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Re:Anyone know what FF stands for? on Monday February 26, 2018 @07:46PM (#16470278)
Also in some corners it means "for f*ck's sake", cut down for effing effect. Which echoes my thoughts after the first para of the post.
Re:Anyone know what FF stands for? on Monday February 26, 2018 @07:45PM (#16470271)
Obvious troll post, innit?
Re:Ask HN: E-Mail without a cellphone? on Monday February 26, 2018 @07:41PM (#16470252)
SDF.org doesn't need a phone number.
Picked: Because UTC is hardly 'U', and imposes a rampant heliocentricitism. If anything, it can purport to be at most GTC, which would be good enough for a while longer I suppose.
To be precise: the European Union doesn't welcome you, it welcomes your petition to be welcomed by it. Lest we fail to avoid making things needlessly forth-right.
When I read the source and started on the comments, I thought: won't be long until someone drops in TCC. But yes, TCC does limit you in this regard a bit.
Presumably because people were buying once every four years?
Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:48PM (#16330029)
The requirements were practically negligible for its era, and the leap it represented. I have installed and used it at length on 386 with 8MB on a 210MB disk. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't pretty bad either. Perhaps (on appropriate hardware) it wasn't as solid as NT 4, but before XP (which is 2000 which is NT, even if simplifying it) there weren't many "polished enough" _and_ "affordable enough" windowing systems for the masses. Classic Mac OS was very polished but not very affordable, and it didn't even have pre-emptive multiprocessing. UNIX had either a high cost of entry if you're talking workstations (Suns and SGIs were polished but expensive) or man-hours to acclimatize (try running X11 in 1995, then compare to Windows 95).

Eh.

In any case, to bring it back. It was good enough. Nowadays, I often hope for a minimal Windows 10 that will be out of the way enough to approach Windows 95.

Re:Why GitHub is not a great package repository on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:40PM (#16329996)
Link still won't work...
Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:07PM (#16329102)
I think the point is that your life doesn't reach the point where you steal $1m worth of gold without a few ripples of insanity appearing here or there. It appears it takes a confluence of chaos for such a heist to manifest.
Re:Why GitHub is not a great package repository on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:41AM (#16323558)
Link won't work...
NB, this is regarding OneDrive for Business only.
There is a point behind prohibiting "just about everyone" from having access to easy gunpowder. Consider how "just about everyone" includes anything from anti-social prankers to vengeful people with no concern for collateral, to plain `terrorists`.
Re:Show HN: Ask a Dev on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:12AM (#16323438)
After this catches on, you should also make an askadev.out.
Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:09AM (#16323424)
Have we actually reached the point where we idolize something that was equally mainstream to bash when it came out? Remember "Winblows" &c?

Suddenly, faced with hyper-spy mega-corps, the dumb simplicity of the evil-yet-cute Windows 95 is desirable. Like the lesser of two evils, or the evil you know.

Any day now, a post will come up extolling the illumined joys of mainframe COBOL programming.

This didn't quite turn out as expected, did it?
This is awesome, I think I will give it the thumbs up and share it with all my nonconformist friends.
Stepping up to crowd-sourcing movement data and constructing robotic/AI replacements? The AI scare is becoming wider and wider, and this time because of what corporations actually do (rather than mere pandering to the sci-fi crowd).
Re:Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:11AM (#16273242)
Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `inertia-in-motion`), rather than actively seek it.

If that makes any sense at all, that is.

Knees are jerking like leaves in a gust, it seems?
It demonstrates poor exercise of judgment, which would render them partially unreliable. Then there's the question of whether they're your "peers".
Re:The paradigms of programming on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:36AM (#16256678)
In C, everything rhymes in ';'.
Re:Velib apocalypse: Why Paris destroyed its bicycle network on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:45AM (#16213478)
"Therefore, we now have these absurd hordes of delivery slaves everywhere."

One way to diss the Post, certainly.

Re:Show HN: Why is Bitcoin down? on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:42AM (#16213460)
reminds me of the Bastard Excuse From Hell, BTC version
Re:When I work with legacy projects on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:17AM (#16204456)
The "article" is pointless, the guy just vents a bit, missing any opportunity to give any technical insight on what that legacy project is about, or offer anything substantial other than positive affirmations directed to himself.
Re:PowerPC G3 and 7400 G4 appear resistant to Spectre on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:11AM (#16204415)
Apparently so does the ZX80, being almost equally obsolete.
Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:55PM (#16172868)
Why is there a crossbar in the ƛ? Shouldn't it rather be λ?
Re:Teaching an Almost 40-year Old Unix about Backspace on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:47PM (#16172263)
+++ATH0

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