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by mmjaa 9y ago
I might be wrong but I seem to remember the Sharp X68000 being a preferred platform in the early days? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Totally. (Disclaimer: Ubuntu user since, forever..) I see Mint as a well-polished distribution, among a rather - you have to admit - humongous set of competition. Mint is a good newbie Linux. Its good looking, works for most users I'
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by mmjaa 9y ago
There is very definitely a difference between programming in the 70's, 80's, 90's, and now .. in the 'new millennium'. Except, there really isn't. You still need to pay attention to the state of the stack, whe
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by mmjaa 9y ago
That is exactly my point. And I'm not surprised it hasn't gone well with this crowd, because - after all - "who needs to know what the stack is, amiright?", kids?
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the only 'real' "Full Stack Developer" is one who, indeed, knows what the stack is, and how to use it. Also, the heap. Think about it - those who don't know these things, and do
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Corrolary: Instagram usage makes you depressed!
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Thank you for the superlative spelunking, that was a great trip down memory lane! :)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The music and general aesthetics reminded me of Tranquility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLhw_zJiFo I wonder if this game will have a similar degree of simple mechanics...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Its a pretty nice email service.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
A corollary to this, though, is that UI's that cater to a well-written script and deliver the user into a story, which they enjoy manifesting over and over again, is a successful one. There is a lot of room for creative metaphor in com
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by mmjaa 9y ago
To me, this is a GUI anti-pattern. Why do we have to go to Finder to customise the Touchbar? I looked for this option in System Preferences for days before I stumbled across this .. and then to have to hold down the magic Option key. Hone
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Individuals would have the choice if their state government made the choice to make public transportation a priority over the less efficient, more damaging, "everyone should just gas up every day" model of industry. Alas, that cho
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Well, either way, you and me should (and are?) both quite happy to know that neonicotinoids will no longer be being used in many expanding markets for bee-based products .. at least, I am. Glad, also, to hear the bees can bounce back. In m
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm saying your claim that its mites is a straw man, is all. We've actually had almost this exact conversation before, you and I, and last time you weren't convinced that the science was 'sound enough'. I don'
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by mmjaa 9y ago
For me, I'm replacing any of the ol' Flash style of thinking with Lua. Specifically, MOAI: http://getmoai.com/ MOAI gives me everything that Flash gave me, but I have better (full) control over the stack, what g
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Having read the papers attached, and parsed your point of view, I'd say that the part that its "absolutely not true" is where you say, with some level of authority, that feral honey bees were devastated by the Varroa mite. Th
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, I did read the papers, with great interest. And the point is: It doesn't seem to fit Apple any more , by your reckoning. But it did at some stage. You don't get to mass-market acceptance without a phase where you dominate t
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I wonder, did you read the scientific papers linked? Apple are just the new peacocks - there is much historical evidence of sexual signalling in consumption markets, and I urge you to read the papers linked: you may well learn something fr
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>the UK isn't important enough globally for WhatsApp to risk losing everything But, it can be argued: this is WHY this is such a hot issue in UK politics at the moment. Total surveillance paired with The City's financial machin
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by mmjaa 9y ago
You (and I) have been given very clear proof that the entirety of our digital technological world has been subverted by an ultra-elite class to serve their (secret) purposes. The call for proof on individual cases is, of course, a valid one
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The "spectacle of ignorance" on the part of the masses. The most horrific thing to come from all of this, is that we're all not at all interested in the knowledge that we have secret masters who have given themselves the rig
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>the capability of spying on NZ networks without assistance from the GCSB Of course they do. Read the Wikileaks! The NSA has given itself provenance over the entire planets' worth of digital content. They hack the origin.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Mega-CAAAAR! (One of the first times I realised that the web was going to be mis-used/abused by morons...)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
GCHQ are the only reason the UK are able to maintain their grip over the world economy. If it weren't for the UK's massive spy industry, it'd just be another irrelevant European state. (Yes, I know: Londons' Finance Ind
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The JURY don't have any powers without THE JUDGE, whose ratification of the decision the jury made is the only means by which the law finds force in society. Without the Judiciary, no Jury. That's how the law works. Gawker gambl
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>You spam this sub claiming you are for free speech and yet all you have done so far is to peddle anti-free speech rhetoric. Nonsense. Nowhere have I said that Gawker shouldn't have had the right of free speech. Just that they sho
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The Judge, who heard all the arguments you and I are ignoring/unaware of, did not agree with your assessment: Gawker was fined a hefty sum as punitive damages, and rather than pay it, they shuttered the company. Good thing they still
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The Fifth Estate are bloggers, and sites like Gawker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate
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by mmjaa 9y ago
They went out of business because they did something wrong, and the judge agreed with the plaintiff that they should pay damages. Instead of paying those damages, the people behind Gawker decided - using their own free will - that they wou
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The people must always be on guard.

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