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by mschaef 12y ago
For what it's worth, I remember thinking that Windows95 was 'inspired' by NeXTStep when it was new. The NeXTStep machines themselves were pretty amazing for their late-80's origin. They had (and effectively used) 4-leve
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by mschaef 12y ago
> Besides that it was slow and never felt like a native Windows app, the biggest problem I remember was that it tried to replace the Windows printing subsystem with its own driver system, In the DOS-days (before system-wide print drivers
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by mschaef 12y ago
Both WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 faced some of the same sorts of issues in the early 80's, and both product teams made choices that left them unable to respond effectively to Windows. To set the context, rewind the clock back to 1987.
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by mschaef 12y ago
One of the more unique aspects of the AS/400 is the single level store. I haven't ever used it, but the general idea is that it does away with the file system in exchange for a single, flat address space. This simplifies the prog
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by mschaef 12y ago
I think you're on to something. When our local public radio stations start their pledge drives, I almost immediately switch over to the podcasts for the duration. There's more latency in the stories, but you also miss the continua
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by mschaef 12y ago
Well within a fraction of a cycle/second. One of the big reasons is that a generator's mechanical speed is directly tied to the electrical frequency. This includes the prime-movers that actually drive the generators. Many of the
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by mschaef 12y ago
I don't necessarily think this is what he meant, but generators can sometimes be operated in synchronous condensing mode. In this mode, the generator is run as a motor, which consumes real power but can help with reactive power issues
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by mschaef 12y ago
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the US, there are three major interconnections within the country, and each interconnection has system operators. The system operators are responsible for managing the grid, including the fre
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by mschaef 12y ago
What don't you like about Pixelmator? (I've been thinking of buying it for my MBP...)
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by mschaef 12y ago
> By default Emacs is passable Elisp IDE and nothing more, really. To my eye, that's a bit of an overstatement. I used a mostly unconfigured Emacs for years to write C, Lisp, and Scheme and found it to be quite suitable. My approach
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by mschaef 12y ago
As a long-time Emacs user, I find the presence of package managers somewhat disturbing. I'm not all that excited about fetching an elaborate dependency graph of third party plug-ins to make my editor of choice operate the way I'd
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by mschaef 12y ago
How do you expect things to work? This expectation that complex tools should be so obvious that they can be used without a book seems pretty odd to me. There aren't many other serious engineering disciplines where people enter it with
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by mschaef 13y ago
Larry Osterman (a long time MS engineer) wrote about this at some length here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432...
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by mschaef 13y ago
Compaq keyboards weren't all that great, when compared to the IBM boards of the same era. The Compaq keyboards were quite mushy. Where Compaq had it all over IBM was its video boards. IBM gave you a choice of two video boards: CGA an
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by mschaef 13y ago
GM did a touchscreen back in the late 80's: they embedded a small green screen CRT in the dashboard of early model Buick Reattas. The general consensus at the time was that it was distracting and hard to use. Two model years later, th
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by mschaef 13y ago
The first line of the error message tells you where and what the error is, almost exactly: ... Don't know how to create ISeq from: clojure.lang.Symbol, compiling:(hello.clj:5:3) It's true that the full interpretation of t
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by mschaef 13y ago
I hear this complaint a lot about Clojure, but I have to admit that I don't fully understand it. My usual experience with Clojure has been that the stack traces are long... but the exception error messages are generally pretty good, an
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by mschaef 13y ago
This looks really good. A couple questions: 1) Is there any kind of RAW file support? 2) Does the software de-duplicate uploaded images?
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by mschaef 13y ago
IBM mainframes were the same way... installing the OS required a compile process. If you're interested in experiencing the joy of setting up OS/360 first hand, it's more possible than you might think. Here are instructions fo
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by mschaef 13y ago
For that kind of thing, you need the Denon AKDL-1: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Cable-Version/pr...
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by mschaef 13y ago
My Ubuntu 12.04 machine shows up as Windows 8.1.
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by mschaef 13y ago
> Basically, I find the current dealership model's incentives to be largely mismatched to the actual needs of consumers. Agreed... the current negotiation model seems guaranteed to ensure that the customer walks away feeling screwed
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by mschaef 13y ago
I have fond memories of OS/2 from the summer of 1995. At the time, I was a undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, and IBM needed summer intern testers for a product they were calling "OS/2 Lan Server Enterprise&q
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by mschaef 13y ago
"FoxTales" by Kerry Nietz is also a good read. Kerry talks about his experiences joining FoxPro development as a freshout college grad. I never cared all that much for FoxPro/xbase, but the book is a good read. http:/&
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by mschaef 13y ago
There are times when you need to have high CPU performance, but the reality is that all semi-current machines are amazingly fast and capable of productive work.
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by mschaef 13y ago
Accenture is technically "Irish". It used to be "Bermudan". In either case, they have so many employees in so many countries, it's hard to imagine pinning them down to a single home country.
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by mschaef 13y ago
The block based layout reminds me a lot of some of the desktop publishing software I used to use in the early-mid 90's. At the time, it served well the purpose of integrating multiple media types into a single document, but it was a bi
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by mschaef 13y ago
Yes.
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by mschaef 13y ago
A horse can do better than a Jeep, when the terrain gets rough, you don't have access to fuel, you don't want to make too much noise,... Horses for courses, as it were.
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by mschaef 13y ago
> it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably. It can seat 7 at once???

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