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by mch82 3y ago
This seems like a bad rule. A lot of time gets wasted fixing trademark & branding collisions, fixing format incompatibilities, and fixing UX dark patterns that confuse users. People should be thinking about these issues, especially peop
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Getting Started with Bluesky XRPC(manton.org)
3 points by mch82 3y ago|0 comments
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by mch82 4y ago
> Like a world that never got past the horse and buggy At lunch one day a colleague explained that the size of the space shuttle could be linked to the width of two horses walking on a Roman road :-) One of my favorite lunch breaks of al
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by mch82 4y ago
One of the few remaining arcades that’s still a lot of fun!
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by mch82 4y ago
A couple similar examples for people familiar with other languages… Python… https://learn.adafruit.com/custom-hid-devices-in-circuitpyth... Arduino… https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_TinyUSB_Arduino
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by mch82 4y ago
The Constitution grants rights by default. Laws are only needed to remove rights. > The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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by mch82 4y ago
This has been one of my favorite projects to watch over the last few years. Independent developer. Ephtracy releases updates at a steady pace, chipping away feature by feature. People using the apps tweet amazing images of their work. Inspi
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3D modeling for any skill level – MagicaVoxel(ephtracy.github.io)
2 points by mch82 4y ago|1 comments
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by mch82 4y ago
I recall reading an article about one of the database engines (maybe MySQL or MariaDB) and how it was created as a drop in replacement using test driven development. Can’t find it… anyone know of an article like that?
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by mch82 4y ago
Continuing with the car loan analogy, the interest portion of the car loan is similar to the guaranteed rate of return in a pension. If a car company sets up a loan with a bad interest rate the car company will lose money on the sale. The m
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by mch82 4y ago
“impractical rate of return” is one element of “mismanaged” Pensions are nonexistent now because other compensation packages have become the norm. Actuarial regulation has changed to incorporate lessons learned from pension fund failures. T
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by mch82 4y ago
You don’t understand what a pension is so are reaching misinformed conclusions. A pension is deferred compensation. The employee earns the compensation while working, but agrees to receive the money later. If a person were a car, a pension
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by mch82 4y ago
A pension is deferred compensation. It’s money employees have earned that they agree to receive later in life in order to smooth their tax burden over time and benefit from pooled financial management by professional investors. Pensions hav
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by mch82 4y ago
Great observation! Example: I met a person who started in a job like janitor and ended his career setting up video calls for the CEO. Seems likely that 50+ year career arc was possible because of employee training and all those jobs being i
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by mch82 4y ago
I’m certain renaming GIMP would make a tremendous difference. The name is perceived as offensive & that makes it impossible for people to take seriously, especially in a corporate setting. Edit: As someone who has tried to get people us
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by mch82 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this excellent article and the work you described in another comment to help create the FAQ.
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by mch82 4y ago
It seems CC0 may have simplified this now. The issue used to be that software enters the public domain after copyright expires & different countries interpret that different ways, which can become complicated without an explicit license
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by mch82 4y ago
Stumbled upon this today and found it quite interesting that DoD now considers Open Source Software to be a subcategory of Commercial Software. > As explained in detail below, nearly all OSS is “commercial computer software” as defined i
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DoD FAQ: Is Open Source Software Commercial Software? Yes.(dodcio.defense.gov)
116 points by mch82 4y ago|43 comments
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by mch82 4y ago
Side note… the most interesting thing I learned today is that DoD (and probably other agencies) consider “Open Source Software” to be “Commercial Software”. This is a great development and likely means it will be much simpler to include OSS
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by mch82 4y ago
Enterprises are (slower than I’d hoped) learning the value of contributing to the open source projects they use. More companies are establishing Open Source Program Offices and I expect the rate of contribution to go up. Most contribution f
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by mch82 4y ago
Link to the actual source code download page: https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code Released under APPLE ACADEMIC LICENSE AGREEMENT Lisa OS Software version 3.1
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by mch82 4y ago
What hardware can this run on?
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by mch82 4y ago
That is the more interesting article. Found this dry press release via Jason Snell’s Six Colors RSS feed, https://sixcolors.com Thanks for cross linking to the better one.
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by mch82 4y ago
Just saw the discussion from 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34440757
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Apple releases Lisa source code(computerhistory.org)
85 points by mch82 4y ago|5 comments
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by mch82 4y ago
If you create an account on Wikipedia then you can go into preferences and define custom CSS styles.
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by mch82 4y ago
I wrote a quadratic equation root solver based on one I found, but optimized for UX & more efficient use of built-in functions :-) Also, a game where the player tried to catch a bird that hopped randomly around the screen. Somewhere I’v
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by mch82 4y ago
Analyst Researcher Artist Analyst meaning a person who works with something like Jupyter Notebooks or VBA in Excel to do non-recurring work. Researcher meaning an academic or corporate researcher who tries experiments in code to prove o
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by mch82 4y ago
Unreal Engine can (or at least used to) compile games to WASM and render on canvas. There used to be an excellent demo based on Infinity Blade.

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