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Re:Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @02:21PM (#46447353)
What a tremendous loss for our industry. Stewart's genuine curiosity was infectious.
Re:Show HN: The Blots Programming Language on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:30PM (#45309680)
Super cool! I’ve always wanted to make my own lil language and I’ve always been too intimidated to try.
Re:The LaserDisc on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @09:08PM (#40231642)
Oh man, let's be friends! Hit me up if you wanna nerd out about LaserDiscs — [email protected]. I have a pretty decent collection (https://markchristian.org/files/laserdiscs.txt — around 200 or so, no specific theme other than "movies I would like to have a copy of").

Have you got a setup going for digitizing these things? I've got a pitch reel on LaserDisc for a 1991 interactive TV startup that I'd love to preserve before it bitrots.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:47PM (#36591709)
I love your stuff! As a FastMail user I have to read it in my alternative browser lest I destroy my autocomplete, though. :D

Anyhow; thanks for everything you make! I hope your face is feeling better these days.

Re:The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:03PM (#36005655)
Hilariously, I had no idea that this was his site. TIL!

Ask HN: Entry-level customer success jobs for career switcher?

Howdy, y'all!A friend of mine recently expressed interest in breaking into the customer success field and asked where they'd start, and I had absolutely no idea what to say. All of the places I've worked now do all of their CE hiring outside of the US.What would you tell them if you were in my position? If anyone happens to know decent companies willing to take the chance on career-switchers,...

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:36PM (#28749917)
To the communication angle, I've worked at two different BigCo's in my career, and both times there was a fallback system of last resort to use when our primary systems were unavailable.
Re:Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:00PM (#27564435)
“The wish is granted. Long live Jambi.”
Re:Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:24PM (#22871637)
OMG
Re:Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:55PM (#22871322)
I really wish the opposite of this (QEMU on iOS) existed. The closest I have been able to find is a build of Bochs that doesn't actually work on my iPad. Someday!
Re:Cursed Adapters on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:52PM (#22430279)
I really wish Foone had a blog.

Bite-size coding challenge: implement if/else in JavaScript without `if` or `?:`

Here's a bit of Friday fun for you: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to implement if/then logic in JavaScript without using `if` or the ternary operator `?:`.Implement a function with the following signature:```` function ifThenElse(cond, trueFn, falseFn) { } ````If `cond` is truthy, execute `trueFn`, otherwise execute `falseFn`. `ifThenElse` should not have a return...

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Re:Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:42AM (#20318437)
Thanks for the heads up!
Re:Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:41AM (#20318431)
I’ve always wanted to write about it, but it’s never really fit into one of my monthly themes. Many of the games on the service are available online as ordinary ROMs, often with “BS” in the title (for Broadcast Satellite). I’m sure the experience of using the system and playing along to synchronized audio was pretty wonderful, but the games themselves just played like ordinary cartridges once they’d be downloaded. Unlike the Sega Channel, Satellaview games could be downloaded into special cartridges and kept around indefinitely.
Re:Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:13AM (#20316475)
Amazingly enough, http://www.retro.live has a working implementation of XBAND. You can see a demo of it in the excellent Wrestling With Gaming documentary on XBAND: https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA?t=3448
Re:Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:10AM (#20316466)
Dang, I had never pondered this question. Where can I learn more?
Re:Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:10AM (#20316465)
The Mother of All Demos is amazing, but I’ll be talking about some cheesy corporate junk. :)

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