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This guy is building a replica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE

This is demonstrated in the second half of this video (around the 11:30 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4LhcbSmXQ&t=619s

This seems good enough for emulating early 8088 and maybe even 80286 PCs, so opens up a big catalog of early games.

I once briefly worked on a commercial system where the UI looked like it had been designed with a shotgun.

Dozens of UI elements. Nothing on the screen aligned. Nothing was in a logical place. Related items were not grouped together. Buttons had labels like 'Button1', 'Button1_'. The tab-order was completely random, so you had to use a mouse exclusively. It was a horror show.

The code underneath was just as crazy. The system was used day-to-day by several people who just understood its quirks. I made the fix I needed to make and got the hell out of there.

The command that I was trying to use was 'ls', which doesn't seem to play with textview when I try it out 'ls | textview' (just no output at all). textview does work for me with files, as in your example.

What is line hinting?

If you use less with a filename, it will work. I normally pipe things to less which doesn't seem to work for me in nu. less shows an empty input.

This is possibly me just doing something wrong.

This seems very interesting. After a quick play I cannot find anything similar to 'less' which I use very frequently. Is there a nushell equivalent?

You would think that an exact title search would work, but no. Same on Play Store. I am guessing that installs and rating is very heavily weighted.

This has been a minor obsession of mine for the past few months. My first project in Unity .

I had a huge amount of fun building it. ANY advice on how to find a market of people who like to play puzzle games would be greatly appreciated. I have no experience in selling a product.

What, did you call a client a Giraffe or something?

Profit was 8.7B. Ford has a market cap of 49B.

Does any other country have a 'primary' system like the US? In Australia there is no pretending to elect candidates for each party. In our recent election we had two choices for PM from the major parties, chosen by the parties themselves.

In the US you spent a year choosing your candidates, but behind closed doors one of those parties spent all their time trying to push one candidate whilst the other party spent all their time trying to stop another.

The Australian system seems a little more honest, even though the roles of PM and President are quite different. We can elect a PM and the party can then choose to throw them out the week after. This happens frequently.

This is simple but excellent. AWS should have graphs like that on their calculator page to help people decide how long it will take for their investment in a reserved instance to get ahead of on-demand (or another reserved instance plan).

I'm one of the guys who built ThemeForest. (I don't work at Envato any more.)

I built the rollover previews on that site (which has been rebuilt and improved many times since). I can tell you that you are going to have trouble keeping the preview in view when they are as large as the ones that you are using, whilst still making it possibly to see the other icons in the grid. You'll need to flip it left and right, up and down depending on the position of the mouse.

I also think you need to think about what value you are providing. I think a curated site with less themes with proper reviews would be much more useful than just a scrape of the thousands of themes out there. Your own reviews would be original content which might have a slim hope of outranking the actual themes themselves in Google results. Without that, I don't think you will get a lot of traffic.

Good luck.

$20,000,000 for 160 units. $125,000 each. Slightly more expensive than the remote control helicopters you buy as toys. If this number is correct, I would love to know what justifies that amazing cost per unit.

EDIT: Jeebus, it is actually 20 million pounds.

The more impressive headline will be "World's tallest skyscraper constructed in just 90 days." The Burj Khalifa took five and a half years to complete. Even completing this new building in twice the predicted time will be remarkable.

I love that it opens tabs behind, unlike Safari. Only thing I don't like is the address bar using up too much room (not disappearing).

I've been using Windows since 3.11 and when I first booted up Windows 8 I clicked the Windows Explorer button in 'Metro' and was taken to the 'Classic' desktop. No Start menu. It took me a good fifteen minutes of clicking around to discover how to get back to Metro so I could launch any program.

In short it made a programmer feel like an idiot. I can't imagine how many grandads are going to be furious with it if they upgrade. I have no idea why removing the Start menu is a good idea.

I use OS X, Ubuntu (headless servers) and Windows 7 daily and I will definitely wait until Windows 9 before I upgrade my Windows VM. They are definitely sticking to the 'every second release sucks' cycle, like Star Trek.

Remembering shortcuts for Sublime would be no different to remembering shortcuts for Emacs/vim/whatever. I agree with the 'no modes' sentiment which is why I find Emacs more natural than vim for the bulk of my work.

If you forget the short-cut for a command in Emacs, you can hit M-x, type in the name of the command (with completion to help you) and once you execute the command Emacs will TELL you the shortcut for next time (if there is one assigned). Best feature ever.

Yes I have. My comment about split windows was about TextMate, which 4 years later still doesn't have them. (Coming in TextMate 2, which will be released sometime after Half Life 3.)

Sublime has the eye candy, that I was talking about. It looks great. The 'birds eye' view is nice, but not particularly useful. There is nothing that it can do that it can do that Emacs/vim can't do or couldn't do with a few minutes of macro-recording/scripting. This is why I am saying it isn't worth the money. The open-source alternatives are superb.

I use both Emacs and vim on a daily basis. Emacs is my main editor and vim is for quickly dropping in to make a change in a terminal either locally or on a server.

Both are amazing. Both are rock solid. Both are infinitely extensible. Both are free as in beer and as in freedom.

I'm not afraid of paying good money for software. I don't think it is necessary to pay for a closed-source text editor when such good open-source options exist that can do everything the commercial product can do and more.

TextMate (and now Sublime Text) have been popular in the hacker community, particularly with Rails people. The only advantage I can see is eye-candy. They look great on Macs.

I tried TextMate and put it in the trash as soon as I found it had no split windows. Not only that, I couldn't add split windows even if I had the time. If vim or Emacs is missing something, you can add it.

End of rant.

Fixed. Thank you for contribution to the USLS.

Off topic: The author's son, Sam Fussell, wrote a very entertaining book "Muscle". It is an eye-opening look into the bodybuilding sub-culture. If you ever see a copy, grab it. Very entertaining.

Most of these languages are not as good as my favourite language, Blub, apart from the Lisps.

This is a fantastic tool. I love it.

On line #9 of the example program, the string "hello" is assigned to y. On line #12 another string "hello" is used. I don't know anything about the inner workings of Python, but I imagine that these strings would be stored on the heap and possibly 'interned' by the interpreter. Maybe this is being ignored for simplicity, or I am way off the mark.

It recommended that I have 1 cup of avocado and 1 cup of cottage cheese for lunch. No thanks.

Former Envato employee here. I helped build ThemeForest with my buddy, and lead-dev, ryan-allen (who has already commented) and a bunch of other cool guys.

The $1M story is amazing but I think it is even more important to note how many authors are making a good living on the Envato marketplaces, not just the super-success stories. There are many, many authors who are making a good side-income or even enough to quit their day-jobs. The barrier to entry is super-low and making money is much easier than marketing your own wares on your own site. Have a look at the top sellers pages for the past month, or quarter, and do the sums. The money is excellent.

Their latest marketplace, Photodune is growing rapidly. It has very good payment rates compared to competitors. Worth trying out if you are a good photographer.

Also, if you are a Ruby dev in Melbourne, they are ALWAYS hiring. It is a great place to work.

End of unpaid commercial. I could go on forever.