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by ralphc 7y ago
I think of Lisp vs. Python similarly to PostScript vs PDF. In PostScript you have a full language, can do anything but you often have to do it yourself. PDF's aren't extensible but have _just about_ all the functionality you need
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by ralphc 7y ago
Check out the prices on Arc’teryx Veilance, also mentioned in the article. $2299 for a hoodie.
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by ralphc 7y ago
If you can, watch the documentary "General Magic". I got it off Showtime. Hadn't finished it yet, but what I've seen so far is great, if painful. By "painful", it's easy for a developer to put themselves i
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by ralphc 7y ago
Georgia Tech, got out (we don't say "graduated") in 1984. First couple of years included submitting jobs on card decks to the Control Data Corporation mainframe. One day, waiting for my job to run, I hear someone say "th
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by ralphc 7y ago
Just ordered a 16" MacBook Pro with a AMD Radeon Pro 5000M. Will that now work with TF 2.0? How does it compare with the Radeons mentioned here?
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by ralphc 7y ago
Reading this, first thing I thought of was "did she see 'the dress' as blue and black, white and gold, or something else entirely?
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by ralphc 7y ago
I was thinking you were talking about Atlanta until you mentioned traffic being light at 8pm. A lot of times it takes later here, even out to the suburbs.
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by ralphc 7y ago
I've come up with a modern version of Gate's saying of "640K ought to be enough for everyone". 95% of people are fine with an i7 and 16GB of RAM. If you're not running a bunch of VM's, that's enough comput
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by ralphc 7y ago
The Computer Museum of America, in Roswell, GA, has a large collection of Crays. They may have, or can provide leads, on software. https://computermuseumofamerica.org
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by ralphc 7y ago
From a different perspective, the site sounds great but it's not something to be be guaranteed to be around forever. I understand steady employment, both from a security standpoint and from not having a gap in employment history.
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by ralphc 7y ago
_Apple_ never has, but I had to upgrade macOS a couple of years ago because Chrome stopped supporting older versions.
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by ralphc 7y ago
I switched jobs in 1998, and was at a biggish, stable company in the Atlanta area, feeling lucky as I heard about stories like this out in California. When it happens again, I don't think it will be as bad. In addition to learning from
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by ralphc 7y ago
Did you look into the history of the Pittsburgh company? My guess is you did the right thing, in a year you could have been in a strange city looking for a job with no degree.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Reading the "digression" about the plans for the monument at Kitty Hawk, and Washington's meddling and bumbling, gives you a whole "the more things change, the more they stay the same" feel.
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by ralphc 7y ago
When I read the headline it was a mix of WHYYYYYYYY and NOOOOOOO Really, can't we just leave COM in the 90's?
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by ralphc 7y ago
Non-sustainable business model or no, it is _the_ thing right now. I found this snippet interesting from the article "When an elderly woman went missing, these four 'junior detectives' sprang into action and saved the day&qu
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by ralphc 7y ago
I have an OLPC, bought at $7 at a thrift store. It appears to come on but screen doesn't light up. Is there anywhere that these can get repaired? I'd like to have a working one for historical purposes.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Hunt and Thomas themselves don't really recommend it anymore. Large parts of the industry have changed over the years. They're interviewed in episode 352 of The Changelog podcast. It's worth a listen if you're a fan, or
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by ralphc 7y ago
I set up Windows 98 on an old Pentium III for vintage gaming. I had forgotten how simple, fast and "you have one job" this is. Definite install on my Windows 10 machines.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Dumb question, but is RSS still that much of a thing? I remember it being big 10+ years ago. Then Google reader shut down and I haven't given it much thought. Where would I find a good list of RSS feeds to try this out?
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by ralphc 7y ago
I've been on a vintage computer kick, dusted off a 30-year old PC clone. Unless the disks are physically bent, there's a good chance they'll work, a lot of my old ones did.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Wife & I have started watching LivePD. The big thing with the police is "be honest with me and I can be lenient", and a lot of times they are, at least on TV. So the suspect says what's in the car.
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by ralphc 7y ago
The thing about retirement for most HN readers is that you don't have to stop your "work". Programming, writing, these are activities you can continue to do, and make a difference. Unlike doctors, lawyers, hair stylists etc.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Remembered from the time, found at https://www.tor.com/2011/07/06/heinleins-worst-novel/ "That said, was it Analog or F&SF where a winning entry in a contest for SF-related jokes was: Q: What do
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by ralphc 7y ago
How would that help with this - "Banks typically argue — and courts have in many cases agreed — that customers are bound by the bank’s most-current terms, even if they leased their box years or even decades earlier."
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by ralphc 7y ago
If it was a dream language, why do you think it died out, and why did COBOL become dominant and survives to this day?
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by ralphc 7y ago
Is mainstream just measured by popularity? Ballerina has a pretty mainstream syntax, but I guess it's not well known enough.
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by ralphc 7y ago
If you're not comfortable doing it yourself, the Batteries + Bulbs stores have computer services & will do it for you (for a fee of course)
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by ralphc 7y ago
The peak of this was Forbes who made you turn off ads & served you malware; https://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-re... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455031
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by ralphc 7y ago
Time to pull out this chestnut. I start out as a physics major, this is Georgia Tech in 1980, 1981. In my classical mechanics class my german physics professor said that "of course we weren't taught relativity because it was consi

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