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by noizejoy 6y ago
Reminds me of how much Sony (along with Braun) shaped Apple’s hardware design language. And that in turn keeps on shaping many others. And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product w
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I sometimes wonder, if we've passed peak human flight just recently.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> Those people that want to drill tunnels through the earth to get better-than-great-circle distances might be the future. Might also get a little warm and you'd fight a lot of pressure, since you'd need to dig down about 1&#x
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Apologies for not answering sooner - I had detoxed from HN for a few days. Further apologies for not making it abundantly clear that I'm on your side on the topic that professional musicians deserve to be paid like any other profession
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Internet comments are the result of a giant experiment giving infinite numbers of typewriters to an infinite number of monkeys.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> ... just how much effort and money is required to produce the art you personally care about. I wholeheartedly agree with the “effort” part and I also think, the comparison of music to code is very apt. However, wouldn’t it be fair to s
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Interestingly here in Canada, we have a smallish, but still growing retail chain catering to the DIY pc builder market, called Memory Express. They aren’t big box by any means, but I’ve been very happy to shop there. Better selection than B
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> “our product portfolio has evolved to largely digital offerings” evolved to? And here I thought Microsoft was always a software company first? Or is software not a digital offering?
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by noizejoy 6y ago
So you can probably imagine what it was like when we had several dozens of client pc’s across several customer companies across several cities across the continent.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Not only the UI, but all of the business logic - so a very thick client indeed.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Yeah - kind of, but Oracle forms originally didn’t even have a graphical client - that’s probably why Powerbuilder and Visual Basic dominated the early 90s. Also, Oracle was still fighting it out with Sybase in the mini computer dbms space.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
If my memory serves me right, distributed computing was the advent of smaller computers (back then often called mini computers like DEC Vax or IBM AS/400, but those were more like smaller mainframes, still using dumb terminals as front
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> This may be a stupid question, but what does "client/server" mean in this context? Not a stupid question at all, since terminology has been shifting over the decades. Back in the early 1990s, the original client/ser
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The PC Mag article seems mostly pretty accurate - however, I’d argue that the web isn’t classic client/server, since the server sends the code to the client just in time. Classic client/server had a totally different code deployme
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The story would probably make little sense to most HN readers, since it's very old and what was very non-obvious back then, became very obvious 5 years later. Around 1994/95 client/server was unassailable in board rooms (much
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The discovery part might be interesting to compare to something like SparkToro [0]. [0] https://sparktoro.com/
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> but at least we can now tell investors we are a keen company with an AI play up our sleeve Obviously I don't know the details of your company situation, but I've experienced myself over the years, that sometimes it can be les
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Apparently it was settled before discovery started [0], so no further details ever came out. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/29/6868945/the-worlds-bigges...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Mmmhh - I’m not a font designer, but just someone who chooses fonts for websites on a regular basis. And I’ve often found myself frustrated about not finding a good representative page of text, allowing me to evaluate fonts better than just
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Government’s Use of Algorithm Serves Up False Fraud Charges(undark.org)
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I’m seeing CAD 32 [0] [0] https://fizz.ca/en/mobile
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by noizejoy 6y ago
but a good sci-fi writer can
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Pagemaker was the first killer app for the Mac https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apple-Inc/Desktop-publishin...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The argument could be made, that cookie cutter apartments can be interpreted as “white cubes”[0] - and those are a big thing in the art world, since they allow the art to shine and the room design stays out of the way. [0] https:/&#x2
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by noizejoy 6y ago
As once said by Billie Eilish “duh”! More seriously: Arms dealers are not exactly benefitting from facilitating peace making efforts either, so economically this makes all the sense in the world to me.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I find it quite counter-intuitive that there would be different salary levels for remote employees depending on the location they live in, since for remote employees the location is now presumably their choice, and not the employer's -
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by noizejoy 6y ago
What I’m missing the most in TFA and this discussion (a few hints notwithstanding) is the importance of demographics compared to process. Programming is very much a process thing, people much less so. Successful teams in programming (just l
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I respect and partially agree with what you’re saying. However, your post sounds a bit too absolutist to me. In reality books, like any form of communication are incredibly diverse on the production as well on the consumption side. A novel
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by noizejoy 6y ago
From TFA: > However the team are keeping an open mind on whether the plants might be the ones in the driving seat. If that’s the case, maybe the headline should read “bumbling bees tricked into working early by clever plants” All joking
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Ever since the arrival of multi-core CPUs chip speed should probably be considered a dual number: max single core throughput and total throughput. Also, my over 6 year old DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) CPU[0] is still plenty fast. It’s al

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