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by shinkarom 7y ago
If you read The Design of Everyday Things, you'd gladly remember that to each user-unfriendly design, the author sarcastically added "but it won a lot of design awards". Which implied that the givers of those awards had one-t
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by shinkarom 7y ago
I was lucky to have a book which introduced Windows 95 and 98 before I got my own computer in 2005. It never occurred to me that a total newb might not guess about alt+tab.
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by shinkarom 7y ago
Will it help? These days, you either open the design as IBM famously did with their 5150 or earn enough to see yourself become Apple, the great hegemonist. (I'm clearly and biasedly on PC's side, so you may ignore my ranting)
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by shinkarom 7y ago
(define contest "The Lyttle Lisper Contest") (print contest)
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by shinkarom 7y ago
It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.
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by shinkarom 7y ago
Amd 2500 pages of documents does not look that impressive when you have 2500 people in staff.
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by shinkarom 7y ago
Yes, but it was certainly written by a Russian and possibly even written in Russian and translated after the fact. Not every journalist from around here I know can write articles in such flawless English that has no traces of a Russian acce
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by shinkarom 7y ago
Wow. The article's author has no Russian accent whatsoever. (Unless it was translated by an English speaker). Wish I had the same command of English. Somehow I doubt multilingual Ukranian newspapers are that much unaccented in their En
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by shinkarom 7y ago
BGB is the only emulator I know that emulated Pinball Deluxe without problems.
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by shinkarom 7y ago
Maybe. Wikipedia page for 2600 mentions Fairchild Channel F, which is even simpler. It also gave me an idea to look at "List of early microcomputers" on Wikipedia.
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Ask HN: What platforms to emulate between Chip-8 and GameBoy?
2 points by shinkarom 7y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: DiceDice, get a random page from Wikimedia projects(shinkarom.github.io)
1 points by shinkarom 8y ago|0 comments
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by shinkarom 8y ago
I have not given it much thought, but it's very concise.
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Show HN: Base 60 Clock, a new date/time format(shinkarom.github.io)
1 points by shinkarom 8y ago|2 comments