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by wildgift 13y ago
The 386 has an MMU, making it feasible to do preemptive multitasking and virtual memory. The 286 and 8086 had multitasking based on allowing small programs to run concurrently, but nothing that used a lot of memory. The competing 68000 also
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by wildgift 13y ago
The GNU utilties, clib, gcc, all that stuff was just spinning out into the PC world. The software was being ported to everything from Amigas and Ataris with no MMU, and sometimes no hard drive, to Sun workstations. I thought it was pretty
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by wildgift 13y ago
GNOME = GNU Object Model Environment Also, Linux isn't GNU, but it is GPL. People get annoyed at the RMS self-promotion, or GNU promotion, but that stuff is important.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I was a student at the time, but it seemed like GCC was like the Linux of its day, causing a lot of upheavals in the compiler market. GCC code was so fast compared to what was out there.
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by wildgift 13y ago
What you just did was "blame the victim" and basically green-light the asshole company's behavior. You're shifting the blame away from the scammers.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Desperation?
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by wildgift 13y ago
Most of the commenters are wannabe school cops or something. I think it's fantastic that they figured out how to make it into something useful.
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LAUSD halts home use of iPads for students after devices hacked (latimes.com)
2 points by wildgift 13y ago|3 comments
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by wildgift 13y ago
Same here. These thin-lined icons also slow me down.
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by wildgift 13y ago
The BPP starting at Laney is one of the cool things about Oakland. There's history around the corner when you're roaming the city. That and the Oakland Museum and Chinatown. And Flints BBQ, and E&J, and Doug's. And th
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by wildgift 13y ago
That has to be BS. I used to walk around Oakland at night in the 90s during the crack days. Whatever. It was unsafe, but there's unsafe... and unsafe. Put on the city face. Besides, if you're not Black, the cops won't me
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by wildgift 13y ago
LOL, yeah, move to Fresno or Kern County.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's a thing called a bus. Who the hell wants to bike across the Bay Bridge?
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by wildgift 13y ago
I don't know what SF is like now, but CNet, Wired, Craigslist, and a few other companies started out there. There was also Hyperreal and SF.NET, the ravers, and Mondo 2000 up in Berkeley too. Maybe it wasn't the same kind of sta
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by wildgift 13y ago
screw civilization.
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by wildgift 13y ago
To really get an idea of how H1B screws the working class and poor, look at the lower-paid jobs. It seems like many of them don't require a bachelors degree, or just require some kind of vocational education. These are the 30k to 45k
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by wildgift 13y ago
The SICP videos are available somewhere and are pretty intense.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I think the line spacing and line length matter more than the font size. With these high-resolution displays, the fonts can be pretty small, and they're still readable, but you then need to make the column narrower and add a couple pi
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by wildgift 13y ago
Can you go on strike with your coworkers?
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by wildgift 13y ago
How can you compare corporate greed to union greed? The best paid union workers were autoworkers and longshore workers, and the companies they worked for were still huge and profitable. So as "greedy" as these well paid workers
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by wildgift 13y ago
Aren't programmers more like the engineers who made the cars? Their work product is not just the design but the assembly line and the process, and those things help produce parts and cars. The autoworkers are more analogous to the pe
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by wildgift 13y ago
What if the problems to solve are becoming easier to solve, because we're more plugged-in into an infrastructure of information? That eliminates work. Standards are a good example. We love them, but, in a way, they eliminate the crea
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by wildgift 13y ago
Autowork in the 1930s and beyond may have been semi-skilled, but before widespread automation, it was a craft, and cars were expensive. This de-skilling has always been happening in software. Back in the 80s, word processors were written
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by wildgift 13y ago
Sometimes, it takes a while.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I grew up in a part of California where many Chinese businesspersons entered and started businesses. Many of these businesses would hire a white man to do some sales. This was generally within communities where white people rarely exceede
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by wildgift 13y ago
The Mexican Spanish "r" is close to the Japanese r/l. You don't say "bulito" or "burr-ito" like a burr of metal. You say "burrito", and know that people who can speak it add a tiny bit of
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by wildgift 13y ago
What about NewEgg? You also have to look and see if there's a brain drain going to Taiwan and China, because Taiwan decided, years ago, to focus on making PCs.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's something very corporate about how they go about this, though. It's not uncommon either. Retail stores are a kind of small scale capitalism, with lots of merchandising. It's all about shelf space. The Korean shopow
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by wildgift 13y ago
Definitely, but the paper it was in was the Washington Post. If they printed that in the Chron or LA Times, people would take it for a joke.
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by wildgift 13y ago
The cold war ended, and there was no longer a need to prove that we could send something up into space and rain down fiery death upon anyone on the planet. Hence, no more space program.

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