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I’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal.

It’s my path to $2B.

Don’t tell anyone my idea.

Related question:

What “new” CP/M machines can be bought today?

The closest I know is this kit:

https://rc2014.co.uk/

Any others that can be bought off the shelf today?

Presumably this is rising because of the topical current Basecamp saga.

But I don’t think Basecamp is like the simple model put forward here by Paul Graham, who is saying “if you’re famous you get fanboys and their opposite and that’s just an outcome of being famous”.

Basecamp and it’s founders have over many years taken extremely opinionated and contrarian positions, and it’s always been presented with an air of breathtakingly arrogant superiority. The tone of their communication has always to me seemed to be bursting with superiority and smugness. They haven’t just ended up with haters just because that’s what happens if you’re famous. They’ve ended up with haters because they almost appeared to actively be trying to create haters because they wanted to generate extreme opinions because it’s good publicity.

And now finally Basecamp founders have taken yet another contrarian arrogant position but this time it’s fallen flat and backfired severely. And now many former fanboys are haters and there’s no goodwill and all there is, is haters.

Did he attend the #joshfight ?

Offering six months pay is a major own goal by Basecamp.

“Ruining” is a bit strong, perhaps.

Peharps “making the first few seconds of visiting most sites slightly annoying” is a better description.

It’s so tempting to make some snide remark about it being cancelled.

I’m not trying to win an argument, just stating what I believe.

I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”.

Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point that’s it’s straight up wrong unethical and inhuman to murder others in the name of the law.

Paul Graham has a valid point, but if you say “it’s wrong cause it’s inaccurate”, implies it’s right if it’s accurate. And it’s not... the death penalty is wrong no matter be it accurate or inaccurate.

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.

No I’m almost certain I haven’t. Because I’ve used it before and I don’t really have any questions about it so I ran out and I just go buy more.

At this stage I’m just assuming it’s a coincidence.

It has made me realize the holy grail for google and advertisers is to access your bank transactions and advertise to you based on that.

I worked at a company in finance markets in the mid 1990s that was paying the traders $2M bonuses.

Users expect signin to work the way they expect it to work.

I once implemented a non standard signin where all that was needed was an email link which kept you signed in.

Users hated it.

They actually went to the trouble of complaining and no doubt it lost me potential signups.

These days I only ever do normal email and password signup.

Because the first half of the article was praising Java 8 and it’s various benefits.

I didnt read the second half because I couldnt make sense of the negative headline with the positive text.

Strange.... should the title be “You can’t afford NOT to run Java 8”?

I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.

I choose to delete my posts/comments if I feel they’re too negative.

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Love this take.

You’ve changed my thinking.

Copying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.

I uploaded an image and it stayed waiting never completed.

Doesn’t work.

I’ve spent decades solving hard problems and there’s zero chance of me remembering any significant percentage of them.