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See also: The use of "learnings" instead of "lessons."

The battery doesn't hold a charge anymore, but as long as it's plugged in, it keeps chugging along.

Says the guy who provides no examples of an equivalent machine that costs less.

If you're going to be critical of Apple, at least provide a link to a Dell machine that's ugly, made of plastic, and has worse specs. It's HN tradition.

I saw a guy with a Commodore PET at a coffee shop in Toronto once.

And more than once, I've been that guy with a TRS-80 at a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop in Las Vegas.

A TV reporter who stopped in for coffee seemed interested in what I was doing, until he saw that I was just playing Monopoly.

I think your dad did the right thing.

No, he didn't get the big dollar signs. But he did get a decade worth of health insurance, employment, and more security for his family than he would have had going out looking for a job on his own.

There are no good choices in that situation. But I don't think he made a wrong one.

You're thinking about e-mail unsubscribe links.

It's my understanding that, in the United States anyway, if you reply STOP, the phone number is blocked at the carrier level.

It checks to see if the sender is in my contacts

There's a chance someone in your contacts would send you a message with "Stop2End" in it? You must have curious friends.

Disgusting.

I can't imagine what horrors count as "best-in-class" care for frankendogs.

You can get a sense of what it was like in the film Real Genius.

In the film, it's college. But a lot of companies of the era weren't too different from what is pictured.

If you don't know the difference between preventing a group of sportsball fans from watching illegal streams and actually taking a country offline, delete yourself.

The whole country of France went offline? When did that happen?

All these people who have pushed for simplified spelling since don't realize they're carrying water for another era's long-dead barons.

/Former Tribune employee who heard it from the old-timers.

Guess how we know you've never lived, worked, or read a newspaper in any other country.

Imagine the carnage if real engineers started vibe-designing bridges.

Every machine ran BASIC. If your machine didn't, it was weird. For a while it seemed like BASIC was going to become the universal computer language.

IBM even produced a computer that had both AP/L and BASIC built-in.

You're half right.

Yes, Jobs killed Flash. But he did it because Flash on mobile was a battery killer. And when the original iPhone came out (one of which I still have), battery technology wasn't as advanced as it is now.

Before I got my wife's hand-me-down iPhone, I had one of the few mobile phones that supported Flash. On the few occasions when I used the web browser, I lived in fear that I'd land on a web site that was using Flash because I knew it would tear through the phone's battery in less than 10 minutes.

Ever notice that the people on HN who pine for the good-ol'-days of Flash only remember games? Never the Flash ads and intrusive videos.

Jobs did the future a favor.