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by rvense 3y ago
Modern day salt mines would definitely have a kanban board though
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by rvense 3y ago
Also a fact: Steve Jobs spent the first half of the 90's trying to sell NeXT machines specifically on their dev tools for quickly making custom applications. From the late 1980's on, whenever he spoke of his visits to Xerox PARC h
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by rvense 3y ago
Wait, I thought it was called Silly Con Valley because of this exact model?
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by rvense 3y ago
I still don't understand how we went from the Manifesto's "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" to... Jira.
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by rvense 3y ago
Haha, OK! Well, sorry, then.
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by rvense 3y ago
TBH I just read it as someone who's found a way to make web apps that works well for them and want to focus on solving problems rather than toying with their tech stack or copying solutions from contexts that are entirely unlike the on
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by rvense 3y ago
I think what they're really trying to say is "we can start out with this and in a lot of cases we won't ever have to change it".
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by rvense 3y ago
Well, depends. For music that era is just an explosion of great things. From 10.3 or so a Mac and a Firewire audio interface was an amazingly stable and portable package, with possibilities you could hardly have dreamed of even with a studi
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by rvense 3y ago
After Freescale bought Metrowerks (1996? '98?), there were versions of CodeWarrior made for many of Freescale's embedded chips, which were obviously very common. Again, in spite of my current experience I don't doubt for a se
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by rvense 3y ago
I've no reason to doubt your experience at all, I'm really just idly curious. Was that on Windows though? 2004-2005 I think it was all but gone from the Mac, and people had moved to Project Builder (later Xcode), but maybe you wer
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by rvense 3y ago
Same story here basically, I loved BBEdit back in the pre-OS X era, especially after I installed Macsbug and learned how to dig my essays out of memory and write them to disk if anything crashed while I was writing... I was on a Mac constan
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by rvense 3y ago
I wish my company would adopt this philosophy. We seem to just add features when people ask for them, and it really starts to show after a while.
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by rvense 3y ago
Interesting. Do you remember which version (or approximate year) you're referring to? I've recently been writing my first real app for Mac OS 9, using C++ (MacZoop framework) and Codewarrior Pro 5 on a G4. There's some featur
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by rvense 3y ago
Ardour does support plug-ins. VST as a format is platform dependent AFAIK. I think you can do something with WINE but other than that the authors of Ardour can't magically remake proprietary Windows VSTs in a compatible format. As for
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by rvense 3y ago
The only "piano-related" limitations of MIDI that I've run into is that a) a note-on message is fixed at just three numbers (note, velocity, channel), so while I can map velocity to, say, a filter and envelope settings but I
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by rvense 3y ago
> 19th century anarchist essay I think primitivism is a later invention. Certainly Kropotkin is very pro-mechanization. If there is a point of contention, it's to do with ownership, not technology itself.
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by rvense 3y ago
That's of course true in the abstract and general, but I'm not talking about that. A lot of the criticism in Denmark has been quite quantifiable: things like increased number of clicks to perform similar tasks, and instances of lo
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by rvense 3y ago
This is Epic's common strategy of blaming all criticism on "resistance to change". The thing is, their software is simply bad, and its implementation in the Nordics has been a disaster.
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by rvense 3y ago
Because buying an off-the-shelf solution from an established American supplier sounds like it's going to be cheaper and better than starting from scratch. To some people at least.
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by rvense 3y ago
> With all that said it is very amusing to see the British govt create a series of stamps that commemorate a game setting that could be summed up as "religious facism with roman empire themes". While I don't at all doubt t
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by rvense 3y ago
As far as I understand, most thin clients nowadays are just PCs, usually AMD embedded SoCs with very good support for Linux.
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by rvense 3y ago
Another question from a country where only the king does this: Is it part of your legal name, or just a convention? (Also, does it make your feel like royalty?)
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by rvense 3y ago
Was Hackers actually a hit at the time or did it grow into one?
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by rvense 3y ago
The standard answer to this is that there's too many variants. I think it should be a thing anyway. If Blink, Webkit and Firefox have compatible implementations there can be some sort of de facto standard and it will be fine for a numb
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by rvense 3y ago
Not knowing anything at all about what you're doing I'm sure my suggestions are extremely good :) But at 10 characters I'd use local storage and instead of having any sort of account system or such, if it needs to be shared y
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by rvense 3y ago
How big is the string? Does it really need to go on a server? Have you considered just using the brower's local storage?
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by rvense 3y ago
Thank you, I don't drink. I'm not saying that summers are bad, I'm saying that winters are fine. Sure, there's SAD which affects some portion of the population, and some things do wind down and we live in different ways
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by rvense 3y ago
> anyone who has lived through a cold dark nordic winter will tell you a different story I've just lived through my 39th such winter, and I really don't know what you're talking about.
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by rvense 3y ago
So.. all those GPU cycles for inverse compression?
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by rvense 3y ago
There is absolutely no question that they are already self-aware.

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