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by mschaef 9y ago
I'm wondering how much of a role that played in the demand for a royalty. I'm guessing quite a bit, and that the total outcome might have been very different otherwise.
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by mschaef 9y ago
I read that to my 5yo last night... I think I'll remember the words until my last day. :-)
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by mschaef 9y ago
> I know WAP looked great then, You sure about that? I don't really have fond memories of WAP...
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by mschaef 9y ago
This is just proof that a litany of features doesn't make a product.
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by mschaef 9y ago
> The iPhone was not a total revolution in phones the way you describe. It was a revolution because it actually sold and was relevant to more than just a handful of high-end users. (I had phones with e-mail, web, and app capabilities pri
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by mschaef 9y ago
> The StarTac in 1996 was able to realize this: a quite different design from the DynaTac brick and its candy bar descendents. Having used both, the StarTac was pretty clearly an evolution of the DynaTac, in particular as far as the fun
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by mschaef 9y ago
The past as the future: http://pretotyping.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-of-my-favorite-p...
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by mschaef 9y ago
That's a great question. Given that I have a pile of four generations of smartphones sitting on my desk waiting to be recycled, it's also easy to visualize that brand new $1,000 iPhone X sitting in that pile in a few years time. T
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Do you think phones are a "done" thing? The basic pattern of mobile phone design was more or less settled in the 80's with the DynaTac, and the phones leading up to (but not including) the original iPhone were all refine
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by mschaef 9y ago
Interesting you ask.... Emacs Calc was inspired by the HP-28. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm... It's not the same, but having used both, they are very similar in overal
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by mschaef 9y ago
> One thing that has always befuddled me with HP calcs is their model numbers that don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason. Back in the day, HP had nice sales literature that described the differences between the models quite nicel
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by mschaef 9y ago
> When you look at the quality of what HP used to produce versus now I was always impressed that the keys used two color injection molding for the primary labels. There was almost literally no way to wear the label off the keys, since th
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by mschaef 9y ago
> 2) RPN has a short syntax for them << a -> a 2 + >> The syntax is slightly different. What it should be is this << -> a << a 2 + >> >> The arrow introduces a binding form that captures the top
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by mschaef 9y ago
This comment is a great example of why I read the comments on this site. Thanks for the answer. It provided some context I'd been wondering about.
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by mschaef 9y ago
He's said as much: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...
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by mschaef 9y ago
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to get around to reading it, but that book's an absolute classic if you like the story of how things are built. A few others: * Kerry Nietz - FoxTales (FoxPro, mostly pre-Microsoft) * Mary
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by mschaef 9y ago
There's a similar story about the Audi S4 V8's exhaust note. The engineers wanted it to be louder than they thought their management would approve. So, what they did is demo a version that was louder than what they wanted, and wh
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by mschaef 9y ago
> above a certain price point Maybe lower than you think... several Ford products over the last few years have done things like run sound tubes to the cabin or use the radio to simulate engine noise. I think it's kind of silly mysel
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by mschaef 9y ago
You see more explicit sharing these days than then. The Mini Countryman and BMW X1 both share the same platform. (And it's front wheel drive, at that, which is a big shift for BMW.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
> There will be significant additional load on the Electric grid. True, but people will be charging their cars most often when they're asleep, so it's less of an impact on peak load. It may be more of a base load/duty cycl
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by mschaef 9y ago
I obviously can't speak for him, but macros do complicate things, particularly when ahead-of-time compilation gets involved. There's also the issue that macros have some of the same sorts of issues as inline functions - because th
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by mschaef 9y ago
I've plinked around with Lisp implementations for quite a while, and remember the press he got back in 2004 for Croma. This was before all of the startup stuff of the last 12 years, so at the time it was just a story of a really smart
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by mschaef 9y ago
~12 years ago, it was Patrick Collison that was named young scientist of the year for developing a dialect of Lisp called Croma: http://lemonodor.com/archives/001038.html I'm glad to see he has continued to do wel
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by mschaef 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that date could be 1982 and your example would work equally well. :-) Checks... Yup: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=...
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by mschaef 9y ago
> a very simple way to add context to my claims I didn't ask for context. I asked for evidence. > Does my flimsy opinion hold water yet? Personally, I agree or understand with a lot of what you're saying. Where I differ is y
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by mschaef 9y ago
> That these features are considered "advanced" and thus buried is my argument. You're making the assumption that people, general users, even care about these features. What evidence do you have that this is the case? Ever
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by mschaef 9y ago
Windows has had a mechanism for creating empty documents via the shell since Windows 95. I don't think I've ever found it useful. (Much like the ability to drag and drop text from WordPad to the desktop to make a clipping file.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Have you met or spoken with younger non-technical people lately. They are lost and beyond clueless about a lot of important things. They just have different ideas about what's important. Back in the early 1990's, I volunteere
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by mschaef 9y ago
No... cmd+shift+4 mostly covers that base for me. It's also a nice way to take quick measurements of screen dimensions. (Once the drag is started, <esc> will stop it without capturing an image. But for cropping images in general,
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by mschaef 9y ago
Thanks.... all this is great stuff. (Particularly the bit about going straight to the clipboard.)

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