ubermonkey

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by ubermonkey 9y ago
SO true. Imagine how much important business knowledge is tied up in an Excel macro, or -- God forbid -- in a ridiculously long formula stored in cell Q237 or whatever. Less snarkily, Excel is so capable that lots of office workers learn IT
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by ubermonkey 9y ago
I'm reminded of the oft-linked Goldbloom quote in Jurassic Park. ;) I'm also reminded of a guy I knew in college. He would LOVE this, because when we were working together at a university computer lab, he was the guy who would lea
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by ubermonkey 9y ago
Sony's huge and complicated. Obviously they're still doing well as a purveyor of gaming consoles, and their mirrorless cameras are AMAZING right now, but at the same time their forays into other markets (computing, e.g.) haven&#x2
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by ubermonkey 9y ago
>Very few people, in my experience, apply any formatting to their personal emails whatsoever Outside of technical circles, this isn't really true IME. I mean, I fought the plaintext good fight for years, but now in the year of our l
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by ubermonkey 9y ago
I have lived for 17 years at 209 (blank) Street, and found it absurd and ridiculous that less than a mile away is 209 West (blank) Street. That's not twins, but it's so close that it's a real problem. The most hilarious bit,
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by ubermonkey 9y ago
Gosh, that's not how I remember it. When I started reading BYTE in the 80s, I had no trouble buying it at regular bookstores even in my small southern college town. I eventually subscribed anyway, but it was absolutely a staple of book
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by ubermonkey 10y ago
Please cite an example of my supposed incivility. I haven't said anything here I wouldn't say in person. If someone uses a tool every day for a long time, yes, they learn a lot about that tool. But computing is not a stable enviro
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by ubermonkey 10y ago
Are you accusing me of being uncivil? Do you really, honestly see running an obsolete, 20 year old program in emulation as a defensible choice for most people, or more something done out of sheer cussedness?
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by ubermonkey 10y ago
I think you're missing something here, which is that I'm not, and would never, suggest that other people take up my hobby. The author's clear thesis is that a 30+ year old word processor that requires layers of emulation to r
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by ubermonkey 10y ago
Check the site more thoroughly. He's still using it.
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by ubermonkey 10y ago
Speaking as a long-term collector of mechanicals, I dunno how true a lot of this is for the broad market. First, an ENORMOUS chunk of the middle-high end are watches with ETA (or other well-understood mass market) movements in them, and not