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by diskzero 5y ago
I spent a month in Kazakhstan in 2012. I am an American and speak and read decent Russian. I agree that the experience was amazing and agree with your opinions of Almaty and Nur-Sultan. I found the overall experience to be very similar to v
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by diskzero 5y ago
I was the primary coder of the actual Nautilus icon view during the time that Eazel maintained the code. It is probably lost to time, but there was a C++ version of Nautilus that was developed by the Eazel team. This version was not accepte
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by diskzero 5y ago
Come on, you are going to miss out on the Weekend Celebration Routine. Now, what that actually is, I have no idea.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Good old Shrek. There was a large cardboard cutout of Shrek right outside of the entrance of the lighting department at the PDI [1] building in Redwood Shores. PDI animated the first version of Shrek after an attempted motion captured versi
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by diskzero 5y ago
I fondly recall downloading a tar file of Oberon over ftp and running it on a Mac IIci at work. I can't recall how many floppies I used. I think it was more than one. That was an interesting time for me, as I was able to quickly invest
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by diskzero 5y ago
The definition has changed over time, but you have reduced the definition to a single component. It is true that an element of the ethos is to improve the outcomes of your descendants. The American Dream can be reduced simply to mean Americ
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by diskzero 5y ago
Oh yeah! The "Put Away" command. That was indeed a cool feature.
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by diskzero 5y ago
When I listen to current tech podcasts and interviews, I notice a lot of manufactured excitement and rapid fire interjection. There is more use of words like "Listen..", "Look...", "Absolutely..." etc. Perhaps
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by diskzero 5y ago
I worked with Susan at three different companies and never really noticed an accent. Perhaps I am too familiar with her voice? What I do hear is a highly educated and thoughtful person who carefully articulates her thoughts.
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by diskzero 5y ago
I was part of the team that "ported" the classic Finder to OS X. I left Apple in 2006, but was there at the time of the NeXT acquisition. Trying to appease the spatial Finder advocates and at the same time trying to appease Steve&
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by diskzero 5y ago
Imagine doing the walk-around inspection as part of the flight crew and seeing that sort of degradation? The flight crews were possible told it wasn't a major issue and to keep on schedule. As a pilot myself, I get very concerned whene
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by diskzero 5y ago
What a fun read! Was the bug fixed as as a result of this investigation or was the fix already in a patch that these machines didn't have. I wasn't able to figure that out by reading the article.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Are you saying a modern developer running Lisp has most of the same features of a Lisp Machine? If not, what language(s) are you referring to?
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by diskzero 5y ago
Good point! Sometimes I don't know where to draw the line.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Matador became Spotlight, but lives on in processes that take over your CPU when you least want them to; mdworker, mds, etc.
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by diskzero 5y ago
It also lives on in the work of BeOS engineers who infiltrated Apple: Tracker -> Finder, BeFS -> Matador, Spotlight, MediaKit -> Final Cut Pro, various media libraries and more. Possibly a lot of the C++ work we did at Apple after
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by diskzero 5y ago
I don't have time for this extropian nonsense. Help! Can someone explain this one to me, just so I can use it with some context.
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by diskzero 5y ago
Do you configure Qt to draw direct to the framebuffer or just use XOrg and/or Wayland?
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by diskzero 5y ago
I suppose I'll be the outlier here, but on more powerful devices like Raspberry Pi or other Cortex-based devices, I have had good luck using LispWorks and their CAPI UI library. Plus, Lisp!
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by diskzero 5y ago
I am so sorry alcohol caused you this grief. It can be such a destructive force. I don't know what your current relationship with alcohol is, but mine was not good at all. I have been sober for three years and it has made a huge differ
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by diskzero 5y ago
First of all, I am so sorry you and your mother are experiencing this. As you state, it is life and life can be unfair. We like to think we have some measure of control and then something like cancer comes along and detonates your life and
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by diskzero 5y ago
I was at Eazel back in the day and worked with Nat and Miguel when they were at Ximian. It was obvious then that Nat would go on to do great things. What will be next for Nat? Something amazing I hope!
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by diskzero 5y ago
In addition to the advice from gus_massa about posting in the monthly thread, it would be nice to hear about things that you are really interested in learning about. I understand you just want to gain experience, but what specific types of
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by diskzero 5y ago
Your product looks nice! Just a suggestion about the tracking; disable all tracking by default and provide an easy to find option to enable Google Analytics, etc.
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by diskzero 5y ago
I am sorry to hear about the loss you have suffered. My situation is similar. My wife passed from cancer Oct. 1 and I have no desire to return to work. Please feel free to reach out if you want to talk with someone in a similar situation to
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by diskzero 5y ago
Ah yes, the Hi-DPI days. I left Apple before all of that was sorted out. I assume all of the code dealing with scaling was just removed from the frameworks?
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by diskzero 5y ago
What happened, as in why isn't OSC "MIDI 2.0"? The short story could be that the members of the MIDI Association chose to pursue their joint specification to be the next version of MIDI. The actual story will have to be answe
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by diskzero 5y ago
I love Red and want to use it more. Sadly my professional life keeps giving me hardware that I can't run it on, so Red is getting marginalized. I wish I had more skill and time to help them out with the 32 to 64-bit transition. [1] [1]
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by diskzero 5y ago
I went and checked out mattresses at our local "Mattress Firm" chain of stores. They mostly had traditional mattresses like the "Simmons Beautyrest Achiever Firm" that I was replacing. I bought it in 2001 (please don&#x2
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by diskzero 5y ago
The comeback was amazing, wasn't it? It was cool to be there and I think about the dynamics a lot. What I really keep trying to figure out is how we were so effective with such small team sizes and why this can't scale. When I was

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