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by mpa000 7y ago
I'm afraid to look at the state of my Amiga 3.5s, not to mention the older 5.25s. Sadly, they are probably lost to time.
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by mpa000 7y ago
Sir, this is the "Shockwave Rider" Readers Convention.
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by mpa000 7y ago
That's the way I've always overcome the problem of getting to bookmarks also. You give up a little real estate to keep the bookmarks bar visible, but it is a good way to organize things by subject matter, project, urgency, etc. T
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by mpa000 7y ago
I've not fleshed out his angle on this, but the first thing that came to mind was the gamification of every social interaction. "Ratio-ing" on TWIT comes to mind. There was a time when we measured threads by the level of soc
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by mpa000 7y ago
Wrong. Compaq had much higher DOA and other defects in the mid 90s. They relied on customer institutional memory from the 80s when they really were the best.
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by mpa000 7y ago
Compaq is what ruined HP after they ruined themselves by going from a quality-focused builder to pulling parts out of the seconds and thirds bins to cut costs in the early-mid 90s. They absorbed DEC and ruined it then proceeded to infect HP
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by mpa000 7y ago
Both come from the Compaq/HP chimera that absorbed DEC's name. The apple doesn't fall far from the other apple from the same tree.
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by mpa000 7y ago
Like Minsky, who I've been waiting to be referenced in this subject but haven't seen yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
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by mpa000 8y ago
This. IANAL but the eroding of taking mens rea (intent/knowledge) into account does not bode well for justice in the long-term.
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by mpa000 9y ago
I manage developers for the publishing arm of a professional association. While I did not have an office when I started as a dev here over a decade ago, all of our developers now have their own offices while we two managers share one. Prior
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by mpa000 9y ago
It depends on how you are running it, in my experience. We're forced, due to ISP restrictions, to use FastCGI. I've not tested this theory, so YMMV, but I've had more trouble doing it that way than when using PHP as a modul
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by mpa000 9y ago
When I transitioned back into programming from the arts, back in the very early 1990s, it was RTFM, Dr. Dobbs Journal, IRC, and picking the brain of every geek and "Computer Guy" that I met ('cept most of those Netware Certif
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by mpa000 10y ago
I stopped reading when it referred to SPF as "Sender Protection Framework." As usual, the discussion on HN is far better than R'ing TFA. We recently had a collision between the practices of one of our vendors, the silly way t
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by mpa000 10y ago
I've found that people tend to use public lists as a way to insult people that they don't like. "List of nutjobs", "List of {blankety blanks}", etc.