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by yarone 2mo ago
I was so impressed with remove.bg in Dec 2018; awesome to see the progress in this area, so cool.
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by yarone 6mo ago
I wonder if self-driving cars and massively improved safety will solve this. 5 kids in a car, held, seated, seatbelted, any-which-way. Like on a train.
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by yarone 6mo ago
Ahh BBS's: where I learned the difference between a local call and a "local toll call" (parents were not happy)
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by yarone 8mo ago
https://www.yarone.com/ Ancient and needs updating
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by yarone 1y ago
Me too! With Sendkeys and some Win32 API calls, I wrote an AOL add-on (available through Keyword: addons) called AoLOL!. It was my first software business. Q: How do you identify the AOL window? A: Look for an app with titlebar = "Ame
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by yarone 1y ago
This is awesome, great work!
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by yarone 1y ago
Remember Accompany.com and Mercata and other group-buying websites from the 90's dotcom boom? Time for those again?
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by yarone 1y ago
Nielsen's "Usability Engineering" was my FIRST EVER Amazon.com purchase in June 1998.
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by yarone 2y ago
Ha, reminds me of XTREE GOLD, from the late 80's / early 90's. A time where the default file explorer was unbearable.
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by yarone 2y ago
I absolutely loved VB3 thru VB6!
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by yarone 2y ago
Roblox studio. My son is a sound designer for some of the top games there. He's also learning programming in Lua for Roblox platform. It is a small community of mostly kids aged 15-25 as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem like
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by yarone 3y ago
And car driver. When I heard about how Tesla was training it's AI - without describing objects but instead through direct observation - it reminded me of Heinlein's "Door Into Summer" (1956). Heinlein's character te
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by yarone 3y ago
Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.
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by yarone 3y ago
Ha, back in 1995 I could HEAR in advance when my PC was going to crash. I could tell from the certain crunching / grinding sounds of the hard disk. I could hear it and think "Uh oh, here comes a crash..." And then blue scr
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by yarone 3y ago
From Heinlein's Waldo & Magic Inc, a fun and worthwhile read (and audiobook)
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by yarone 3y ago
A classic Joel on Software article about funny backwards compatibility built into Excel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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by yarone 3y ago
Nice work, very cool!
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by yarone 3y ago
I used VB 3.0 thru VB 6.0 and I echo the sentiment: those were fun and productive times. Really solid integrated development environment centered around the desktop UI / form design / UI controls like buttons, textboxes, combo bo
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by yarone 3y ago
Wow this is surprising
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by yarone 3y ago
Ha, that scene is how I learned to program. Built a shareware tool called AoLOL! (available by going to keyword "Addon"), $14.95, got paper checks from all over the country! Then I met the ICQ founders...
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by yarone 3y ago
We learned about affixing a camera to the data input / output LED's on a network interface card and by doing that capturing the ENTIRE data stream.
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by yarone 3y ago
I learned about this exact exploit in my computer security class at University circa 1999 or 2000: "power LED is connected directly to the power line of the electrical circuit"
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by yarone 3y ago
It's like traversing a bad "mega menu." Did you know that "double-click" on early Windows literally meant "click the same pixel twice in rapid succession"?
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by yarone 3y ago
Very cool, great work!
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by yarone 4y ago
Another one that came to my mind: "The Fun They Had" by Asimov "Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had." http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/
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by yarone 4y ago
I had the same thought! Then, my next thought was: Who (in industry) wrote this? (and got FTC to publish it? wanting to drive some agenda forward).
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by yarone 4y ago
I remember a similar app - way less sophisticated - at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
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by yarone 4y ago
As a kid in 1994 ish, through trial and error I learned that ZMODEM was the far more reliable way to download stuff (from a user POV).
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by yarone 4y ago
I'm with you guys here. My first program was an AOL...program. Learned how to program by copying some kids I met in private AOL chat rooms. My first commercial program (shareware) was a legit AOL add-on (AoLOL!). Designed, built, and
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by yarone 4y ago
Me too, been using it for 10 years.

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