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Re:Aaron Swartz and the Return of Jottit on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:14PM (#47329976)
“Jottit.org is now as close as I can get to what Aaron and I built in 2007”
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @04:15PM (#45119939)
which basic rom is needed?
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#45119074)
Thanks!
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#45119072)
sigh
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#45119070)
thanks!
genius. I love it. I'll take 14 of these immediately!
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:01AM (#43340574)
False positives suck, and it hurts when it happens.

The publisher account for Material Theme and Material Theme Icons (Equinusocio) was mistakenly flagged and has now been restored. In the interest of safety, we moved fast and we messed up. We removed these themes because they fired off multiple malware detection indicators inside Microsoft, and our investigation came to the wrong conclusion. We care deeply about the security of the VS Code ecosystem, and acted quickly to protect our users.

I understand that the "Equinusocio" extensions author's frustration and intense reaction, and we hear you. It's bad but sometimes things like this happen. We do our best - we're humans, and we hope to move on from this We will clarify our policy on obfuscated code and we will update our scanners and investigation process to reduce the likelihood of another event like this. These extensions are safe and have been restored for the VS Code community to enjoy.

LINKS: Material Theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Equinuso... Material Theme Icons https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Equinuso...

Again, we apologize that the author got caught up in the blast radius and we look forward to their future themes and extensions. We've corresponded with him to make these amends and thanked him for his patience.

Scott Hanselman and the Visual Studio Code Marketplace Team - @shanselman

you're the best Zach
Re:Zed on Linux Is Here on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:17PM (#40930386)
Trying but not succeeding
Re:Zed on Linux Is Here on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:16PM (#40930369)
same. :(
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:28PM (#40165710)
Yep, I need to get 3.3 and then do 5, 6
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:36PM (#40165036)
That's valid feedback. There is no clock, but there maybe should be. In this case, yes, Jeff and I had to PUSH. And that's a hassle. I'll ask around.
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:52PM (#40164060)
Ya sorry we're moving stuff around
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:51PM (#40164055)
Ya we wanted to separate the MS-DOS and MT-DOS stuff, it was confusing as it was
it's all BLE and works great on an airplane as long as BT is on
Re:Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:25AM (#31257703)
:)
Re:Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:23AM (#31257693)
Yes, that’s what happened. They’ve been asking for a while, and I’ve tried a couple of times. But their last tweet got pretty good pick up, so I made another run at it. I asked the right Vice Presidents, found the right people to agree to the new license, retrieve the source from our company archivist, found two developers who worked on the actual project, and then worked with the Microsoft open source office to finalize everything, then released it. It took just about a month. I like doing things that people don’t think are possible. It’s literally as simple as that.
Re:Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:11AM (#31256976)
That’s not related to Microsoft the company. That’s a result of the archivist systems that I had to mess with to get this stuff restored from tapes and CDs. I didn’t feel like changing it too much. So blame me.
Re:Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:54AM (#31256907)
We do try.
Re:Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM? on Saturday February 26, 2022 @06:55PM (#30483453)
Open a second tab in chrome
Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:02PM (#30379283)
I’ve been a type one diabetic for over 25 years, I’ve been looping with an artificial pancreas for over eight years, and never has an article so perfectly described the immense cognitive load that we have to deal with every waking hour (and a lot of non-waking hours) as this article. This is the canonical explanation now that I will send non-diabetics

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