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by mschaef 8y ago
> Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor As soon as I saw the name Godbout, my mind immediately jumped to Pournelle, whom I mainly read as an early-teen in the mid-late 80's. Even at that late date, Pournelle referred back enough to his
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by mschaef 8y ago
> They had been recommended to me as 'tanks' and were much more reliable than the dynamic memory cards of the time. Interesting to hear that.... I've recently been reading through old issues of DTACK Grounded, and Hal Hard
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I keep coming across references to is the S-100 bus. The S-100 bus originated in the Altair 8800, essentially as a direct copy of the 8080 (CPU) bus. From there, it took on a life of it's own, very much like the IBM PC's ISA
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by mschaef 8y ago
I was in college at the University of Texas at the time, and my first exposure to Mosaic was in their new Student Microcomputer Facility. (Aka the SMF or 'Smurf lab.) The SMF was a large and brand new ncomputer lab in the undergraduate
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Certainly the idea that there would be billions of pocket computers might as well have been science fiction. There were a lot of people working on the ideas behind this kind of portable computing, even then. Just a few examples: * Elec
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by mschaef 8y ago
Very glad to see this. Good luck!
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by mschaef 8y ago
The only supercomputer they compare it to is 27 years old, and it uses Gigabit Ethernet as its interconnect. I think they have a much looser definition of 'Supercomputer' than most people.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I don't want to imply you were suggesting this Actually, I kinda was. Maybe a better way to put it is that I'm looking for more fluency of control in where the application code actually runs. I'm less interested in havin
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by mschaef 8y ago
I tend to think of it in terms of horses for courses. In other words, let your requirements drive your architectural choices, rather than going in with the preconceived notion that there are architectures 'no one needs'. I recentl
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by mschaef 8y ago
> is anyone here using it in production and really happy with it, where it's like really crushing a use-case? I've used it in production settings where it was NOT crushing a use case. (A couple small internal HR-related sites
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by mschaef 8y ago
Agreed.... The console is one of the better parts of the overall tool.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Why would investors care whether it's done in $LANG? I thought they cared more about the business and business-related concerns. I think the concern is around how hard long term sustainability of the codebase. If it's built i
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by mschaef 8y ago
Yes. It's still a thing... but I do think Clojure has lost mindshare. Just some impressions: * It's natural for the development of a language to slow down after an initial period of churn. So Clojure has reached a certain level of
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by mschaef 8y ago
As much I tend to be sympathetic to the no-SPA cause, it's easy to run into requirements that exclude MPA's. Incrementally updating a page just has too many potential performance and usability advantages. (Not to mention that an S
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I love my iPad Pro so much, Why? What is your use case? (Genuinely curious.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I too had one early on, a 19" I bought my 17 in around 94-95 and used it for at least five or six years. It started out attached to a 486/33 and wound up attached to a P5/100 and then a custom K6/233 I bought when I
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by mschaef 8y ago
I was in college in the mid-90's, and scrimped and saved at one point to buy myself a 17" monitor [1]. (A big deal at a time when 14" and 15" were typical.) I remember being pretty impressed that that the cable connected
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by mschaef 8y ago
> You don't have to learn systemd; you don't have to know what runlevels are or whether it was groupadd or addgroup; you don't have to format a disk, or learn how to use ps, or, God help you, vim. All this stuff is importa
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by mschaef 8y ago
The historical dominance of C over the last 30-40 years is, by itself, enough to justify C as a core part of a computer science curriculum.
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by mschaef 8y ago
Thanks.... that's a little disappointing, but I appreciate the info. I have a TV that does that too. I get random artistic photos from Google rather than the curated family photos I would prefer.
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by mschaef 8y ago
What does the lock screen display if you don't have ads? I might not be interested in paying to not have ads, but paying to put a picture of the family on the lock screen might have some appeal.
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by mschaef 8y ago
I believe Lua is as well.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> One thing I think CSS frameworks got wrong is mixing layout with style. I think some of this is due to the fact it was originally more about document layout than screen layout. At least the cases where I find CSS (horribly) awkward ar
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Yikes. Agreed. Wholeheartedly. > I agree that this might help you move quickly when starting a project I don't even see this... at least I can't imagine a case where I'd want to replace "background: #333;" w
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by mschaef 8y ago
What's your definition of crummy?
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by mschaef 8y ago
"XL" has some negative connotations for Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL
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by mschaef 8y ago
I don't know if XUL is the right choice, but I think this general direction might be a good idea. The idea of an independant open source project focusing itself on producing a commercial quality UI seems a little ludicrous to me. This
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by mschaef 8y ago
I don't think anybody doubts that the Gimp's UI needs help - This has been well understood for over 20 years. To it's credit, the project has, over that time, made some significant improvements to its UI. (Starting the GTK
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I don't get why it's this hard for open source projects to realize that (the only notable exception I know is Firefox, which I love). Firefox has a lot more commercial support than something like Gimp, which is supported prim
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I have to say, it baffles me how much time programmers are willing to put into open source works but apparently it's impossible to find UI designers who are willing to do the same. So you're surprised it's hard to find

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