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For example, it's used as a kind of internal bookmarking system. I don't necessarily star a repo because I think it has good code, but maybe a good idea or something related to something I'm interested in developing.
It should be posted under'Show HN'
It took me a second to realize it is GP's .
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robarr on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:19PM
from the reddit.com dept.
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robarr on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:56AM
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robarr on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:39AM
from the ntsc-color-hack.lovable.app dept.
How Steve Wozniak exploited TV timing to bring color to the Apple II
Posted by
robarr on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:33AM
from the nataliaantonova.substack.com dept.
I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers working in big companies and using the resources of these and local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones. Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.
In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.
Posted by
robarr on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:26AM
from the neowin.net dept.
Was it not a mailing list before a site?
I let the next guy explain what a mailing list was.
Posted by
robarr on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:19AM
from the uc.pory.app dept.
Here you can find thousands of Atari VCS/FC/NES/MD/SNES/GB (and more) clones, from historic bootlegs products to modern legal ones. Soft-emulator based multi-platform consoles are not supported.
Should we avoid this topic, at least at this time, on HN?
I really think there is a rational conversation to be had but I do not see how we could achieve such at feat without heavy moderation and even then.
“The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person whose life was saved by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody whose life was saved by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible. The requirement that the aircraft is disabled naturally excludes parachuting enthusiasts in the normal course of a recreational jump, or those involved in military training jumps.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Club
does anybody remembers dialing up to a Unix server to uucp your organization’s emails and using Pegasus DOS to make it available thru netware?
Both Algol and Simula were ported to the 68000’s Atari ST. I remember having a box of diskettes with implementations of forth, modula , lisp, prolog, smalltalk.
I miss the those times when using a computer meant ‘programming on a computer’, and programming on a computer meant trying to find your foot on any of a dozen languages popping left and right.
I understand the technical marvel, but there are obvious inconsistencies in all the images and I would call them more animations than video sequences.
I'll share the first entry:
January 11, 1993 [San Francisco]
Jake let me sneak a peek at this month's sales numbers. Guess I can go ahead and buy a car after all.
Posted by
robarr on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:02PM
from the jordanmechner.com dept.
OP here, I am not an US native but it still is inexcusable. I cannot edit the post anymore, so thank You for posting the correct abbreviation.
Posted by
robarr on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:54AM
from the techdirt.com dept.
Even the cheapest electronics/computing ads nowadays taught me something. From memorizing electronic components codes to watch microcomputers slowly develop capabilities that only minis had. Ads where also window into an industry and hobby arms race.
Ditto
Also, GIF runs on LZW.