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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Borland's VCL was a great achievement that brought some much needed cohesiveness and sanity to Win32 development in a way that Microsoft was never able to do. I've always found it interesting that OpenStep/Cocoa and VCL were
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
I like to think that there's an alternate universe where the entire industry adopted NeXT's idea of replacing the dedicated Caps Lock key with a Command+Shift key combination, because it's such a smart and obviously correct t
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Right, but that only applies to data and push functionality. It's still not clear why vanilla voice and SMS functionality would be affected.
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
It's worth noting that at this point in history (2001) Mac OS X is still a turkey; visually unique, but very slow and incomplete. It would have only been of interest to the freaks and geeks in the Unix/OpenStep community. I can
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
> Which should autocomplete/hint while writing code It does not. Parameter types and alternate parameter names are ignored by Xcode autocomplete. If you want to use init(from:), you have to already know that it exists and does some
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
The Swift naming convention makes it more difficult to learn, discover, and use large, complex APIs like AppKit and UIKit, so I'll often revert back to Objective-C when writing AppKit (and to a lesser extent, UIKit) when given the choi
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
> this company Netscape had been selling its Navigator browser (to businesses; > it was free for personal use), and then Microsoft entered the market with its > completely free Internet Explorer browser, and then Mic
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
When Apple ported the classic Finder to OS X they added a NeXT-style "browser" mode (browse between folders inside of a single window) in addition to the Classic MacOS mode (each folder is its own window). Unfortunately, they did
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Why does Windows not deal with hidden files correctly? It's 2021. Hidden dot-files are not a new thing.
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
DHTML means using Javascript to animate multiple LAYER tags inside of Netscape Communicator 4. The "D" stands for "Daft".
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Anyone with a moderately sized music collection depended entirely on iTunes to manage their library, and were hence locked in to the iPod/iTunes eco-system. There was no reasonable alternative. Manually copying mp3 files to a Nokia or
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 1, good Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2, bad Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3, good Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4, bad Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5, good Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, bad Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
This would have been a re-badged version of OpenStep, then named Rhapsody, well before OS X roadmap was plotted out, let alone released. NextStep/OpenStep had support for x86 since 1994, so it was all ready to go if Dell wanted to play
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
So mid-90s. Seeing this makes me want to program my VCR to record the series premiere of Ally McBeal.
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
This technology was developed in the 1970s. So, if you want to record 60 minutes of CD-quality digital audio you need about 600 MB of raw data storage. In the 1970s this was an impossible amount of data. 600 MB of hard drive space would c
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Alternatively, Apple prevented people from wasting their money on a feature that was about to be built into the OS.
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
That's a description of the early Macintosh Division relative to the rest of the company (which at the time was being kept afloat by the Apple II). I'm sure there are groups within Apple that think the rest of the company revolves
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
The Xerox Star is the machine that had a direct influence on the look of the Lisa software. The Star was Xerox's big swing to try and enter the exploding business computer market. Xerox assembled a huge team of software engineers to bu
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
> It's unfortunate that Commodore shipped BASIC 2.0 on the 64 There are many things that are unfortunate about the way the C64 was shipped. For Commodore, the entire point of the C64 was to slap it together and shove it out the doo
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
On US-English keyboards, the pipe character is in the regular spot, but the back-quote/tilde key is on the number pad instead of its usual location above the Tab key. The Escape key is above Tab (Because there are no function keys). B
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
It's worth it to install the developer tools. A few observations: This is running a mix of older NextStep apps and newer OpenStep apps. For example, there are two text editors: Edit.app, and TextEdit.app. Edit.app is the original Ne
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
If you set up this VM, there's a tiff image of a young Scott Forestall hiding in the AppKit framework resources. See if you can find it.
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
> For more than a dozen years, Amiga computers have been > hard at work at Cape Canaveral's Hanger AE supporting the > launches of every American spacecraft including the space > shuttle. 12 years from
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
It's not fool-proof. In Canada in 1952, the province of British Columbia switched to a ranked ballot and it nearly ended in disaster. The ranked ballot was an attempt by the traditional Liberal and Conservative parties to keep a rising
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/JNVaFBI
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
They use DRM, but movies and TV shows are downloaded as regular movie files. You can move and copy them to wherever you want. Downloaded movie files can be played using either iTunes or the QuickTime Player, copied to an iOS device, or str
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by thought_alarm 5y ago
If you purchase and download a movie you can copy it, back it up, and watch it whenever you want as many times as you want. The lawsuit is about repeated downloads and streaming after the copyright owner has removed the movie for sale.
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by thought_alarm 6y ago
"Designed for AOL Netscape 6"
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by thought_alarm 6y ago
Java was supposed to be the primary programming language for OS X. That's why they renamed OpenStep to Cocoa (Java and Cocoa go great together). But AppKit was still pure Objective-C, and bridging between AppKit's Obj-C APIs and
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by thought_alarm 6y ago
Edit.app is the original NeXTSTEP text editor from the 1989. It supported plain text and rich text files. Famously, the first web browser was based on the rich text capabilities built into NeXSTEP. TextEdit.app is the OpenStep rewrite of

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