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by mwexler 4y ago
Right, Money was around for a while, but it had no investor portfolio tooling for a while. They tried a couple of things, but eventually just used the ActiveX object to give them "insta-portfolio!". Money was pretty impressive: e
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by mwexler 4y ago
Using git for so many things (it's a database! it's a blockchain! it's a dessert topping! It's a floor wax! [1]) does start to smell of "I have a hammer, and luckily everything looks like a nail if I squint enough&
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by mwexler 4y ago
While I may not agree with your primary conjecture, your link is so good that I will simply slowly nod. Nice share!
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by mwexler 4y ago
Requisite: what is this and why should I care? From the Github page: Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. https://vlang.io I first
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by mwexler 4y ago
Having worked at MSN during this time, I can tell you, the jealousy of AOL and the client-based walled garden they built was almost physically palpable. AOL was the onramp to the internet for so many folks, but many felt they didn't n
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by mwexler 4y ago
Also mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813289 Anyone else find it surprising that a legitimate publisher with years of history can't get it's own handle back? I bet there are folks at Twitter wh
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by mwexler 4y ago
Is there a business model for reviews? Consumers continually say they want and use them, trusting some type of collective wisdom of folks willing to take time to give a review, assuming some honesty and relevance (reviewer has same needs, e
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by mwexler 4y ago
Nicely written. Humour comes in swift and silently, and makes this a really enjoyable read. I was looking for more info about how to beat the quarter-checker, but even without that, worth the time.
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by mwexler 4y ago
I added this one to my 810. Screwed it up when I did it myself (note: 1st time ever soldering should not be done on your one and only disk drive) and got the folks at Happy to fix my botched job. The chip was really interesting: it basica
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by mwexler 4y ago
This. The final ignoble nail in the coffin of folks saying "Hey, I remember Onkyo: I'll buy this storied brand's products" in the futur and feeling miserable after getting a cheap junky product. There is a special place
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by mwexler 4y ago
Just to give a source to this quote: See https://kottke.org/21/02/conservatism-and-who-the-law-protec... for a bit more context, as it's base is from Frank Wilhoit via this comment https://crookedt
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by mwexler 4y ago
It's like skeuomorphism, a bit... Wikipedia summarizes the big pieces at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
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by mwexler 5y ago
Good info. I really thought it was done as a faster alt to the court system, and this history reveals that it's business all the way. Sigh.
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by mwexler 5y ago
I suspect we wouldn't be so adverse to binding arbitration if it were set up in a truly fair way: right of disclosure to both parties, ability to have class action, ability to assess records of similar cases with the arbitrator to asse
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by mwexler 5y ago
I loved the kit: easy to use software with a hydra cable that linked to everything available at the time (which was basically serial and parallel printer ports). Did many migrations with this thing. I remember one friend asked me to bring
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by mwexler 5y ago
Ah, the power of the /. My fingers fell right back into those patterns.
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by mwexler 5y ago
I am reminded of Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix os: before Linux became the belle of the ball, minix implemented many unix functionalities in a less efficient but clearer way than existing unix builds (many of which were not open source) and
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by mwexler 5y ago
I have this vision that all the products will be "similar" but just different enough from the originals to avoid a lawsuit, just like the stores. So, Radshift, S2+1 storage, Appflower, DynomiteDB, etc.
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by mwexler 5y ago
ProPublica has been hammering on this since 2019. Their series of investigations at https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap is very eyeopening, and teeth-gritting.
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by mwexler 5y ago
It's fun to see this story get rediscovered every 3-5 years. Electronics stores, like car dealerships, appeared to need showboating to stand out, and that appears to be the starter-drug for fraud in a surprising number of cases. http
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by mwexler 5y ago
Control my monitor is a great find. NirSoft is just full of treasures.
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by mwexler 5y ago
This still requires a dedicated monitor connection to each box with a hardware or source switch, right? Or a screen per device? That is, the KVM (in the VGA days) used to switch the mouse, keyboard, and video source so a single monitor, k
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by mwexler 5y ago
Just a vote for Zoho. It's a really impressive collection of integrated business tools. I keep discovering new things every time I check it out.
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by mwexler 5y ago
And is frustratingly, conspicuously missing in Android. Every time I switch to my Android tablet, it's becomes a hugely missing piece for any content consumption app that scrolls.
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by mwexler 5y ago
Textile was the driving markup behind Textpattern ( https://textpattern.com/ ), one of the better publishing/CMS tools out there on PHP. It had a nice object oriented approach that was less painful than Wordpress, and g
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by mwexler 5y ago
Columbo also was unlike many other crime shows of the time in that it showed the viewer the crime in opening minutes. Through the show, you knew who the murderer was, even if you didn't know all the whys or twists. Watching with that
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by mwexler 5y ago
Hmm... In the US, login.gov still uses id.me for verification (at least on new signup), and this is the sso for TSA stuff like Global Entry, and the Social Security site. I guess it's used "less" now, but is still present f
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by mwexler 5y ago
Funny enough, apps were supposed to be just for Apple. The original conception is that 3rd party tools, games, etc. for the iPhone would just be webapps. ( https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-f
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by mwexler 5y ago
It got to the point, as a kid with a Hayes, that every time I mentioned a phone number, I prefixed it with ATDT. Redialing to get into a bbs seems so long ago, but when a site starts melting under load or a merch drop, I realize the waiting
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by mwexler 5y ago
I shouldn't love this frankenstein hybrid, but I have to say, it looks cool.

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