y ago
Does there even exist a working quantum network at the moment, as in has anybody ever connected two devices and sent 1MB of data over the link (even if the 2 nodes are only a few meters apart)? This article is talking about building an inte